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The Motherfucking 2021 Season Thread

I mean, I’m loving his effort level. That combined with his skill makes him a keeper. But he has to keep that up. If he does, I’d love to take a gamble on giving him a 2-3 year cheapie deal at $2m per. Or less if possible.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
The only thing that can foil it, and I’d do this if I was Buffalo, is to tell him if he doesn’t waive to go to the team with the best offer, I won’t trade him at all and he can enjoy watching the playoffs on tv.
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I'm not sure that'd be a threat with much teeth. Just last year, Hall got traded at the deadline to some shitty team with delusions of grandeur instead of a legitimate contender. Not only was it a waste of his time, but that at least in part led to him having no better option than signing a one year deal with the Sabres.

So if the Sabres wanted to trade him to this year's version of the Coyotes because they have the best offer on the table, maybe he says "OK, thanks, I'll just stay here and collect the rest of my money from you, and then be on my way in the summer with you getting nothing in return."

On the other hand, maybe he's like Staal and says "I don't give a fuck where you're sending me, just get me out of here."
 
IMHO: I believe the Leafs should just get another goalie, as insurance, for the playoffs and hold onto the picks and prospects in the system.
I have been reading that if the Leafs want a player like Foligno or the like, that it will cost at least a first and a grade "A" prospect.
Funny how Hyman may return only a middling draft choice, yet a Foligno will cost a fortune.
I also read that Seattle will want a first and second-round pick to broker any deals for the dispersal draft .... well Francis, go fuck yourself. If the Leafs do a trade for a player that they can't hide in the dispersal draft, then just put the player on LTIR with a mysterious ailment that will prevent the Krakens from taking them ... aren't all injured players exempt from the draft?
Also, I am a little concerned with Reilly. He may be the problem with the powerplay. Put Marner on the backend with Matthews, Tavares, Nylander, and Hyman.
Damn, it's nice to have a Leafs team that is truly a contender, but I hope they don't break the bank to bring in something that could return very little in the playoffs.
 
The virus will mean the cap is going to be a complete clusterfuck for teams like us for years.
Even two seasons of a level cap is bad...because of this I'm afraid Dubas may have no choice but to reel in cheaper fish like Galchenyuk in order to acquire\keep the important pieces.


We won't be the only team doing it, it's going to be interesting until this gets better.

(not that Gachenyuk will be bad, just that the team may have little choice/)
 
I'm not really worried about our cap situation at all. We will continue to be able to sign quality players at bargain prices and we still have a steady stream of guys on ELCs the next few years. I think our cap situation is actually quite enviable.
 
Morgan signing at a reasonable rate after next year is really the only worry I have. Unless Dubas is able to trade for a guy to replace him - which wouldn’t be easy - but it’s Dubas...can’t rule out glasses being awesome
 
The cap situation will only favor a gm like dubas tbh. His bread and butter even before he was hired was finding market inefficiencies. I worry about some of the other elite teams but not really Toronto.
 
Colorado has issues coming up. It's funny because until recently people talked about their great cap situation. It can run out fast. What sucks is the cap punishes you if you draft well
 
Preston said:
The cap situation will only favor a gm like dubas tbh. His bread and butter even before he was hired was finding market inefficiencies. I worry about some of the other elite teams but not really Toronto.
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Tampa fucked up by trying to keep too many of their drafted/developed guys. If you are good at drafting a GM also has to get good at evaluating internally and selling high before the big contracts come.

Oilers really fucked good drafting teams with bypassing that 2nd contract after ELC with their duo.
 
soco22 said:
Tampa fucked up by trying to keep too many of their drafted/developed guys. If you are good at drafting a GM also has to get good at evaluating internally and selling high before the big contracts come.

Oilers really fucked good drafting teams with bypassing that 2nd contract after ELC with their duo.
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Hard to say...some of those guys may have exceeded even the loftiest internal expectations. I don't think they expected so many of their 2nd round/mid round picks to catch fire.
 
Tbay is pretty annoying. Kucherov's injury should have hurt them much more but they've managed to pdo themselves well above their underlying numbers. It seems like that's waning a bit now at least and we might be seeing the truer non-kuch version of the bolts now. Kuch is gonna have to come back seamlessly to get them back to the level they were at last year I think.
 
JackBurton said:
Colorado has issues coming up. It's funny because until recently people talked about their great cap situation. It can run out fast. What sucks is the cap punishes you if you draft well
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The thing about Colorado is that they're a couple years ahead of where we are, so they're already benefitting from their 2nd wave of elc guys coming through while we won't really get that until at least next year.

And yeah now they have to sign Makar Grubauer and Landeskog to new deals next year (and Saad Calvert ufa too) and then more the year after.
 
zeke said:
As a guy who passed through waivers at $1m we could probably get him cheaper than that.
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Yeah, put something like 2x1.5 on the table for him. Tell him flat out that's what we have, take it or leave it. 2 year opportunity to rehab your career next to Matthews or Tavares. Then hit UFA at 29 yrs old and try to get paid one more time.
 
I can't believe Hutch has started so many games. We probably would have thought we'd miss the playoffs if we knew we'd have these kinds of injuries.
Leafs GA and defensive play is the most underrated thing in NHl this year.
 
MindzEye said:
Yeah, put something like 2x1.5 on the table for him. Tell him flat out that's what we have, take it or leave it. 2 year opportunity to rehab your career next to Matthews or Tavares. Then hit UFA at 29 yrs old and try to get paid one more time.
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Yeh, would take simmonds out and give his salary over to him for as many years as he’s comfy (1-3 years).
 
they're lower on the pecking order, but some tough luck with injuries for Joe and Simmonds.. both were looking good before they got hurt, and they've been ghosts lately that's got to be incredibly tough to handle for an older guy. and in Simmonds case, a guy who hadn't played a game in 10 months before he stepped on the ice for the Leafs.

depending on what happens at the deadline, the role for either could be scaled back and one of them might even be sitting out depending on how Galchenyuk finishes up the year.
 
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