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Leaf Rumours

"Hey fellers! Check out the flippin' nice 2-hole on that honey. I sure bet she's a great c-sucker!"

I have a friend like that too.
 
b1rky Don't know if anybody else caught this, but it was reported on NHL Home Ice today that teams have made inquiries about Leafs' Jussi Rynnas.
 
My MLSE contact just phoned me up and told me that he thinks RIGHT NOW, that the Toronto Maple Leafs are the hottest and strongest team in the NHL. And apparently the brass at MLSE, while never satisfied, are very, very happy with the way the team is starting to shape UP.

I have to say, I feel similarly, but I honestly think this could have been brought out earlier. Before now, with some much better personnel decisions.

He said, they are very confident and looking to KICK Phoenix's ass tomorrow night, and that the team is really pumped up for the game and are not going to get into too much trouble tonight.

Wow, usually teams on the last game of the trip, really tie one on. Not now apparently.
 
I'd be hesitant to give up Rynnas, but it depends what you can get. That is definitely a position of strength, and its ideal to trade from a position of strength.

The problem wasn't necessarily trading Rask, but rather trading him for Raycroft.
 
The problem is who is a Rask and who is a Pogge among the goalies they have. They'll probably need to move one of them, better guess right this time. I've about had my fill of disastrous goaltending trades.
 
I guess. But if they had traded Rask for Kessel or something like that it wouldn't really matter. You can trade one and be wrong. Its not ideal, but you can. Just trade them for someone good.
 
goalies have precious little trade value. if he can get a good asset by including Rynnas in a trade, I'd be on board.
 
IrishWolfman said:
Buddy of mine is a Manitoba Mennonite. Nice guy, rarely hear him swear. But he has no constitution at all for alcohol. He had three beers one night and went over the counter at a Subway girl when she told him that they didn't have any more bread at 2am.
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It was funnier when you carried Dalke away from the Dairy Queen window fifteen minutes later and he ran into traffic to escape.
 
Metalleaf said:
I guess you had to be there...
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Our Mennonite buddy got drunk at a pub on the way home from a hockey game. We left the bar, he hauled ass up to the Subway in the "entertainment hub" in Kingston. When the girl behind the counter told him they were out of bread, he tried to go over the counter at her. I ran into Subway, pulled him off the counter and carried him back out into the street. I put him down and he booked it, through traffic, up toe a Dairy Queen take out window. Being as it was after 2am, they had already turned off the fryer and weren't serving hamburgers any more. He tried to go at her through the take-out window. I wrenched him out of the window, carried him down the block, put him down, put him in a headlock and refused to let him go until he promised to go straight home. He said he would, then he ducked and weaved through traffic on three of the busiest streets in downtown Kingston.
 
i wouldn't deal him yet.

with reimer in the nhl they have a spot on the marlies for scrivens. so keeping reimer up takes care of all those sorts of personnel issues.

but reimer isn't out of the woods yet. and neither is scrivens, for that matter. both scrivens and rynnas will be ahl eligible next year, too. so it might not be such a bad idea to hang on to all three.

i would ship out gus if anybody wants him, though.

i don't think he's ever going to be a quality starter in this league.

seriously -- can anybody think of a goalie who absolutely stunk as a 25 and 26 year old (spare a two good months and a few flashes of brilliance) but went on to become a quality nhl goalie? i can't.

sure, a guy like bryzgalov got better -- but his early performances were still much better than gus's.
 
