Hanifin's best season is 48 points and you would play him in front of Morgan Rielly? Also where is McCabe? Did he pass away?
Rielly and McCabe are both LHD and play on the left side as their strong side.
FWIW ..
Liljegren and Schenn aren't likely to be paired together since both are RHD. The ideal addition on the blueline for me is someone adept at both ends of the ice.
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'No truth' to the rumours that Maple Leafs are buying out T.J. Brodie, source says
Brodie, 33, has one year remaining on a four-year contract that carries a $5-million US cap hit in 2023-24.
The summer plans of Maple Leafs general manager Brad Treliving do not include buying out defenceman T.J. Brodie.
For reasons that are not clear — not that speculation and clarity go hand-in-hand — rumours have been circulating regarding the Leafs potentially going the buyout route with Brodie, who has one season remaining on a four-year, $20-million US contract that he signed with Toronto in 2020.
Said a well-placed source on Tuesday regarding the buyout rumours: “No truth.”
A 33-year-old native of Chatham, Ont., Brodie will be an unrestricted free agent in the summer of 2024.
Brodie’s cap hit in 2023-24 will be $5 million, though his actual salary will be $7.5 million. Per capfriendly.com, a buyout wouldn’t cost the Leafs anything this coming season, but they would take on a $2.5-million cap hit in 2024-25 before Brodie would come off the books.
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for perspective 2021-2022 Champion Defense.SIMMONS: What's wrong with the Maple Leafs defence and how does Brad Treliving fix it?
How you assess the Leafs defence? If you're Brad Treliving and you've only been on the job three weeks, what do you base your decisions on?
If anything was obvious as the playoffs got longer, it was how the Maple Leafs defence could not have held up the way the champion Vegas Golden Knights managed or even, up to the Stanley Cup final, the way the Florida Panthers blueline dealt with pressure, with a hard forecheck, with the cycle of other teams — with the other components such as shot blocking, stick-positioning and gap control. The usual definitions that make defencemen great.
What is Treliving, the new general manager, to make of Jake McCabe, for example?
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So here you are, Treliving, and you want to make the Leafs better, and you’re studying your video, and you’re talking to your staff, and you want to make certain that this 100-plus point team can actually challenge somebody for something in the post-season — not wilt away like they did against Florida — and not only do you need to upgrade on defence, but just as importantly, you need to accurately assess what you have.
Sometimes a general manager just doesn’t know.
Ideally I'd want Hellebuyck over Saaros but i think we cant really go wrong with either of them.LeBrun: Who will stay and who will move in the NHL’s UFA goalie carousel?
There is a long list of big-name pending UFA netminders available in the NHL's goalie carousel this summer.theathletic.com
The summer goalie carousel will be upon us once again soon enough.
Connor Hellebuyck, John Gibson, Carter Hart and Mackenzie Blackwood could potentially all be dealt, for starters. We’ll see how those scenarios play out especially closer to the draft in Nashville next week.
The Hellebuyck situation looms large over everything. No goalie on the market will have more impact on his new team more than the Vezina Trophy finalist. But also understanding that he’s looking for Andrei Vasilevskiy-esque money on his next deal (Hellebuyck has one year left on his current contract) is the complicating factor in whatever trade could materialize.
I would also point out that for all the rumored trade talk of Juuse Saros and, I mean, he would be an unreal acquisition for any team, my sense is Predators GM Barry Trotz would need to be overwhelmed by an offer to truly move him. It doesn’t mean it can’t happen, Trotz has to listen given where the Predators are in re-tooling their roster, but he’s not out there shopping him and I suspect it’s more likely he stays put.
The Leafs, meanwhile, have shown interest in re-signing pending RFA Ilya Samsonov. So long as both sides can figure out the sweet spot, looks like he’ll be back in Toronto.
I still think Lilly has the potential to figure it out. Keefe made some incredibly stupid decision with Holl and kept him in instead of god damn Lily or anyone else for that matter tbh.
Hanifin's best season is 48 points and you would play him in front of Morgan Rielly? Also where is McCabe? Did he pass away?
I don't know. I think I like Rielly more than the idea of Hanifin. His two black eyes in the first round was enough for me.
I don’t see buying out Brodie unless you have something way better in mind (or available). As it stands now, I think all of our D need to be pushed down a rung on the depth chart to get stronger. So keeping the best of the bunch and improving above that is key.
you mean like when he Paired Holl and Lilly, and had Lilly on the Left side, which he's never done in his career in a playoff game, and there was a goal on that shift too, Holl's fault though, as usual.
Brodie is a very tradeable asset ...he'd get a 1st at the deadline for sure, but, we want his cap $$ now for a replacement, not to carry him even if the return would be higher.
FYI, it'll be a lot easier to read if you keep players the same colour throughout when they appear on multiple graphs.
Moving Brodie doesn't improve our team... he's signed for a reasonable contract and we would either have to (likely) overpay a UFA or trade assets for his replacement.
