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The Mother-fucking goddamn Off-season Thread

CH1 said:
Everyone has a budget
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the leafs certainly have never demonstrated any of that with off-ice salaries and rampant LTIR abuse.....and the cap has been flat for like 4 years now to boot.

how on earth would MLSE suddenly care about a few millions here or there or in the future? makes no sense.
 
I suppose the chatter/complaint was with the time it took to get a yes. Nothing about them ever saying no.

At the end of the day, it still seems like excuse making.

Because Shanny approached Dubas after the deadline and his agent was negotiating - so if it was that big of a problem, why not bring it up before?
 
hockeylover said:
And I'm sorry, if your contention is that the board blocked you from doing x deal for a really pricey defenseman...

don't you still have a responsibility to make sure the trade you actually do make is a good one? And when you look at that long, long list of draft picks traded the other day, don't you think he had plenty of opportunity to make moves to win still?

Just seems like excuse making to me.
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but like...why would the board block a deal for a "pricy defensman" ??

there's a fricken SALARY CAP.
 
hockeylover said:
I suppose the chatter/complaint was with the time it took to get a yes. Nothing about them ever saying no.

At the end of the day, it still seems like excuse making.

Because Shanny approached Dubas after the deadline and his agent was negotiating - so if it was that big of a problem, why not bring it up before?
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but why would it take any time at all to get a yes to any deal under a salary cap?

why would there even be board meetings to approve individual transactions? even big ones?

makes no sense.
 
zeke said:
but like...why would the board block a deal for a "pricy defensman" ??

there's a fricken SALARY CAP.
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Just to clarify here - the board never said no in this story (which I have a lot of questions about still).

The contention was just that they took too long to approve it.
 
zeke said:
but why would it take any time at all to get a yes to any deal under a salary cap?

why would there even be board meetings to approve individual transactions? even big ones?

makes no sense.
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I agree, for the record.

My impression would be major financial reprecussions outside of the framework of the cap or large increases to the budget outside of players.
 
if the team actually has a process in place where every individual transaction (none of which has any impact on the team's bottom line whatsoever) requires a 3 day approval process by a bunch of businessmen then the team is fucked beyond imagination.
 
zeke said:
if the team actually has a process in place where every individual transaction (none of which has any impact on the team's bottom line whatsoever) requires a 3 day approval process by a bunch of businessmen then the team is fucked beyond imagination.
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It was a long time ago when Burke was here, but the impression he gave about his interactions with the board were that they were pretty minimal.
 
These are busy guys. They don’t want to have to approve Schenn trades anyway. And they are corporate guys too, so there is obviously a delegation of authority to Shanny, and only thing above that have to go to the board for approval. Most likely tied to money.
 
It can't be about money, the front-loaded deals that have been handed out to Tavares, Matthews and Marner. Deals that pay almost the entire annual contract as a "signing bonus" are a lot more problematic financially than deadline additions.
 
BG said:
It can't be about money, the front-loaded deals that have been handed out to Tavares, Matthews and Marner. Deals that pay almost the entire annual contract as a "signing bonus" are a lot more problematic financially than deadline additions.
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My guess is that those are the ones they gotta goto the board on.
 
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