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Leaf Rumours

Montana said:
Patrick O'Sullivan was just waived by Carolina.....anyone interested in rolling the dice on him?
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sad to say, but given the state of our forwards, that one dimensional flake actually might look attractive to us right now.
 
zeke said:
1 of Grabo or Bozak
1 of Kulemin, MacArthur, Versteeg, Armstrong
1 of Gunnarsson, Aulie, Mikus, Holzer
1 of Reimer or Scrivens or Caputi or D'Amigo or Mueller or Hanson or Ross or Blacker
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Definitely lots of options. But i would hope, for instance, that we wouldn't do a deal like:

Bozak, Kulemin, Gunnarsson and Scrivens/Ross for Richards

I want Richards bad but the guy is a UFA. Something like the above would seem like a massive overpayment.
 
I'd like to move our RFA's if possible in a deal. Guys like Mac and Gunn who are in line for raises would be my first choices to go in a deal for Richards.

Don't know if Dallas is looking for guys signed long term already though.
 
wasn't dallas also in the running at the time for Bozak out of college... I know there were a few teams interested in that College crew and we won out on most of them.

Dallas needs cheap players on preferebly decent length contracts, not ones that have to reup any time soon.

Kulemin would be something I see them asking for as a centre piece... I hope not
 
I don't know if Dallas was in on Bozak (though probably because I think 26 teams were after him), but Neiwy was definitely huge in getting Bozak to Toronto.
 
Not one mention by anyone here that I brought this to the table a lot more recently that Darren Greger. MY LATEST is that Luke Schenn is NOW off the table. As was, and always was, Nazem Kadri.

So, the team is still trying to get a deal for Richards, but they are apparently pretty confident they will get him in the offseason.

I don't know why I bother with this inside shit, it usually attracts everyone who hates their lukewarm little life into shitting on me.

Bottom line,they still want him, but they may get outbid for THIS season, by someone who wants him immediately.

He WILL be here next year.
 
I hate reading those posts that Richards tweeted or whatever... it gets my hopes up too high.

Too many times players have said that and then sign in some bullshiite market. I can respect when a player says they wouldn't like the pressure of playing in a market like Toronto... but I hate when players say they'd love to play here and then resign in a small market.

(yes I am looking at you Rick Nash)
 
Hoss said:
I hate reading those posts that Richards tweeted or whatever... it gets my hopes up too high.

Too many times players have said that and then sign in some bullshiite market. I can respect when a player says they wouldn't like the pressure of playing in a market like Toronto... but I hate when players say they'd love to play here and then resign in a small market.

(yes I am looking at you Rick Nash)
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Richards should have given an even more generic answer than he did(and that's what it was, a generic answer). Now the Toronto media is going to run with this until Richards either re-signs or ends up with a better team.

Getting him would help the Leafs a lot but their track record in this type of situation, like a lot of things, isn't very good. I've been following this team for too long to fall for the millionth "star player is going to Toronto" rumour.
 
Volcanologist said:
Richards should have given an even more generic answer than he did(and that's what it was, a generic answer). Now the Toronto media is going to run with this until Richards either re-signs or ends up with a better team.

Getting him would help the Leafs a lot but their track record in this type of situation, like a lot of things, isn't very good. I've been following this team for too long to fall for the millionth "star player is going to Toronto" rumour.
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Its true.

The only way i would even get a bit of hope for it to happen is if its June and its obvious he's on his way to July 1st without a contract. Atleast that way i know we have a chance to have a discussion with him.

But untill then, we've seen so many deadline deals and re-signs that i wouldn't be surprised if something like that happened.
 
zeke said:
1 of Grabo or Bozak
1 of Kulemin, MacArthur, Versteeg, Armstrong
1 of Gunnarsson, Aulie, Mikus, Holzer
1 of Reimer or Scrivens or Caputi or D'Amigo or Mueller or Hanson or Ross or Blacker
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Some of the names make no sense to me.

MacArthur a FA IMO makes little sense for the stars, as do Steeg, and Armstrong due to salary.

Bozak....i could see for sure, Kulemin too...as senior peices.
 
Here's how I break it down.

- Any trade for Richards, because of the weight of his salary, is going to cause us to send one back to Dallas. It wouldn't surprise me if it was Grabovski or Bozak but I think a defenseman might be more likely.

- Have you seen Dallas' pool of defensive prospects? Even I have trouble giving you a name once I've already mentioned Philip Larsen. I think this is a natural spot for Carl Gunnarsson.

- Now, the Stars have some great American scouts both at the Tier 2 (NAHL, USHL) level and at the College level. So, I think one or both of Jerry D'Amigo and Matt Frattin would be of interest. D'Amigo's trade value is higher but if we give up Bozak, then I'd guess D'Amigo is off the table.

- You probably have to throw in a mid round pick somewhere.

We definitely have the pieces to make this work. So do the Rangers but there's no guarantee Richards would stay put in New York, even with Glen Sather's history of paying out ungodly amounts of money. If Richards is going to end up in New York, we should at least make the price high enough that the Rangers are forced to part with Chris Kreider.
 
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