Confirmed with Link: Leafs acquire Dzingel, Lyubushkin from ARI for Ritchie, c.2nd... Dzingel on waivers &claimed
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Accruing cap space to be used in another trade might be their preference over keeping Dzingel on the NHL roster. If he clears waivers, they can call him up later on.they will drop lili as a paper transaction like they have been doing all year , they have only done it 100x already.........
what would be the point of getting dzingel if they would waive him right away ? they would have just done the ritchie+pick for lyb if they didnt want him in the first place. ..
Frankly, i see dzingel as this years gallchenuk, i expect him to get a decent shot in the lineup ..... hes got 1 month to impress and if he doesnt then they can trade/waive him at the deadline.
inthe6ix
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Yup, his hockey IQ is low and he misses the net like Phaneuf. The guy can skate.. and that's pretty much it.
Bluelines
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Parakyo cracked him pretty good on the wrist yesterday (thanks refs!), not saying this ibis why he is sitting out but that would be the obvious reason to me.
The fact we’re suggesting dropping Tavares to the third line says it all. Troubling regression since his 47 goal season.
ULF_55
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They have to hit on most of those picks, but the more spaghetti you throw against the wall the better your odds something will stick.
Their best bet is to try and get players who had front loaded contracts and little money involved.
Montreal could help them a great deal with Weber.
LeafChief
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Sandin is missing practice for cap related reasons. Dzingel is going on waivers at 2pm and Sandin will be back tomorrow.
Lyubushkin is joining the team Tuesday in Columbus. They are still figuring out his visa details to enter Canada.
Mess
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Dzingel @ $1,100,000 + Lyubushkin @ $1,350,000 = $2.45 mil OUT
vs
Ritchie @ $2,500,00 IN
For this year money IN vs money OUT balances.
The conditional 2nd is essentially for taking next years $2.5 mil on.
Why Maple Leafs' Kyle Dubas earned a clear win in the Nick Ritchie trade - Sportsnet.ca
Seldom does a hockey trade go down as an outright victory, but with the Maple Leafs locked in win-now mode, this is a fantastic bit of business by an executive who faces great obstacles in chasing the deadline’s marquee bait (Jakob Chychrun, John Klingberg, Claude Giroux, Ben Chiarot, et al.)
Let’s look at all the advantages for the Leafs in this deal.
• First on our list is Ilya Lyubushkin, hardly a household name but a desirable second-tier rental target that fits the club’s needs. (We listed Lyubushkin last month when surveying the pending UFAs the Leafs should explore.)
The 27-year-old is a boring, stay-at-home right shot having a solid campaign in relative obscurity. The 6-foot-2 Russian carries a modest $1.35-million cap hit. He kills penalties and throws hits. He skates more than 18 minutes nightly and starts the vast majority (61 per cent) of his shifts in the D-zone yet drives play forward. He was a minus-6 on a tanking team with a minus-74(!) goal differential.
Surely his metrics enticed Dubas. When Lyubushkin is on the ice at 5-on-5, the opposition averages 2.16 expected goals per 60. That's stingier than every Leafs defenceman not named Timothy Liljegren.
“Boosh is a heart-and-soul player who played hard and laid it on the line for us,” Coyotes coach André Tourigny told Craig Morgan of PHNX Sports. “He doesn’t have a bad day. He showed up every day to work. He’s a great guy and I think Leafs nation will like his work ethic and his commitment to his team.”
Lyubushkin has a career-high nine assists this season but has only scored once in 180 NHL appearances and has never touched the playoffs.
With coach Sheldon Keefe already experimenting with a split of Jake Muzzin and Justin Holl, we can see Lyubushkin getting some run with both Muzzin and Sandin down the stretch to find the best fit.
Having watched him here in Arizona,Leafs got a solid d-man. He’s responsible defensively and does have an offensive side which was underused because his partner was Chychrun. And you can’t have both pinch. I think he’ll come back to AZ,he’s a UFA.
— JT in the AZ (@thegr8juan_2) February 20, 2022
• Ryan Dzingel has been a forward in sharp decline for the past three seasons. He does, however, have two more 20-goal seasons on his résumé than Ritchie.
