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Looks like the Canadian Women’s team is going to need some men to identify as women to win this tournament. Maybe keep the reserves fresh, give Bennett and Jarvis some ice time until they’re called up. Should be enough to win it all.
I think he’s a $4.5M cap hit on the open market.
A simular contract as Mason Marchment $4.5M/4yrsMcMann is going to hit the open market for the first time and he’s 30. He’s only made 3.6 million in his career so far and half of that is gone to taxes. This is his chance to get lifelong security.
With the cap going up and the Leafs sucking balls, he’s going to ask for 5 x 5 from the Leafs. But the cap is going up and there are a lot of teams out there who can afford to overpay so multiple offers brings that number up higher and he most likely goes whomever pays him the most.
If Seattle will take Rielly in any way shape or form trade him now. If the Leafs have to pay Vancouver to pay him in order get him to accept it who cares do it, after tonight, it seems doable right now, so just do it.
The “roomer” from the half ass Hockeybuzz Leafs blogger is that San Jose wants Rielly according to “sauces” that work for the Senatards. No matter how bad a player or their contract is, there seems to always be some dumbass GM out there willing to make a mistake. I don’t think San Jose is actually that stupid because I thought their genius move to grab Askarov showed their plan to build from the net out especially after having a foundation of Smith, Celebrini and Misa as their forward core all still on ELC. I doubt they would ruin that team by adding a D-man that is horrible at playing D. But you never know, they do have Reaves on the DEI roster.
That being said, they have few options available to them and many spots to fill for next year. After this season, the Sharks will have exactly TWO defenders under contract with Klingberg, Liljegren, Ferraro and Desharnais all set to become UFAs. Maybe they bring back Ferraro and one of Desharnais or Liljegren but needless to say, San Jose can fit Rielly under their cap with so many pending UFAs and Couture on the LTIR permanently. The Sharks will have 56 million dollars in cap space for next season looking to sign AT LEAST FOUR NHL defenders. If they view Rielly as a 45-50 point D-man (he still averages 51 points per season the last 5 years) who plays sheltered minutes, maybe they don’t care if it costs them 7.5 AAV with that much space available. And maybe Rielly doesn’t mind moving to the West coast and living near San Fran where he can ride every pride parade float (and pole) he can find.
I’d happily take a mid round pick (3rd rounder?) in return.
Wait, so the Dodgers overspending on everything that moves is a brilliant strategy, and the Jays are fucking retards for not doing the same.
But the Leafs overspending never works and they’re retarded for trying it. Got it.
Before you move the goalposts, yes, I realize the cap in the NHL is different from whatever bullshit “cap” MLB has.
If you realized that the cap in the NHL is different than the MLB then you should have stopped yourself from making that dumbass point and comparing apples to tire irons.
Overspending in the NHL doesn’t work. Overspending in the MLB does work. The Tampa Bay Rays went to the World Series on a shoestring budget and lost to…? The Dodgers. Then the Dodgers took their best pitcher from them and proceeded to win two more World Series. The Jays already spend a lot of money but to beat the best they have to spend more. That’s not because the Dodgers waste what they spend. They don’t have four overpaid DHs. They spread the money around different positions. What did the retard Leafs do when they already had Marner, Matthews and Nylander? They overspent on Tavares. More of what they already had and didn’t need more of.
The reality is, the Leafs have to overpay to get UFAs to come to Canada so those players have the privilege of being robbed by our dumbass government to support gender rainbow education in Malawi, taking guns away from lawful owners, or whatever the next dumb fuck program is.
This is by far the least retarded thing you’ve ever said. More of this please and less of the other stupid shit.
So, we better hope whoever we bring in can light a fire under some of our less motivated players.
Incorrect. The Leafs only available option, that they haven’t tried in 58 years, is keep all their draft picks and build the team from the ground up. As you mentioned earlier, these players don’t want to play in shit weather, with retarded rainbow taxes, and a lunatic media. They want to play on a winner though. And all those other factors start to matter less and less if the team is a winner. The Leafs have to build a team that can compete and the rest of the drama will fall by the wayside. Make it a goal to draft 100 players in 10 years. Even if you hit on 20% of 100 draft picks, you have 20 players you can form a foundation on, at multiple positions.
You know what else building a team through the draft means? It means you have players on ELC and on low paying contracts which means more cap space. It almost means you have a pipeline of replacements when some of those guys want too much money and can’t fit under the cap. It also gives you a pipeline to replenish draft capital by selling high on players and having the in house depth to replace them without losing results on the ice.
We finally have the cap space, use it.
Use the cap space on who? List the players. 40 year old Malkin and Ovechkin? Patrik Laine? Spending cap space on inconsequential players is just more of the same failure this franchise has engaged in for decades.
