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On today’s episode of the Everyday Sens podcast, Brennan and Jack kick things off by discussing Auston Matthews becoming the league’s highest paid player and how his contract compares to Ottawa’s core (3:00). Then, the duo continues their comparison series by comparing the Senators to Toronto (17:20).
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12 Comments
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I think you guys are underrating Timmy a bit, and may be overhyping Matthews. I think the gap is closer than people think. Is Matthews better? Yeah, 100%. But I find it interesting that everybody is acting like Matthews is just coming off a 60 goal season. Last season he had 40 goals in 74 games. The year before? 60 in 73 games. That is a crazy drop off. Maybe it’s my Sens bias, but whose to say Matthews hits 60 again? How many more seasons is he going to hit 50? And if he isn’t a perennial 50 goal scorer, is this contract worth it?
Timmy has only had a good season once. Give it a year time. And if Matthews doesn’t hit 50 this coming year and Timmy does surpass 40, I think the comparisons will start to heat up
In fairness we had injuries too last year and our depth proved to be pretty bad sputtering and not making the playoffs last year. Really gotta bank on the goaltending taking a big step this year or it could very well be the same situation.
You also have to keep in mind that Toronto is over 13 Million over in cap.
Leafs have 3 of the top 10 highest paid contracts in the NHL. It works great in the regular season but makes it really hard to build a team with proper depth for the playoffs around that.
The one major thing. This is a Toronto team that is over the cap. Like look at how may NTC there are. They are going to need to dump someone who is 4 million + who will that be? Ottawa Pinto needs signing….that all we all the Joseph is the the target. But we as still not over the cap
You guys are giving waaaaaay to much credit to Matthews. He's not much better than Tim overall. And Marner is now important to the Leafs then Matthews
The comparisons aren't bad, but you're way off on the defensive side for Toronto. Their defense isn't the issue. Their forward depth is, which is why they got Domi/Bertuzzi. Their too defensive, kinda the opposite of what you guys were saying, its why they were top 10 in GA. They needed a guy like Klingberg to push the puck up the ice. That being said, Rielly is hands down better than every Dman on the Sens, although Sanderson, Chabot, and Chychrun are better than every Dman not named Rielly on the Leafs. Goaltending isn't close, I'd take Woll/Samsonov over any goalie the Sens have had in the past 2yrs. Also, Knies is better than every single player in the Sens bottom-6.
I like Ottawa's forward group as a whole more than the Leafs, however I think with guys like Matthews, Marner, Nylander, etc., that pushes the Leafs over I feel.
Why compare these two teams when Ottawa is lucky to fight for a wild card spot when the leafs are more than likely going to win the Atlantic. You guys had good young players for a couple of years now and haven’t done anything. At least the leafs have great regular seasons lol
who does Toronto drop to fit under cap since there are 2.9 million over the cap even after taking into account LTIR
Pinto will be gone