Confirmed with Link: Lyubushkin traded to Leafs

[Zybalto]

Boosh is OK and the Price is right. Need one more RD IMO.

 

[LaPlante94]

People acting like he's gonna be playing 20+ mins a night. McCabe, Benoit, Brodie and Liljegren are most likely gonna be playing more minutes. He's literally here just to be the anchor when Riellys on the ice and to break up cycles and clear the front of the net.

 

[All Mod Cons]

This card looks exactly like Benoit's did.

Can you tell me what this means the player will play like for the Leafs?

 

[The Masters]

Meh deal. Feels like plan C

 

[DarkKnight]

The same people hated both the Schenn deal, the Bogosian deal and the Benoit deal.

So it bodes well then .

 

[PromisedLand]

Whats the cap hit at 75% retained?

 

[Fogelhund]

Similar charts were presented for Benoit because he played on the Ducks' shit team

just saying.... gotta be careful when reading the charts without context

True... but then we've all seen Boosh play. We know his card matches the eye test... at least it did last time.

and Benoit's chart was better, by a margin. Though not great either.

 

[stakesishigh]

Don't like this trade. Not a good player.

 

[Confucius]

I liked Boosh but that's an awful deal. No way your trading a 3rd and 6th to upgrade your bottom pair

I agree with you, but the Toronto way is draft shmaft

 

[smitty10]

So what are our pairings now?

Rielly-Brodie
McCabe-Liljegren
Benoit-Lyubushkin

Still work to me done. Need at least 1 top 4 guy.

 

[DarkKnight]

Keefe used him as a 13:55 number guy last playoff. Can you see him any higher in the lineup today? I think what it does do is make it too crowded to add another D tho so looks like the playoff boost.

Think he swapped out a few shifts to give Reilly more minutes right? I'm fine with that.

 

[ACC1224]

I don't see many alternatives at the moment. A team also likely wouldn't seek double retention on a player they didn't have some fairly serious plans for.

Save cap wherever you can.

 

[PromisedLand]

True... but then we've all seen Boosh play. We know his card matches the eye test... at least it did last time.

and Benoit's chart was better, by a margin. Though not great either.

I think the Leafs' as a team are playing different defensively compared to the past in that context this may work out. We need some shit disturbers in front of the net and now that he has Benoit, McCabe who will lay out bodies that is just going to add another element to the team

 

[Zybalto]

So what are our pairings now?

Rielly-Brodie
McCabe-Liljegren
Benoit-Lyubushkin

Still work to me done. Need at least 1 top 4 guy.

Boosh played with Rielly last time out right?

 

[ER89]

Shouldn’t the question be, why isn’t morgan propping those players up if he’s supposed to be a #1 dman?

that.... thats not how it works?

 

[Dog]

Okay? Now get a real defenseman geeze. I mean sure probably better than nothing but we need like a Weegar type rh defensemen who can help not be 6th defenseman type player.

 

[Egghead1999]

A weird deal, Leafs have cap space for him, so why does Tre waste a 6th to save some cap? is another deal coming??

 

[Burnie97]

We need size, we need a guy to box out the front of the net, we need a guy who owns the boards, we need a right hand. He can't pass, he's limited no doubt but there's no question he adds something to the group. He beat out Holl and Lil to start the playoffs for us, it wasn't without merit. Is he Tanev? Nope. But we're also screwed asset wise, so I'll take this as a good depth D add.

Yup

wasting picks for realistically jack shit.

yeah the third and sixth are nothing but like........ so dumb

Being mad for no reason here. It's depth for zero.

Also earlier today called this would probably be the add even if you hate it.

Treliving isn't dubas.

 

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[ACC1224]

I mean I think this was probably happening regardless, I don't think this happened because Mitch played defense tonight.

But at the same time Mitch played defense tonight, I love Mitch but let's not do that again, EVER again they need at least 1 more guy.

When Gio went head first into the boards and didn’t come back it wasn’t much of a surprise that they immediately closed the deal.

 

[yubbers]

In an 11 year career, Morgan Rielly's best D partners are TJ Brodie playing his off side, Ron Hainsey, Luke Schenn for 30 games and Ilya f***ing Lyubushkin. What a joke

Had a career year with Hainsey. Then Dubas waived him to grab Ceci! LOL

 

[ER89]

I recall his advanced stats, then watching him join camp late and be the stinkiest ass I've ever seen, when we called him up I was terrified. He's been amazing and is still getting better, we'd be f***ed without his emergence this season McCabe/Benoit are sssoolllid.

legit ive only counted maybe 2 games where benoit has been bad. Like that's sick.

 

[DarkKnight]

If you're in a tizzy, blame golden boy for leaving us with nothing. Listening to a former pro scout today say we're completely handicapped for trades, no picks and one of the worst prospect pools in the league, literally two guys and two middling nothing prospects.

 

[hamzarocks]

Shouldn’t the question be, why isn’t morgan propping those players up if he’s supposed to be a #1 dman?

Hainsey had a resurgence with Rielly

Schenn was great with rielly and got a 2.8M contract after that

Hunwick was a 6/7D

Robidas played I think a little with rielly when Rielly was a rookie

Brodie and Rielly have been good for 2.5 of the 4 years they played together

Gleason played in either 2014 or 2015 when Rielly was rookie/second year during Kessel era and he was soon out the NHL

Brodie has been the only top 4D Rielly plays with and they have been good for the most part.

Slavin has had Pesce in his prime or Hamilton

Pietrangelo had a Parayako or Boumeester

Hanafin has Andersson or Weegar at the moment

Q. Hughes has Hronek

Makar has Toews

Point is Rielly is a 1D who hasnt ever had a partner who can carry the load bedies him like a lot of other elite D-man get

 

[ER89]

Yup

Being mad for no reason here. It's depth for zero.

Also earlier today called this would probably be the add even if you hate it.

Treliving isn't dubas.

a third isn't nothing.

If it is just get another nothing pick for laggesson then or timmins in the off season.