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Yes, so far he is almost in the same category, but I still have some hopes for him,
because of injures.
He is the Leafs first line center, without him this team has no chance to compete.Well, not really. The teams stats without matthews are pretty darn good….when they had marner in the reg season.
Hague trade brings in Sissons (another bottom 6C). Roy to Toronto seems more likely.
Vegas will have to trim more salary to get marner under the cap, even at $12 x 4
Ok, I’m coming around on signing Marchand. Leafs need to bump Kampf and Jarnkrok off the ship after bonus day and if they do they’ll have about 19M to spend on a top 6 FWD and 4 bottom 6 replacements. Nab Roy as one of the pieces and you’ve still got 16M to spend. Sign Marchand to bigger money, shorter term (b/c they really don’t need to back end it and lower the AAV). Spend some money on good 1 yr deals on the 4th line.
If the dust settles this week and the lineup looks like …
Marchand-Matthews-Nylander
Knies-Tavares-McMann
Domi-Laughton-Roy
3 Heavy forechecking types…….I’m good. Maybe drop Laughton down a line and spend on another good 3rd liner.
Sorry but marchand on the top line just isnt a good idea, the only reason he was effective with the panthers was because he was on the 3rd line.
$6m for marchand or he can piss off. Leafs will be screwed if they sign him for anything more than that…..he’s 37 for crying out loud.
I hope to hell marchand is not a leaf.lumping Marner with JT contract to make it look better is amazing. The entire discount is from JT, so that makes marner look better. thats so on brand fur dummies
So true.
just over $4m for a player that didnt play on the top line with a top center or marner and was still just under a ppg (0.9866) for the reg season and 0.53ppg in the playoffs is a pretty good deal. You werent going to get any player like that for that cost on the open market.
Only an idiot would hate it.According to the reliable “some guy on X”, LA and the Ducks also interested. Seems like the only way any value would be coming back.
There is no chance he’s going to the hellscape that is California when the benefits of living and playing in Vegas are far better.
From a moron whos probably never been to cali.
Keep drinking the orangegoop, little fragile one.Bruce Garrioch
@SunGarrioch
There is talk amongst league executives that Leafs have asked for Nicolas Roy and Nicolas Hague in return. It will be interesting to see if this happens.Fuck ya, Hague is a Toronto boy and 6’6″ 230lbs, lets goooo!
So then Leafs go with
Knies, Matthews, P. Kane
Marchand, Tavares, Nylander
Domi, Roy, B. Tanev
Jeannot, Laughton, LorentzMcCabe, Tanev
Hague, Carlo
Benoit, OELBOOM! Thank you and fuck you Marner.
Forget marchand. What a waste of money he would be on the leafs.
Hes effective as a 3rd liner on a mi e with other good third liners. On the leafs, he’d play second line against tougher comp and wouldnt be as effective.
Use the $8-9m on something else.Gibson going to the wings for mrazek and two picks….foolish wings
Timmins and Belliveau going to the sabres for connor clifton and the 39th pickAre you happy, sad or indifferent on this signing?
Great deal.
No need for anyone to be sad.
He will outperform the $4.3m the first two years after…doesnt matter.Great deal.
Not expecting much from the Leafs this weekend. Sure, they might do something with the bottom 6, but nothing spectacular. Hopefully, they can get a team to bite on Marner’s rights, so we actually get a return on this wanker. JT’s signing is OK, although I was hoping that they could have acquired a good defensive Centre, with a 20 goal pedigree that could have pushed JT to the 3rd Centre position. Maybe it’s too soon to tell, but there is a hole that needs filling at the 3C position. I imagine when Marner walks, they’ll look at someone like Ehlers to play in the top 6. I was hoping for Boezer but the price may be too high.
Im hoping for Ekblad if available or Nate Schmidt/provorov, along with Tanev, P suter and P Kane (if he doesnt sign in Detroit). Ekblad would be our number 1 Dman and push Morgan down to 3rd line, our D would be great.
Two quick observations:
– Tavares on the open market would have received over $7M easy. In fact, some dumb GM would have probably given him $8M. He took a huge paycut to stay in Toronto.
– Montreal is a fantastic place to sit on a patio and watch the pretty ladies walk by. The talent level in this town is much higher than their hockey team.
It is. Lots of beautiful ladies in Montreal.
The same could be said of Toronto and Ottawa as wellIf the Leafs had traded 2 x top 20 1st round pics & that player for Dobson with the extension you just know many Leaf fans and for sure non-leaf fans would be screaming it was an overpayment! I actually think this one is a bit of a wash right now and both teams feel like they won.
cough**the Kessel trade**cough….
that what that trade makes me think of somewhat.
Except the leafs werent close to being a playoff team and those picks were unprotected.
If the Leafs had traded 2 x top 20 1st round pics & that player for Dobson with the extension you just know many Leaf fans and for sure non-leaf fans would be screaming it was an overpayment! I actually think this one is a bit of a wash right now and both teams feel like they won.
cough**the Kessel trade**cough….
that what that trade makes me think of somewhat.
I feel like it COULD be similar to Phaneuf. In that he had a really high ceiling in his first few years then tapered off to just a “good” D-man. I hope it doesn’t but that’s kind of where my mind went on this trade. Wouldn’t be the first time a young d-man got traded and kind of slid in his career.
BJ’s getting a couple centers the last couple days. Just depth.
JT signing is DNA change. He could have got 7 million on the open market but he wants to win in his hometown. He took a real discount. Show Knies if he wants to be here then to take what’s offered and win.
I keep hearing via media how “depth” is the reason Florida won the cup but it seems glossed over that the reason they had depth was because they had 9 million on LTIR before the playoffs so they could acquire the depth. Where are the panthers without Jones/Marchand? Leafs are way closer than we think as fans if this is the benchmark.
Yeah I get Florida, TB and Vegas all abused this rule in the CBA and anyone can use it, okay that’s fine but it’s being closed because why have all these “winners” win only because they cheated?The habs got a number 1, hes pretty great. Imo
But i hope you are right in that i hope he turns into a phaneuf. The habs need a phaneufI actually believe the panthers were $19m over the cap.
What a joke.Why didnt the leafs do that?
????JT has $2m in deferred compensation
full no move clause the first 2 years
5 team trade list the last 2 years.Yup, all of those are perfectly fine.
Agreed.
This quote button has got me horny
