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Leaf Rumours

I'd rather keep a spot open for D'Amigo/Mueller/Caputi than waste it on Torres. Maybe if he's still around in camp, and those guys clearly aren't ready yet.

I'd trade Armstrong for Torres though if we could do that.
 
yeah, that's why I always take Kariya rumours with a large chunk of salt, but still, he's always been a fave of mine and him playing for the Leafs would be awesome.
 
Volcanologist said:
I'm pretty sure I remember hearing Kariya doesn't want to play in canada.
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Not only he doesn't want to play in Canada, he doesn't want to play in any MAJOR market like Detroit, NYR neither ...

Kariya is a really, really weird player. He'd take nashville, Phoenix over the spotlight any day of the week, and even if Burke somehow can convince him to come to Toronto the media pressure will definitely run him out of town before Christmas. Forget Kariya.

As for Torres, I don't mind him at all, and he WILL come dirt cheap (he twitted before he left Columbus that CBJ offered him a contract, but he told them he's going home to Toronto and he's not even thinking anywhere else unless Toronto doesn't want him). My concern is we are over-staffed in the bottom 6 already, and signing Torres will take a spot away from the young guys.

Right now, Mitchell, Hanson, Brown, Orr, Sjostrom, Caputi, Grabo and Mueller are all potential bottom 6 forwards.
 
if torres hasn't signed by the time training camp rolls around i'd extend an invite to him. if only to push the young guys...
 
Right now, Mitchell, Hanson, Brown, Orr, Sjostrom, Caputi, Grabo and Mueller are all potential bottom 6 forwards.
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I don't see a reason to not sign Torres for the sake of having a spot handy for Brown, Sjostrom, etc. If Caputi can't beat Torres out in training camp, he should be in the AHL (though our 1st injury call up). Burke has already suggested that Mueller isn't ready yet either. I'm just concerned that if we don't bring a veteran body or two in, not only are we rolling with a very inexperienced top 6, we're rolling with a bottom 6 where guys who may very well still belong in the AHL win jobs by default due to lack of bodies. Terrible situation to be in when your stated goal is to be as competitive as possible.
 
Terrible situation to be in when your stated goal is to be as competitive as possible.
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the thing is... the leafs need to be competitive.

you can't give a division rival two top five picks.

i'd make that kessel trade again in a heart beat but nearly everything burke has done between then and jan 31/2010, and then beyond that date, hasn't been good. by the end of last year it was painfully clear that the leafs needed a serious injection of offense -- they lost too much of it between those two trades, and it (frankly) wasn't good enough to begin with -- but burke hasn't really addressed that.

he needs to get on this. if in the first two weeks of the season the leafs are having trouble scoring he simply has to fix it. he can't sit on his hands like he did with toskala last year. that would be an complete disaster.
 
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