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HL was saying that Kadri played the wing with Tavares and looked good in the process. As long as he's put some weight on and he's in the 190 pound range, I'm good with that.

Though I want Malhotra as our 3rd line centre, not Lombardi.
 
What's the confusion around Savard? He's a legitimate first line center, wants to play for Toronto, gets paid like a second liner and can be had for a 'soft' trade.

If the trade works Burke will do it regardless of any fears by posters here regarding Savard suddenly losing his ability to play hockey.

Make no mistake, Burke is aiming for the Cup - not 5 years from now, but in 2 years. Savard will still be fine and offers veteran leadership on a team that is fairly young. 5 years from now Savard can still be traded, waived, etc - so why do we have to worry about that at all?

Just do it Burkie!
 
teeds said:
LOF, for a smart guy, its not worth posting something we would only see on the old fanhome by homers. Lets just ASSUME you don't want him.
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Well, I've said I don't want him, so that's what I'd part with. But since they don't want to take salary back, if we do ultimately deal them for him, I don't think we'll part with more than some combo of Paradis, Caputi, and a late pick. No more than that.
 
I'd rather they didn't move Kadri to the wing. Develop him as a center. They're more valuable and his size and skill set are better suited for it.
 
Metalleaf said:
what say you?

XXXX-Savard-Kessel
Kulemin-Bozak-Kadri
Stalberg-Lombardi-Hanson
Orr/Brown-Mitchell-Sjostrom
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No thanks to Lombardi as our third line center. If we pick up Savard though, I do like the idea of trying out Kadri on the wing.
 
Leaf Notes: The Maple Leafs have issued qualifying offers to restricted free agents Nikolai Kulemin and Christian Hanson, retaining a right to compensation should another team try to sign them after July 1.

However they still have not tendered an offer to John Mitchell, who was injured for a good chunk of last season.

They have until 5 pm Monday to offer him a contract—a 10 per cent raise on his $500,000 salary—or he will become an unrestricted free agent on July 1.
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BTW, last paragraphs in that article
 
We could always keep Kadri at centre and roll three lines next season - I mean, Kadri's only a kid. We could use the Frat Pack as a line by themselves Hanson - Bozak - Stalberg.
 
LeafGm said:
Wow, you actually taking tha bet LoF? I love Bozak and all, but take a look at Savard's last six years in the league (pretty much, since he left Calgary full time), and the pace he's been scoring at:

GP 406, G 119, A 325, Pts 444 (GP 82, G 24, A 66, Pts 90)

If Bozak manages 60 points over a full NHL season next year, I'll be very happy.
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I think we'd have to wait for the start of the year to see what the rosters look like. I mean, if Savard gets traded to Washington and centers Ovechkin, I think the sky's the limit, as it would be for Mitchell if he got to center OV.

As things are right now, with Bozak penciled in as a top two center and looking like a legit talent, and Savard as the first line center in Boston, I'd take the bet that Savard can't outscore Bozak by more than 20.
 
I think the reason we can get Savard is because WE have Burke. Burke is the ultimate horse trader.

He treated Chiarelli with total respect and probably saved Chiarelli's job by getting no lottery protection.

So Burke AGAIN is probably structuring something so that Chiarelli LOOKS good again. Tons of good prospects IF Savard gets over 55, 60, 65 points in the next three years.

Burke unlike most of us, isn't into raping anyone. He builds teams by creating good energy throughout his networks. Except for that guy from Edmonton. That was a fiasco. And Burke probably learned from that.

Burke probably would be happy to give Chiarelli good value in the future if Savard delivers NOW.

It means whenever he wants someone, he CAN get them. And not rip apart his rolodesk.
 
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From the article:

The Bruins are motivated to move Savard and could probably be talked in to Mikhail Grabovski.
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I think they'd much prefer something else, myself. With Seguin, Krejci and Bergeron they have no need for him.
 
WellPlayed said:
I'd rather they didn't move Kadri to the wing. Develop him as a center. They're more valuable and his size and skill set are better suited for it.
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Problem is, if we're able to bring in Savard, Bozak is 4 years older and further ahead in his development...so basically, better than Kadri currently (I could be wrong..and hope I am, that would be ****ing awesome if Kadri was already better than Bozak) but if Burke is still sticking to his guns on his whole 6/6 thing...then we'd be looking at another year of Kadri in the OHL, a league he's simply too good to play in and is more likely to pick up bad habits dominating against 16-17 yr olds than he is to make any significant improvements in his game.

His skillset was NHL ready last season, but he wasn't there physically. If he's there physically and shows it at training camp, I don't know if I'd let positional bias push him off of the roster if we had an opening for him in the top 6 forward group that he had earned at TC.
 
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