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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
I actually think the ethical thing for RFAs to do is to take player-friendly contracts. Just as the ethical thing for UFAs to do is to take team-friendly contracts.
When I say ethical, I mean in terms of setting good comparables for others such that no one is underpaid or overpaid relative to what they are worth.
Underpaying guys during their RFA years only for them to become dead weight contracts upon UFA benefits no one. It's how you end up with guys like Lucic playing out the string and eventually being bought out. Guys deserve to be paid market value, and that market value should be higher for prime years, not for post-apex years.
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I'm not saying he shouldn't be paid based on what his value is.
But his value is different from team to team. Is he better than Gaudreau? Monahan? Does he deserve more money than those guys? To the Flames those guys were valued at a certain level based on upcoming contracts, how the team is built, incoming free agents, etc.
To the Leafs the value is different. They have a top tier contract (which the Flames don't) so the value will change a bit. It also means that Nylander isn't the top level guy on that team, and therefore he shouldn't get paid top level money.
Monahan signed his deal very quickly, and Gaudreau made sure he was signed without missing any actual games. And both signed for less than what we could deem their market value to be.
At the end of the day there are a lot of factors going on from team to team, contract to contract, but anyone who looks at the Leafs right now sees Matthews and Tavares as the top level, top contract guys, and therefore Nylander is either NOT going to be that, or he will be expendable. His stupid schtick of thinking he is a top level contract guy has massively backfired and I wouldn't be amazed if he were traded as a result.