Recent content by BG

With a $92.5m cap, a 30g/70pt winger is worth between 8-9mil by my calcs.

Kuzmenko is pretty one-dimensional, no?

Well, and why have a salary cap if you can load up at the deadline?

Florida does not need Brad Marchand honestly, and signing him for any term will most certainly see players like Lundell, Luostarinen and Samoskevich start complaining about a lack of opportunity. That said, two cups, who cares.

Because we never have or are unwilling to deal assets to take these kinds of chances when they are available. Tre was on the wrong end of the Bennett trade if I remember correctly.

If the Leafs can't muster up enough physicality to give Marner his annual playoff yips, there are much larger problems here.

Mitch should sign with a team in the shitty Pacific Division, get on an up and coming team - won't have to worry about playoffs for a few years, and can then retire without having to do any heavy lifting.

Marner playing this exactly how he would have played it anyway, Tre just put a wrinkle in his plans by not guaranteeing him that Toronto will match another team's best offer. Mitch is a family man now, so he and his young family will need time to pick his destination, if it's not Toronto.

If he wants to play it like a business, then he has to understand that Toronto does too. If Marner wants to test the market and come back to Toronto with a number, then Tre has every right to call him July 1 and let him know that he has other options and whether he plans to move forward with...

He's doing the job for free now, why pay him?

Give me the Boston or Tampa Bay powerplay that was so confident that they could be trailing by 2 goals and still feel like they have a chance in the final 2mins of a game to tie it up.

Yep, current playoff format SUCKS.

Ekblad's return was the turning point IMO, and the Panthers just got stronger and stronger every game after that. The goaltending got stronger, the forecheck stepped up. The first two games they didn't look much like Cup champs, but the last 3-4 they looked a lot more like the team that won the...

Sign and trade Marner for Crosby, sign Marchant and you have 2/3 of your second line for 2/3 the cost of Marner.

I don't know, getting a veteran player that will run through a wall to win could get some of these C's and A's into the fight. Wish we could get enough stem cells to put Gary Roberts on Matthews wing.