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With the Benn and Mete signings, the Marlies should be set for SPC's. There is some room for some more depth guys at forward and defense, but those should be AHL contracts.

Leafs still need a 4C, and of course we would need to replace Holl and Kerfoot if they are moved.
 
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Fogelhund said:
Who do you believe we should have signed as #8/9 depth defensemen? Are there teams with better 8/9 guys with NHL experience?
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Who says they are #8/9 depth defensemen? You? Also, do we have to under the shite parameters the current GM has limited us to? Or, do the posters that have been against pretty much every move over the last 3 years, get to go back?
 
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Darn he was on my wish list as a gamble with a lot of offensive upside.

Leafs can't afford $3.5 mil though unless they had traded Kerfoot for futures and no cap return.
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Kerfoot I think should be moved. But he does more for your team all the way around than Strome does. I'd keep Kerfoot over Strome.
 
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Who says they are #8/9 depth defensemen? You? Also, do we have to under the shite parameters the current GM has limited us to? Or, do the posters that have been against pretty much every move over the last 3 years, get to go back?
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Sure. They are our new top pair. :laugh:

Are you seriously trying to form a coherent discussion where these guys are currently not our 8/9?
 
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I wouldn't mind grabbing a center on the cheap right now

A Statzny or Tierney type
At least if Nylander and Tavares can't play together we can split them up and give them somebody to play with

Bunting Matthews Marner
Kerfoot Tavares
Robertson Statzny Nylander
 
Kiwi said:
I wouldn't mind grabbing a center on the cheap right now

A Statzny or Tierney type
At least if Nylander and Tavares can't play together we can split them up and give them somebody to play with

Bunting Matthews Marner
Kerfoot Tavares
Robertson Statzny Nylander
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Yeah the forward depth needs at the very least one more addition. Right now it's thin. Center depth is a little iffy.

It needs more, but I do like the idea of having a few young players getting a look.

Gonna be interesting to see what happens.
 
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uncleben said:
Perfectly happy with Mete and Benn

We needed some depth guys. Off our main roster, we had Dahlstrom and the Hollowell was our next "seasoned" veteran.

Benn is a nice addition (as depth), and Mete is still surprisingly young, too
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Yeah I remember last year Dahlstrom and Rubin came up. Neither were anywhere close to NHL players

Good to have some NHL experience depth for relief purposes
 
fahad203 said:
Yeah I remember last year Dahlstrom and Rubin came up. Neither were anywhere close to NHL players

Good to have some NHL experience depth for relief purposes
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Dahlstrom was actually NHL level when he played. But man, he was so horrible in the preseason that I couldn't understand why they kept him, yet when he was called up, the team didn't miss a beat.
 
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Dubas adds to Maple Leafs' outer edges, signing defencemen Mete and Benn

The signings bring the Maple Leafs to nine NHL defencemen on their roster.
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Maple Leafs general manager Kyle Dubas was saying on Wednesday that the Leafs would be in the hunt to add depth pieces in the remainder of the off-season.

Two spots on the blue line, in that regard, have been spoken for.

The Leafs announced on Thursday night the signings of defencemen Victor Mete and Jordie Benn. Each signed a one-year contract for $750,000 US.

Mete was not qualified by the Ottawa Senators, making him a free agent. Benn was an unrestricted free agent after spending last season with the Minnesota Wild.

The signings bring the Leafs to nine NHL defencemen on the roster: Morgan Rielly, Jake Muzzin, TJ Brodie, Mark Giordano, Justin Holl, Rasmus Sandin, Timothy Liljegren, Mete and Benn.

Sandin, a restricted free agent, remains without a contract. When he spoke to reporters on Wednesday, Dubas said he didn’t think the Sandin talks represented a “complex situation.”

While it remains to be determined how much each new defenceman will get into the lineup, Benn, a native of Victoria, B.C., and Mete, a native of the Toronto suburb of Woodbridge, would bring different elements in the wake of injuries.

A veteran of 595 National Hockey League games with five teams, the 34-year-old Benn might add some of the physicality that the Leafs covet. Some of that approach was lost when Ilya Lyubushkin signed with the Buffalo Sabres.

The 24-year-old Mete, meanwhile, will make his third stop with a Canadian NHL team after he was drafted by the Montreal Canadiens in the fourth round in 2016 and spent three-plus seasons with the Habs before he was claimed off waivers by Ottawa in April 2021.

For Mete, skating is an asset, but that has not translated into offence in the NHL. In 236 career games, Mete has five goals and 38 assists.

Both Mete and Benn shoot left, and of the nine Leafs blueliners, only Holl and Liljegren are right-handed shots.

Still, the additions will fuel speculation that Holl and his $2-milion US cap hit for one more season will be traded. There is similar speculation regarding Muzzin, who has two years with an AAV of $5.625-million remaining. Though Muzzin struggled through last season, trading a veteran with his presence, both on the ice and in the dressing room, would be foolish. As it is, Muzzin would have to waive his no-trade clause to be moved. Holl has a limited no-trade clause.
 
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I'd be very interested in trying to acquire Michael McLeod from New Jersey. Given the wingers he was most often on the ice with (Vesey, Studenic, Koukkanen and Bastien), that he started more in the D zone than any other NJ player, that he outscored each of his wingers, that he hits, skates well, PKs, had a 57% success rate at the dot, and is 24 on his last year of a 975k deal leaving him an RFA, I think he'd be an interesting addition to a 3rd line in Toronto if you could match him with appropriate wingers.
 
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The ducks seems like a natural fit with Holl. They need another righty and have a lot of picks. I’d hope for one of their seconds next year.

Seattle too if they don’t sign Klingberg
 
SprDaVE said:
Yeah the forward depth needs at the very least one more addition. Right now it's thin. Center depth is a little iffy.

It needs more, but I do like the idea of having a few young players getting a look.

Gonna be interesting to see what happens.
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I think it's going to be easier running our young wingers with experienced centers beside them

I'd have no problem running Robertson and Steeves/Anderson, (Knies when he leaves school) with a Tierney Statsny type on a sheltered 3rd line
 
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ToneDog said:
Of course Bunkis has inside information. He works for the same company as Friedman and other insiders and talks to insiders daily. Bunkis said it this morning. It is not the first time this has come up.

So I am supposed to believe that Lily fanboys on this board know more than Bunkis who said it on his morning radio show? I will ask again, what evidence is there that debunks the talk that Leafs offered Lily and Kings wanted Durzi. If you have none, I suggest you give it up or take it up with Bunkis.
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No one knows who will be better in the future. But Lilly has been better in the AHL and anyone who watched them this year who thinks Durzi was better doesn’t know hockey.
 
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