Bruins vs Isles

[binop7]

Dubai’s took over a 105pt team that was loaded with young controllable talent, lots of draft picks and a ton of cap room.

And he’s been pissing that wealth of assets away ever since he took over as GM.

Aside from wasting all the cap space, the majority of his trades have been a total waste of assets.

Dealing Kadri for Kerfoot and Barrie - - then letting Barrie walk for NOTHING. That’s a textbook waste of assets all around. Bad trade to begin with and only made worse after Barrie walked.

Dealing a 1st plus two 4th founders for a damaged goods plugger like Foligno was a colossal waste.

He gave them absolutely NOTHING in the regular season or the playoffs and he’s almost assuredly gone in the off season.

What a waste. That’s so Dubas.

I was a Kadri fan, but I still don't like that move. Kerfoot doesn't play in the top 9 of a Stanley cup team imo.

 

[SeaOfBlue]

I was a Kadri fan, but I still don't like that move. Kerfoot doesn't play in the top 9 of a Stanley cup team imo.

He'd play on the 3rd line of most Cup contending teams. That's where he plays here too.

Tampa employs Gourde to fill a very similar role with a similar amount of effectiveness, and Gourde makes 1.5 mill more on the cap.

Excellent PKer too. Amazing that he was able to pick that up like nothing after not doing it in Colorado (or even in Toronto before the playoffs last year) and become one of the best in the NHL. Speaks to his high IQ level.

Obviously you can't have too many 5'10" guys, but the Leafs could use more guys like him.

 

[Kurtz]

Mcellney sucks this year but im 2019 he was a great 1B and 2020 a solid backup of him was an elite backup. Your just typing to defend dibas at this point if your not fact checking

Sparks 2018/2019

.891 and 3.15 GAA --> 20 GP

Sparks 2019/ 2020 (vegas)

.857 and a 4.38 GAA in less than 30 mins of Playing time

He's become a career crappy goalie since we brought him up and let Mcbackup leave

Mcback up stats 2018/2019

.912 and a 2.58 GAA in 33 games played

Mcbackup in 2019/2020
.906 and 2.89 GAA in 18 games played

That poster is correct we wasted about 1.5 years with Sparks + Hutch as Mcbackup was comfortably better than both in 2019 and 2020 and only when we got Campbell did we get someone better than him for the backup portion.

We ended up waiting 1.5 years for Campbell and Sparks hurt us heavily in 2019 costing us a shot at 2nd in the division while Hutch last year cost us a chance to be higher than 8th seed in the east at the time of covid with him costing us games and a chance to move above the isles and get the Panthers in round 1

Hutch had similar numbers to Mcbackup 2 years ago. Campbell better numbers last year.

Regardless, do you think we win a playoff round with Mcbackup? Because if not, who cares which mediocre backup we had back then?

And if we're going to play the alternative timeline game, then perhaps having Mcbackup prevents us from acquiring Campbell. Then we'd really be up shit's creek this year and next.

Ultimately, it's a really petty thing to ride Dubas about. He's committed far more serious mistakes.

 

[binop7]

He'd play on the 3rd line of most Cup contending teams. That's where he plays here too.

Tampa employs Gourde to fill a very similar role with a similar amount of effectiveness, and Gourde makes 1.5 mill more on the cap.

Excellent PKer too. Amazing that he was able to pick that up like nothing after not doing it in Colorado (or even in Toronto before the playoffs last year) and become one of the best in the NHL. Speaks to his high IQ level.

Obviously you can't have too many 5'10" guys, but the Leafs could use more guys like him.

His offensive instincts are lacking imo. He has great energy, and overall is a good player, but I don't think he's better than Gourde. Gourde is actually a pretty good goal scorer and has good instincts around the net. He's a 50-60pt guy for the most part. Whereas kerfoot is a 40-45pt guy. That is a decent gap there.

 

[SeaOfBlue]

His offensive instincts are lacking imo. He has great energy, and overall is a good player, but I don't think he's better than Gourde. Gourde is actually a pretty good goal scorer and has good instincts around the net. He's a 50-60pt guy for the most part. Whereas kerfoot is a 40-45pt guy. That is a decent gap there.

Gourde hasn't been a 50-60 point guy since being taken off out of the top 6. He's produced maybe a little bit more than Kerfoot, but not 1.5 mill more. Kerfoot would likely be pushing 50 points if he played with Matthews/Marner the entire year. Or even Tavares/Nylander.

Regardless, 40-45 points is a top 9 player on a Cup contending team... Especially with Kerfoot's defensive value.

 

[hamzarocks]

Hutch had similar numbers to Mcbackup 2 years ago. Campbell better numbers last year.

Regardless, do you think we win a playoff round with Mcbackup? Because if not, who cares which mediocre backup we had back then?

And if we're going to play the alternative timeline game, then perhaps having Mcbackup prevents us from acquiring Campbell. Then we'd really be up shit's creek this year and next.

