leafman101
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And its not like those young guys won't get chances if the Leafs upgrade their defense. They have used 9 defensemen through 52 games already this season. Having that kind of depth on the Marlies is great.
Not sure why we'd waste money or assets on a slot where we have tremendous young cheap very near nhl ready depth.
Our cheap young physical defensive dmen are the backbone of our surprising ahl squad, they've all done good time in the ahl, and all of th deserve a shot, really.
None of them have shown to be very near NHL ready, and more importantly improving the d core doesn't take away their opportunity at all. It just takes away the teams need to rely on completely unproven players.
JVR - Bozak - Kessel
Lupul - Kadri - XXXX
XXXX - XXXX - Clarkson
Orr - XXXX - McLaren
Gunnar - Phaneuf
XXXX - Gleason
Rielly - XXXX
Bernier - XXXX
Bolland, Raymond, McClement, Kulemin (UFA), Reimer, Gardiner, Franson (RFA)
Just over 20 million in room if I've calculated correctly. Thoughts on who to lose, keep, etc?
JVR - Bozak - Kessel
Lupul - Kadri - XXXX
XXXX - XXXX - Clarkson
Orr - XXXX - McLaren
Gunnar - Phaneuf
XXXX - Gleason
Rielly - XXXX
Bernier - XXXX
Bolland, Raymond, McClement, Kulemin (UFA), Reimer, Gardiner, Franson (RFA)
Just over 20 million in room if I've calculated correctly. Thoughts on who to lose, keep, etc?
These guys haven't even played one NHL game and you are calling them "very near NHL ready" and handing over ice time.
They're already blocked by unplayable crap like fraser, so don't even have a chance to earn a look.
And now we want to go out and add more filler crao just for experience? No thanks.
And its not like those young guys won't get chances if the Leafs upgrade their defense. They have used 9 defensemen through 52 games already this season. Having that kind of depth on the Marlies is great.
Not for experience. For quality.
Who is saying to add more filler crap this offseason? Don't think anyone. Except for arguably those that want MacWilliams and Holzer to be penciled in I guess.
If you want to add another big contract to the blueline then just say so. But then don't pay lip service to the ahl guys earning a spot because there won't be any spots to earn for at least 3yrs.
And remember, we're already going to have a good $20m locked into 5 dmen next year, with rielly looking at a big raise just a year later.