The Official 2026 Off-Season Thread: Revenge of the Nerds

thehabhater

Some call me Tim

• Wednesday at 4:10 PM

• #6,501

Killer93 said:

Dion Phaneuf

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yeah, that was........swell

 

axlsalinger

Well-known member

• Wednesday at 4:11 PM

• #6,502

let's not do that again

 

Feyd

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• Wednesday at 4:13 PM

• #6,503

Also wasn’t Dion a bit of a redemption project at the time? Not a true #1 like Werenski

 

LeafGm

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• Wednesday at 4:14 PM

• #6,504

Leafin' said:

Werenski makes some sense. We get him for 2 years. They get Knies for 5. They have a tough time attracting and retaining talent. We take the risk that Werenski fucks off in 2 years. Or we win a lot and he stays.

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Werenski’s got a full NMC, so he’d only get traded here if he wants to play here. Which hopefully would bode well for our chances of re-signing him.

 

Feyd

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• Wednesday at 4:17 PM

• #6,505

Also I think Leetch was still real good at 36 when he got traded to TO in 2004

 

LeafGm

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• Wednesday at 4:17 PM

• #6,506

Feyd said:

Also wasn’t Dion a bit of a redemption project at the time? Not a true #1 like Werenski

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Yeah, as I recall he’d never quite recaptured the heights of his rookie season and he’d started to fall out of favour in Calgary.

 

LeafOfFaith

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• Wednesday at 4:20 PM

• #6,507

We are actually deep on D right now regardless of what some might say, and very light on forwards, even with McKenna coming.

We just got what looks like a #1D for free. We could go get Andersson and bump a lesser guy, for free again.

If we're getting a true 1C for him, like Clark for Sundin, where we're actually getting the younger guy, and not someone 5-6 years older, okay, I can understand that.

If we're trading him for some 28 year old dman, when we are fully stocked at the position, even if the dman would be the presumptive #1, the improvement on the backend could never justify the loss of Knies up front.

I have to believe Chayka is smart enough to understand and would only ever listen to anything if it's a redux of the Sundin trade.

 

Leafin'

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• Wednesday at 4:25 PM

• #6,508

We are not stocked with elite defenseman.

 

WellPlayed

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• Wednesday at 4:38 PM

• #6,509

 

LeafOfFaith

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• Wednesday at 4:42 PM

• #6,510

Leafin' said:

We are not stocked with elite defenseman.

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I didn't say we're stocked with elite dmen.

I said we're deep.

McCabe-Raddysh
Rielly-Tanev
Andrae-OEL

Should be a very good d corps under a solid system.

 

fergy57

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• Wednesday at 4:45 PM

• #6,511

 

hockeylover

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• Wednesday at 4:50 PM

• #6,512

someone use ai to resurrect the hockeyboards Sundin swullet

 

zeke

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• Wednesday at 4:59 PM

• #6,513

Feyd said:

Also I think Leetch was still real good at 36 when he got traded to TO in 2004

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(Always thought we overrated his leafs stint tbh)

 

CH1

The Artist Formerly Known as chiggins.

• Wednesday at 4:59 PM

• #6,514

fergy57 said:

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WTF IS THIS FRIED SHIT!!!!
LOF WANTS IT GRILLED

 

fergy57

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• Wednesday at 5:03 PM

• #6,515

Trusted Gemini when I should've used Claude.

 

LeafGm

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• Wednesday at 5:08 PM

• #6,516

hockeylover said:

someone use ai to resurrect the hockeyboards Sundin swullet

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A robot could never hope to top this masterpiece:

 

hockeylover

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• Wednesday at 5:09 PM

• #6,517

Lmao I can’t believe you still have that.

 

Hoss

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• Wednesday at 5:21 PM

• #6,518

That's stored in an older windows 95 computer in his basement

 

Volcanologist

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• Wednesday at 5:25 PM

• #6,519

I don't mind trading Knies, and deep down Chayka probably doesn't either (how are Knies' analytics?)

but it better be goddamn good. he's got high value.

 

Slinger 48

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• Wednesday at 5:29 PM

• #6,520

Volcanologist said:

I don't mind trading Knies, and deep down Chayka probably doesn't either (how are Knies' analytics?)

but it better be goddamn good. he's got high value.

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I hate to see him go but like I said previous, ya wanna play, ya gotta pay.

So if he's going, there better be some damn good stuff coming back.