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Actually...........why don't we trade Finger to the Oilers for Souray and a draft pick?





Ostensibly purchasing said draft pick, for a million in cash.
 
corksens said:
A team that is desperate for a D will take a flyer on alot of other defenseman.

Komisarek has no offensive upside, is slow as molasses and gets paid alot more than he is worth. No one is making a move for him.
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He's really not THAT bad. I'm actually okay with him on the team, but just think he's overpaid for what he's provided so far.

And if his coach only plays him 10 minutes or so per game, we need to remember it's the same coach who keeps putting Lebda in the lineup over Gunnarson and gives him PP2 minutes to boot.

I would never point to what Wilson does with ice time as support for any argument in line with his assessments.
 
Damn Giggy is hurt, I thought he might go to ANA because Hiller has a concussion. It would be funny to see us trade him back to ANA.
 
MyNameIsJonas said:
arent you the guy who hated Beauchimen?
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Which would be why he's being very careful about avoiding using the ice-time Wilson hands out to his defensemen as proof of anything, as he always tried his best to ignore or dismiss the gobs of ice-time Wilson entrusted Beauchemin with.
 
A New spin on the Kaberle talk.

Seems the only team in play is Boston, despite both NYR and Buffalo being on the east coast and having a need.

So i ask, rather than Kaberle refusing them is it possible that Burke is not interested in dealing with 2 of the teams he is chasing for the 7th and 8th playoff spots.

I'm sure ideally he'd like to move him West, but that seems unlikely. So if a playoff threat is out of the question that seemingly leaves Boston or maybe Montreal as possibilities if my theory is correct

6 points out after tonight....makes you think.
 
LeafGm said:
Which would be why he's being very careful about avoiding using the ice-time Wilson hands out to his defensemen as proof of anything, as he always tried his best to ignore or dismiss the gobs of ice-time Wilson entrusted Beauchemin with.
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Because it was ridiculous. He was worse than half the corps, but would get more time than Kabby, Phaneuf and Schenn. He should've been a distant 4th, if not 5th behind Gunnarson.

And as you may know, he is the 4th/5th guy in icetime in Anaheim right now, as he should be, and always should've been with us.

Wilson has poop between his ears when it comes to some players.
 
And I should add, I am not completely convinced that they didn't give Beauch all that time specifically with the intent of padding his trade value and doing exactly what they did in flipping him.

Lord knows his play didn't warrant it, so I have to start suspecting Teeds' Flintstones of being smarter than they let on...
 
My MLSE guy insists that Burke has a higher plan. That for all his posturing about NOW, NOW, NOW, he is constantly auditioning guys he wants to trade to get young STUDS.

When he got here, the only guy he really wanted on the team was Luke Schenn. One GUY. Now that is a REBUILD!!!!

So yeah, there is method to that insanity. He believes in getting to the playoffs and auditioning apparently. And its something he doesn't want advertised.

But guess what Fred? This is Toronto. Probably 100 guys have figured this one out anyways.

Problem is, no matter how much he advertises Komisarek, the guy keeps dropping down a notch. No way Burke can trade this guy. If he could and did, I would bow to the guy every morning.
 
Komisarek is tradeable. You just have to trade him for one of the few players in the league who's contract is worse than his, or play him until his form returns to something decent.
 
teeds said:
My MLSE guy insists that Burke has a higher plan. That for all his posturing about NOW, NOW, NOW, he is constantly auditioning guys he wants to trade to get young STUDS.
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This isn't news. He noted this when the Aulie trade happened (I call it the Aulie trade, cause he's the best piece of it).
 
teeds said:
That for all his posturing about NOW, NOW, NOW, he is constantly auditioning guys he wants to trade to get young STUDS.
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I was talking with my brother about this yesterday. A bunch of players were brought in, played for the Leafs last year and then sent to the AHL this year. Burke signed some new blood and has sent some of them packing in return for tangible assets. He now has some key components (i.e. MacArthur, Phaneuf, etc) and couples them with the talent he had 'in waiting' in the AHL. So he brings up Aulie, Hanson, etc and now gets to combine two offseason's work into one, gaining assets as he goes.
 
The issue is that the Boston draft picks have turned out horribly....it really amplifies the situation when the Leafs struggle and everyone panics, but there are some good things happening.
 
soco22 said:
This isn't news. He noted this when the Aulie trade happened (I call it the Aulie trade, cause he's the best piece of it).
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Are you peeing in my breakfast cereal again? I am merely trying to point out, the not SO obvious. So people don't think Barney and Fred are really as stupid as they appear.

Burke is building a team that can challenge for the Cup. And he now has five or six guys, or maybe more, that he likes, on HIS team.

What is NEWS, then, is my MLSE guy says Burke manipulated the goings on of the acquisition of Luke Schenn from afar. In other words, before becoming GM, he instructed his guy(Fletcher) to go out and get the young General, so that he would be waiting for him when he got here.

Whether that is news or not. Its verbotten to speak of, officially, and it certainly makes sense. Obviously, we can see by now that Burke likes defencemen. Just not Kaberle.
 
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