It's a silly argument. Who cares how many come up in one year. You want to delay it as long as you can. If you have 4 come up one year and 4 already getting paid you're still in the same boat at that point as you'd be if all 8 were up at the same time. They'll regret if if they're contenders a few years from now and are in cap trouble a year before they had to be.
- hockey123
I agree with the orginal poster. BCS I believe. It makes roster management easier, as well as player development, when you stagger the developmental and contract levels of the team. Nothing to regret. Unless having a lot of deserving prospects and draft picks coming is a bad evil destructive thing. If all 8 come up at once it's harder to tell what you have and what you need and who should make what. Having dealt with half of them the year before, or two years, makes things alot easier.
For years the knock against the leafs has been their lack and inability to develop youth, rebuild properly, and give young players big roles on the big club. The one time they finally do it, and do it right,
everyone's some are all like... "zomg zombies. Entry level deals! Caps!"... ffs get over it.
The biggest point you fail to get is that half these guys are only here because they traded the core for picks and prospects and a plethora of vets got injured.
I've even warmed up to Jake...even though he makes more turnovers in bad spots than i'd like....( more than 1...1/period maybe 
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