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I think they could have gotten more for Woll, but maybe the market didn’t support that assumption. It could also mean that a free agent signing is imminent. $5M in cap space could allow the team to grab 2 free agent defensemen, once Rielly gets moved. Add another power forward and they’re in business. I don’t like small defensemen because they get demolished in the playoffs. I give this trade a C-. It all depends what they do with the Cap money.
Forward with a 6.5M cap hit and a 1st rnd pck with it. 😉
I think they could have gotten more for Woll, but maybe the market didn’t support that assumption. It could also mean that a free agent signing is imminent. $5M in cap space could allow the team to grab 2 free agent defensemen, once Rielly gets moved. Add another power forward and they’re in business. I don’t like small defensemen because they get demolished in the playoffs. I give this trade a C-. It all depends what they do with the Cap money.
I’ll agree with what a few folks have said … its a ” B ” grade trade. It kinda helps both teams … BUT idealy if they could have gotten back there 1st that went with the lawton deal that would have been better.
Benoit … if he could have like MANY leafs D-men on the roster been more mobile & better on the break out would have had more success … Otherwise he might as well be like mike’s favorite Justin Holl or Myers ( whom also again had potential but failed to show he had 2 way ability, dont expect him back with the leafs let alone any other NHL team )
Leafs traded Woll and Benoit to Philly for Emil Andrae, Samuel Ersson and a 3rd. Discuss.
I’m sincerely hoping that’s precisely why Sundin was hired. To literally cuff Chayka across the back of the head if he tries to make a dumbass decision due to “youth”
*cuff*
Mats: you’re in Toronto now, you are smart as fuck at hockey but dumbass “feeling” choices are big no no’s, need me to go get Wendel now too?
Seriously tho I hope you’re wrong and they roll with experience. Another youthful anti-experience attack again? Please no.
Mats is back in TO because his sons are the right age to start playing a high level in the GTHL. It’s a matter of convenience that he can also make millions of dollars again as a Leafs legend without having to do much actual work and using Chayka as the face forward, fall guy if things go wrong.
I think Mats has his heart in the right place, for the most part, but he’s not up to speed with how to build a Cup winner having been away from the NHL for 17 years with zero front office experience so the idea that he’s there to “stop” Chayka is asking Stevie Wonder to guide Ray Charles through the woods.
It’s a pie in the sky dream that this executive combination will end with a Cup. This experiment ends with Pelley getting fired and the entire team being demolished within 3 years.
I dont mind the trade. Leafs get cap space, move out an often injured goalie and get a younger more mobile dman.
Although i did like Benoit.
Time for changes.Yup, Benoit is likeable but he’s also tradable. Bottom pairing guy, lets face it, you don’t stop a trade to hold onto one of those.
If Cassidy wants to coach a contender, he’ll sit and wait for a better situation than the Leafs.
Leafs are too stupid to hire Torts too. Pretty sure he just got let go for not swapping Hart for Hill in the Final. Torts is loyal to a fault sometimes.
Western Michigan’s Pat Ferschweiler among candidates to be next Maple Leafs coach is the latest headline. Another high tank risk hire if they go in that direction.
I’m sincerely hoping that’s precisely why Sundin was hired. To literally cuff Chayka across the back of the head if he tries to make a dumbass decision due to “youth”
*cuff*
Mats: you’re in Toronto now, you are smart as fuck at hockey but dumbass “feeling” choices are big no no’s, need me to go get Wendel now too?
Seriously tho I hope you’re wrong and they roll with experience. Another youthful anti-experience attack again? Please no.
Leafs traded Woll and Benoit to Philly for Emil Andrae, Samuel Ersson and a 3rd. Discuss.
I dont mind the trade. Leafs get cap space, move out an often injured goalie and get a younger more mobile dman.
Although i did like Benoit.
Time for changes.The Leafs ask Vegas permission to speak with Cassidy.
Vegas says no (now an assumption lol).
The Leafs call Torts and tell him to deliberately lose the final if he wants a sweet contract in Toronto.
Torts says okay.
Today happens.
If Cassidy wants to coach a contender, he’ll sit and wait for a better situation than the Leafs.
Leafs are too stupid to hire Torts too. Pretty sure he just got let go for not swapping Hart for Hill in the Final. Torts is loyal to a fault sometimes.
Western Michigan’s Pat Ferschweiler among candidates to be next Maple Leafs coach is the latest headline. Another high tank risk hire if they go in that direction.
