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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.
Shayne Gostisbehere just won a Cup with Carolina at 33 years old, signed at 31. He scored 13 goals, 50 points in 55 games this season with another 12 points in 19 playoff games.
Carolina signed him for 3.25 AAV after he came from Detroit as a UFA after scoring 56 points and having multiple seasons of scoring 50-60 points on previous teams.
There is a reason why Tampa Bay was happy to pay Raddysh 800K but not 8.5 AAV x 8 at 30 years old. Because successful franchises know how to buy low and sell high. The Leafs buy high and sell low.
Decisions like that are why Carolina is having real Cup parades while the Leafs are having fantasy ones in June.
The offseason is a great time for the diaper fillers to fill up their diapers and wallow in misery where they are happiest
How did it work out for the Leafs the last time they grossly overpaid for a UFA that they already had too many of?
Oh right, Leafs fans debated about how many Cups they’d win by the end of the contract.
And here we are again.
The offseason is the best time of the year for the Leafs to sell hopeium to their most retarded fans. If you can’t sell results, sell hope.
He’s got $18M in cap space to play with, I would hope there is at least one more big move.
The Leafs have 5 pending RFAs with arbitration rights that are going to take a chunk out of that unless they don’t qualify them.
Maccelli @ 4.25, Robertson @ 3, Quillan @ 1, Andrae @ 3 and Ersson @ 2, that’s about 13.25 AAV if they all sign their QOs, go to arbitration or settle.
Trading Rielly to clear more space is the idea but he still needs to accept a trade and a team still has to want him. It’s the same problem the Leafs will have with Raddysh 3 years from now when he’s back to scoring 30-40 points and -10.
Am i reading this right, the Leafs have $18M in cap space AFTER the Raddysh signing?!??!
The Leafs have 5 pending RFAs with arbitration rights that are going to take a chunk out of that unless they don’t qualify them.
Maccelli @ 4.25, Robertson @ 3, Quillan @ 1, Andrae @ 3 and Ersson @ 2, that’s about 13.25 AAV if they all sign their QOs, go to arbitration or settle.
Trading Rielly to clear more space is the idea but he still needs to accept a trade and a team still has to want him. It’s the same problem the Leafs will have with Raddysh 3 years from now when he’s back to scoring 30-40 points and -10.
I’m really thinking that Chayka has one more big move to make. A center. The Leafs need a 2nd line center that allows Tavares to either slide to the wing, or to the 3rd line. He’ll still get his powerplay time, but he’s pretty much a 3C at this point of his career. Who knows? He may choose to retire in the next year or two, for an upper management position. Probably a figurehead to get him off the books, instead of Robidas Island. That’s where Tanev will be, following this year. The Jake Muzzin suite is all decorated in a Blue and White motif and ready for occupancy. The Joffrey Lupul suite is also available, with a Marlies Leaf & Crown on the door.
If the Leafs are foolishly going to dive dick first into trying to be a wild card team again, they still need goal prevention. They’re not going anywhere unless they can prevent goals. They allowed 295 goals last year and just traded away their best goalie and replaced him with a sieve. Stolarz is going to miss half the season and they have two rookies as their back-up plan. Their D are still dinosaurs and if Hiller tries to turn this team into what he did in LA, he still needs above average goaltending as he had Talbot, Kuemper and Forsberg give him some good years.
Leafs could score 300 goals next year but if they allow 300 goals, they end up golfing early just the same.
Defense: 54.
Yup, 8 more years of that will be wonderful.
The big issue I have is length. Raddysh had a great year. You have to also account that it was his last chance at a huge payday in a contract year. His previous years were average, but last year he was very good. I’m worried that a David Clarkson type of scenario happens. It’s a huge risk, if he reverts back to his previous performances. Teams like Tampa don’t let talent go so freely, especially to a division rival. That must also be taken into account.
Tampa Bay threw the Leafs a grenade and the Leafs caught it with their mouth like a dumb golden retriever.
