« La seule chose que j’ai entendue est potentiellement une prolongation de Jake McCabe, peut-être avant le début de la saison », a déclaré Kypreos aux co-animateurs, Justin Bourne et Sam McKee. « J’ai entendu dire que les discussions étaient vraiment bonnes.
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CTHT07
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That’s a lot of term for a guy turning 31 next week.
Can’t imagine anything more than say $21 million over 4 years making sense here.
WHY?! What has he done to deserve that?
If true that would mean that in 2027-28 the Leafs would have
35 year old Morgan Rielly @7.5m
35 year old Jake McCabe @5m
39 year old Chris Tanev @4.5m
38 year old OEL @3.5m
I see no possible way this can go poorly or affect the Matthews contract negotiations that offseason.
Seems high/long initially, but with the cap going up I don’t think it’s bad.
For comparison Brodie just signed a 2 year deal for 3.75M until he’s 36. By the time McCabe turns 36 the cap should be well over 100M.
That’s fine. Little long, but manageable.
Basically a 3 year window with this D core, and a possibility of JT taking a lower hit going forward or moving on along with Mitch if the playoffs don’t work out this year, could add a number 1 D man to go along with a young Benoît and Liljegren. Plus the big Finn coming up as well
While I like McCabe, I don’t think he’s someone you pay over the odds for to keep on your team. Lower the AAV or the years and I don’t really mind.
But at this price, let him walk, find the next McCabe at a cheaper price and let Edmonton give him his $30M contract.
I am getting so tired of the “but with the cap going up, the contract is fine” comments.
The end cap going up doesn’t excuse using tons of money on old players. We could have $20m more room in 5 years if the cap goes up by $4m annually, but we could have even more cap space in 5 years, + the $20m, if we didn’t give out stupid contracts
We are going to have a wild LTIR group in 5 years lol
We are going to have a very old D-core.