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Trade Deadline

my biggest frustration with Tre is that he hasn’t been able to effectively re deploy the Klingberg money.

We’re shitting on the two adds but I think that has more to do with deployment than anything. The leafs d has dealt with injuries all year, their #2 dman from last year has fallen off significantly, and over the past the few weeks we’ve needed to play lagesson, lajoie, and Rifai and deploy Simon Benoit in a top 4 role.

Adding some vet depth is a good thing here.

But we’ve had 4-5 months to make a splash and didn’t, and that’s a big blinder.
 
Craig Button who constructs the trade board, is asking out loud why on earth the Bruins would trade Jake DeBrusk who is on it.
 
mbow30 said:
my biggest frustration with Tre is that he hasn’t been able to effectively re deploy the Klingberg money.

We’re shitting on the two adds but I think that has more to do with deployment than anything. The leafs d has dealt with injuries all year, their #2 dman from last year has fallen off significantly, and over the past the few weeks we’ve needed to play lagesson, lajoie, and Rifai and deploy Simon Benoit in a top 4 role.

Adding some vet depth is a good thing here.

But we’ve had 4-5 months to make a splash and didn’t, and that’s a big blinder.
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Yep. It seems like they’d rather carry a 23 man roster than maximize their team and the cap. And the kicker is Keefe doesn’t even utilize his press box. Pure incompetent mismanagement..
 
kampf reaves *new scrub* gregor edmundson benoit boosh

just a lotta plugs really. when it doesn't work, we'll blame the core and trade one for shittier, but meaner players to surround the junk.
 
hockeylover said:
kampf reaves *new scrub* gregor edmundson benoit boosh

just a lotta plugs really. when it doesn't work, we'll blame the core and trade one for shittier, but meaner players to surround the junk.
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It really is a self perpetuating line of of bullshit eh?

"We're too soft"....then add a bunch of gritensity, and still lose. Somehow decide that it's the skills fault because they're too soft and double down. Doesn't work again, and then triple down.

Fucking idiots.
 
MindzEye said:
It really is a self perpetuating line of of bullshit eh?

"We're too soft"....then add a bunch of gritensity, and still lose. Somehow decide that it's the skills fault because they're too soft and double down. Doesn't work again, and then triple down.

Fucking idiots.
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I think a lot of Canadian teams specifically suffer from this. They think hockey needs to be played a certain way and that the playoffs need to be a certain style.

Also from a front office trying to preserve their jobs standpoint. Adding grit every year seems like an easier task than adding more skill.

Also, Gord from Barrie understands and likes that argument.
 
Braig Cutton just went on a spiel about how much value certain guys provide, such as Lars Eller and Tyler Toffolli and concluded that he wasnt sure there was too high a price to get either player.
 
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