Around the League - 2022-23 Season Edition
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Apotheosis
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I'll never not be cheesed that the Leafs were one number off and had the highest chance on the last ball to win it. Matthews is a great player but McDavid is in a league of his own.
Fogelhund
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Anthony Duclair expected to come off LTIR and play on Friday. It will be interesting to see how Florida will be cap compliant.
Jimmy Firecracker
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So 1 year of Zaitsev costs a high 2nd and a 4th to get rid of.
Pretty mind-boggling that Dubas was able to get rid of 5 years of him for such a small cost.
Fogelhund
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From Kyle Cushman. Consider: Jack Johnson with Nikita Zaitsev
That’s some next level tanking.
Edit - with Mrazek in net!!!
That’s some next level tanking.
Edit - with Mrazek in net!!!
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Menzinger
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Very strange move for the Sens to pay so much to dump him. Especially since they're going to have a high-ish 2nd this draft.
They must be in line to make some desperate moves this summer to try and finally improve
They must be in line to make some desperate moves this summer to try and finally improve
kb
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They waived Tierney today, and I think that by doing that and demoting Denisenko they have the space.
Buds17
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Connor Brown is/was arguably more valuable than that 2nd might be. Toronto's willingness/ability to take Ceci and Harpur helped as well.
kb
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The Leafs used Ceci for a season, so that had some positive value.
Plus the Leafs got Columbus' 3rd as well.
What do you mean willingness/ability to take Ceci and Harpur? They weren't negative assets.
Harpur was making league minimum, and Ceci didn't have a contract, and Ottawa could have just not qualified him if they really wanted.
Ottawa paid a high 2nd and 4th to get rid of 1 year of Zaitsev.
We paid Connor Brown to get rid of 5 years of Zaitsev and pick up Ceci and a 3rd round pick.
That's a straight up robbery in comparison.
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kb
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Yeah, it was a contract dump wrapped up in a pseudo hockey trade. Those are the most beneficial.
At least from the optics and contractual point of view.
Buds17
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I'm inferring that Ottawa might not have been willing to take any salary or contract in return like we were (I'm not suggesting that either Ceci or Harpur were negative assets). I'm also stating that Connor Brown was the centrepiece of that trade return for Ottawa over Zaitsev. A hockey trade (TOR-OTT) should always be preferable to a salary dump deal (OTT-CHI).
I'm essentially agreeing with you on the most important things anyway.
They could have something lined up now and need the cap space
Maybe a rental they want to trade for and extend or somebody with term and a hefty AAV
They need defense bad
Menzinger
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I'd imagine part of this is trying to prove to whomever their new ownership will be that he should stay on. Probably flips some more futures for some win now players for next season then goes big spending in free agency.
It is a very interesting move by the Sens. Maybe they are going after Meier and believe they can make the playoffs.
BertCorbeau
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6/7 points back of the WC with 4 games in hand over the teams that hold those spots .. not entirely unrealistic but a big challenge since there are also 4 teams between them
Still they made offseason moves with the intent of making the playoffs.. The fact that they have a chance to make it actually doesn't surprise me that they're buyers. The have a lot of prospect capital they can leverage.
I hope they do
Would rather the Islanders as Sorokin can steal a series against Bruins and then have our boys eliminate them and silence all the Lou Vs Dubas stuff once and for all.6/7 points back of the WC with 4 games in hand over the teams that hold those spots .. not entirely unrealistic but a big challenge since there are also 4 teams between them
Still they made offseason moves with the intent of making the playoffs.. The fact that they have a chance to make it actually doesn't surprise me that they're buyers. The have a lot of prospect capital they can leverage.
I hope they do
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6/7 points back of the WC with 4 games in hand over the teams that hold those spots .. not entirely unrealistic but a big challenge since there are also 4 teams between them
Still they made offseason moves with the intent of making the playoffs.. The fact that they have a chance to make it actually doesn't surprise me that they're buyers. The have a lot of prospect capital they can leverage.
I hope they do
Best case scenario for the Leafs is they spend big on the wrong things and still miss the post season
If I was somebody trying to buy that team I'd want him to sit on his hands until I could get my people in there
I wouldn't want him doing anything that could work against the direction the team should be going in
Sounds like something they might try
That front office and what they may get up to scares the living hell out of me
they do have the assets maybe bring in Chychrun, and Timo, could be interesting to see what they do lol6/7 points back of the WC with 4 games in hand over the teams that hold those spots .. not entirely unrealistic but a big challenge since there are also 4 teams between them
Still they made offseason moves with the intent of making the playoffs.. The fact that they have a chance to make it actually doesn't surprise me that they're buyers. The have a lot of prospect capital they can leverage.
I hope they do
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