SIMMONS: 5 more years of Auston Matthews buys 5 years of Maple Leafs hope

The largest matter to settle was term. Matthews wanted less of it. The Leafs wanted more. They settled at four years — Matthews apparently wanted three, and the Leafs wanted to push to five or six years. The actual salary number per season — $13.25 million — is less than many had figured heading into the off-season. Matthews gets more than Connor McDavid or Nathan MacKinnon, players who have accomplished more than him, but that’s always the way it works with the best players in the best leagues.

The advantage of getting the deal done now is that training camp doesn’t begin next month with all kinds of questions surrounding the Leafs’ best player. The questions will be about hockey now. They won’t be about money. They won’t be about term. The extension is for four years and $53 million. By hockey standards, that’s a huge amount of money. By the standards of the rest of professional sports in North America, it’s pocket change.

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