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The Mother-fucking goddamn Off-season Thread

The play IMO is to find one dude to give money to ( for me it's Barbashev, for Tre its going to be Backlund) and use Marlies 1/1 dudes to fill out the rest of the roster.

Spreading it around this mediocre class seems silly
 
MindzEye said:
This is a personal thought and only a thought, but the focus on low event hockey is a main driver to why we've been so "unlucky" in the playoffs.

Every event becomes more important when your focus is on limiting events. Fewer events = letting lady luck determine your fate to a higher and higher degree. Every bounce, tip, post and save becomes more and more important.

When you're the higher skill team you should be looking to increase the total amount of events (within a controlled structure) and not limiting
them.

I also think that our roster makeup leaves us at a "luck deficiency". Aside from Matthews, Nylander, and Tavares we don't have forwards who go to the net with any sort of regularity looking to create potential events. That's where "luck" happens in the playoffs, at the net front. I think publicly tracked xG doesn't address that properly because the shot quality data just isn't good enough (as basically every professional has tried to tell us over the last 5 years).
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Was thinking the same thing…it’s all great if your core 4 is producing on all cylinders, or your low event guys aren’t showing cracks. But if the studs go cold, or you run into a goalie on a heater, you got a significantly smaller chance of scoring when they aren’t on the ice.

suspect it also means you garner fewer PPs too.
 
If you can't get a big name this offseason, don't bother.

Use the kids and then add a big name or two at the deadline.
 
Preston said:
The issue is he needs to be good too. He hasn't been good yet in the NHL. Can he be both healthy AND good? I'd bet against it personally.
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If someone wants to buy his name right now, I'd sell on that.

If not, then just stay the course. But yeah, I expect nothing.
 
Not worth counting on him. If he looked like an NHL player at all when healthy I'd buy the dip on him aggressively but he's been largely shit and a liability. Which is a shame because he has all the components of being exactly what they need; a depth trigger man/goal scorer is something they've never really had.

Hoping hoping hoping but not expecting anything.
 
In fairness to the Leafs, they were giving him a chance this year. Many folks here, including myself, supported him being a healthy scratch in many games. He was just terrible and deserved to be in the pressbox at times. Good to be patient and give him all the opportunity in the world, but they can't be a liability.. A guy like Holmberg or McMann earned a chance to stick in the lineup way more than he did.
 
Preston said:
In fairness to the Leafs, they were giving him a chance this year. Many folks here, including myself, supported him being a healthy scratch in many games. He was just terrible and deserved to be in the pressbox at times. Good to be patient and give him all the opportunity in the world, but they can't be a liability.. A guy like Holmberg or McMann earned a chance to stick in the lineup way more than he did.
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Sure, I think that’s a fair assessment.

They should try again though, IMO.

Holmberg and McMann definitely both showed me more than I ever saw from Lafferty though really. (Yes McMann was injured at the end of the year, mean next year)
 
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