Ultimately, it's a really petty thing to ride Dubas about. He's committed far more serious mistakes.

Honestly dubas biggest mistakes were the goaltending fiasco, the contract negotiations and now in hindsight the foligno deal after the Habs embarrassment

He's been good on a lot of things just hasn't built a roster which has strong chemistry as of yet.

The Kadri move while bad value just now with Kadri costing the avs and showing no restraint was a deal that had to be made

The Marleau deal was a direct result of him overpaying the core and being forced to pay the 1st to trade of Marleau

The Campbell trade was really solid but I see a proactive GM still making that move as we would realize that Freddy is a 1 year rental and Campbell could be gotten to test how capable he is last year for potentialy starters role with Mcbackup as the third option. Having mcbackup would've probably given us confidence to sell andersen after cbj loss and get 2 2nds giving some picks

Dubas has been busy fixing holes which mostly came from his first off-season. He's been quite solid besides that year but his decisions then have had a triple triple effect and led to us making moves to cover for 2019 off-season.

Overall he still has this year to figure things out and find a way to build a team which can win 16 playoff games

 

[deprw]

Unbelievable how much egg you have on your face.

Garrett Sparks is a minor league goalie. This is obvious. Garrett Sparks was deployed as the tank commander to finish last and draft Auston Matthews. Great job, soldier!

Problem arose when Kyle Dubas couldn’t make the distinction between a big leaguer and a minor leaguer thus created a problem for himself in goal with another bad decision that took a season and a half to fix.

Garrett Sparks was best minor league goalie and drafted by us. I think there was internal competition, that went shambles because of waiwers. I'll still take AHL goalie of the year before journeyman McElhinney, if you know anything about goalies McElhinneys fundamentals are pretty bad and killer for his team in the playoffs. Sparks was Calder Cup champion raised by our organization. Talk about competition and player development if you in the first place get rid of that guy. Motivating for our players?

This isn't kindergarten, but Sparks had paid his dues. He failed. That's it. Zaitsev in some way failed. Marleau in the end failed. GMs make bad decisions. That was one from Dubas, but he had a good reason to do it.

If you want to discuss about failures. Marner's contract was one.

 

[sparxx87]

Garrett Sparks was best minor league goalie and drafted by us. I think there was internal competition, that went shambles because of waiwers. I'll still take AHL goalie of the year before journeyman McElhinney, if you know anything about goalies McElhinneys fundamentals are pretty bad and killer for his team in the playoffs. Sparks was Calder Cup champion raised by our organization. Talk about competition and player development if you in the first place get rid of that guy. Motivating for our players?

This isn't kindergarten, but Sparks had paid his dues. He failed. That's it. Zaitsev in some way failed. Marleau in the end failed. GMs make bad decisions. That was one from Dubas, but he had a good reason to do it.

If you want to discuss about failures. Marner's contract was one.

AHL goalie of the year didn’t play a game that could translate the the NHL and scouts were saying it all along.

Dubas either couldn’t spot this obvious difference between big league and minor league, or he let his bias for a player on his Marlies win the job.

Either way is a pretty serious indictment on his decision making, and another bad one that cost the team over a year and a half of a serviceable backup.

That stuff just doesn’t happen with anyone else but Dubas.

 

[sparxx87]

Gourde hasn't been a 50-60 point guy since being taken off out of the top 6. He's produced maybe a little bit more than Kerfoot, but not 1.5 mill more. Kerfoot would likely be pushing 50 points if he played with Matthews/Marner the entire year. Or even Tavares/Nylander.

Regardless, 40-45 points is a top 9 player on a Cup contending team... Especially with Kerfoot's defensive value.

Gourde is a much better player.

Kerfoot looses to many battles and doesn’t use his body. He’s not aggressive or gritty enough and lacking the size and reach you’d like, and it’s even less effective for a player that doesn’t initiate contact to win pucks or position.

On the spreadsheet, maybe. If I’m coaching, what are my other options? Hard no for me.

Not even close to Gourde.

 

[All Mod Cons]

Myself? No doubt about it.

But 50% of this board? I don't think so. We'd have 90% roster turnover year over year. And no coaches.

If you're concerned about roster turnover every year, our GM might not be the guy for you. Because of his disregard for the cap, we have a steady stream of analytical darling cast offs, over the hill vets, and junk European FAs turning up every year.

 

[harvestglen]

There's a conversation to be had about what has and hasn't worked thus far, but I don't think it's nearly as obvious the Leafs would have any more success had Lou stayed. They got blown out in 3 of 7 with a 105 point team under Lou's watch. Shit happens. I sure as hell wouldn't be remotely confident that the Islanders roster would have any success here if you swapped places with them either.

 

[FraumBallard]

You mean the way Sweet Lou tossed Devon Toews overboard? No, Sweet Lou would never do that...

You Lou worshipers would be losing your minds if Dubas gave away a player of Toews caliber like Lou did lmao

LDS.
Get Over It.