No one is asking McLeod to "take a cut" let alone "another cut". McLeod will be able to get whatever the team offers him or arbiter awards him. He is in the same situation as last year except that he can go to an arbiter instead of holding out. As I pointed out does he really want to go down the road? I don't think he does.
My understanding is that Arbiters don't care about games played, instead they about TOI. The player would make the argument that they would put up more points over a full season but the team would argue that he is injury prone and their is no reason to think that he would be healthy.
Let me throw some math at you based on the Kurashev contract assuming that the Arbiter uses Points and TOI/G.
Name | P | TOI | Awarded | P% | TOI% | Total% | Projected Award |
Kurashev | 25 | 17.41667 | 2.2M | 100.00% | 100.00% | 100.00% | 2.20M |
McLeod | 23 | 14.18333 | ? | 92.00% | 81.44% | 86.72% | 1.91M |
McBain | 26 | 13.98333 | ? | 104.00% | 80.29% | 92.14% | 2.03M |
Frederic | 31 | 11.91667 | ? | 124.00% | 68.42% | 96.21% | 2.12M |
If Edmonton offers him a contract around 2M you have to think that McLeod would sign it, especially if you give him more years.