OK, so you'd like to bet that (based on the information made available to the public regarding the financial compensation packages offered) the Leafs will come in under the compensation offered by any other team? As a gentlemans bet I'll take it!! If you want to throw money on it then I'll need odds because playing one team vs The Field should almost always come with odds. If you'd like to bet on the Leafs vs any other particular team then I'm all in for even odds.
As for the disagreement with the general premise, I'm intrigued by your world view but the evidence would suggest otherwise. If we were to test the hypothesis within the confines of the NHL and generated a list of players who went with the highest bidder vs those who were known to have taken a hometown discount to stay put or those who went to a particular franchise for less than market value, are you suggesting that there might be an even split or that more often than not players and coaches don't take the most money offered?