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Well, the D man Emil Andrae who the Leafs gave up with Knies is on waivers. He’s only $1.55 mill, the Leafs should grab him lol
Leafs love their midget RHD.
Oh I know but they did trade for ROR but can’t blame the current GM for that move. I’m just saying, I agree the D sell offs have sucked but at least that one deal paid something back.
And you know how I feel about this blueline. Rielly signed for 3 more years after this one? Ugh, just watch, the 10 teams he hands over for the last 2 years won’t need D so they won’t be interested in dealing for him. Raddysh, 143 career points after last season where he got 70 of them and the Leafs signed him for 8 years, yup that got an out loud WTF from me. McCabe and Tanev, solid, but old, and signed for 3 more years with NMCs as well, and then OEL, the one I can at least forgive since he’s nothing more than a $3.5 mill bottom pairing guy done after next year. You’re right, he could have been a nice trade last year but once again, that GM had a crush on him or something *shakes head*
And yet every GM gets a pass for the retarded moves of the previous GM. Chayka didn’t sign Rielly but he did sign Raddysh. Different GM, same result. The Leafs need a long standing internal policy of retarded shit to never do such as never trade a 1st round pick. Never sign players over 30 to long term contracts with NMCs. It shouldn’t matter who the GM is, they should all follow the same standard that preserves the health of the franchise on the ice.
At least the pick the Leafs got for Sandin became Cowan right?
But yeah, that blueline is close to the age where all their food needs to be puréed into a soup nowadays.
Which they could have made themselves with their own 1st had they not already traded their 1st for that year in the ROR trade.
The Leafs blueline could have maybe 2 “old” guys on it. But not 5 who have 0 goals.
yah but everyone tradeable right!!.
They absolutely are but not all at once and not all for the same reasons. But you’re missing what “fixed” means. Fixed means having a younger blueline that skates, scores and passes at a higher level. Fixed means D that can hold a blueline, clear a zone, reduce shots and chances without getting caved in for most the game.
OEL should have been traded last year. His value was high and at the deadline would have brought us back a better return than today.
Tanev could be easily traded to a contender at the deadline if he’s healthy. Same for McCabe.
Rielly and Raddysh are the problem. Rielly has been trash for years and Raddysh is his new trash replacement. And the Leafs system has no viable replacements for any of them because of poor draft capital and draft management for the past 10 years whereby they’ve drafted and developed ZERO top talent on the blueline. Even if the Leafs had managed to draft and develop ONE top-four blueliner every 5 years, they’d be vastly better off. All they have to show is the likes of Schenn, Sandin, Liljegren and many others that don’t play for the Leafs.
The Leafs have D that can’t skate, they can’t reduce shots, they can’t prevent goals and they can’t score themselves.
Leafs have Rielly, Raddysh, Tanev, McCabe, and OEL all with 0 goals. All old. All signed long term. All with some type of NTC.
This is unfixable.
And Bobrovsky brought his October timing into November lol
It’s becoming Bobrovstartselling if this keeps up.
Bob sucked his first two years in Florida. Almost lost the net completely at some points.
Leafs are getting outplayed on home ice again. It needs to change.
October is over, now you can start judging Bobrovsky. Before the Leafs the guy’s SV% in October was 0.902%, he has always sucked in that month.
The D however… sigh… I have a bad feeling we are going to hear a lot of “hurt, healthy, hurt, healthy, hurt, healthy” going on with them this year.
The Leafs are losing the 5v5 battle so consistently, they are among the worst teams in the entire NHL. That tells me they will continue to allow a lot of shots, a lot of chances and will live and die by the special teams. The PK must remain near perfect and the PP must score goals to keep them in games.
If Bob gives them average goaltending, they could be a wild card team but unless they fix the 5v5 play, they will not be a truly successful team.
Well, as I’ve said, I don’t think scoring is the Leafs problem anyways. They want to score 7 goals instead of 5 a game? They need to shut down teams, not try to outscore them even more.
So yup, either fix up that D or as you’ve said, look into a rebuild. Maybe we will be lucky enough where Matthews won’t agree to do contract talks next year which will hopefully change Chayka’s attitude pretty damn quick.
Agreed however unless they learn how to draft or they get a miracle fall in their lap to replace half the of defense, Chayka’s only option may be to try and score 7 per game and hope Bob can allow less than 5.
Is it worth paying him $20 a year for 6 years? If they do win now sure I guess. However I still doubt it would happen unless the D gets upgraded somehow. Anyways, without winning, a contract like that, signed til he’s 39, will only become yet another reason to become bitter in Toronto.
Is it worth it to have two MVPs on the same team at the same time both still in their prime? The cap is going up and up and up every year and Marchenko is already set to take 12.5 AAV. If you find a way to clear Rielly’s (Domi and Joshua) contract, the cap space is found.
I wouldn’t do it. I would sell and rebuild. However, Chayka wants to be Mr. Blockbuster and his analytics might scream “DO IT”.
I see the biggest obstacle actually being Tampa Bay refusing to trade him within the division which is why he’d most likely end up in the West for a king’s ransom.
