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The Leafs are not as good as Florida and Edmonton and you are absolutely correct about first two games.
Taking Panthers to game seven should not fool anyone.The Leafs took the Panthers to Game 7, you can’t take that away from them. It wasn’t pretty but nobody else gave them a better challenge. This Leafs team was and is still flawed. But it’s closer than anybody else. And to throw that away instead of build upon it would be stupid. All it would take is for Bob to act his age at 37 or fatigue from 3 long Cup runs or a major injury, and this Leafs team, with the correct improvements (remove Tavares, Rielly, Jarnkrok, Kampf etc.) and they can go further than they ever have before.
This Edmonton team would still be choking like the Leafs if it wasn’t for their head coach. Granted, Kris Knoblauch has the benefit of having the best player on the planet on his team but the way the whole team plays as a relentless unit behind him, with a bunch of no-name players for the most part lower in the line-up, really shaky blueline and a shoddy Skinner (whom he pulled and only put back in because Pickard got injured), is a wonder to watch. They’re up 1-0 early in the series so far and who knows if they will win the Cup but Kris Knoblauch deserves some major credit for the massive turn around this team has had since he took over. Full credit to him win or lose.
Bennett gets away with everything. And of course Marchand scores on the PP that shouldn’t have happened.
You know that if he and Marchand, by some miracle, played for the Leafs, all the shit they get away with would instantly be called every single time.
I think back to Game 3, Leafs had a PP and Marner got hit very late. Nothing. No call. No 5 on 3.
With the way Bennett and Marchand play, they’d get run out of town like Kadri after enough penalties / suspensions.
Uggle Buggle, you let JT walk, now you need a 2C.
Agreed. Would rather trade for Jenner and/or McBain. At least that way you can guarantee you have a gritty, rough, tough player in his prime, under 5 million who can actually play in all 3 zones. You also sign Rielly Smith who is a playoff performer and actual two-way winger. In that scenario, Nylander can be a defensive lazy fuck and still get away with it. In other scenarios, where Tavares and Nylander are still playing together, they are minus and you lose the series like they did against Florida.
You now have to move Kampf and find a taker for him, and probably have to eat cap to do that and add a sweetener;
Not true. Salary cap floor is 70 million this year. There are A LOT of teams that would happily take a plug just to fill salary and a roster spot. Same goes for Jarnkrok. Both Kampf and Jarnkrok are NHL players. They can both fill a spot on a team fighting for the playoffs and score 10-15 goals and eat up 15 min a game. They just can’t be on a team that hopes to win a Stanley Cup. Teams like Columbus or Utah would happily take these guys.
Rielly has a full NMC and very likely is going to say no to any trade except maybe Vancouver, and we’ll have to eat salary as well to do that, or take a cap dump in return.
Vancouver or Seattle. Blueger and Tyler Myers from Vancouver. Or Oleksiak and Tye Kartye from Seattle. Done deal. Next.
If salary retention is a must, I refer to my previous point that the cap floor is 70 million. There’s plenty of teams that would facilitate retaining salary to reach the cap floor. 3-way deals happen every year to reduce salary. Nothing new or complicated about it.
Team upgraded, full of tough, two-way, North-South, Toronto boys with slight hometown discount bargains.
Knies @ 7×3 | Matthews | Marner @ 13.16×8
R. Smith @ 4.25×3 | Jenner @ 3.75×1 | Nylander
Domi | McBain @ 3.5×3 | B. Tanev @ 1.75×2 (or Corey Perry)
Laughton | Blueger @ 1.8×1 | Lorentz @ 1×1
Comtois @ 850 (or Pacioretty if he doesn’t retire)OEL | Tanev
McCabe | T. Myers
Burns @ 2×1* | Carlo
Benoit*(if he doesn’t retire, hometown guy because he’s from Barrie. Could be the ultimate utility player as both a 7th D and a 13th forward.)
Woll | Stolarz
Marner is very likely walking anyways, so are you just armchair GM circle-jerking like usual, or do you want to actually talk about realistic moves?
And the Leafs are very likely never winning a Stanley Cup with retards running this team. But you’re still going to circle jerk yourself while you watch them.
You want realistic? Realistic is Marner is walking because management is inept, Bennett and Marchand are staying in Florida and the Leafs are absolutely fucked. There’s your reality.
I know that’s difficult for you, the air is foul in your mom’s basement what with her corpse rotting in the next room.
Personal attacks because you can’t deal with the actual argument. Nothing new but just as pathetic.
The Leafs are not as good as Florida and Edmonton and you are absolutely correct about first two games.
Taking Panthers to game seven should not fool anyone.
