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The Fantastically Beautiful Joyously Superfun 22-23 Season Celebration Thread

Speaking of Mirtle

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In this scenario, if Matt Murray is moved, the Leafs have an additional $7 million to fill out the forward group above. (With Murray in the fold, it’s more like $3 million, and some bargain hunting will have to occur.)
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Mirtle: Why the Maple Leafs really won the Jake McCabe trade. And what comes next

In McCabe, the Maple Leafs added a top-four blueliner for bottom-pair money for the rest of this season and two more.
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This trade puts them in great shape for next year. They'll have money to keep Bunting, ROR and Knies and add an impact forward.
 
I don't see a path for Sandin returning next year tbh. Rielly and McCabe will likely always be ahead of him on the depth chart on the left side (and maybe even Gio) and we know he's not happy on the third pair. At the very least he will ask for a move. Granted, if they keep him he doesn't have much of a choice as he is under contract... But he'll want out and if the Leafs find a taker and get value back for him, they will trade him. The other option is he plays the right side but the Leafs have been very hestiant to play him there.
 
CH1 said:
Great work by Dubas. Even if they lose in the first round. The result just blurs the truth.
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He's went back to his roots after the Foligno and Boosh debacles. This is the kind of creativity I expect and love to see out of him.


NOTE: In fairness to him, we do know he tried something similar last year, as it got leaked by someone in Chicago. They were seemingly quite close to grabbing Hagel but when Tampa identifies someone they seemingly give 0 fucks about the price and went balls to the wall to acquire him. Just another example of smart management lapping the field on the vast majority of teams. 3 playoff runs at 1.5m for Hagel is quite the feat.
 
Dubas' moves mean even if they are not successful, I think players get the blame and Dubas can go to another team in a few days with a fat contract as their new GM. Lots of openings coming up.
 
Tampa and Leafs have figured out how to trade picks for multiple years of cap space relief.

Chicago in a rush to trade talent for picks. No matter how young. Hagel was 23. Dach was 21.
 
You have to have confidence in your scouting department. That's an issue with Arizona. All those pick and can they even afford competent people? Based on that Chychrun "Trade" last year+ I have doubts the picks will mean as much as they look now.
Chicago is just burning that fucker down completely.
 
It's basically like grabbing an ELC contract that's a top 4 d or top 6 forward for 1.5-2m bucks on 3 playoff runs. I mean in the Leafs case the nearly guaranteed nature of a top 4 d for the next 3 playoffs is obviously easily worth a 1st and a 2nd... they are very unlikely to draft anyone as good as McCabe in those slots and they, as well as Tampa and many other teams, have clearly run the numbers to prove the risk-reward makes it a no-brainer. It's almost common sense really.. these late 1sts have always had bloated value around the league.
 
Preston said:
It's basically like grabbing an ELC contract that's a top 4 d or top 6 forward for 1.5-2m bucks on 3 playoff runs. I mean in the Leafs case the nearly guaranteed nature of a top 4 d for the next 3 playoffs is obviously easily worth a 1st and a 2nd... they are very unlikely to draft anyone as good as McCabe in those slots and they, as well as Tampa and many other teams, have clearly run the numbers to prove the risk-reward makes it a no-brainer. It's almost common sense really.. these late 1sts have always had bloated value around the league.
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Yeah. It always bugged me that FIRST ROUND PICK is deemed as some universal valuable asset that only impatient fools part with.
 
Trading late 1st picks for cap space is by far the best use of draft picks for contenders. Getting top tier caliber production from players making under 2m is the difference maker for many/most cup winning teams and in the Leafs case, it's something that they've lacked for several years now. And you can either draft and hope and pray they arrive in 4 years or trade your picks for a guy that you'd be fucking STOKED to pick even as a bottom end top 10-15 overall pick. I prefer option 2 as there is way more certainty and the probabilities are on your side as well.
 
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