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Soon the playoffs will be over. This playoffs have been very underwhelming. The Habs series’ seem to be the best, because they had lots of overtime and a pair of 7 game series. So really, the best hockey was played in the Atlantic division. In the last few years, I’ve called the Atlantic the division of Hell. It takes a lot to get out of the division. The Habs rode a hot goalie and took out two contenders and had nothing left, after Carolina had a vacation with Ottawa and Philly as their opponents. The West was the weaker of the two conferences so I’m not sure how to handicap this final.
Carolina has played at such a high level all year that yes, they got lower seed teams but they took care of business. They didn’t choke. They made playoff teams look like they didn’t even belong in the playoffs. Carolina would have beat Buffalo no differently than they beat Montreal or anybody else in the East. Everybody wants to pretend like the West was weak but the reality is, Colorado was the top seed and got SWEPT. They beat Minnesota and Minnesota beat Dallas. Anaheim and Utah were not bad teams and Vegas beat them both. These are two untraditional markets fighting for the Cup but the teams are two great teams and it’s going to be a great Final to watch.
If San Jose is a moron to trade for Rielly, wouldn’t that also make Seattle a moron as well?
I’d think Seattle would need a sweetner to take on Rielly 4yrs vs. 1 year of Dunn.Because San Jose is an easier sell to UFAs than Seattle so they’re more likely to be able to pull in quality players. They’re less likely to have to settle for a shit D like Rielly with other options available. Rielly won’t be traded until every other option is exhausted and teams get desperate. San Jose is less likely to get desperate for an anchor contract and a bad D.
Seattle on the other hand is run by idiots. They just added Melinda Gates as part of ownership. They don’t give a fuck about winning a Cup. They’re just trying to win the woke Olympics. And Rielly would fit in perfectly. Again, to a team like Seattle, adding Rielly gives them a guaranteed player for 4 more years at 7.5 AAV. Any UFAs they hope to add would cost them much, much more than that as they’d have to grossly overpay to get somebody to live and play in Seattle much like the Leafs have to grossly overpay players to sign in TO.
It’s crazy to think that both Fred Andersen and Rasmus Andersson were clients of Claude Lemieux and are now going to face each other for the Cup. But only one will win it. Both of those guys are going to be super motivated (or potentially crushed) to win that Cup with a heavy heart.
Iv seen a lot of Mock drafts go
Leafs – Mckenna
SJ – Reid
Van – MalhotraIf it does, would you offer Knies for #4 to try and grab Stenberg #4?
I really like knies, but I think his value at the moment is a bit higher than his actual value or on ice impact. He can still get better of course.
Tough call.But Stenberg should go 1 or 2 imo
Nah, trade Matthews and Nylander instead. Rebuild hard.
Knies is under 25. If Hyman scored 50 after he left, Knies could become the next premier power forward somewhere else but he’s young enough that if the Leafs sell hard enough, they could turn the team around and make Knies useful before he exits his prime.
Generally people attribute the draft picks to the GM. he was a Dubas pick etc.
i dont pretend to know shit about people behind the scenes, and nobody on these sites do, some just pretend harder than others.It’s not that hard to have connections to the inside especially when an organization has so many people employed on the inside. The NHL circle is a small one but the sheer number of people around them is significant. I’m one degree of separation away from Dubas and that isn’t super uncommon.
San Jose seems like a logical landing spot for Rielly.
They only have 3 D signed for next season and 1 rfA?Its just what could the Leafs extract from SJ?
I think its something reasonably decent, I dont think he is a cap dump.San Jose would be pretty retarded to take Rielly, even if they do need guys on D. They’d be likely to attack the UFA market before they add pylons like Rielly.
Also, Rielly can’t play D and San Jose needs guys to prevent goals and Rielly causes goals against rather frequently.
I don’t care where he ends up but I’d say Seattle is a place he would land because it’s close to Vancouver without being a terrible team.
Vince Dunn for Morgan Rielly is the type of trade that the Leafs might be able to get away with. Just take a bad expiring contract and give Rielly a new place to go to.
So Domi had back surgery and it did not go well.
Will he and Tanev be on the LTIR come the new season?Mistakes were made but it’s still too early to tell.
tifwiw, but its out there that Brackett didn’t want to take Juolevi, that was Bennings pick.
Also wanted Boldy over PodkolzinI guess if you are not he GM or have final say, you can only give you input.
Overall lots of changes. better than doing nothing
His draft record isn’t that good overall but if the rumor is that he only made the good picks and none of the bad ones it’s rather convenient. I guess Benning picked Hughes too then.
Better than doing nothing is still not as good as hiring the best people possible. It’s another typical Maple Leafs hire.
Meanwhile, Tampa Bay got Jack Pridham fresh off a Memorial Cup for a 3rd round pick. That’s “doing something”. Guess the Leafs can’t trade and sign the kid after they fired his dad.
Leafs are talking to Judd Brackett to be an assistant GM.
He ran the last 5 drafts for the Wild.
2021 – Wallstedt 20th overall. Looks to be a solid goalie but still a rookie. Carson Lambos played 1 game, drafted 26th overall. Might be a late bloomer but hasn’t produced much yet.
2022 – Ohgren 19th overall. Traded for Hughes. Yurov 24th overall, 73 games played.
2023 – 0 NHL games so far.
2024 – Zeev Buium 12th overall. Only has played 76 NHL games so far, traded for Hughes.
2025 – 0 NHL games so far.Prior to working the the Wild, Brackett was with the Canucks from 2008 to 2020, first as an amateur scout from 2008-2015.
2008 – Cody Hodgson 10th overall. Not a terrible player but not anywhere near the best pick at 10th.
2009 – Jordan Schroeder 22nd overall. Same as Hodgson, not terrible but not the best pick. Kevin Connauton 3rd round.
2010 – Only had 4th round pick or lower. Only one player played one single NHL game.
2011 – Nicklas Jensen 29th overall (Rakell went 30th). Frankie Corrado 76 NHL games.
2012 – Brendan Gaunce 26th overall (Skjei 28th, Pearson 30th). Ben Hutton 147th overall 575 games.
2013 – Horvat 9th overall. Shinkaruk 24th overall. Horvat was a home run, Shinkaruk was a strikeout with Theodore going 26th, Hartman 30th.
2014 – Virtanen 6th overall. Huge bust. Jared McCann at 24th was a good find. Demko 36th overall was also a good find. Forsling in the 5th round. A steal had he not been traded.
2015 – Boeser 23rd overall. Pretty good. Gaudette 149th overall played 367 games.Then as the Director of Amateur Scouting from 2015-2020.
2016 – Juolevi 5th overall. Bust. Keller going 7th and M. Tkachuck going 6th overall and playing on the Knights with Juolevi. Nobody else in this draft played more than 64 games.
2017 – Petersson 5th overall. Not a total bust but not what you want from a 5th overall pick.
2018 – Quinn Hughes 7th overall. Steal of the draft.
2019 – Podkolzin 10th overall. Hoglander 40th overall. Both okay NHLers but nothing great.
2020 – 0 NHL games played by any draft picks.Considering Vancouver has been pretty much dog shit for years now, his drafting didn’t exactly help pull them out of a rebuild as they are still deep in it. His drafting in Minnesota looks like it has some highlights but again, nothing that screams elite drafting either. Not exactly a part of a drafting system that has produced a Cup winner either. Don’t really see how this guy is any kind of improvement over what they currently have running the draft or his work being worthy of a promotion.
Hopefully he doesn’t get the job.
They might have one in Varland
Definitely don’t have one in Hoffman.
