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Confirmed with Link: Leafs bring back Malgin on a 1 year deal, $750k

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Some of you are really losing your minds over Malgin. It's not that big of a deal. He was great in pre-season, earned a spot, had a good first game, had forgettable couple games afterwards. He won't be the first or last minimum league player to do so.

He will probably give the Leafs plenty of good depth of skill and speed through the season.
 
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cyris said:
Yeah let’s pretend people haven’t been complaining about him since the moment he was re-signed.
There were people on this board saying the only reason he was in camp was because of Dubas’s arrogance and such.
No one is complaining about him being taken out of the lineup, plenty of people were complaining about him being in the lineup at all.
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The part people forget, he was here before and didn’t even get a point. So ya, you can have a predisposed opinion of the guy’s game, and that’s why I wasn’t really buying in to extrapolating first line minutes against AHL talent, playing pre season pond hockey, as instructive.

I take your point though.
 
DarkKnight said:
The part people forget, he was here before and didn’t even get a point. So ya, you can have a predisposed opinion of the guy’s game, and that’s why I wasn’t really buying in to extrapolating first line minutes against AHL talent, playing pre season pond hockey, as instructive.

I take your point though.
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I understand that. I don’t think ultimately that he is an NHL player myself.
I just don’t get the people who refused to even give him a chance.
 
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One injury and he's back...good depth piece, but Robertson is better. I'd like to see this...

Bunting Matthews Marner
Robertson Nylander Malgin
Kerfoot Tavares Jarnkrok
ZAR Kampf NAK
Engvall Simmonds

Time to start giving Nylander some center duties.
 
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A1LeafNation said:
One injury and he's back...good depth piece, but Robertson is better. I'd like to see this...

Bunting Matthews Marner
Robertson Nylander Malgin
Kerfoot Tavares Jarnkrok
ZAR Kampf NAK
Engvall Simmonds

Time to start giving Nylander some center duties.
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It’s an important point, as we will have to replace JTs position in the next two years iirc.
 
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The Podium said:
He earned a spot because of waiver considerations, because he performed in camp.

Waiver considerations were a factor, but if he doesn’t have a strong camp, he doesn’t earn that spot.
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I disagree. If he totally tanks in pre season he doesn’t get the spot but he was just ok so they gave him the spot. Dubas is also trying to get anything he can out of that awful trade
 
Racer88 said:
I disagree. If he totally tanks in pre season he doesn’t get the spot but he was just ok so they gave him the spot. Dubas is also trying to get anything he can out of that awful trade
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I think it has more to do with being within $4 of the cap ceiling to maximize LTIR room, than it did anything to do with Dubas trying to maximize the return of the trade. Robertson makes 40k more than Malgin, so the dollars don’t work with Robertson over Malgin.

As been repeated 100 million times, Dubas has cut ties with his mistakes quicker than any GM in Maple Leafs history, why would Malgin be any different when he is the easiest of his mistakes to drop?
 
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Racer88 said:
I disagree. If he totally tanks in pre season he doesn’t get the spot but he was just ok so they gave him the spot. Dubas is also trying to get anything he can out of that awful trade
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Dude, come on. He tied for the team lead in scoring in ps.
He’s still playing a good 3 zone responsible game.
If it was all about trade optics, the FO would have forced the issue in either 20-21 or 21-22.
I give Malgin full marks for coming back to this market and facing these kinds of positions head on.
 
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So obvious it wasn’t going to work…

It’s strange how leaf fans keep saying they have such good depth….when your “depth” is malgin, NAK, ZAR, Mete, Benn, Clifford, Simmonds….you don’t have good depth.
 
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Racer88 said:
I disagree. If he totally tanks in pre season he doesn’t get the spot but he was just ok so they gave him the spot. Dubas is also trying to get anything he can out of that awful trade
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If he fades out and gets traded/gets sent to the Marlies/goes back to Europe in a month then so be it, but he was better than just okay in camp. He earned his spot to start the season.
 
