Crosscrease14
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The contradiction between your two statements is hilarious. If you're trolling, great job.
Confirmed with Link: Brad Treliving named new GM of the Toronto Maple Leafs
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Wtf is this. We have no less cap flexibility than we've had for the last 4 years. And we have been one of the best teams in the league over that time. Now apparently we should expect average and Treliving will be blameless?
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Now for the gold star riddle:Nice old school reference.
What does the guy riding the bomb and our depth/prospect pool have in common?
Answer:
They’re both Slim Pickens.
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I didn't like Dubas either but if you guys think he was 100% calling the shots with the Leafs. You're nuts.
Shanahan is more to blame for the horrible situation we're in than Dubas is. Yet you all give him a pass and pile the hate on Dubas.
Shanahan is more to blame for the horrible situation we're in than Dubas is. Yet you all give him a pass and pile the hate on Dubas.
If there is no reasonable signing and no trade by tomorrow. I really don’t have faith in BT either. Either he’s got no balls either like Dubas or the Shanny/MLSE infection has got to him as well
This guy is worse than Dave Nonis. How bad is this curse on this team to keep ending up with f***ing losers like these?
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Brad Treliving on his next priorities after signing John Klingberg and Ryan Reaves: "Depth scoring is a situation we want to address... We had some goals walk out the door today"
On day one of unrestricted free agency, Brad Treliving discussed the additions of Ryan Reaves and John Klingberg and the areas of the roster he wants to address as the offseason continues. What are you getting in Ryan Reaves? Treliving: I remember Billy Guerin mentioned a while back — when he...
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What are you getting in Ryan Reaves?
Treliving: I remember Billy Guerin mentioned a while back — when he brought Ryan in — that you need character on your team, and sometimes you need some characters. I think there is a presence to Ryan.
It is not about fighting and all of the rest of it. I just felt both on the ice, in our room, and around our team, we need a little bit more noise. Ryan brings that.
There is a physical presence. He can still get in on the forecheck. He makes things difficult on the opposition. It gives us a little bit of a different look on our lower lines.
We are excited to have him.
Why did you feel you needed the personality of Reaves?
Treliving: I think every team needs personality. One thing in talking with the staff and looking at this group: It is a quiet group. Bringing some personality to it… not to say we don’t have personality on our team, but I think having a presence like Ryan will be a really positive influence for us.
Three guys for a player who is 36 years old seems like a lot. What made you comfortable with the term?
Treliving: At the end of the day, you’d like them all short, but you want to get the player. They wanted him to stay in Minnesota. He was given the opportunity to speak to teams earlier. We were able to talk with him and work out a deal.
To get the player, we felt we had to go where we went to in order to get Ryan on board.
John Klingberg has had some really big years in the league. What do you hope to get out of him for the one year?
Treliving: One of the things that I look at is trying to bring a little bit more offense from the blue line. John will be one of the first ones to tell you it didn’t go exactly the way he wanted to go last year, but he is a really good player in this league.
He can move the puck. He jumps up in the play. His ability in the offensive zone, particularly the power play… He is an elite offensive player in zone. To me, he is going to bring us some more puck movement and hopefully some more production from the blue line.
How do you feel about your blue line now that you have added Klingberg?
Treliving: It is always a work in progress. John is going to bring some offense to us.
Luke was a guy we certainly had a lot of interest in bringing back. He is that big, hard defender, but it got to a level where, as I said, it’s good for Luke.
We will look at it to see if there is a way to augment it. Defense is still an area I would like to continue to look at.
I see an 18 Wheeler going off a clip I hope.
Everything needs to change.
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Honestly, that’s as much a condemnation of Tavares and his dogshit leadership ability than anything elseBrad Treliving on his next priorities after signing John Klingberg and Ryan Reaves: "Depth scoring is a situation we want to address... We had some goals walk out the door today"
On day one of unrestricted free agency, Brad Treliving discussed the additions of Ryan Reaves and John Klingberg and the areas of the roster he wants to address as the offseason continues. What are you getting in Ryan Reaves? Treliving: I remember Billy Guerin mentioned a while back — when he...
What are you getting in Ryan Reaves?
Treliving: I remember Billy Guerin mentioned a while back — when he brought Ryan in — that you need character on your team, and sometimes you need some characters. I think there is a presence to Ryan.
It is not about fighting and all of the rest of it. I just felt both on the ice, in our room, and around our team, we need a little bit more noise. Ryan brings that.
There is a physical presence. He can still get in on the forecheck. He makes things difficult on the opposition. It gives us a little bit of a different look on our lower lines.
We are excited to have him.
Why did you feel you needed the personality of Reaves?
Treliving: I think every team needs personality. One thing in talking with the staff and looking at this group: It is a quiet group. Bringing some personality to it… not to say we don’t have personality on our team, but I think having a presence like Ryan will be a really positive influence for us.
I can get over Matthews and Marner having no leadership skill, they’re young
But our beloved captain who’s in his 30s and still hasn’t learned how to be a true leader or have a commanding voice/presence? That’s bloody sad and he needs to be stripped.
I don’t get this response, I for one am glad we didn’t hand out stupid contracts today.
Play the kids, retool for a year and play the trade market. Give Knies and Robertson play time. Play Holmberg, Steeves and McMann. We need to get younger and faster.
Pitt is gonna be a playoff team and I’m not a Dubasite. Crosby is that dude and can play with anyone. They’ll figure it out. Jerry is even a fraction better they’ll be in the hunt!
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Definitely need to get faster.
My response was essentially that I haven’t seen such a suspect start to a Leafs GM’s career since JFJ reign
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Things would have to be pretty dire before I would ever miss Kyle Dubas. The guy who inherited everything and burned it to the ground. I'm not saying he didn't make any good moves, he did, but he inherited a young stacked roster and won a single playoff round and left the team far worse than the one he inherited. I'm glad he's screwing up Pitt now.
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I wasn't all that excited when Treliving joined and I'm not that excited now...
But you strip the GM Brand off, is a July 1 of Reaves, Klingberg, TBD any different quality-wise than the usual Dubas summer that might look like:
Mrazek, Ritchie, Kase, Kampf, Bunting
Thornton, Simmonds, Vesey, Bogosian
Murray, Giordano, Aston-Reese, Samsonov, Aube-Kubel
We're just missing a couple of later in the summer money ball adds.
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