Yeah, the more I think about the idea of acquiring Pettersson, the more I warm up to it. Not every day you can acquire a 27 year-old potential #1 center essentially for the cost of taking on his contract. And there’s also the possibility of Vancouver retaining.
Also feels like a strong...
I was wondering to what degree he’s a power-play merchant when it comes to his scoring totals, and the answer is—not as much as I would’ve expected, actually.
Last year, 10 of his 22 goals and 26 of his 70 points came on the power play.
The year before, 9 of his 37 points came on the...
Kinda seems like the Stamkos situation. Tampa had a firm, below-market-value number & term in mind and presented it as a take-it-or-leave offer.
And when Raddysh wasn’t willing to accept it, both sides knew he’d be moving on.
Friedman sounds like he's being pretty definitive there.
I'm a bit nervous about signing a late-bloomer immediately after his breakout season at 30 years of age. But hopefully he's not a one-year wonder, and if he isn't that's a pretty big addition to the defense.
Of course, it'll also be...
Pretty sure I’ve still got my downloads of the first couple of seasons.
Had no idea this show had even come back either. I assume they wussed out and got rid of Gandhi?
No thanks. We are not rebuilding from scratch, and trading a 23 year-old that is signed long term and also one of our best players for a lottery ticket—whether you want to frame it as a draft pick or a specific 18 year-old prospect—is insanity to me.
Established stud #1 in their prime for Knies...
Sure. That’s why I support trading Knies for a legit #1 D. That’s not what you’re talking about here, though. You’re talking about trading him for a lottery ticket that will hopefully, maybe, but probably not turn into a legit #1 D years from now.
I’m not an Auston Matthews doomer, in that I...
Honestly, the shit from Dreger & Seravalli is hilarious. They’re acting like it’s legitimately outrageous the Leafs won’t just trade Knies for whatever happens to be the best offer on the table for him right now.
There’s a lot of GM’s that are upset Treliving got fired that are using these guys...
No thanks. Aren’t we trying to win now?
Why are we trading one of our best forwards—who is also only 23– for a pick that might turn into a good defenseman for us several years down the line?
It seems like all of these people expected the Leafs to have a thorough, meticulous hiring process for both the GM and coach position, and at the end of those processes, simply hire one of the 2-3 best-known candidates that the media and everyone on Twitter liked the best.
If they’d simply...
Yep. These guys have zero understanding or appreciation of the strength of the soft power America has wielded on the world stage since the end of World War 2, basically.
Or the degree to which Trump has laid waste to that soft power over the course of the last decade.
Woke woke woke, DEI DEI DEI, immigrants immigrants immigrants. Bunch of fucking dumbass parakeets.
The swipe at welfare states is also hilarious. Yeah, like the rest of the world should follow America’s shining fucking example by cutting education & social programs to the bone and leaving...