• Moderators, please send me a PM if you are unable to access mod permissions. Thanks, Habsy.

The Fantastically Beautiful Joyously Superfun 22-23 Season Celebration Thread

Preston said:
As a whole I have a hard time saying they're any better this year. Flat at best, with Matthews in much worse form. And guess what? Who are they going to rely on to give them secondary scoring? 2 guys that have 8 goals in 112 career playoff games. That'll go well I'm sure.
Click to expand...

Well O'Reilly should still be an upgrade. Hopefully.

And hopefully the goalies too.

Sandin and Lilly didnt play last year anyways after all.
 
Jack was fine last year. O'Reilly is the key yeah. If he's close to as good as he was in his Conn Smythe form it could be an upgrade overall yeah. Losing the long boys in Engvall and Mik hurts too. Much slower this year but maybe that's ok. They've been replaced by O'Reilly and Lafferty I guess.
 
I think they were tired of sandin behind the scenes and saw a chance to avoid a distraction + add insurance if mo gets hurt + decent futures.

the only thing for me is schenn vs Lilly. Lill6 needs to play.
 
zeke said:
These cap numbers are bullshit tbh.

The Leafs are in a silly position of carrying 9 defensemen on tbe active roster.

But even with 9 men on the roster, simply by dropping ZAR we have $1.7m+ in space to fill the last forward slot. Which is a $3.5m guy at 50% retention and $5m guy at 75%.

Dubas fucked up.
Click to expand...

If we dropped 3 cheap dmen to get down to 6 dmen on the active roster, we'd have $4.3m in capspace to fill the last forward spot. Thats an 8.6 guy at 50% and a 12 guy at 75%.

And all my scenarios still dont even include moving a Kerf or Holl salary out.

Basically don't listen to anyone talking about how there was some precise cap fitting going on here - the leafs had all the cap flexibility in the world to add whoever they wanted.
 
Well that makes it so much worse. Subtracted Engvall only to add.. no one. Even when they had the space. Frustrating as hell.

It's just dubas catering to Keefe's preferences way too much here. He hates Engvall, didn't care for Sandin and wanted a Schenn to play with Rielly. Dubas granted his wishes.
 
Whats bizarre is that we can't even carry an extra forward right now due to carrying 3 full extra dmen.

So now we can't call up a Holmberg or McMann or Knies without waiving someone.

Well, i guess they could send down Lilly without waiving him.
 
Dubas overrated af on this board. What was the point of acquiring a 1st rounder in this draft? I guess the next GM will have ammo in the offseason because if it’s another 1st round exit Dubas better be gone.

should’ve gone all in. Too much risk?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top