Pre-Game Talk: Leafs VS Kraken | October 31st 7pm TSN

[ULF_55]

See what happens, sure won't miss Lil come playoffs, that's a stone cold fact. Also, we will add at the deadline, like every year.

Why bother throwing assets away again?
They do every year ... rinse repeat.

 

[DarkKnight]

You’ll be the first person cursing Timmins when he’s coughing up the puck in a playoff OT game or scoring on his own net like Benoit.

Nah, Benoit was good last playoffs. Timmins is a place holder.

 

[RoadWarrior]

Why bother throwing assets away again?
They do every year ... rinse repeat.

Exactly. Now they’ll trade another first rounder for a deadline rental D in a desperate bid to win a playoff round.

 

[DarkKnight]

Why bother throwing assets away again?
They do every year ... rinse repeat.

Every playoff team does. Hardly unique to the Leafs. With this stupid cap world, it's one of the few times you can move stuff, I just expect it. Tre kept our first last year, I like that. This third is capital.

 

[RoadWarrior]

Nah, Benoit was good last playoffs. Timmins is a place holder.

Benoit was barely hanging on. The guy can’t move the puck. Physically he held his own but killed the puck every time. He was smart enough to lay a few big hits to endear himself to management though.

 

[Aashir Mallik]

Exactly. Now they’ll trade another first rounder for a deadline rental D in a desperate bid to win a playoff round.

and yet every player we get is better than liljegren come playoff time

2021: Giordano, Lyubuhskin
2022: McCabe, Schenn
2023: Lyubuhskin, Edmundson

Schenn costed a 3rd
Lyubushkin 1.0 costed a 2nd + Cap dump
Lyubushkin 2.0 costed a 3rd + 6th
Edmundson costed a 3rd

that isn't a crop of elite defencemen, for the most part it is steady, reliable, and PHYSICAL bottom pairers. So basically Liljegren was worth what most of those guys were, and yet with the way liljegren un-developed, if you asked me if I wanted 2024 liljegren or any of those guys come playoff time, I'm taking every single one of those guys.

 

[weems]

Watching the world series and the Dodgers manager Dave Roberts had a great quote.

Said, we've always been talented but haven't always been tough.
Said this year they learned how to fight, this year they learned how to brawl.

Hopefully we see that this season with the Leafs.