A first round pick is likely a longshot. A first and a prospect is a complete pipe dream.
Hopefully, they get a first from a desperate team, and then he returns to the Leafs July 1st.
A 1st is not a long shot. Carlo cost a 1st++. Laughton cost a 1st++. The deadline is the day where desperate playoff pretenders and contenders make mistakes.
Detroit, Montreal, Buffalo…all these teams are so excited they’re in a playoff spot they want to keep it. They want to make a run. The same reason the Leafs overspent their draft capital is exactly why these teams will be eager to do the same.
McMann to EDM for a 1st. Roy to SEA for a 1st. Laughton to BUF for a 1st. Carlo AND OEL to DET for two 1sts. McCabe to UTA for a 1st. Stolarz to MTL for a 1st.
Everybody can and will be sold.
Brad better not fumble this shit, Leafs have a penchant for selling at the wrong times or not at all.
Mcmann is cool and all, but he is 29 not like they are moving a young up and comer.Treliving is the most Leafy GM they’ve had in more than a decade. He absolutely will fuck this up.
I will say one thing about McMann, even though he’s probably going to get overpaid, Hyman was in the same boat when the Leafs let him walk. He signed for 5.5 and went on to score 50 after 30.
Not saying McMann will for sure score 50 but he’s fast, he’s a big body and he has a decent shot; all qualities better than Hyman. As much as I want the Leafs to sell high on him and bring in a 1st, knowing the Leafs history, he could be another one that got away.
All that being said, the odds are, he won’t be more than what he is now and the Leafs are better off with the draft pick and trying their luck to bring him back if he hits the UFA market.
apparently nothing will but you gotta start somewhere.
No, nothing will fix this fundamentally broken team, especially not a spending spree on a weak UFA options which include: 37 year old Bob. 40 year old Ovechkin. 36 year old John Carlson. 40 year old Malkin. Patrik Laine. Jacob Trouba. Kevin Hayes. Anders Lee. Shall I continue?
Absolutely nobody available can save this team. The “start somewhere” is fire Treliving and trade everybody over 25. The only UFAs the Leafs need are to reach the cap floor and picking up cheap contracts you can flip for a pick at the deadline.
Leafs have $20M+ next year. Throw a bunch of cash to pry Raddysh out of Tampa, and see who you can find to fill a top 6 winger role. Rebuild complete.
Yes because overspending on UFAs always solves the Leafs problems, every, single, time. Like Tavares. Leafs signed him from Long Island and won so many Stanley Cups, his cap hit didn’t matter anymore.
The UFA class for next year won’t solve a fucking thing for this broken team.
All I can say is this: Leafs just need to win every game that they possibly can. It’s obvious that they’re not finishing in the bottom 5. They only have a 25% chance of making the playoffs. They have to hold off Florida and catch either Boston or Buffalo. As the season gets later, the 3 point games will be telling, when it’s time to make a playoff push. The other only reason is, to deny the Bruins a higher 1st round pick that the Leafs traded to them. Giving them a top 10 pick would be disaster. Finishing outside of a playoff spot would make it around 14 or 15. Too many Western teams will have a worse record. The problem is, Florida and Ottawa are also close to the Leafs. They need to get some picks through trades and still be competitive down the stretch. Finish strong and rebound through free agency and having a healthier roster next year.
I would rather see Boston draft 10th overall and the Leafs sell hard to show their “core” players, this era is over and it’s time to start thinking about where they want to play next. Small price to pay to get this franchise back on the right track again, from the ground up.
The pick that went to Boston is gone. It can’t come back. So the Leafs making a wild card run is pointless because it just revives this delusion that this team can contend. It can’t. The sooner that realization is made, the sooner Treliving gets fired and the sooner a new President and GM can be hired to plan the road ahead on the next rebuild.
The Leafs could gather 4-5 1st round picks just from it’s “depth” pieces in Roy, Laughton, McMann, OEL, Carlo…another 3-4 1st round picks and 2-3 top prospects for Matthews and Nylander. The Leafs could be looking at adding at least 10-12 1st round picks / top prospects in 2 years, plus two lottery picks if they tank in 2028 and 2029. That’s potentially adding 14 top prospects in 4 years. The way Leafs fans gush about Cowan, just imagine if he was the worst prospect in the pipeline with 14 other guys bigger and better than him in the system.
By 2030, they could have a team full of guys under 25 (at both forward and defense, not top loaded only at forward), loaded with plenty of cap space to fill in the gap with veteran role players to fill the gaps. That type foundation presents the Leafs with a real opportunity to contend and not this fantasy bullshit of Matthews being able to carry this entire team to a Cup by himself when McDavid hasn’t even been able to do that.
