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That’s a lot of draft capital for a 28 year old winger coming off an average season. The Panthers need to fill the hole that Bobrovsky left. Florida will either be back on top or they’re going to crash and burn. Much of that roster is old and worn down from many deep playoff runs. Ottawa, however, is loaded with young players and now a wealth of high end draft picks. They could easily move up in the first round, if they chose to. They’re definitely getting a top pick at 8 and now 2 more firsts and a second. Depending where Florida finishes next year, they could be picking higher in the 1st round once again. This trade smacks of desperation by Florida, strip-mining their draft position for the next couple of years. Who’s really left, under 25 on the Panthers? Ottawa may be the next team to take on a run for 1st place in the Division, if not this year, but next. It surely is a culture change in Ottawa. The Atlantic is loaded for bear this year.
Florida is going to run the East again next year. The only reason they missed the playoffs this year was because of the injuries to Barkov and Tkachuk. Florida finished the year with the most games lost due to injuries. With a long offseason, the team will be recharged and the majority of their team is still in their prime. Pretty much everybody except Marchand and possibly Bob coming back, is 30 or younger. There is a very high chance Florida can fight for a Cup and win another within the next 3-5 years without those draft picks they gave away. That is the benefit of having a core of players collected at the correct time and at the correct age. Florida has a winning formula and their only issue is whether or not they bring back Bob or if they can find a solid replacement for 7 AAV or less. Hellebuyck is the next elite player tired of Canada and don’t be surprised if Florida or any other of these contenders out there (Carolina or Vegas) make a big splash for him next.
McMann 5.75 AAV x 6. Big boy who can hit, skate and shoot but never seemed to have the full effort or consistency. Don’t think he becomes the next Hyman but there’s always the feeling that McMann has untapped potential. Hopefully McMann brings Rielly with him to Seattle.
Dickinson going back to Edmonton for 4 AAV x 5. Was hoping he would hit the UFA market. He would have looked nice on the 3rd line.
The Senators are getting the ninth and 25th overall picks in this year’s draft, plus a 2029 first-round pick and a 2030 second-rounder for Brady Tkachuk.
It was only a matter of time. Don’t blame him. Fuck Ottawa in it’s entirety.
Only raises the value of Matthews and Nylander (especially with 50% retained) for a full rebuild.
but, can say this. a 100mph slapshot is not dependent on kucherov. that’s a skill. he has it.
The question is, if this guy can shoot 100 mph, why is he 30 with ONE year of offensive performance worthy of 8.5 x 8?
Anybody can make the 5 foot pass that Kucherov gave him, however the space for that shot to get through to the net depends on who else is on the ice. As we saw in the playoffs vs. Montreal, Raddysh had 1 goal and 2 points. That time and space is going to go away now that everybody knows what is coming and adjusts. The question becomes, does he also adjust and continue to pound the puck as he gets older and slower. We saw McCabe, Kubina and Rielly fall off an offensive cliff after they got grossly overpaid. I don’t expect Raddysh to be much different.
Im notsure the Leafs have had a D like Raddysh in 20+ years, a cannon shot. ar least the last 2 years are not full no trade, they can move him if needed.
They need to add speed to the bottom 6, and have a checking line that can handle other teams top lines and not get dummied.
Mikheyev is a UFA, id look at him again, good for 15-20 goalsThe Leafs haven’t had a 30-38, slow, defensively suspect, one year offensive wonder signed to a massive contract extension in 20 years? Must have a foggy memory from all those Cups that Rielly, McCabe and Kubina won.
Yeah, they can move him when he’s THIRTY-SIX. What a relief.
This is a mistake the Leafs have made so many times, it boggles the mind how they keep making it and pretending like it’s some how new.
Having a bomb point shot is nice for the PP but it’s not worth having another Rielly contract (also scored 20 goals and 72 points ONCE by the way) after having ONE good season.
There’s a reason why Tampa Bay threw the Leafs that grenade just like Boston threw the Carlo grenade at the Leafs.
i like that the new head honcho is making some moves and swung for the fences, but i don’t see any of these moves being game changers.
the defense and goaltending are still suspect.
at least it’s clear that chayka isn’t going to run it back. he’s either going to remake this team or burn it down and cripple it for years to come. it won’t be boring.
credit to raddysh for one of the biggest pay rises in the history of the league and he gets to bail out of meth-riddled florida for the completely sane environment of the gta. it’s tavares and his bed sheets all over again. i even saw a photo of him in a midget leafs jersey as a kid. lol
If he keeps adding 8 year deals for 30+ year old players without adding more 1st round picks, this team will be crippled by time he’s finished with it. Treliving already inflicted a boat load of damage with long term contracts of old D so that blueline is filled with anchors as the years go forward. If the Leafs keep getting older while the rest of the division is younger, it won’t end well.
