{"id":139823,"date":"2023-08-23T19:49:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T23:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=139823"},"modified":"2023-08-23T19:49:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T23:49:37","slug":"nhl-rumours-toronto-maple-leafs-future-with-william-nylander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/08\/23\/nhl-rumours-toronto-maple-leafs-future-with-william-nylander\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Rumours: Toronto Maple Leafs Future with William Nylander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the NHL off-season ending soon enough, many unanswered questions remain surrounding the Toronto Maple Leafs. The most notable of which include their free agents next year. And one of them is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/nylanwi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-08-23_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">William Nylander<\/a>. In a discussion with Elliotte Friedman and Jeff Marek, Nylander mentioned that there is lots of time to get a contract done. Also, he stated that there is nowhere else he wants to be other than Toronto.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The most relaxed man in hockey. \u201cLots of time\u201d to sort out his contract, says there\u2019s nowhere else he wants to be than Toronto. Doesn\u2019t see why everyone is spending so much time discussing it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V7RBYNNwxM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/V7RBYNNwxM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/1694341015011033236?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>William Nylander&#8217;s Future with Toronto Maple Leafs<\/h2>\n<p>William Nylander just had his first season where <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/11\/12\/maple-leafs-william-nylanders-hot-start\/\" target=\"_self\">he eclipsed the 40-goal threshold and the point-per-game mark<\/a>.\u00a0 He is due for a raise. How much of a raise is subject to debate. Even though fans have had contradictory discourses, Nylander has been a key piece for the Leafs for many years now. He seems to be the perfect type of player for the Toronto market, shrugging off any negative media attention he gets. If Nylander wants to stay in Toronto, it would be in the player&#8217;s and team&#8217;s best interest to get a deal done.<\/p>\n<h3>Nylanders Worth<\/h3>\n<p>It appears both sides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/william-nylander-hopes-to-work-out-long-term-contract-stay-with-toronto-maple-leafs\/c-345650172?tcid=tw_news_content_id\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">want a long-term extension<\/a>. The main difference in views seems to be the money on said long-term extension. The team can draw comparables for William Nylander with recent contracts like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=ahose01,ahose02&amp;search=Sebastian+Aho&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-08-23_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sebastian Aho<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/meierti01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-08-23_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Timo Meier<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/debrial01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-08-23_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex DeBrincat<\/a>. Aho&#8217;s deal would be at the high end of comparables and Meier and DeBrincat would be at the lower end. However, the most recent report of Nylander&#8217;s ask put him at $10,000,000 per season. This is where the ground needs to be made up. The talks may have progressed more since the report six weeks ago. However, if Nylander is confident that they&#8217;ll get a deal done, it is reasonable to believe a contract will get done between the two sides.<\/p>\n<p>Only time will really tell what happens with the two sides. However, this is a promising indicator for Leaf fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the NHL off-season ending soon enough, many unanswered questions remain surrounding the Toronto Maple Leafs. The most notable of which include their free agents next year. And one of them is William Nylander. In a discussion with Elliotte Friedman and Jeff Marek, Nylander mentioned that there is lots of time to get a contract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2399,"featured_media":139837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4321,4548,18],"tags":[1594,3877,6127],"class_list":["post-139823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rumours","category-nhl","category-leafs","tag-brad-treliving","tag-nhl-rumours","tag-toronto-maple-leafs-rumours"],"modified_by":"Luiza Vidal, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}