The Carolina Hurricanes signed Jake Gardiner to a contract with an AAV $450,000 less than Cody Ceci’s. Does this mean the Leafs chose Ceci over Gardiner? Is this that handedness fetish again? Is this an outrage?
Let’s go through it from the top.
Remember when all the clever schemes to magic away Patrick Marleau’s contract didn’t work, and the Leafs only removed that giant cap-space-eating final year of his deal from their books because two things happened:
- He wanted to be traded, so he waived his no-move clause.
- The Leafs paid a first round pick.