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MindzEye said:
This year? No.

Would be a nice surprise if he was NHL ready right away, an even nicer surprise if he's an impact defender right away....but you don't bank on that.
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Fair enough. By all accounts he seems better than gardiner right now. If we do lose the season I'd count on him
 
teeds said:
Burke wants Luongo bad enough to trade our first oveall pick away with no lottery considerations
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Outside of the entire Leafs blueline getting injured; I don't see how they'll be anywhere near a lottery pick spot if Luongo was in net (eg., easiest thing for Gillis to "give-up" - a "protection clause" with respect to the pick).
 
oscarheyman said:
Outside of the entire Leafs blueline getting injured; I don't see how they'll be anywhere near a lottery pick spot if Luongo was in net (eg., easiest thing for Gillis to "give-up" - a "protection clause" with respect to the pick).
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Teeds says we're finishing dead last.
 
Blueman said:
Fair enough. By all accounts he seems better than gardiner right now. If we do lose the season I'd count on him
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C'mon man...Jake Gardiner is on pace for a 41 goal season in the AHL. It's early and all...but still, Gardiner is really, really likely to pop 60+ points in the AHL this year and ~20 goals. Rielly is a beast, but he's a few years behind Jake.
 
Good grief. I called the top of the season to the game. Myself. I foretold before anyone on the internet or tv or radio that Kadri was despised by MLSE and Burke and Nonis mislead all the Eastern Scouts as to their interest in Rielly and THUS, me.

I have more contacts most likely, than the rest of the board combined, but even that comes to no avail if Burke pulls his shit, which has made him despised btw, by all the Eastern Scouts who find him phenomenally obnoxious.

And YES< Burke wants Luongo badly and may make a trade that makes ALL OF US wish JFJ had never left town.

But Luong is such a choke we could STILL EASILY finish last place overall. We have NO forwards. Outside of Kessel, lets see if Lupul recovers from an injury that can easily be career ending.
 
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That one particular source I am not going to quote any more, he took too many bumps on the head in service for the Blue and White, and like a few gentlemen from that era, tend to take people at their word. He isn't "wordly" enough to realize that this present generation, and the one before it, are pretty much a bunch of flakes.

In fact after meeting with one of the chief scouts and hearing his opinion of Burke and his ways, I don't think I will ever quote a rumour I hear again. I will go back to making teeder calls. Some huge CALLS. Like us being ten points into playoff spot and saying we will finish way out of a playoff spot. And other teeder monster bad calls like Crosby is finished(nine months too soon) a great intuitive call, but I am sure totally unappreciated around here. Understandably.

And Leafs dead last this year? First of all is there even going to be a season? Might very well not. And dead last? Quite possible. Lupul should be very diminished and he and Kessel carried this team on their back last year. Who else do we have, that I am forgetting? No one.

And in goal? Nuthin. Its dead last all the way. And its GOOD. Get another Rielly calibre player at least before even thinking of going into the playoffs. For what?

I will say this, if Burke trades our first pick for Luongo, a guy he should get for a second or LESS, I will really, then, "lose it".
 
teeds said:
Go fawk yourself, name ONE.
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You seriously have the audacity to ask that after the draft? You spent a solid month beforehand berating and mocking anyone that didn't unquestioningly believe the whole litany of lies and fantasies you were spouting (Burke was in love with Forsberg, Forsberg was 1st overall on a number of draft boards, "Nail the Pail" was going to plummet down the draft board, the Leafs were hugely interested in some guy named "Jake Horton", etc). If you had set out ahead of time to try and be as wrong as possible about everything, I don't think you could have possibly done a better job.

And of course, there's also the Komisarek NMC incident.
 
Luongo holds his cards close

The cards had not yet been dealt, but Roberto Luongo already had his poker face on when it came to answering questions about Toronto possibly being his next hockey home.

Luongo was made available for interviews Saturday morning at the River Rock Casino in Richmond to garner publicity for his participation in two World Series of Poker circuit events on the weekend.

But as he sat at one of the green felt poker tables that filled the River Rock Show Theatre, Luongo didn't have much interest in talking about whether he could soon be wearing Maple Leafs' blue.

"I don't want to speculate on anything because there are a lot of rumours," Luongo said.

Eastern media reports in recent days have suggested a Luongo-to-Toronto trade is all but done.