He is not running it back but if the season ends with another playoff miss or even a 1st round exit, it’s only a matter of time before Matthews starts heading for the door and if he walks Matthews and other expiring contracts into UFA status without getting a return on those assets, this team will be absolutely fucked in the future.
In an ideal scenario, all the Leafs most valuable assets have good statistical years but the Leafs miss the playoffs and Matthews demands a trade. That way this team can rebuild properly and uses it’s remaining assets as trade bait at the deadline, uses cap space to take on bad contracts for 1st round picks and rebuilds properly.
Won’t happen though as the Leafs will strive for mediocrity and continue to overpay players as they usually do.
I have a feeling that they Leafs are going to do more trades and UFA signings. The defense needs another body and the 2C needs to be addressed. The Leafs can’t get far with Tavares at 2C. He needs to be bumped down to 3C or the LW on line 2. The bottom 6 needs to be addressed and a few dead weight players need to be traded or just not re-signed. Maccelli, and Robertson need to be moved. Either a late round pick or just not qualified needs to happen. I don’t see a decent return for either one of these guys. They only put up points in garbage time, when nothing is to be gained. Some of the Marlies would do a better job for less. Goaltending also needs to be sorted out. Arturs A needs to get a good look, after being the AHL Playoff MVP. He’s quick and great positionally, but has a tendency to drop too soon to the butterfly. You see the opposition shooting high on him, so he needs to work on that. Hildeby will slot in behind Stolarz to start the year, so there will be decent goaltending, as long as they stay healthy. If they start slow, AA will become relevant sooner than we think. The draft lottery should be interesting.
Tavares can’t play 3C. He’s defensively worthless. If you make him a shutdown center, he won’t be able to score and doesn’t shut down anybody. His only option is to play LW if you pull him away from 2C. One of the few options for 3C is the long anticipated Boone Jenner. He could be a shutdown, physical 3C that could kill penalties and probably play a solid 16-18 minutes a night. If Matthews plays 20, Tavares plays 18, Jenner plays 16, you need a 4C to eat up the last 8 minutes per game which you might get from Groulx or another FOs/PK specialist veteran as a UFA.
While it’s nice the Marlies won the Calder Cup, it was mostly led by career AHLers. The last time the Marlies won the Calder Cup, the NHLers we saw come from it were Andreas Johnsson, Trevor Moore, Holl, Kapanen, Marincin, Dermott, Liljegren, Engvall, Grundstrom and Garret Sparks with most of them being in their early 20s and under 25. This time around it seems Cowan and Villeneuve were the only leaders under 25 with Danford, Quillan, Tverberg and Groulx might having some chance at being depth players but Lettieri, Shaw, Nylander unlikely to make the NHL jump.
From what I saw from Akhtyamov in the NHL, he looks like another Samsonov. Not that big, relies more on athletics than technique and not really starter material in the NHL but maybe a back-up. Previous playoff AHL MVP goalies of the past 30 years include Silovs, Hunter Shepard, Robin Lehner, Michal Neuvirth, Carey Price (20 years old), Fred Cassivi, Nittymaki, Flaherty, Holmqvist, Nurminen, Mike Dunham and Corey Schwab going all the way back to 1995. Most of the time, it’s pathway to becoming a back-up with some rare exceptions like a 20 year old Carey Price.
Apparently Andrae is LHD
Assuming 44 tradeTherefore:
OEL Raddysh
McCabe Tanev
Andrae Carlo
(Myers is under contract)>Sounds like Chayka wants to leave the youngsters to develop
Even if they do manage to trade Rielly, that blueline is going to be very old, very slow and very injured.
Raddysh has never been a -10 in his entire NHL career.
Brandon Carlo went from being a +44 in Boston to only +4 in Toronto so things can go very bad, very fast.
I don’t see him coming back to the Leafs. So that would be an extra 4.25 M in cap space.
I don’t like Maccelli, he’s pretty useless, but Chayka drafted him in Phoenix so he might have some kind of loyalty to him. It’s also pretty stupid to lose an asset for nothing so they’d be better off qualifying him and trading him to another team to recover something rather than just letting him walk for nothing at all.
