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About 13 minutes of yelling about Auston Matthews’ future from the 14th hole at the @RBCCanadianOpen 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/IA4V1sffGR
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Hayes is 1000% spot on with this take. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills with all of these guys always fighting him on this point.
To be fair, if anyone deserves to have his water carried, it’s Auston Fuckin Matthews
Edit : he’s the best player the Leafs have ever had and people want to get mad over 1 or 2 million. The problem the leafs have is 3 players over 10m.
Johnson has carried the water of Auston/Willie/Mitch and Keefe/Dubas since he took over for Ray
I don’t know if it’s his bit – “voice of the players” – but he’ll never win an argument over “voice of the people” Bryan Hayes
We’ll deal with whatever happens, obviously. But if he signs less than 8 years, there will be a lot of disappointment.
Obviously AM doesn’t care about that, I’m just saying. It’s likely not going to be 8 years, so prepare for that.
The league is fucked and the hard cap makes it so you can’t keep your players. That sucks, no question. But it also isn’t changing. So what do you do? Just continue to get assfucked by your players? Let 4 guys dictate the terms because they are some of the most talented players in the world despite the team not having won shit?
Are you guys ready for 4-5 more years (minimum) of the same horseshit? You have a lot more tolerance than I do, then.
To be clear, this isn’t even about Matthews specifically. I hope he’s a Leaf forever. But what he does July 1 will directly affect the rest of the team in ways that will literally make us or break us. I don’t think that’s a very hot take, either
« Everyone takes 8 years, why is it just the Leafs? »
No shit Hayesy, why is it just our guys looking for « flexibility » and maxxing out $$$
Literally every core player on every other team in shittier markets takes 8 years…why not our guys? Drives me nuts.
Why are all these Toronto blowhards pumping up these numbers? I genuinely don’t get the incentive. Mackinnon by all objective measures is at least as good as Matthews.
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He just signed for 12.7×8. Where the FFF is « just under 14×4 » coming from? how can they possibly think that’s reasonable? I feel like im taking crazy pills again to when Mitch blowhards were saying he deserves 11M$ for months on end when he was clearly worth 9. Then he ended up getting it and blowing up our structure.
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Just STAND. FIRM. Mathews aint leaving if you offer 12.7×6 or 13×8. What’s his alternative. USE YOUR LEVERAGE LEAFS
johnson embarrassed hayes here. auston matthews owes the leafs nothing. he’s absolutely entitled to whatever he wants in terms of compensation.
his point about the importance of becoming the first 200m player is a salient one. that has to be top of mind.
15.34m x 3yrs makes sense for all involved. there’s a lot of prestige from a team side to award the highest aav contract.
Toronto sports media spends two years speculating that matthews will demand insane sum so they can get clicks, now other Toronto media is outraged at the possibility that matthews will demand insane sum.
The entire organization is shifting to make sure we re-sign Auston. This is the same effort and commitment we put in to draft him originally. If money is the main issue, he should sign for 8 years at the current league max which will look affordable in the years to come. 100% commitment from both sides. His time and Leaf’s money. Anything less than 8 years is a failure on both sides imo. Him not wanting to stay for longer years shows to me he doesn’t want to be here.