For a team that's been in such dire need of a complete cleaning of the player side of their organisation and a proper, long-term sustainable strategy of developing drafted talent for as long as the Leafs have, giving an eight year billion dollar contract to a guy whose success was built on virtually refusing to play prospects until they're about 22 seems sort of counter productive to me.
Of course, I'm sure Toronto's media will make those eight years just fly past. A contract that length for someone who isn't a player in such a reactionary market is just strange. Good luck to him, he'll need it.