Confirmed with Link: Leafs sign D Oliver Ekman-Larsson (4 years, $3.5M AAV)

[CabanaBoy5]

Our old fart failed experiments gave us a skewed perspective on the other old farts in the league.

OEL, Tanev and Pacioretty have been welcome additions thus far. Glad to have them aboard for this seasons run.

Great point. I'm thinking which old farts got off to good starts and I'm stumped. Not Foligno, Thornton, and Marleau. Maybe O'Reilly and Spezza? On defence, Giordano was good right from the start. But we've failed on as many as we hit on.

 

[Puckstuff]

OEL has some bite to his game and has some decent size and defensive positional awareness. That is nice to see for a guy who is known more as an offensive threat. I can see why he was considered a #1 d-man for the Coyotes.

 

[Roo]

Who else remembers that puck carry at full speed into the NJ zone last night during one of our PPs? No pass back bs, just did it himself… elite puck movement right there.

 

[dubplatepressure]

Really like his game so far. All 3 FLA signings are solid so far.

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Everyone who has posted here needs to read their previous posts in this thread.
Some bad hot takes for sure.

Tre > HF here so far.

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Here is your PP1 defenseman....

nice.

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Treliving rebuilding the Leafs defense.

nice.

I really don’t think this is a bad signing. Time will tell. We needed someone with some puck skills and a shot from the backend

Nice.

He will put up 50+ points this year, and provide 2/3 pairing level defense.

Nice.

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Everyone who has posted here needs to read their previous posts in this thread.
Some bad hot takes for sure.

How do you do that ?


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replace member name and HamiltonNHL. (and then click the search button).

For people with a space in their name you need to put a + sign in place of the space.

If my name had a space (Hamilton NHL):

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Tre > HF here so far.

 

[Puckstuff]

Everyone who has posted here needs to read their previous posts in this thread.
Some bad hot takes for sure.

How do you do that ?


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replace member name and HamiltonNHL. (and then click the search button).

Tre > HF here so far.

I've manually done a few users: (First page hot takes).

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Enjoy.

It’s been 2 games man… he’s not even through 0.5 % of his contract. A little early to judge this deal on either end. He’s looking good though.

 

[HamiltonNHL]

It’s been 2 games man… he’s not even through 0.5 % of his contract. A little early to judge this deal on either end. He’s looking good though.

hard to argue.

I did mention that the first time I posted. Looks like it missed the final draft.

Tre clearly saw what happened last year: Rielly is looking slow and regressing. He needed to try something.

 

[4thline]

I feel like your sugar coating these comments pretty heavily.

"Top pair for half the season" - 5th in TOI per game, 1.5 minutes less than 4th

The thing about TOI *per game* is that it only takes into account games that players play. When Everyone was playing, he was Florida's 5. But they weren't all playing a lot of the time. Resulting a year where OEL had more 5v5 minutes with one of Forsling or Montour in Florida's top 4 than he did on the bottom pair with Kulikov

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Leafs needed a stay at home guy for Rielly.

Why are people impressed with his offence.

NOT TO MENTION: he gets burned alot pinching.

he scores once every 10 games.

none in the last playoffs. Skates like a Dad now.

 

[rumman]

Are they or is one? And now we know you don't know what you talk about and if did. Accurate is not one of your traits.


I think he was overvalued which made the fall looks worse.

He earned his cheque imo until the latter half of the 2022/2023 season, it was all downhill from there…….