IrishWolfman said:
Our Mennonite buddy got drunk at a pub on the way home from a hockey game. We left the bar, he hauled ass up to the Subway in the "entertainment hub" in Kingston. When the girl behind the counter told him they were out of bread, he tried to go over the counter at her. I ran into Subway, pulled him off the counter and carried him back out into the street. I put him down and he booked it, through traffic, up toe a Dairy Queen take out window. Being as it was after 2am, they had already turned off the fryer and weren't serving hamburgers any more. He tried to go at her through the take-out window. I wrenched him out of the window, carried him down the block, put him down, put him in a headlock and refused to let him go until he promised to go straight home. He said he would, then he ducked and weaved through traffic on three of the busiest streets in downtown Kingston.
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well, let's get it straight: there's only one even moderately busy street in downtown kingston. and it's not even busy.

i do remember seeing some bulletholes in the glass of the scotiabank right at... is it barracks... and princess? that was pretty bad ass.
 
msun30 said:
well, let's get it straight: there's only one even moderately busy street in downtown kingston. and it's not even busy.

i do remember seeing some bulletholes in the glass of the scotiabank right at... is it barracks... and princess? that was pretty bad ass.
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During the school year, after a Fronts game at the new rink (located downtown without a lot of parking nearby), there is more traffic than usual. Because Princess and Brock are one way streets that run in opposite directions, they carry comparable levels of traffic when something's going on downtown. And the part of Division that runs between the two just gets busy as a byproduct when that happens.
 
msun30 said:
i wouldn't deal him yet.

with reimer in the nhl they have a spot on the marlies for scrivens. so keeping reimer up takes care of all those sorts of personnel issues.

but reimer isn't out of the woods yet. and neither is scrivens, for that matter. both scrivens and rynnas will be ahl eligible next year, too. so it might not be such a bad idea to hang on to all three.

i would ship out gus if anybody wants him, though.

i don't think he's ever going to be a quality starter in this league.

seriously -- can anybody think of a goalie who absolutely stunk as a 25 and 26 year old (spare a two good months and a few flashes of brilliance) but went on to become a quality nhl goalie? i can't.

sure, a guy like bryzgalov got better -- but his early performances were still much better than gus's.
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Gus has sucked, but he's also changing his style big time under Allaire. I think you always gotta take a goalie, especially a somewhat overage rookie's sophomore season with a grain of salt.

I wouldn't give up on Gusto just yet (doesn't mean I won't trade him, but I won't waive him).

I think with Giggy clearly not being part of this team's future, let's hold on to Gusto, Reimer, Rynnas and Scrivens. We got 4 spots between the NHL and AHL. Let them fight over who takes what spot at next year's camp.
 
I can't imagine that we'd get anything of huge significance in return for Rynnas, so I'd just as soon not trade him and let him and Scrivens battle it out for playing time the rest of the year in the AHL.
 
In addition, Burke stated the team had not yet approached the agent for either restricted free agent Luke Schenn or Clarke MacArthur. If and when those talks do start they will not be made public from the Leafs end of things in an effort to keep the negotiation process seamless. Burke expressed mild frustration that details of extension talks with Mike Brown’s agent became public, although he denied the accuracy of the report.
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http://www.640toronto.com/Blogs/EatSleepLeafs/BlogEntry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10190907

So I guess they didn't resign Brown,
 
think you always gotta take a goalie, especially a somewhat overage rookie's sophomore season with a grain of salt.
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if by overage rookie's sophomore season you mean a 22 year old's sophomore season then i would agree.

but you don't mean that. as it stands... what??? gus is 26 years old. he has massive, massive deficiencies in his game. he has the same problems at the midway point of his second season, that he had at the start of his first season. he is displaying the sort of traits (i.e. mentally) that typically deter people from becoming quality starters.

he isn't a lost cause... he MIGHT turn things around. but that's looking increasingly remote. as it stands he isn't even much of a backup, based on what he did last year and hwat he has continued to do this year.
 
YEAH it was interesting what the best GM in the league said about him huh? ken holland> And lets face it if you are a nervous type guy toronto aint your place>
 
mbow's going way overboard.

Gusto's got a .900sv% over his first 60gms in his NHL career, a career started at age 24. That's not great but it's hardly horrendous.

He's nowhere near as bad as mbow is trying to make it sound. He's got astounding athleticism, and has been very, very good for stretches.
 
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