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The Fantastically Beautiful Joyously Superfun 22-23 Season Celebration Thread

trujaysfan said:
My guess is the late Feb re-assessment is to figure out if he can play at all this season. Gives dubas a month to work for the right move.

We likely see:
Rielly - Benn (I predicted this but too lazy to look back)
Gio - holl
Sandin - Lilly
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The trade deadline is March 3rd, so a “late February” re-assessment won’t give Dubas a month to make alternate plans.

The fact that they’re pushing it so close to the deadline suggests to me that:


A) They’re hoping to give Muzzin every opportunity to recover and avoid having to make a move.

B) That they will make a move at the deadline if they get a clear answer by then that Muzzin’s not coming back this season.
 
Leafs D is super deep and strong, so we didn’t need Muzz anyway. It’s no loss. Just a lost opportunity to have squandered moving him for assets in the off-season.

I knew something was up with Brodie. I said the other day he’s not playing up to his usual level. I didn’t think it might be an injury. I bet it’s not serious but lingering and bothersome so they just shut him down to completely get rid of it and not play through it and make it worse. I’m sure he’ll be back soon. LOF prediction is two weeks.
 
I think the problem with the Leafs lack of depth scoring is that they haven't had a LEGIT 3rd line center in like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

They haven't drafted a good center since Matthews (and really before that since Kadri), and all their bargain basement player acquisition at Center has flopped in the 3rd line roll (Spezza and Kampf are/were 4th liners).

If the Kessel years have taught me anything, it's the power of Centers to influence the game. We didn't get good until JT and Matthews turned up.

And this isn't something that I have just come to, one of my first posts in the last couple of years was wondering if the Leafs should go after ROR when he was with Buffalo.

Package some good stuff and get youngish Center with term. If Montreal can get these centers, ION know why Dubas can't (trade a first, Kerfoot, Holl and stuff for a Dach like center)!
 
LeafGm said:
The trade deadline is March 3rd, so a “late February” re-assessment won’t give Dubas a month to make alternate plans.

The fact that they’re pushing it so close to the deadline suggests to me that:


A) They’re hoping to give Muzzin every opportunity to recover and avoid having to make a move.

B) That they will make a move at the deadline if they get a clear answer by then that Muzzin’s not coming back this season.
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Googled "2022-2023 nhl trade deadline" and March 21st came up... didn't check that it was correct.
 
it's great news. Muzzin was already slowing down some, but losing what Brodie gives us nightly longterm would be a serious blow.
 
It's cap management BABY . Putting Brodie on LTIR allows for a trade for Kane with less retention. That's what I'm going with baby.
 
they've had enough coddling and development. it's time to give our 1st round picks on defence some serious ice time and see what happens. this is when the effort we've spent on them should be paying off, in this exact situation.
 
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