Dzingel is a left shot with centre experience, and Toronto had been looking to add depth in his position after losing Kirill Semyonov, Michael Amadio and Adam Brooks (twice) this season.
On an expiring deal and on his sixth team in four seasons, Dzingel should arrive hungry and inspired (think: Alex Galchenyuk), but Toronto should temper expectations.
We view Dzingel as injury insurance for the middle six’s left side, and he should have to battle his way into the lineup.
• The cap space Dubas saves will likely be more valuable than Dzingel.
Freeing up Ritchie’s $2.5 million in 2022-23 gives Dubas some fluidity to manoeuvre around Morgan Rielly’s well-deserved pay raise.
Re-signing Jack Campbell will be top priority, but the GM will also have to bump the paycheques of pending RFAs Sandin and Liljegren and consider keeping Pierre Engvall, Ilya Mikheyev and Kase — useful forwards who may be pricing themselves out of town.
Every million counts.
• That Dubas is kicking the costly portion of the trade way down the road is key.
A trade for 2025 second-rounder — kids currently aged 14 or 15 — is four entry drafts into the future.
“This is the furthest into the future draft pick traded that we've seen since CapFriendly's inception in 2015,” tweeted the website.
Who knows who’ll be running the Leafs by then?
Arizona is likely the only team that would accept a payment so deferred.
Seldom does a hockey trade go down as an outright victory, but with the Maple Leafs locked in win-now mode, this is a fantastic bit of business by an executive who faces great obstacles in chasing the deadline’s marquee bait (Jakob Chychrun, John Klingberg, Claude Giroux, Ben Chiarot, et al.)
Let’s look at all the advantages for the Leafs in this deal.
• First on our list is Ilya Lyubushkin, hardly a household name but a desirable second-tier rental target that fits the club’s needs. (We listed Lyubushkin last month when surveying the pending UFAs the Leafs should explore.)
The 27-year-old is a boring, stay-at-home right shot having a solid campaign in relative obscurity. The 6-foot-2 Russian carries a modest $1.35-million cap hit. He kills penalties and throws hits. He skates more than 18 minutes nightly and starts the vast majority (61 per cent) of his shifts in the D-zone yet drives play forward. He was a minus-6 on a tanking team with a minus-74(!) goal differential.
Surely his metrics enticed Dubas. When Lyubushkin is on the ice at 5-on-5, the opposition averages 2.16 expected goals per 60. That's stingier than every Leafs defenceman not named Timothy Liljegren.
“Boosh is a heart-and-soul player who played hard and laid it on the line for us,” Coyotes coach André Tourigny told Craig Morgan of PHNX Sports. “He doesn’t have a bad day. He showed up every day to work. He’s a great guy and I think Leafs nation will like his work ethic and his commitment to his team.”
Lyubushkin has a career-high nine assists this season but has only scored once in 180 NHL appearances and has never touched the playoffs.
With coach Sheldon Keefe already experimenting with a split of Jake Muzzin and Justin Holl, we can see Lyubushkin getting some run with both Muzzin and Sandin down the stretch to find the best fit.
Having watched him here in Arizona,Leafs got a solid d-man. He’s responsible defensively and does have an offensive side which was underused because his partner was Chychrun. And you can’t have both pinch. I think he’ll come back to AZ,he’s a UFA.
— JT in the AZ (@thegr8juan_2) February 20, 2022
• Ryan Dzingel has been a forward in sharp decline for the past three seasons. He does, however, have two more 20-goal seasons on his résumé than Ritchie.
Dzingel is a left shot with centre experience, and Toronto had been looking to add depth in his position after losing Kirill Semyonov, Michael Amadio and Adam Brooks (twice) this season.
On an expiring deal and on his sixth team in four seasons, Dzingel should arrive hungry and inspired (think: Alex Galchenyuk), but Toronto should temper expectations.
We view Dzingel as injury insurance for the middle six’s left side, and he should have to battle his way into the lineup.
