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GDT: Trade and Free Agency Thread - 2021/22 PART II

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ToneDog said:
Starting to think Soup might ask for more than leafs can afford. No sure why no thread on our MVP being a pending UFA has been created.
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Great point, probably the most important topic in Leafville at the moment. Start one up.
 
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HOTD said:
The Leafs did not sign Ritchie for regular season hockey. For the life of me, I can’t understand why everyone is so eager to unload him. This team doesn’t need him to make the playoffs. But he’s the perfect compliment to our team come May. I would much rather trade Mik, as we’ve seen he is not needed and imo, redundant, with the likes of Kampf, Kasa, Bunting. Also, there’s a big drop off from Ritchie to Clifford. I’m keeping Big Nick
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with 6 goals and 9 points in 38 playoff games, he's not gonna help much when the rulebook goes out the window and the offence dries up.

at least Mikheyev can skate and play defence. Ritchie fits on neither a checking nor scoring line.
 
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Volcanologist said:
with 6 goals and 9 points in 38 playoff games, he's not gonna help much when the rulebook goes out the window and the offence dries up.

at least Mikheyev can skate and play defence. Ritchie fits on neither a checking nor scoring line.
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I really like him on the 4th line tbh. It's gotta be one of the best 4th lines in the league.
 
zeke said:
Ritchie costs the same as our GM of the years paid Matt Martin...6yrs ago. but for only half as long.
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Two wrongs don't make a right. Ritchie > Martin but but he's gotta show it. Martin has outperformed his contract on the Island, but not here.
 
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SprDaVE said:
Ritchie might have been what he was clamoring for but it's definitely not what he's getting. The plan was for Ritchie to play in a supporting top line role. Now he's on the fourth line and all of a sudden it was where he was supposed to be? That's not what you call reaching expectations and he's definitely not worth his cap space.

Will he get better? Will he be a playoff performer? Maybe. I have serious doubts. He'll very likely finish the season with the Leafs, even if he doesn't deserve to, but I'd be surprised if he was next season... but again we'll see.
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I dont care or know about next season. All i know is, Ritchie is a player Im sure Dubas has no intention of trading unless there's just a deal he can't refuse or something.

His style of play is something thats very much still needed. Not everything comes down to scoring goals. I'm sure the coaching staff and management staff feel the same way. Habs physically dominated us last year.
 
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zeke said:
Personally I think Dubas was thinking more about guys like Kampf than Ritchie when talking about the bottom 6 dynamic.

Ritchie I'm pretty sure he was looking as a top 6 winger solution - a guy who could score a bunch of goals playing with elite linemates. Hasn't happened though, and with the way Bunting and Kerf are playing I'm not sure it ever will.
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I dont think so at all. Bunting was the guy that Dubas looked to as a top 6 Winger Solution, hence they signed him so early. As a Hyman replacement.

Ritchie was a guy they felt like could be moved up and down the lineup depending on how well he plays but mainly bring that Physical Element the bottom 6 was missing for a while.

Obviously, they would have liked him to score a couple of goals already but the man hasn't been a liability at all and has brought the physical aspect of the game the leafs have sorely been lacking the last few years.
 
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I dont think so at all. Bunting was the guy that Dubas looked to as a top 6 Winger Solution, hence they signed him so early. As a Hyman replacement.

Ritchie was a guy they felt like could be moved up and down the lineup depending on how well he plays but mainly bring that Physical Element the bottom 6 was missing for a while.

Obviously, they would have liked him to score a couple of goals already but the man hasn't been a liability at all and has brought the physical aspect of the game the leafs have sorely been lacking the last few years.
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Ritchie got the bigger money, and got the plum topline assignment from day one of training camp. I think it's pretty clear they were looking at him as a top-6 scoring option. Bunting too, but he started on the 2nd line, with Kerfoot pencilled onto the checking line.
 
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hockeywiz542 said:
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They couldn't fit in Mete last year but I guess they can fit Clague in this year.

He should have a decent chance to make things work over there at least... Or he will just end up on waivers again and maybe makes it to a better team like Brooks did.
 
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