Except that's not what that statement meant. The price of our core RFAs went up after that point, and yet with normal progression of the cap, we'd still be in the low 40% range with our core four right now, which is not historically unique. Having elite players, and having big cap expenditures on a smaller potion of the team and supporting them with cheaper depth has a ton of prior history of success. Getting the amount of impact that we get out of the portion of the cap our top players take up has a lot of prior history of success.
They had a players only closed door meeting a few games back that did nothing. They should have moved on from Sullivan ages ago but he's loved by the new ownership. I've also heard that Crosby, Malkin and Letang all wanted him back and didn't want to start over with a new coach.
Well said. I'm not a Dubas supporter, but whoever took that job in Pittsburgh was going to have their hands tied to a certain extent considering players and ownership had no desire to rebuild.
Yep. If they miss the playoffs he can simply say:
It always seemed likely if people looked at the schedule a month ago. The Leafs are in the middle of a butter soft part of their schedule, and to their credit they are piling on points, just as Boston did at the start of the season with its schedule. The Leafs' schedule turns more difficult as we get to March, but my belief is that by that point they will have already put up enough points to pass Boston.
It should be an interesting race between him and McDavid for the Ross.
Yep and the season was only 20 games done at that point and the Bruins were going to cool off as well. Every team gets into a slump at some point.
If people think the Leafs have injuries, the Islanders are without their two most dependable defensemen in Pelech and Pulock, both with long-term injuries. I think we will see that team start to stumble pretty badly. The Leafs should be able to shut them down pretty well on Monday.
Gregor has half the goals his 4 bottom 6 adds have combined. And that's with stuck with Reaves and previously dead version of Kampf
As with the team in general, give Samsonov some time and I think we will see his save percentage climb well above .900. Everyone here is so painfully quick to write people off.
Apparently Pens fans are ripping Sullivan saying he's holding back Karlsson and the entire team.
Sounds just like what went on here. I honestly cant believe this dude wanted Karlsson on the Leafs... Cant even rack my brain around what this team would look like adding another 10m+ guy. Would have certainly made re-signing Nylander this season even more difficult.
Theyre not going to be serious playoffs threats for the next 5-10 years most likely. But its probably hard to pass up like 50m.
This sounds like usual "his hands were/are tied" to allow him to make all the bad moves he wants. Whatever the situation, his plan was no good.