• The cap space Dubas saves will likely be more valuable than Dzingel.
Freeing up Ritchie’s $2.5 million in 2022-23 gives Dubas some fluidity to manoeuvre around Morgan Rielly’s well-deserved pay raise.
Re-signing Jack Campbell will be top priority, but the GM will also have to bump the paycheques of pending RFAs Sandin and Liljegren and consider keeping Pierre Engvall, Ilya Mikheyev and Kase — useful forwards who may be pricing themselves out of town.
Every million counts.
• That Dubas is kicking the costly portion of the trade way down the road is key.
A trade for 2025 second-rounder — kids currently aged 14 or 15 — is four entry drafts into the future.
“This is the furthest into the future draft pick traded that we've seen since CapFriendly's inception in 2015,” tweeted the website.
Who knows who’ll be running the Leafs by then?
Arizona is likely the only team that would accept a payment so deferred.
nuck
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I think they added the Russian because they think he can play so a change on the right side would need to be on the second pair. As others have said this probably has to mean either Dermott or Holl are on the way out and my guess would be Holl as their numbers are close but Holl is the more expensive and Dermott allegedly plays both sides.
Lyub is right shot 18:00 a night guy with zero offense so I could not see him used in the top 4. Radio Gudas leads the league in hits by a fair margin and is himself an 18:41 guy so Lyub probably now has the same spot in terms of use. For a top 4 type move they would probably need to clear both Holl and Dermott and do some real spending to get a solid #4 because they would need to accrue some cap space if you want to upgrade on a spot where you were only spending $2M. Gudas leads the league in hits by a fair margin and this is usually 3rd pairing usage.
Manson will be back from his oblique injury in a week or two and he hits, will fight, and is not a complete offensive back hole. I can see him moved as he is a UFA and they have Drysdale in but he hasn't really been a difference maker since the injuries started in 2019. Would they risk a repeat of the Foligno deal?
If they make a deal for a better top 4 D my gut says they won't emphasize physicality because that limits their options too much. Easier to make a switch for physicality at forward where they have more bodies to move out but the Leafs under Keefe don't really play that kind of game. What they are now is likely the toughness they are bringing into the playoffs.
Stephen
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Engvall shouldn't be a controversial player. He's cheap, big, extremely athletic, can skate like the wind and can rag the puck. He plays a role and might get us 15 goals this year.
Nylander88
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Dzingel going to be placed on waivers today. Really thought they'd give him a try in Engvall's place
SeaOfBlue
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It doesn't really say anything, since putting our PPG center on the 3rd line is pretty obviously a bad move.
inthe6ix
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Sorry just not a fan, he definitely is polarizing.. if we can package him and Dermy for anything decent, we should IMO.
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Dzingel doesn't play the PK .. and I also wonder if this has to do with Sandin not practicing. Maybe they want to keep Liljegren up/in the line up.
IMO Dzingel could use the Galchenyuk treatment in terms of going down to play with the Marlies to regain some confidence.
IF Holl is staying on the 3rd pairing I'd argue Luke Schenn >>> Holl
Schenn is a better PKer
Big and Physical
Has lots of experience (including winning a cup)
Lower cap hit then Holl
However I am very happy with Lyubushkin
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This is why I was thinking, "If it is too good to be true, it usually is". If Lyub is as good as this guy says, it is a clear win for Kid Kyle. Muzzin+ for Chychrun next.
Mess
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Nick Ritchie
If rumours are correct Leafs are going to be placing Dzingel on waivers having little interest in him.
Both Ilya Lyubushkin and forward Ryan Dzingel are pending UFAs and have no long range value to Arizona and likely not Leafs either.
If Nick Ritchie was on an expiring contract and where money IN = Money OUT this trade also might still have happened only without the Leafs needing to add the conditional 2nd. IMO
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Maybe Dubas asked for Dzingel to replace Brooks on the Marlies. He might have wanted to claim Brooks and waive him to the Marlies hoping nobody claimed him. Unfortunately he was claimed so maybe they're trying the same thing with Dzingel. If he's claimed, Dubas will have to try another.
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