Toronto Maple Leafs and Matthew Knies Proceed To Work Laborious on a New Deal
Dave Pagnotta of the Fourth Interval was on Sirius XM NHL Community Radio Morning Skate with Scott Laughlin and Gord Stellick and was requested about Matthew Knies. He was requested about Knies, the negotiations with the Toronto Maple Leafs, and whether or not he needs to be apprehensive about a suggestion sheet.
Scott Laughlin: “One other busy group as we wrap issues up with you right here Dave is predicted to be Toronto clearly. You’ve obtained the questions on (Mitch) Marner and (John) Tavares and in the event that they’re coming again, and in that case, what’s the time period going to appear like? What’s the AV going to appear like? A number of hypothesis just lately with reference to Matthew Knies, a restricted free agent developing this summer season. He’s going to want a brand new contract. Now, we’ve already seen what Doug Armstrong did final summer season and it has labored out properly for the Blues, to say the least, with (Philip) Broberg and (Dylan) Holloway. You assume that, by advantage of what he did, that possibly issues open up for a man like Knies?”
Dave Pagnotta: “Yeah. I imply, in the beginning of the season, after they had their conversations and discussions, and even going again to the preseason, I sort of wished to see how the marketing campaign was going to play out. The backwards and forwards choices, the place do you go full long run, or do you go bridge? What path can we go in? And I feel a whole lot of it was going to be depending on how he carried out this season.
He’s obtained 25 objectives on the 12 months, not precisely 50 factors simply but, however he’s placing up the numbers and the way in which that he’s performed, and he brings just a little little bit of jam to his sport as properly, and it compliments their first line fairly properly. So that is going to be a really worthwhile piece.
They’ve obtained a whole lot of cap house proper now as a result of, as you talked about, Marner and Tavares are additionally up for brand new offers. So that they’ve obtained a whole lot of wiggle room to play with, however they’re definitely going to be cognizant of the truth that, yeah the supply sheets that, that we noticed final 12 months.
I’m not anticipating a big fear throughout the board as a result of we’ve seen the cap go up. It’s an additional $7.5 million to play with. 4 million for each group. So I don’t assume Toronto is sort of using that of their again pocket. However the higher he performs, and if he does step up even additional come playoff time, that’s going to issue into, into their negotiations.
They’ve gone backwards and forwards a couple of occasions all through the season for the reason that begin, nevertheless it definitely seems to be like they’re poised to get one thing achieved sort of after the actual fact, though they’ve continued talks. However he’s an essential piece for this membership, and he’s going to be somebody to look at if he does hit the RFA market come July 1.
