Perry is from Peterborough but spent most of the lockout in London, where he played his junior hockey for the Knights. You’d have to think - if home is where the heart is – Perry’s desire to spend so much time in southern Ontario would give the Toronto Maple Leafs an enormous leg up in any bidding war that might occur for his services next summer.
And then, there’s the additional intriguing possibility that Perry and Getzlaf could move together as a package.
Under terms of the new collective bargaining agreement, the Leafs could offer identical seven-year contracts to both players and then worry about making the salary cap numbers work after the fact.
If the Leafs could also land a goaltender of Roberto Luongo’s stature in the meantime, it would also enhance their chances of attracting free agents in the future.
Toronto may be the team best suited if you consider salary as well as cup-chance . Toronto is probably the only team capable of offering both 8m a piece and a healthy chance to make a cup run post-acquisition. PLENTY of teams would be willing to offer them 7ish mill and a cup chance but as INDIVIDUALS.
The questions that need to be answered are:
Do they want to play together?
Do they mind playing in Toronto's market?
Does the extra 1mill annually on their salaries make a difference to them ?
Do they want to play under Carlyle ?
If all they care about is money and want to play together it's very likely they could end up here.
I'd happily go $11 million for both and worry about the cap implications later. Just to drive home how serious we are. I remember playing with the cap geek calculator and getting it to within ~$350,000 of the $64 million cap next season. Lupul unfortunately had to be cut loose.
"You’d have to think - if home is where the heart is – Perry’s desire to spend so much time in southern Ontario would give the Toronto Maple Leafs an enormous leg up in any bidding war that might occur for his services next summer."
This is, and always has been, highly dubious reasoning.
Also, next time someone blames Leafs fans for these fantasies about star NHL players joining leafs, tell them that this article was written from Vancouver.
Hopefully, the writer isn't a Leafs fan, or my point is futile.
If Perry is from Ontario and he is a leafs fan send his favorite player to get him for the meeting and to hand him the contract. Would you turn down a contract from Doug Gilmour or Wendel Clark??
If Perry is from Ontario and he is a leafs fan send his favorite player to get him for the meeting and to hand him the contract. Would you turn down a contract from Doug Gilmour or Wendel Clark??
Add Sundin and we'd be good to go! I think that would've worked on Stamkos too..oh yeah, we got Burke'd.
I was never a fan of the pursuit in Brad Richards. I admit I maybe got a bit caught up in the hype of it all and eventually kinda wanted him to come here. But I'm glad we didn't sign him.
But as for these two, I'm fully on board for throwing big contracts their way. Getzlaf moreso because he just fits that glaring need so much.
"You’d have to think - if home is where the heart is – Perry’s desire to spend so much time in southern Ontario would give the Toronto Maple Leafs an enormous leg up in any bidding war that might occur for his services next summer."
This is, and always has been, highly dubious reasoning.
Actually, I read something yesterday (cannot remember the source but, if I do remember, I'll post the link here) in which it talked about how Perry would like to lpay closer to his parents and the rest of his family.
