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6yrs/14m – SirsieI’m actually OK with this, despite the batshit term. The caphit is only $2.3m, which is very fair for a quality bottom six center.
Having said that, it’s all but certain that the last couple years of that contract will be on Robidas Island. The Lightning are very good at gaming at the LTIR system, as we all know.
Leafs need a bottom six center like Gourde and he’s off the board now.
We’re just gonna have to learn to live with Rielly, warts and all. He has all the control if he refuses to waive. Given that, I’d change his deployment and make him an overpaid 2nd pairing or 3rd pairing guy. I know this will sound counter-intuitive, but maybe try him at killing penalties in camp/preseason. If he’s a “puck mover” who isn’t adding value to the power play, then maybe see if he can move the puck out of the zone on the PK where he’s not expected to join a rush or carry the puck.
Whatever the case, the Rielly situation needs to change and it’s a pipe dream to hope he gets traded. He won’t waive. Nobody wants him. You’d have to retain and practically give him away even if he agreed to waive. It would basically be a salary dump. Not gonna happen, so change his deployment.
Totally off subject. Just got done doing a fresh install of a new linux operating system (distro). Went smoother than I expected. Switched over from Ubuntu to BunsenLabs. The speed is stunning after years of using heavier OS’es like Windows and Ubuntu. Start up and shut down is instant. No lag for anything. Applications open and close instantly.
No forced updates. No AI or other cloud shit forced on me. No telemetry, tracking, or spying. It’s bliss.
Unless your work forces you to, or you are a l33t-gamer, there’s no reason to stay on Windoze.
This has been a public service FOSS testimonial, we now return you to Leafs hockey talk.
Fuck the Panthers.
It’s quite the accomplishment to put up a forum with modern software that somehow has less features than HB. LOL.
I’m generally against signing geezers, but if Patches retires, I wouldn’t be adverse to taking a flyer on Toews or Kane if they’d sign for a small salary with a bunch of incentive bonuses. Toews feels like more of a risk.
As we watch Florida go to the finals for the third year in a row, and reflecting on the Lightning’s mini-dynasty in the Covid era, it seems laughable now that folks thought NHL hockey wouldn’t work in Florida.
I think a Florida team has won the East for the last five or six years (too lazy to Google).
So, apparently Florida teams went into the meth store, smoked all the meth, and they had to close the meth store.
I’m not convinced JT will stay. Like Stamkos, I think he wants to stay and is saying all of the right things, but ultimately it’s up to Leafs management to make a fair offer. If that fair offer feels insultingly low, then he tests the market. Despite his age and warts, somebody will throw $4-5m at him easily, and maybe as high as $7.5m like Stamkos.
I used to work in management at a big box retailer and I was recruited by a rival big box. They offered better pay and better benefits, so I jumped ship. Well, I found out pretty quick that the other place was a clusterfuck. The managers were all either incompetent, dicks, or both. Most of my coworkers were joyless and hated their jobs and it showed in their performance. I hated it. I regretted my decision because the pay bump was too small to compensate for the additional suck the job required. I left a year later.
If JT really loves Toronto, he’ll stay. We’ll see. I think it’s a coin flip.
I won’t repost that pic ;to save everyone looking at it again but who ever told Marner that looked good clearly does not have his best interests at heart.
Was it Batman perhaps looking for a new Joker?
JFC – Cush
The suit looks good, but the hat and shades are cringey cheese
Then why do it daily?
Where is Bruce? – Cupsie
Not daily, just when it comes up.
No idea. Hope he’s OK. Probably just out doing life.
I’d bring him back on a 2 year deal at a cap hit of 5M.
Not to many C out there.
A lot players disappeared after game 4 vs. Florida. – DmntdAgree. The free agent market is thin and it would cost more assets to bring in a center via trade. If JT will sign cheap, then sign him, and have him be a C/W like Stamkos. Ideally, he is your slightly overpaid 3C and special teams guy and not an overwhelmed slow 2C who gets caved every game.
But yeah, JT wasn’t why the Leafs lost……he’s also part of why they didn’t win, but you can’t hang the loss on him alone.
It hasnt been that bad at the other site lately….and the person responsible for most of the conspiracy-laden political diatribe is here as well….and already started.
As for the random bans…..dunno..never came across any myself…but I rarely go into non leafs blogs or call out EK in any blog. – FakeIt gives me no joy to criticize HB or Ek. It was the first place I met up online with other hockey fans and had meaningful discussions and a little fun. I think deep down Ek is a decent guy who is passionate about hockey. But, he’s in over his head trying to admin a busy site that barely runs on a rotting infrastructure of 30+ year old abandonware.
The aggressive ads and popup windows that force users to install adblockers to use the site is self-defeating. Nobody is seeing those ads, so they can’t generate revenue. Or, they see them, get frustrated by them and leave (and never return).
He let trolls hijack his forums and make a mockery of his moderators. Then refuses to take the most basic and easy steps to mitigate that.
It’s the Buffalo Sabres of hockey forums.
Frank Seravelli on Sportsnet this morning said the leafs have been gauging interest in marner with other teams since last summer. No team wanted to a trade unless it came with an extension. Apparently, leafs were looking for a deal they liked and then were going to approach marner. He also said that he has spoken with several players who have been in the “orbit” (his word) of the core 3 and in the “orbit” of other top players in the league and he was told that the core 3 just dont work hard enough, seem complacent and dont seem to want it as much as others. That seems to fly considering what we’ve seen the past several years. – Fake
This rings true. I have no idea whether it’s actually true or not, but it rings true. Why should they bust ass for a raise when they already got the raise just for showing up to camp?
i have no interest in doing that much work to post – SensTroll
I don’t like it either, but it’s a small price to pay not to listen to the wild conspiracy-laden political diatribes that hijack threads and go on for pages and pages and pages. Also the random bans for no reason. Site admin who doesn’t know how to use a spellchecker, less yet operate the admin interface of a 30-year old piece of forum abandonware.
The quote thing is a PITA, but I can live with it and I hope they fix it.
