I can’t believe the obsession with Toffoli all of a sudden. The guy is a grinder with a simple skill set. On a championship team he’d be perfect for the third line and on some teams maybe the second line. To put him up on a first line would be making the same mistake we’ve always made in free agency - paying a guy too much and expecting too much when he doesn’t have the skill set for it. He’s simply not first line material in the modern game and he absolutely should not get the salary that he may be thinking. He doesn’t fit in with what the team needs most right now (high end skill) or the luxury of fitting what his co tract will ultimately be (north of $4.5MM /season for a bottom 9 guy).
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