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**William Nylander signs for 6 years, per Dreger**

****ing Brian Burke. What an *******.
"6th Best Player On The Team". yeah, because we have fantastic talent. But not enough to contend for a cup, apparently.
 
ST. PAUL, Minn. – A relieved William Nylander has a message for Leafs Nation.

“I can’t wait to be back,” Nylander said in a phone interview with Postmedia, an hour after he signed a six-year contract with the Maple Leafs on Saturday afternoon. “It has been a crazy ride. I wish it would have been done earlier, but I’m very happy to be back with the best fans in the league. I’m very excited.”

Nylander is expected to travel to Toronto on Sunday and re-join his teammates soon after. When he plays in his first game remains to be determined, but there’s little doubt the 22-year-old star winger has been buoyed by the Leafs’ success in 2018-19, which includes 18 wins in their first 26 games prior to playing the Minnesota Wild on Saturday night.

Going home pic.twitter.com/neccpyfBVz

— William Nylander (@wmnylander) December 1, 2018

“I think it’s amazing,” Nylander said. “I can’t wait to get on the ice with them and start playing games. It has been crazy watching them from home. They are dominating every game. It’s amazing to see the guys step up. It’s what great players do.”



It will be a happy Nylander who returns to Toronto. The contract, with an annual average value of slightly over $6.95 million US, is good for both sides. The term of six years especially gives Nylander some peace of mind.

“That was something I wanted,” Nylander said. “I didn’t want a bridge deal. I want to stay in Toronto with all the players that we have and we have a great team.

“I didn’t want to risk it by signing a bridge deal and not being able to stay, if that was going to happen.”

Nylander indicated the past few days were somewhat nerve-wracking as the deadline of 5 p.m. on Saturday loomed, though he knows the at-times tense negotiations are part of the business.

“It was a learning process for sure,” Nylander said. “I never thought it would take this long to come to a deal and that it would go down to the last whatever it was, five, 10 minutes before the deadline. That was an experience for sure I will never forget.

“Everything worked out good for both sides, so there is nothing to be bitter about. You want to be playing from the beginning of the season, but things happen for a reason and I am just so happy that it’s over.”
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I'm not necessarily disagreeing. I'm genuinely curious. Give me some actual analysis that led you to "a couple percent." This is the main mystery that needs to be solved in advanced stats. If you've solved it I'm sure we'd all love to see it.
 
if I had the math skills to be able to create the TOIrelQOC stat I want and run the correlations for you I would.

All I can do is share the results of the much more arduous task of actually following the numbers game by game, as players move up and down the lineup.

Put it this way - they already find a small correlation with TOIqoc as it is, and that's even though raw TOIqoc mutes the actual differences in qoc by many factors. I.e. the difference between an ES 18mpg forward and a 9mpg game forward is much more than just 50%.when they use toi to measure qoc they use it as a real number value of quality, instead of the proxy for quality that it is.
 
JackBurton said:
****ing Brian Burke. What an *******.
"6th Best Player On The Team". yeah, because we have fantastic talent. But not enough to contend for a cup, apparently.
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The fallacy in his idiot comment is, we have space for Tavares, Matthews, and Marner, and we have Rielly and Andersen signed for another few years. So what, do you trade and not pay Nylander because you’re worried about Gardiner, when you have the space to keep him??

What an ass.
 
Burke is a tool. A quote appeared surrounding these comments on Nylander that he forced the coach to play Colton Orr because of some nebulous "needing toughness" pap.
He's a fossil, hopefully CBC ditches him and gets a nerd on there.

As for Nylander, about time. Going to be fun seeing Tyler Ennis go away and Willy riding shotgun with Auston or Nasty Naz. The cap hit is more than fine. Remember Caps and Penguins had a ton in forwards as well. Leafs are on up trajectory, it's just a question of years and luck before they push through the East.
 
I don't understand a lot of the reaction to this.

the Leafs got very close to yearly cap hit they wanted. much closer, certainly, to their cap number than what Nylander's camp started with.
 
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