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Leaf Rumours

:D And I don't look like Lurch.

Yeah, I'm up at 6 tomorrow so I'm just staying in. Pretty bored. You guys will have to be the ones keeping me up to date when I go back to school next week.
 
Zajac should be untouchable. I mean the whole idea is stupid. Somehow Garrioch thinks Lou is hesitant to give up draft picks so he'll give up Zajac instead ... like, yeah, what's the chance of that first round pick turning out to be a player better than Zajac?

But sure, nobody's going to take Zubrus' contract without a pick or something to compensate for. Nobody will even touch Rolston, and Lou won't trade Salvador neither, seeing Salvador is actually a 2nd unit D on his team now.
 
When you add Kovalchuk to the mix, the obvious play is to move a forward.

Jersey's forward situation looks like this right now:

Depth chart based on last year's usage

C
Zajac
Arnott
Rolston
Pelley

LW
Parise
Kovalchuk
Elias
Letourneau

RW
Langenbrunner
Zubrus
Clarkson
Zharkov

They would obviously prefer to move Elias and that will probably be explored first...because the next "obvious' move is to waive Zubrus, and trade Langenbrunner...but that guts their right side. Though Elias can play on the right, and Elias-Clarkson isn't a terrible 1-2 at RW (especially when you consider that Jersey has the best LW 1-2 combo in the NHL now) so it's probably palatable to Lou if he absolutely has to go that way...frankly, I think he goes that way before he touches his blueline, because the blueline is pretty suspect overall and even losing a defender as mediocre as Salvardore really leaves a dent, especially if/when injuries occur
 
No it's not...but I doubt that Lou is bent on using the same formula this season that got outed after 5 games in the first round of the playoffs last year.
 
if Lou does dump zubrus and salvador, then all of the other GM's have been paid off by Bettman.

Unless he literally gets a PTBNL or a 6th rounder then every GM should just try to screw up Lou some more.
 
I'd take Zubrus -- if they throw in a 1st rounder.

He's big, he plays the wing, and you can slot him on the Kessel or Kadri line. In the right situation, with the right minutes, you might be able to get 50 points out of him.
 
I wouldn't touch Zubrus. That contract is brutal. The Leaf finally got out of all their bad deals, the last thing they need is a big contract to a 2nd liner who has been underachieving.

A late 1st isn't worth taking that deal on.
 
3.4 into a 60 mill cap isn't that big of a commitment -- especially considering he should be able to get you 40-50 pts. 2nd line pay for 2nd line production.

The cap hit doesn't really concern me, it's more the length (3 years) that's the issue. The length is the reason (imo)the devils will have trouble moving him unless they include the incentive of a 1st rounder or a good prospect.
 
The Leafs can't really afford to start paying $3.5 million long term to a guy that has scored 10-15 goals and 40 points the last 3 years, on the hope that he'll be as good as he was when he played with Ovechkin.

Its like taking Blake back, just for longer, and he's worse.
 
I don't know, we just signed a guy for 3 mill a year over 3 years and we'd be lucky if we got 10-15 gls and 40 pts from him. And we didn't get no 1st round pick.
 
Yeah exactly. I'm not a fan of that one either. Don't really want two of them. Its why they especially can't afford to take on that deal now.
 
agreed... Zubrus is untouchable. I would only take that length if another player was with that... not as mentioned a late first rounder.
 
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