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NewEraGM said:
So obvious it wasn’t going to work…

It’s strange how leaf fans keep saying they have such good depth….when your “depth” is malgin, NAK, ZAR, Mete, Benn, Clifford, Simmonds….you don’t have good depth.
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mainly a revolving door of cast-offs and cheap reclamation projects
 
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The Podium said:
I think it has more to do with being within $4 of the cap ceiling to maximize LTIR room, than it did anything to do with Dubas trying to maximize the return of the trade. Robertson makes 40k more than Malgin, so the dollars don’t work with Robertson over Malgin.

As been repeated 100 million times, Dubas has cut ties with his mistakes quicker than any GM in Maple Leafs history, why would Malgin be any different when he is the easiest of his mistakes to drop?
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They could have just given ZAR less money...

I doubt he was going to refuse to sign by getting 800k over 840k.
 
DarkKnight said:
Why is it “hate” and “vitriol“ for noticing he was invisible and couldn’t even register a shot his last three games. So it’s a jihad against a player for simply watching what he’s contributing and noting how he looked? Can we stop with hyperbole, seems like his backers are the one’s over stating, for myself I was just watching him underwhelm and wishing we give the kid a shot, if that’s the case. And how did that work out too? Hate lol.
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Because you weren't admiring his amazing preseason god dangit!
 
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The Podium said:
Dubas has cut ties with his mistakes quicker than any GM in Maple Leafs history,
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Really? He wanted to re-sign Foligno, he held onto Muzzin, signed Simmonds for 2 years, signed an injury prone goalie and goes out and gets another one, gave Marchment little chance but every opportunity to guys like Malgin and Petan, kept Thornton and let him play high up in the lineup, and his overpayments and loyalty to the core means we have a revolving 3rd and 4th line with budget players. Not only keeps Keefe but sings his praises.
 
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Tuttle said:
Really? He wanted to re-sign Foligno, he held onto Muzzin, signed Simmonds for 2 years, signed an injury prone goalie and goes out and gets another one, gave Marchment little chance but every opportunity to guys like Malgin and Petan, kept Thornton and let him play high up in the lineup, and his overpayments and loyalty to the core means we have a revolving 3rd and 4th line with budget players. Not only keeps Keefe but sings his praises.
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What exactly is the examples of Dubas "cutting ties" fast? Trading a complete dud in Mrazek? Not re-signing guys he clearly can't afford?
Wow what a cutthroat businessmen!
 
IPS said:
Because you weren't admiring his amazing preseason god dangit!
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Playing pond hockey against scrubs, receiving top line minutes, wasn’t exactly something I felt comfortable extrapolating. He looks identical to the last time, good skill set, decent worker, defensively meh and doesn’t win pucks, a tweener who has value but doesn’t quite fit. Good depth though, maybe he sticks around. Doesn’t look like a playoff type guy either.
 
Tuttle said:
Really? He wanted to re-sign Foligno, he held onto Muzzin, signed Simmonds for 2 years, signed an injury prone goalie and goes out and gets another one, gave Marchment little chance but every opportunity to guys like Malgin and Petan, kept Thornton and let him play high up in the lineup, and his overpayments and loyalty to the core means we have a revolving 3rd and 4th line with budget players. Not only keeps Keefe but sings his praises.
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Holl
 
Namikaze Minato said:
Had a good game in Anaheim, I thought. Also this was a beauty move.

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Best ES xGF% on the team outside of the top line and has the best ixG/60 on the team behind Matthews and Bunting.

Still hasn't been on the ice for a GA, and has been on the ice for 3GF (2 of them were his own goals, which means he has more than Matthews right now).

He has made some nice plays with the puck which haven't led to goals too, and hasn't made any mistakes.

At this point, he shouldn't be taken out of the lineup and should arguably be trusted to drive his own line (the 3rd line could certainly use an offensive boost). It looks like he will probably play with Holmberg and Jarnkrok on the 3rd line, but he could end up playing with Robertson or Kerfoot at some point too.

It may not be a bad idea to put him back with Nylander and Tavares either, because their 30-ish minutes together have by far been the best ES minutes Tavares and Nylander have had this year.

Tavares-Nylander with Malgin: 2GF, 0GA, 54 xGF%, 54 CF%, 50 HDCF%
Tavares-Nylander without Malgin: 1GF, 7GA, 45 xGF%, 54 CF%, 49 HDCF%
 
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