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number17 said:
Indeed.

Kadri may not exceed 15-20G 40-50Pts this season as a rookie (that'd be very good numbers for a rookie actually) but he is expected to develop into a 1st line center in 3-4 years time.
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Perfect timing.


Bozak has already shown he can post 2nd line C numbers last season. All he has to show is he can consistently put up those numbers.

If you take on Savard, you've essentially bumped Kadri / Bozak to 2nd / 3rd line C, or convert them to wingers position ... neither is good for their development.

Worst part, Savard has a NTC, and he's only waiving it for 2 cities - Toronto and Ottawa. We'll have a HARD TIME ridding Savard for years to come even if Kadri / Bozak prove they are ready for 1-2 line minutes.
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No, you bump Bozak to the 2nd line role he's perfectly suited for, and you slide Kadri to the wing (which we know he can play).....then in 3 or 4 years time when he's ready to be a top line player, you ease him into the 1st line role, as you're fazing Savard out.




It's a goddamn tailor made situation for us.
 
Not to mention, Savard seems like the perfect center to have on board, for Kadri to watch day in and day out in practice/games, and copy the playing style of.
 
If this team is ever going to win a cup it needs Kadri and Bozak to develop as they are expected to (along with Kessel and Phaneuf).

These are guys they should be giving every opportunity to succeed to, because the long term success of the franchise is dependent on them.

Savard will be gone when all these guys hit their primes.
 
Pre-Cap, we would have gone after Savard. But cap world, I would be surprised if Burke took a chance on him. I think Burke is hoping a big time player caught in a Cap crunch team, falls into his lap.

With what Bozak showed at the end last year, Burke may think he has his Savard already.
 
Montana said:
and you slide Kadri to the wing (which we know he can play).....then in 3 or 4 years time when he's ready to be a top line player, you ease him into the 1st line role, as you're fazing Savard out.

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How often does this happen? Teams don't really move guys around in key development years just to move them back later on.

If Kadri is moving to the wing for the first 4 years of his career, he'll most likely end up a winger.
 
The Leafs have two centers under 25, one of whom is one of the best center prospects in the NHL period, and the other one played 20+ min a game in all situations, and proved to be good at just about everything in the NHL last year.

Play the shit out of those guys. Get guys who accent them, not block the path for them.
 
Teams don't really move guys around in key development years just to move them back later on.
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Antropov just had the best year of his career, being moved back to centre after years on the wing.

I'm sure if we cared to, we could find numerous examples.
 
MindzEye said:
Antropov just had the best year of his career, being moved back to centre after years on the wing.

I'm sure if we cared to, we could find numerous examples.
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The Leafs had no plans to move him back though.

If they did it would just be silly to have moved him in the first place.
 
The Leafs made a mistake, and should have moved him back years ago. The argument is that moving a young player away from his natural position stunts his growth in that position...Antropov spending years on the wing only to go back to centre and seem to not have missed a beat would definitely appear to go against that axiom.
 
The argument is that teams don't take players they see as long term solutions at center and move them to the wing for their first 4 years, then move them back to center.

They take players they don't see as long term solutions at center and move them to the wing.

Besides, Antropov was 43% on the draw this year. There is no way moving him from center didn't stunt his growth as a center.
 
Pronger84 said:
According to rumours the 3 teams are LA, Toronto, Montreal. Theres suppoesdly a trade tommorow for gagne, question is which team is it.
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The Kings claim they're out, and didn't Gagne say in the past he wouldn't waive his NTC to play in Montreal?
 
For me personally, I really figured the only way we'd be able to add a first line forward this summer was to have Kaberle involved going the other way. When Marc Savard was presented as an option without having to move Kaberle and at his low cap hit, I was very interested. With Simon Gagne reportedly being shopped and perhaps also not involving Kaberle, I'm also very interested and he fits what Burke's been saying about being interested in a winger.
 
The Kings claim they're out, and didn't Gagne say in the past he wouldn't waive his NTC to play in Montreal?
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Fairly sure Sarah Baicker's (Comcast Sports) tweet saying she talked to Gagne and he said he'd not been moved came after this golf tourney rumour.
 
Didn't Burke and Nonis just pack up for a fishing trip? Maybe there is something that is already done.
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I believe I read in the Post that he's heading to California with his family first. Isn't one of his fishing buddies Paul Holmgren anyway though? :lol
 
Besides, Antropov was 43% on the draw this year. There is no way moving him from center didn't stunt his growth as a center.
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I was interested in this figure so I just randomly decided to check out Antropov's career face-off success by year:

2000-01: 44.3%
2001-02: 38.7%
2002-03: 40.1%
2003-04: 40.8%
2005-06: 34.4% (!)
2006-07: 35.3% (!)
2007-08: 42.1%
2008-09: 40.2% (Antropov only took four face-offs as a Ranger and lost all of them, playing almost exclusively on the wing for them)
2009-10: 43.4%
 
hockeylover said:
I believe I read in the Post that he's heading to California with his family first. Isn't one of his fishing buddies Paul Holmgren anyway though? :lol
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Yeah, the post said he's heading off on vacation with his family, and then taking off on a fishing trip with Nonis.
 
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