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Leafs have been dying for a player like Perry, PDO. -Fifty
I’d be OK with him on a Patches-like contract. Just lock up your wives, daughters, and moms when The Worm(tm) arrives.
Future Leaf Marchand with tons of juice left in the tank. Gamer. Him and Bennett this off-season, let’s go!
McJesus will never win a Cup in Edmonton until they get a legit goalie. I’m not pinning this loss on Skinner because I didn’t watch the entire game. But honestly, a toddler with a brain defect can see that. We bitch about the Leafs “running it back” every year, but WTF is happening in Edmonton where the management looks at the parade of fail between the pipes and says “We can run with this.” ????
Florida Meth-Smokers in 6.
Fuck Bennett or Marchand.
I won’t support a team that signs either one of those cheapshot artists. Both of them are fucking Kenny Linseman for fucks sake. If playing dirty and cheating is what it takes to win, I’ll find something else to occupy my time.
Edit : obviously I am being dramatic here. I won’t abandon the Leafs, but I won’t like it. Hopefully it would be like Tampa signing Perry. I hated it at first. Oilers should have given Bennett the Claude Lemieux treatment for running Skinner AGAIN. It boggles my mind how these guys get away with it. And Marchand shoulda been banned for life years ago. The guy has faced fines and suspensions for dirty/dangerous play more than a dozen times in his career. Being a dirty shit-talking dick like Darcy Tucker is one thing, running around recklessly (at best, intentionally at worst) trying to injure other players and potentially end their careers is another. Fuck that guy and any team he plays for. Motherfucker licks faces for chrissakes. Either enforce these rules or remove them from the rulebook.
Fuck Bennett or Marchand.
I won’t support a team that signs either one of those cheapshot artists. Both of them are fucking Kenny Linseman for fucks sake. If playing dirty and cheating is what it takes to win, I’ll find something else to occupy my time.
Edit : obviously I am being dramatic here. I won’t abandon the Leafs, but I won’t like it. Hopefully it would be like Tampa signing Perry. I hated it at first. Oilers should have given Bennett the Claude Lemieux treatment for running Skinner AGAIN. It boggles my mind how these guys get away with it. And Marchand shoulda been banned for life years ago. The guy has faced fines and suspensions for dirty/dangerous play more than a dozen times in his career. Being a dirty shit-talking dick like Darcy Tucker is one thing, running around recklessly (at best, intentionally at worst) trying to injure other players and potentially end their careers is another. Fuck that guy and any team he plays for. Motherfucker licks faces for chrissakes. Either enforce these rules or remove them from the rulebook.
~PDO SpeedwagonIt’s tricky – but you need assholes to succeed. Guys who get under the other team’s skin. Guys who want to life difficult for the opposition. Guys who will do what it takes to make it happen.
The ideal line there is someone like Hyman who would make the opposition’s goalie uncomfortable – and he’s done an even better job in Edmonton.
The Oilers and Panthers both have their share of total douchebags and the Knights, who won two years ago, had Whitecloud, Kolesar, Hague, Roy . . .and it’s not like Pietrangelo isn’t a dick, too. I guess the Avs, the year before, didn’t really have anyone who was a complete tool. Landeskog, Manson, Nichushkin, Lehkonen . . .they play hard, but not dirty. Even the two championship Tampa teams . . . Goodrow and Maroon are twats. Kucherov is a dirty player that is never called for it, too. You have to have guys who are pushing back and making the other team uncomfortable – and guys who make the other team do stupid stuff.
Hence why I think the Leafs do need Marchand and/or Bennett. They are who Michael Bunting was aspiring to be before the refs decided it was open season on him in Toronto.
Leafs have been dying for a player like Perry, PDO. -fifty
In an alternative universe, where the Leafs had consistent, competent management that knew how to keep their own draft picks, develop prospects and make shrewd trades, they could very easily have a team that looks like this…
Hyman @ 5.5 | Matthews @ 13.25 | Marner @ 10.9
Knies @ 925K | Verhaeghe @ 7 | Nylander @ 11.5
Brown @ 1 | Bennett @ 4.425 | Dakota Joshua @ 3.25
Kapanen @ 1| Domi @ 3.75 | Perry @ 1.1And the craziest part is, if you do the math of what those guys made this year, it would have been 63.675 AAV out of an 88 million dollar cap ceiling.
That would have left 24.3 AAV to still have Tanev, McCabe, OEL, Carlo, Benoit, Woll and Stolarz leaving the Leafs with 1.4 AAV in remaining cap space to sign one last bottom pair D.
Only Rielly wouldn’t have fit. Not a big loss, as we all know. But could have easily landed us a big piece in return back when he got his extension if he were traded instead of signed.
This is also not to mention how different the Leafs D would look had they kept Sandin and Durzi, just to name two, instead of opting for a D-core that is mostly 31-35 year olds.
Just as an example…at 22.8 AAV…
OEL | Tanev
Sandin | Carlo
Benoit | DurziWith a bit of draft lottery luck, you could also swap out Marner for McDavid @ 12.5 which the Leafs could afford by not having either Joshua or Domi and replacing them with a league minimum contract.
Just sayin…
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