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Old 12-18-2018, 01:03 PM   #5754
Bleeding Red
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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary View Post
I find that hard to believe, considering how up against the cap teams like EDM are with only one guy at the max rate... signing 2 would definitely be very difficult to see working for any team.
The max for a player next year is roughly $16.6 mil (20% of the cap). TOR has $27 mil in space (plus the allowed overage in the summer of $8 mil) would see them use all their cap space on those 2 (and have to jettison a couple of guys).

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I don't have a clear sense of Matthews and where his head is at... unlike kids from the GTA, i don't know if he cares to be under the media spotlight of Toronto... maybe he does... but there have been rumblings of him not necessarily getting along with Babcock.
I think he (and his agent) expect to get PAID. McDavid is the starting point.

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If you were another team however, why wouldn't you offer sheet Matthews? NYI and Coyotes both would have some legitimate reasons to... they don't owe Toronto anything

Exactly. NYI has $31 mil and ARI has only $13 mil. Go get 'em!
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