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James Mirtle
Drew MacIntyre clears waivers for Leafs. He'll play for Marlies and be the Leafs third guy if they don't add another goalie today.
 
LeafGm said:
However, the fact that Nonis seriously pursued this as an option leaves me with a much lower opinion of him as a General Manager.
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Love that people's opinion of our GM would be diminished based on him looking into a deal.....of which we have no idea how it was/would have been structured. It's absurd.
 
BeLeafer said:
Where does a third string goalie go? To the AHL.
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or.. to the press box.

just stop this.

their prerogative isn't to help the marlies - they got an experienced ahl goaltender for that.

there are no roster limits from today onwards -- only a salary cap limit, which the leafs fall well short of. they were looking for a fallback should reimer/scrivens falter. they weren't trading for a guy to waive him.
 
mbow30 said:
or.. to the press box.

just stop this.

their prerogative isn't to help the marlies - they got an experienced ahl goaltender for that.

there are no roster limits from today onwards -- only a salary cap limit, which the leafs fall well short of. they were looking for a fallback should reimer/scrivens falter. they weren't trading for a guy to waive him.
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This.


They weren't looking to acquire a guy to be our #1, and they weren't looking to acquire a guy to play for the Marlies........they were looking to acquire someone they believed they could count on, in the event that history repeats itself yet again, and Reimer gets hurt down the stretch/in the playoffs.
 
Montana said:
Love that people's opinion of our GM would be diminished based on him looking into a deal.....of which we have no idea how it was/would have been structured. It's absurd.
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Which is why it is so hard to be the GM in Toronto. You get lynched based on a rumour of just talking with a player.
 
Montana said:
Love that people's opinion of our GM would be diminished based on him looking into a deal.....of which we have no idea how it was/would have been structured. It's absurd.
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There is no probable scenario under which I would approve of a Kiprusoff to Toronto deal. So it doesn't really matter how the deal would have been structured in actual fact. Nonis still demonstrated exceedingly bad judgement in identifying Kiprusoff as a trade option for this team.
 
LeafGm said:
There is no probable scenario under which I would approve of a Kiprusoff to Toronto deal. So it doesn't really matter how the deal would have been structured in actual fact. Nonis still demonstrated exceedingly bad judgement in identifying Kiprusoff as a trade option for this team.
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if it's just for this season then he'd be a good insurance pickup. roster limits are over and the leafs can add something like $30mn in annual contract value so picking him up would have no bearing on the team's ability to add other players.

but, it would be a mistake to have that cap hit carry over into 2013-14, with his near $6mn hit and the cap dropping to $64.
 
LeafGm said:
There is no probable scenario under which I would approve of a Kiprusoff to Toronto deal. So it doesn't really matter how the deal would have been structured in actual fact.
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I believe you think that.......but I also think there's plenty of scenarios where it would have made plenty of sense, that you simply haven't even considered.
 
i know you guys want to run with reimer and it seems that the team wants to as well. but we cant' just bury our heads in the sand and pretend that reimer hasn't missed time to injury in every season of his career but one, dating back to major-junior.

reimer has earned the right to have the reins and prove his mettle as a starting goaltender, but a contingency is not a bad idea given his injury history.

and i know that you can say 'well, the kings never brought in veteran insurance for quick', but quick never had preexisting injury problems, and just because the kings didn't get insurance adn things ultimately worked out doesn't mean it would have been a bad idea to bring in a more experienced backup.
 
PlayerToBeNamedLater said:
There are some people who think highly of Scrivens as well.
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that's great and all but scrivens has all of 30 games of nhl experience, and the first 12 of those were pretty pedestrian.

though at least he has proven that he can carry a starter's workload (60+ games) and actually stay healthy.

but again... nobody is saying dump scrivens.

besides that, it's a tall order to throw a rookie in net for a playoff run in toronto, not a deicsion that should be taken lightly or without due consideration of what is in the best interest of the player.
 
mbow30 said:
that's great and all but scrivens has all of 30 games of nhl experience, and the first 12 of those were pretty pedestrian.

though at least he has proven that he can carry a starter's workload (60+ games) and actually stay healthy.

but again... nobody is saying dump scrivens.
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Actually I see a lot people saying dump him for the flavor of the month vet goalie being proposed.
 
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