The Mother-fucking goddamn Off-season Thread

[hockeylover]

wtf is wrong with everyone.

 

[Wayward DP]

On one hand yes

On the other hand, he's 21. Don't get me wrong, another catastrophe of a season would be tragic, but if he's "just" a 20/40 pace guy over 50-60 games this season with relatively but not ridiculously sheltered minutes and 2nd PP unit opportunity, that's fine imo. Not ideal, not exciting, but fine.

he's only 21, but he's barely played any high level hockey over the past few years cause he spends most of his time in the infirmary.

so he has time to short his shit out, but he's also missed a ton of super valuable development years and burned years on his ELC and burned years of waiver eligibility.

so it's not just strictly the age clock.

love your nephew, want him to succeed, but am quite cautious about my expectations for him given his injury history and how shitty he's looked as a Leaf.

 

[Wayward DP]

wtf is wrong with everyone.

slow news summer, I guess?

 

[zeke]

Any update on his recovery from his season ending surgery last January?

he was skating during the playoffs.

 

[Jeremy]

zeke zeke zeke zeke zeke zeke

 

[LeafGm]

he was skating during the playoffs.

And looking gosh darn great, too:

 

[hockeylover]

i'm really tired of this whole dumb song and dance we do every summer where people pretend the leafs don't know there's a cap and declare us in cap hell because they took a cursory glance at capfriendly.

 

[zeke]

how shitty he's looked as a Leaf.

guy was looking good this year at 21.

 

[Wayward DP]

guy was looking good this year at 21.

not according to my eyes. or any fancy stats I'm aware of...

he's shown flashes at the NHL level, but that's it.

 

[LeafGm]

not according to my eyes. or any fancy stats I'm aware of...

he's shown flashes at the NHL level, but that's it.

Yeah, if he’s had any stretch during any of his brief NHL stints where he’s even looked like an NHL caliber player, let alone a good one, I’m unaware of it.

All you can really say at this point is he’s been good in the AHL when healthy—at least purely going off his scoring stats.

 

[Wayward DP]

and he scored that one unstoppable playoff goal, on an absolute rocket.

 

[zeke]

this year 5v5

Jarnkrok (31): 73gms, 11:09, -0.4dzs%, 2.14p/60, 0.79ixg/60, 18.8sh%, 9.8oish%, 52.5xgf%, -2.0rel
Robertson (21): 15gms, 9:31, -1.9dzs%, 1.68p/60, 0.76ixg/60, 5.0sh%, 8.8oish%, 50.7xgf%, -3.3rel
Holmberg (23): 37gms, 9:43, -3.7dzs%, 2.00p/60, 0.46isxg/60, 15.4sh%, 9.2oish%, 50.2xgf%, -3.4rel

 

[MindzEye]

wtf is wrong with everyone.

CAP HELL !!!!!!!

 

[trujaysfan]

Phil Kessel looks finished. lack of conditioning finally caught-up with him. With his lack of injuries, guy could have still been real solid.

If Phil comes back I want him in a media relations role... anytime simmonds goes to speak he just says "you're so dumb" and moves on

 

[thehabhater]

I see him as a hot dog vendor..

 

[Wayward DP]

 

[Jeremy]

Where was that?

 

[Wayward DP]

soco's cousin's pool

 

[Jeremy]

Bar mitzvah or Hanukkah party?

 

[leafman101]

The should dump Jarn and Laf and sign Tatar and Heinen for the min.