Roster Building/Team Building/Future Trade/Drafting thread.

[Brobust]

Does anyone have a stat of how many points Tavares got on the power play this year?

20

Not a fair criticism, IMO. Maybe the stubbornness about being PP1 is true, he is still legit.

 

[Taylor Halls Teeth]

So much for wanting to soooo badly play for your hometown team, that’s just a soundbite when money’s involved. I hope he’s gone, the greedy DNA has got to stop…….

How dare he expect more than $4M after scoring 38g If he walks I will be disappointed but I love that Treliving is finally showing some guts.

 

[Taylor Halls Teeth]

Does anyone have a stat of how many points Tavares got on the power play this year?

He was 38th among forwards for even strength ppg so really a pretty strong season 5 on 5 . His best since Babcock. Of course he was dead weight in playoff offense but that basically happened right after the Zub KO so you can look at it as he wasn'r quite 100% after that or that he just got exhausted after game 4. I am hoping it was the hit and that he just didn't randomly fade.

 

[hamzarocks]

I wonder what the add is on McMann to get Sherwood. Is it a 2nd?

Wouldn't add anything to McMann. If the Nucks want him then 1 for 1 otherwise pass.

Leafs are looking to be a mess very soon. Let's just keep our picks and draft boom/bust prospects at this point.

Don't blow more assets to tinker for a poorly built team

 

[jaric1862]

The point of replacing Marner isn’t about finding another Marner — we won’t. It’s about using his money to bring in three or four smart, impactful forwards to improve our overall depth. With all the resources the Leafs have, you'd expect their pro scouting department to be more than capable of identifying those kinds of players. They did a great job with last year’s free agent class (Tanev/OEL/Stolarz/Lorentz/Pacioretty)

 

[hockeywiz542]

NHL rumblings: Who was in on Toews, plus latest on Marner, McDavid, Tavares, Robertson and more

Trade and free-agency news from around the league: Marner's considering two-year deals, McDavid's in no rush and Tavares-Leafs isn't close.

www.nytimes.com

The Winnipeg Jets were the front-runners for Jonathan Toews from the get-go.

His relationship with Jets chairman Mark Chipman was a big part of it, and Toews’ desire to play for his hometown team was a natural allure.

But that doesn’t mean that his camp, led by agent Pat Brisson, didn’t talk to other teams once it was announced May 29 that Toews was 100 percent coming back. The Colorado Avalanche, Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs were among the 15 teams that spoke with Brisson about their interest in Toews.

The Leafs are dying to find the keys to a deeper playoff path, and Toews would have been a wonderful addition from that perspective. It was a no-brainer for general manager Brad Treliving to poke his nose in there, but the Leafs got the sense early it was Winnipeg or Colorado for Toews.

The young Habs could have used Toews’ Stanley Cup-winning experience, too, to be sure.

The Avs are trying to find their way back to another Stanley Cup, and adding Toews to that talented mix would have put him in a position where he didn’t have to lead but could find a way to become impactful. Colorado was seriously interested, had a chance to talk with Toews and felt it had a good role for him — don’t forget Charlie Coyle could have easily slid over to wing — but ultimately it was the runner-up.