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Leaf Rumours

3-4 years ago any team in the league would have paid a pretty penny for Afino. He was almost looking like that same player again last year. If you could get him for around $2mil I think he'd be a very signing.
 
As long as his groins healthy, Afino's good for 20/60......with the potential for PPG level production.

Thing is, do we want (another) smallish forward, who's 30, and is one groin tweak away from being a 10/25 player.
 
If you ever met Poni, you could understand why the leafs haven't done shit in the longest while. Dead and morose. I would be stunned if Burke wanted his energy or lack therof, anywhere near a team that has to play a billion games to win a cup.
 
teeds said:
If Burke could get rid of Giguere for anything other than a Tim Hortons cup of toxic coffee I would be stunned. Why would anyone want a midget goalie who fluked out for a year and a half? Making ten times more money than he should?

Looking for someone to spin that one .
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Giguere a midget? The dude was one of the biggest goaltenders in the league in terms of how much of the net he covered. He's over 6.1 and 200 pounds. Then there's the matter of how much equipment he wears. Certainly not a midget, teeds.
 
The latest leaf rumours are that Burke is going to try and sign a defencmen tommorow, and if he does get one sign, then he's 99.9% going to trade Kabs. The people hes considering signing one of Sutton, Bergeron or Mckee. On the Kabs front hes got 5 offers, 1 that hes taking a serious look at. This is according to the Toronto Sun.
 
Link for verification?

Oh, and I will committ seppuko if the Leafs sign Marc-Andre Bergeron. Habs fans could mock us endlessly and they would be entirely justified, power play specialist or not.
 
I read this in the Sun this morning as well. I'll try and find it.

http://www.torontosun.com/sports/hockey/2010/07/04/14601856.html

General manager Brian Burke has stated the glaring holes at centre as well as second line right and left wingers would not keep him from signing one of the unrestricted free agent defencemen who came on the market Thursday. Especially one who fit the new Leafs’ blueprint and price range.

So after putting Kaberle on the backburner for this weekend, Burke began aggressively pursuing some insurance for Toronto’s back end and could have something firm by Monday. His targeted player isn’t clear, but there’s lots of solid if not spectacular names should he want size (Andy Sutton and Willie Mitchell), skill (Marc-Andre Bergeron), shot blocking (Jay McKee) and just plain savvy (Shaone Morrisonn, Freddy Meyer, Mike Mottau, Mike Weaver).
 
Mottau would be a solid addition for the third-pairing if the price wasn't too high. He logged almost 23 minutes per game for the Devils last season and has really come into his own as a steady defenceman. He won't come close to replacing what Kaberle brings to the table but as the fifth or sixth man on a blue-line minus Kabby it makes sense. McKee would be a nice infusion of strength, hitting, and shot-blocking so long as the price makes sense given his total liabilities on the other side of the ice. Sutton I have no interest in. Bergeron even less so as I alluded to above. And Mitchell for around $1 million could be a potential steal should his health issues be behind him but no more than that to $1.5 million.
 
McKee only made 800K last year with the Penguins. Not sure how much he'd be asking for but I think you could sell him on him being a good addition to our truculent defense.
 
Two much better suggestions than they other names I've heard.

I don't mind Sutton, but he is not needed here with the guys we've already got.
 
I used to always get on Afinogenov for being one of the most overrated players in the league, but now that his rep is back down to reality, and he can be had for cheap, he might be worth it.

He's still a massively one dimensional player, but that one dimension does come at an at least borderline 1st line level.
 
It's a pretty sad pool of defensemen left ... and none of them comes remotely close to fill Kabby's role.

I guess it'll be more like a Exelby replacement instead of a Kaberle replacement. Gunnarson is gonna have a major role this season and I hope he comes through for us. It's a lot to expect for a sophomore.

Damn, I'm almost at a point I don't wanna trade Kaberle. I mean, if we still had Ian White around, or if we could sign Paul Martin, then maybe it'd be adifferent story.
 
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