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Leaf Rumours

Metalleaf said:
so apparently Kadri says he'll wear either 19 or 91 next season with the Leafs.
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Well, he better make the team first, then he can worry about a number.

However i like 91 better. Don't need to resurrect the Bill Derlago, Jeff Farkas, Dmitri Khristich, Alexander Suglobov era again! Paul Henderson, however, well he made for a HHOF #19 for us imo.
 
hockeylover said:
Also, while the Europe rumour has been debunked, it's been confirmed that the charity luncheon in Thunder Bay that Burke canceled, was canceled because he had hockey related meetings he needed to attend today. Seems he's in Boston on hockey related matters.
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The only European name that got me excited at all was Radulov, and that was pretty unlikely, so I'm glad that the Eurotrip rumour was debunked.
 
Doesn't Nashville still hold Radulov's NHL rights?

Wouldn't the Leafs have to trade for him?

If this is the case, I don't see Burke wasting this much time getting a Russian back to the NHL who he would still need to trade for.
 
PlayerToBeNamedLater said:
Doesn't Nashville still hold Radulov's NHL rights?

Wouldn't the Leafs have to trade for him?

If this is the case, I don't see Burke wasting this much time getting a Russian back to the NHL who he would still need to trade for.
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I don't think this trip has anything to do with Radulov, because when someone goes to Russia you rarely refer that as 'Europe' (even though part of Russia is technically in Europe)

That said, if this is indeed about Radulov, Burke could've reached a tentative agreement with Nashville, and Nashville has given the Leafs the right to negotiate a contract with Radulov. If they manage to get Radulov to agree to a contract, then the trade happens ... so that's possible too.

I just don't think this is about Radulov that's all.
 
wouldn't surprise me if he flew somewhere to have a word with kaberle.

there is only 9 days left to trade him, and a deal is starting to look (dare i say) unlikely. and if he isn't dealt there is certain to be some damage control to be done. especially since keeping him indicates that the leafs want to sign his name to a new contract.
 
Ignoring the issues that Kessel had in Beantown and Phaneuf had in Calgary won't make them go away.

The may turn over a new "Leaf" in TO, but both players had character issues with their old teams. It's the reason they both are wearing Leafs jersey's.
 
SENSible said:
Ignoring the issues that Kessel had in Beantown and Phaneuf had in Calgary won't make them go away.

The may turn over a new "Leaf" in TO, but both players had character issues with their old teams. It's the reason they both are wearing Leafs jersey's.
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not really.

as far as phaneuf is concerned -- yeah, there was friction, but he wasn't traded because of it. it's not like his alphamale attitude suddenly emerged this year; it was there for all four and a half years he was in calgary.

but the team struggled and he became the scapegoat. that is why he was traded. not because of his attitude. he was dealt because the team, in the eyes of the gm, underachieved. the truth is, though, that calgary just wasn't much of a team. they lacked talent behind iginla, have an incredibly overrated goalie, an overrated defenseman in regehr, and sutter also seems to have overestimated bouwmeester (who no doubt will rebound, because he is still a #1 defenseman). but phaneuf and his attitude was blamed for the team's season. which obviously wasn't the case, based on calgary's performance after the trade.

as for kessel... the alleged attitude concerns were from his coach, not his teammate. and it was bullshit. his playoff performance (point per game over two years) attests to that. his coach didn't like him and for some reason they thought krejci and lucic were better than he is.

dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb.
 
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