But Luongo said until something happens - and nothing will until the NHL lockout ends - he considers himself a Vancouver Canuck.

"Obviously, when the time comes and I do have to make a decision, we'll make one with the best interests for myself, the team and all that kind of stuff," he said. "But for now I think my focus is just on being ready to play no matter where that is."

Luongo, who has a no-trade clause in his contract, said he has not spoken with Canuck general manager Mike Gillis for quite some time and has not given him a specific list of teams he'd be willing to go to.

"Mike never asked me for a specific list, so I have never given him a list of five teams or anything like that." he said. "We did speak over the summer about certain teams, but that was nothing concrete."

Luongo has 10 years remaining on his contract, which carries an annual salary cap hit of $5.33 million.

His preference is to return to the Florida Panthers. He makes his off-season home in South Florida, but indicated Saturday he'll consider all his options.

"At this point in time, I think we all know what the situation is with me, but there are many teams out there that I'll consider, for sure."

The lockout has all NHL players wondering when they'll next play hockey. But Luongo also has the added element of wondering where he'll play. With the emergence of Cory Schneider, who signed a three-year, $12-million deal with the Canucks this summer, Luongo knows it is highly unlikely he'll return to Vancouver.

"It has been a bit of up and down in the summer. You hear stuff like everybody else does and you wonder what is going on exactly. I try to not pay too much attention until I get it from the source itself, either from my agent or Mike and haven't been in contact with him too much over the summer and obviously during the lockout I haven't spoken to him at all.

"We're just going to wait and see. I'm getting ready as if I am coming back here for training camp when it's over and if things change we'll take care of that when it comes."

Luongo said he still maintains a residence in Vancouver.

"It's still here, we still have it. It's not on the market. I just want to put it out there, it's not on the market."

Like so many of his peers, Luongo doesn't quite seem to know what to make of the lockout. "I think we're all a bit shocked we're here right now at this point of what is supposed to be the season and we're not playing. If you look at the big picture, we don't think we're too far off so there is some sort of hope. At the same time, we want to get something done."

In addition to more Dad time than he is accustomed to this time of year, Luongo has been working out regularly in South Florida.

"I have been skating three to four times a week, sometimes with the Panther guys and sometimes on my own with a few shooters where I can work on some drills," he said. "I have been trying to mix it up and not always do the same thing and get monotonous. Unfortunately, it does get monotonous because you don't see the light at the end of the tunnel."

He and Panthers goalie Jose Theodore skated together during one session and Luongo said that wasn't as awkward as you might think.

"I wasn't sure how that was going to go, but it was fine," he said. "We chatted. We knew each from before so it was not as awkward as I thought it might be."

Luongo was coy when he was asked to verify that he operates a highly entertaining Twitter feed called @Strombone1.

"I have no idea what you are talking about," he said. "I have heard about it. Pretty funny guy."

Luongo, who has an endorsement deal with the B.C. Lottery Corp.'s Playnow.com website, was in town to play in two World Series of Poker Texas Hold 'Em tournaments at the River Rock.

An avid poker player, Luongo cashed in at this past summer's WSOP Main Event tourney in Las Vegas. He wasn't sure how big a target he'd have on his back at this weekend's tournaments. Some players may want those "I knocked Luongo out of the tourney" bragging rights.

"That is what I am trying to figure out, if guys are going to give me more respect because they know who I am or they're just going to try to take me out. I'm just going to try to use that to my advantage once I figure that out. I guess I will have to feel it out at the beginning and see how it goes." It didn't go so well. Luongo was knocked out of Saturday's tournament and did not cash in. But as of early Sunday night, Luongo was still alive in his second tourney.
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http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Luongo+holds+cards+close/7462657/story.html
 
Calling the Leafs to swoon at the very TOP of our season and the Kadri call far outweighs Burke sneaking off and picking a dman that he hadn't told his scouts about. And Crosby is sorta finished. One more knock and its knock knock. And Horton, wow, yeah, that was the same old man source that was probably one of the top twenty Leafs of all time. He is sorta past it, won't be listening to him any more, his son is a better source.

And I wish some of you had some contacts, all most of you do is follow around juniors and collect their sweaty socks, OR WORSE, copy and pasting and repeating the same old tired bullshit.

Here is a new one for you guys, we have seen the last of Lupul if the season is canceled, he is telling people he would rather sign anywhere, than come back here and play for you know who.
 
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