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The Fucking Season Thread - Redemption Tour '22

Foligno was a terrible deal at the time. Almost all of us thought so. The gross factor was so clear and bright that it shone straight through our homerism. He was worth one 2nd rounder at full value. That’s it. It was a massive overpay.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
Foligno was a terrible deal at the time. Almost all of us thought so. The gross factor was so clear and bright that it shone straight through our homerism. He was worth one 2nd rounder at full value. That’s it. It was a massive overpay.
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Yeah, it was blatantly obvious to pretty much everyone here except for Foligno's paisan.

Dude was clearly washed and, at best, a third-line calibre forward with minimal offensive production. And of course, he didn't even end up being that good, either with the Leafs or with the Bruins this year.
 
LeafGm said:
Yeah, it was blatantly obvious to pretty much everyone here except for Foligno's paisan.

Dude was clearly washed and, at best, a third-line calibre forward with minimal offensive production. And of course, he didn't even end up being that good, either with the Leafs or with the Bruins this year.
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Top defensive forward on one of the best defensive teams in the league, getting all the big tough matchup minutes against the other team's top lines, and producing at a very solid 2nd line rate at even strength, for years.

until he blew his back out.

If another one of those guys is available this deadline, we should do the same trade again.
 
zeke said:
Top defensive forward on one of the best defensive teams in the league, getting all the big tough matchup minutes against the other team's top lines, and producing at a very solid 2nd line rate at even strength, for years.

until he blew his back out.

If another one of those guys is available this deadline, we should do the same trade again.
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I admire your commitment to being wrong about the worst Leaf trade deadline addition in a generation.
 
Yeah you've gotta correct that horrifying mistake. Next time just look at the deeper underlying numbers when you sign someone and pay the 3rd for the error.
 
leafman101 said:
The buyout is $300k next year, but $1.1 mill the following year. Thats not really an option.

Well worth a 3rd.
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Yeah, I don’t get that take. If someone will eat the rest of Ritchie’s deal for a 3rd, I jump at that.

And it’s not just the cap space for the next two years, it’s the cap space that won’t be available for this year’s deadline too if we keep Ritchie this year, then buy him out.
 
And the Leafs of a few years ago would be all over trading for him. Collect a 3rd as compensation for taking him and then you can juice him up next year and trade him for another 2nd-4th at next years deadline. Plenty of reason for teams to be in on that and it shouldn't cost the Leafs more than a 3rd really.
 
I don't really buy it to be honest - I think we should be able to use Ritchie in lieu of some retention. I think many teams would prefer to have an actual player even if overpaid rather than dead capspace.
 
zeke said:
I don't really buy it to be honest - I think we should be able to use Ritchie in lieu of some retention. I think many teams would prefer to have an actual player even if overpaid rather than dead capspace.
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In theory yeah, but nobody wants to be the one to do us a favor. The narrative has to be that we paid them something to take him.
 
he doesn't make any sense to go after. the only thing that scares me is that last year the media campaigned all year to get Foligno and the Leafs ended up doing that.
 
Kyle did his due diligence and the Montreal front office puked it all up to their contacts in the hockey media to try to drive a market for him. Their ask appears to be obscene and they're probably going to end up circling around with a lower ask closer to the deadline.
 
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