Opinion: Leafs forwards Auston Matthews, William Nylander will show what their priorities are in contract talks. If team success is important, then less could be more in negotiations.
, know this better than anyone. It would be awfully nice for Toronto’s NHL team if one or both of Matthews and Nylander sacrificed a significant chunk of his potential average annual value in the name of winning something more significant than one playoff series in eight tries.
Even at that point in his career, Bergeron figured to command a hefty price. He had already been a star on a Bruins team that won the Stanley Cup in 2011 and made it to the Cup final in 2013, and he had won his first Selke. So Hughes, as any good agent would, gauged the market and figured Bergeron was worth something in the range of $9.5 million a year on a long-term deal.“, ‘Yeah, but if I make that kind of money, we’ll never win.
To a lot of eyes, it’s a rare story of the greater good triumphing over greed thanks to the leadership of a future Hall of Famer. Bergeron settled on an eight-year deal worth an annual average of $6.9 million. And the example he set held weight. Hughes pointed out to Nilan that Brad Marchand refused to earn more than Bergeron. Marchand signed a deal a few years later with an annual cap hit of $6.1 million through 2024-25.
The problem is the NHL is the furthest thing from a free market. It’s a construct in which salaries are artificially suppressed by a hard salary cap. Every dollar you get is a dollar a teammate can’t have. The bigger your paycheque, the shoddier your supporting cast. There’s no law against playing hardball, of course. Nylander undoubtedly loves that game. And if the team is willing to play — and to happily pay, as has been the local custom — that’s on the team. To be fair, even the best front-office negotiator can’t force a player to take a hometown discount. The player has to believe there’s value in following the Bergeron model.
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