Nick Ritchie discussion - clears waivers

[ACC1224]

Heheh.

Anyone who has followed sports for even a little bit is familiar with the very common issue of GMs and organizations favoring players based on contracts. This js basic common stuff any sports fan is familiar with. Go to any team board and you will find it.

The fact that you are actually spending time trying to deny it is bizarre and frankly a wee bit embarrassing.

But you do you.

Yes Dubas is a true pioneer.

Which GMs waive players based on comments in HF threads?

 

[LeafChief]

Yes Dubas is a true pioneer.

Which GMs waive players based on comments in HF threads?

Who would you have as the GM if you were given the choice?

This would probably be better phrased as who would you have given the job to at the time Dubas was given the job?

 

[zeke]

Pretty hard to avoid when they're ALL his own signings.

The only player on the Leafs roster that Dubas didn't sign to their current contract is Morgan Rielly, and his new deal is already in place for next year.

Some people even believe waiving Engvall (whom he signed) is different than waiving Ritchie (whom he signed), which would lead to less criticism of a signing mistake. Only difference is the Ritchie mistake is 2 X as costly then Engvall when it comes to cap hit but the same GM applies to both however.

When a $2.5 mil player under performs a $1.25 mil it just makes the mistake more glaring and obvious, harder to sweep under the rug, and also much harder to fix.

Well yeah, waiving Engvall would cost us no dead capspace at all. (In fact, looking at his exact cap number it looks like his contract was signed precisely at a number that would cost them nothing on the cap if waived to the minors).

Completely different.

 

[Aki Berg]

It seems to me that he is possibly the quietest underachieving Leaf of all time. Aki Berg would have killed to have the season he had with the fans/MEDIA.

 

[justashadowof]

What GM have the Leafs had that cared about the opinion of people here?
If he waived Engvall and not Ritchie he wouldn’t be criticized? Makes no sense.

Muh but Engvall has a long neck bruh.

 

[justashadowof]

Underachieving in an environment with other distractions and less intense fan interest (yes, that's true, you know it) has its advantages. At the moment, Marner is a way bigger disappointment apparently regressing into playing like a uber-talented undersized teenager on an ELC instead of a star player expected to dominate on the puck every night.

P.S. Aki Berg wasn't that bad of a 3rd pairing defender. Cory Cross got as much grief. Both were just a case of pecking at the lowest status hen.

 

[Aki Berg]

Underachieving in an environment with other distractions and less intense fan interest (yes, that's true, you know it) has its advantages. At the moment, Marner is a way bigger disappointment apparently regressing into playing like a uber-talented undersized teenager on an ELC instead of a star player expected to dominate on the puck every night.

P.S. Aki Berg wasn't that bad of a 3rd pairing defender. Cory Cross got as much grief. Both were just a case of pecking at the lowest status hen.

The greatest 3rd pairing dman in history.

For 5 years the Leafs had the #1 6th dman in the league.

 

[ACC1224]

Who would you have as the GM if you were given the choice?

This would probably be better phrased as who would you have given the job to at the time Dubas was given the job?

I didn’t really give it much thought since they had already made up their minds it would be Dubas. I would have preferred someone experienced.
Dubas has made some mistakes but I don’t have much of an issue with him, he’s been fine.

All will be forgiven if he gets them to the finish line.

 

[ACC1224]

The greatest 3rd pairing dman in history.

For 5 years the Leafs had the #1 6th dman in the league.

 

[Nylander88]

Gotta think after being waiver, and now getting a shot on the 4th line, that Ritchie shows something tonight. Guess if he doesn't, he'll be spending most of his Leafs tenure in a press box. Would have to think he's motivated for this one tonight

 

[LeafChief]

I didn’t really give it much thought since they had already made up their minds it would be Dubas. I would have preferred someone experienced.
Dubas has made some mistakes but I don’t have much of an issue with him, he’s been fine.

All will be forgiven if he gets them to the finish line.

That's pretty fair. I agree.

 

[jaric1862]

This isn't the end of Nick Ritchie on the Leafs. My guess is that they let him gain some confidence in the minors and he's up for the playoffs.

 

[Mess]

This isn't the end of Nick Ritchie on the Leafs. My guess is that they let him gain some confidence in the minors and he's up for the playoffs.

You might even see him in tonight's line-up against the Avs.

You can't give a player a better wake-up call then waiving him, and then 31 other teams passing and saying "no thanks, not interested".

That should be all the motivation Ritchie needs to step up his game.

 

[Auston Marlander]

*Power Play goal scorer Nick Richie clears waivers.

 

[Metroid]

Of course he was gonna score tonight! Good for bim

 

[hockeywiz542]

 

[Maple Leaf]

Hopefully he starts producing and we can trade him

 

[DitchMarner]

He wasn't bad tonight, but that penalty was completely brainless and could have cost TOR the game. Smarten the hell up.

 

[ponder]

He wasn't bad tonight, but that penalty was completely brainless and could have cost TOR the game. Smarten the hell up.

Yeah, up until that point he was having maybe his best game as a Leaf (nothing too special, but better than he’s been). Total boneheaded penalty though, hard cross check to a guy who didn’t have the puck, right in front of the refs.

Ritchie at his best (like he was tonight, before the penalty) is a decent bottom 6 winger. Most of the time he’s not an NHLer, though.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

He’s still an idiot who takes inopportune penalties. At least it didn’t cost us in regulation and to be fair it should’ve been four on four but God forbid the refs even gives the Leafs a fraction of PP time, calling the “embellishment” on Brodie.

 

[HamiltonNHL]

calling the “embellishment” on Brodie.

It was

 

[Aashir]

What type of penalty was that? No brain on the play

 

[ottomaddox]

Ritchie with his best game and his biggest blunder. The guy is consistent.

 

[BertCorbeau]

TBH that penalty was iffy IMO .. the Av's player was running an interference pick play on Ritchie and Nick went through him to the puck carrier because he's a bigger body.

That was more of a coincidental interference penalty call than Brodie's.

 

[hotpaws]

TBH that penalty was iffy IMO .. the Av's player was running an interference pick play on Ritchie and Nick went through him to the puck carrier because he's a bigger body.

That was more of a coincidental interference penalty call than Brodie's.

there was nothing iffy about it , Ritchie cross checked him off his feet into our player

and Ritchie would have had to go through the Avs player and past a player on our team to get to the puck carrier if his intent was to actually get to the Avs player with the puck which is a ridiculous spin to try to justify the cross check