Collection of tweets from McKenzie on William Nylander
Bob McKenzie: A twitter thread on William Nylander and the Toronto Maple Leafs
“Not to over simplify things but it’s pretty elementary: TOR will make its final, best offer to William Nylander today. He’ll either accept it or not. It’s highly highly highly unlikely, tho technically still possible, he’ll be traded. Sign or sit for the year seems to sum it up.”
“If it gets done, it sure seems like the likelihood (not to be confused with a sure thing) is it being a 6 year deal somewhere just north of David Pastrnak’s 6 x $6.67M. How much North is the obvious key here. I’d be surprised if it’s as high as $7M but we shall see.
“One distinction worth noting between 6 year deals for Pastrnak and Nylander is that BOS bought two years of Pasta’s UFA while TOR would only being buying one year of Nylander’s UFA.”
“I am, quite frankly, surprised there hasn’t been a lot more talk of the 3 year or even 2 year bridge deal, as opposed to the 6 year, because the bridge deals would address so many perceived concerns for the Nylander camp —”
“Such as: not having salary arb rights; fear of being lapped by Marner/Matthews when they get their new deals; fear of taking a “fit in” deal in TOR only to be traded elsewhere.”
Which tells me, and I’m just spit ballin here, Nylander won’t be prepared to leave $40M+ on the table and he’ll sign by 5 pm ET today OR he’ll take the unprecedented stand (since the Dec 1 RFA deadline was instituted) on not getting his “value” from TOR and let deadline pass.”