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I hope we aren't after Hamuis. Even if we are shipping a d out, chances are our overall cap hit goes up as this guy is going to get overpaid.

We pay our defence enough already.
 
DarrenDreger Toronto will make calls today on most of the key ufa's. They're targeting a 3rd line forward and another D-man. Stockpiling for later deals

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Leafs and Hawks had some discussions about Versteeg before the draft, but a deal was never close before yesterday.
 
I don't understand this insistence on signing a defenseman (according to rumours, anyway). We've already got Kaberle, Phaneuf, Komisarek, Beuachemin, Schenn, Gunnarsson and Finger who is also sort of a defenseman.

I'd rather bring up Mikus, Aulie or Oreskovic than overpay for an UFA defenseman.
 
I don't really get it either but according to the people who keep saying it - like Dreger - they're stockpiling for later trades.

But as we've seen previously, most of these guys don't have a clue what they're talking about in terms of rumours. :D Burke is good at keeping things secretive. I trust that when McKenzie, Dreger and LeBrun tell me something is done, it's DONE, but other than that... a lot of whispers seem to be bogus.
 
Well assuming the Leafs deal Kaberle, they need two defensemen. And if they don't they need one.

You can't bank on a bunch of young d-men with little experience. Its too important to have a deep defense.
 
Later trades would mean that some of our current defensemen would be traded, and I think the only candidates for that would be Kaberle, Schenn and Gunnarsson? I don't want to see any of them go, but Phaneuf is obviously staying and I doubt Komi or Beauch go anywhere so soon after signing with us.

Now, if Kaberle is to be traded, we are never going to replace him through free agency, unless we sign an older, more expensive and more injury prone Gonchar and in the case of Schenn and Gunnarsson being traded for more offensive help, again, I'd rather give one of Aulie and Mikus a shot before going for UFA.

But yeah, every move that Burke has made so far has come out of left field, so when media says Leafs are looking for a defenseman, chances are, Burkie is eating a hot dog or is calling up Kovalchuk..
 
Yes with no more 'leaks' in MLSE (you hear that Watters?) we don't have a clue what Burke is really up to.

But as is, as solid as our top 6 is, we need a #7 as we're not bringing Exelby back. You don't want a young guy to be sitting in the pressbox all the times so that seems like a good spot for a vet.

And I think other than Phaneuf, nobody is untouchable. I know there's been a lot of Schenn rumors around, but at the draft Burke said he's not trading Schenn "unless there are 10 first rounders on the table" ... that could change with a good offer but I don't think Schenn is going.

I hope he's not trading Gunnarson, and he can't afford to if he's already trading Kaberle. Beauch and Komi aren't perfectly safe neither. Not that i think it's gonna happen, but if he signs Hamhuis, then Beauch is perfectly expandable, and his contract makes him a very appealing option compared to Hamhuis' $5M (which he's rumored to get)

A team like say, Anaheim, might be very interested in a Kabby+ Beauch package to replace Niedermayer + Wisniewski.
 
They couldn't because of cap issues.

Now they can because in Niedermayer and Wisniewski they are dropping close to $10M in cap hit.

btw, according to Cox, Burke's been trying hard to ply Schenn from LA. If we trade Kaberle to LA, Schenn would have to be coming this way.
 
Here's what I'd like to see:
To Anaheim: Kaberle + Finger
To Toronto: Ryan
Anaheim UFA pickup: Kovalchuk
Toronto UFA pickup: Hamhuis
Anaheim trades Ryan for Kaberle+Kovalchuk+Finger
Toronto trades Kaberle for Ryan+Hamhuis and loses Finger
 
IGINLA to Leafs, done deal apparently. You heard it here before anywhere else. My MLSE contact and I have kissed and made up. I shouldn't have slept with his daughter. But......
 
If Calgary can get Kovalchuk to committ on paper, he has already comitted verbally, its done.
 
Wasn't the big issue in Calgary that Phaneuf and Iginla hated eachother? So we'd bring Jarome in to **** with our new leader? REALLY?
 
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