Niagara Icedogs 2024-25 Season, Part I

[Dog Fan]

Leafs biggest mistake letting him go.

LMFAO!!!

 

[Sam14]

Leafs biggest mistake letting him go.

TDN most likely meant “one” of the Leafs biggest mistakes (from a hard core IceDog fan perspective).

 

[frontsfan67]

TDN most likely meant “one” of the Leafs biggest mistakes (from a hard core IceDog fan perspective).

There certainly has been a lot of them lol

 

[Dog Fan]

Leafs biggest mistake letting him go.

The Toronto Maple Leafs and Boston Bruins announce a trade. Toronto receives Andrew Raycroft and Boston receives the rights to Tuukka Rask. This one always kills me...and maybe just as bad...Russ Courtnall for John Kordic. lol

 

[knowescape]

Faith Night??

Really DDD?

Oh yeah, no red flags here at all. Perhaps they could have a politics night next?

 

[Sam14]

The sad thing is, had he been smart with the assets, we could have made this a 2-3 year window.
We should have so many picks in our cupboards...

You're definitely not kidding!

This is only the short list of DD’s horrible asset management, the long list is something! Imagine if Darren had hired a qualified GM (as he was immediately told to do, by many people) to over-see hockey operations from the start, how different this franchise and STH fan base would be.

OA Matthew Papais to Niagara for 3rd and 4th
6 games later, Matthew Papais to Owen Sound for 5th.

OA Gerard Keane to Niagara for 2nd, 3rd, and sophomore D – Alec Leonard

Sophomore Andrew and Jacob Leblanc to Niagara for 2nd, 3rd, 3rd, 5th,
Following year, Andrew and Jacob Leblanc to Sarnia for 5th and 6th, 14, 15

OA Ryan Humphrey (+M.Paris) to Niagara for 2nd and 3rd (+J.Copeland)
17 games later, Ryan Humphrey bolts for the USHL

Brody Crane to Niagara for 3rd, 3rd, 4th (+C.O’Flaherty)
17 games later, Brody Crane to Guelph for 6th

Zach Lavoie to Niagara for 2nd, 2nd, 3rd, 3rd, 4th,
Following year, Zach Lavoie to Hamilton for 3rd, 3rd, 8th

 

[Dogs Enthusiast]

In the last 6 months the trades have improved from the previous years. As evidence I present our 4 - 0 record.

 

[Sam14]

In the last 6 months the trades have improved from the previous years. As evidence I present our 4 - 0 record.

That is so not true! Some good trades, but his bad are REALLY bad. That pattern of some good and a lot of really bad ones has not changed over his 3 years. He overpays (and undersells) often that is considered horrible asset management.