GDT: Trade Deadline Day

[BertCorbeau]

Why would he go back to a rebuild? If Florida offers him anything decent, he’ll probably sign there or for another contender.

He loves the city.. maybe pulls a Winnik and agrees to get dealt again next deadline to a contender

 

[HockeyVirus]

My ideal lineup.

Knies - Matthews - Domi
McMann - Tavares - Marner
Robertson - Laughton - Nylander
Lorentz - Kampf - Jarnkrok

McCabe - Tanev
Rielly - Carlo
OEL - Myers/Benoit

Stolarz
Woll

That is a really good team

 

[Tie Domi Esquire]

In the end, nothing changes that much. The team needs the 11 million dollar players to dominate like 11 million dollar players are supposed to.

The big benefit IMO is that they aren't rentals. Especially Carlo.

 

[Smif]

IMO you hope that this works:

Knies - Matthews - Marner
McMann - Tavares - Nylander
Domi - Laughton - Jarnkrok
Robertson/Holmberg - Kampf - Lorentz

Don't like Robertson on the 4th line but he deserves to play IMO.

Robertson is 1000x times better than Jarnkrok and has played well with Domi. Put Jarnkrok on the 4th line cause he doesn't produce anything in the playoffs so he can be on the shutdown line.

 

[Rob Brown]

Robertson is 1000x times better than Jarnkrok and has played well with Domi. Put Jarnkrok on the 4th line cause he doesn't produce anything in the playoffs so he can be on the shutdown line.

Sure that works too. I'd prefer that as well, just expecting them to want Jarnkrok to get more ice time in the playoffs.

 

[SprDaVE]

My ideal lineup.

Knies - Matthews - Domi
McMann - Tavares - Marner
Robertson - Laughton - Nylander
Lorentz - Kampf - Jarnkrok

McCabe - Tanev
Rielly - Carlo
OEL - Myers/Benoit

Stolarz
Woll

That is a really good team

I'd bet my money Berube creates a checking line with Laughton.

Knies - Matthews - Marner
Nylander - Tavares - Domi
McMann - Laughton - Jarnkrok
Lorentz - Kampf - Robertson (he's gonna be pissed)

 

[Roo]

Laughton and Carlo are good adds, but this team has struggled to score in the playoffs and just dropped two 1sts and two prospects on depth and defense. That said, at the end of the day if the core doesn't up it doesn't matter.

Potentially makes more sense long-term, if there's significant retention on Carlo that gives us a lot of flexibility in the next two offseasons with an exploding cap.

Edit: To inject a bit of positivity, people were pretty excited at the potential of Luke Schenn return. Carlo is a signifciantly better player than Schenn and with potential retention is on a steller contract for two more years. Could be an elite match with Rielly without having to play the toughest assignments. We paid a lot but that 1st and Minten weren't going to be suiting up in April.

The MO on the leafs is that we didn’t defend well and had suspect goaltending. The low scoring games weren’t coincidental, it’s by design by our opponents. Keep it all the outside, bc the Leafs D or Goaltending will break. This is why Tre focused on these two areas. How many close games have we won this year? We have the talent to come through, but needed to embrace the low-scoring puck dumping ugly hockey that works in the playoffs.

 

[leafan11]

I'd bet my money Berube creates a checking line with Laughton.

Knies - Matthews - Marner
Nylander - Tavares - Domi
McMann - Laughton - Jarnkrok
Lorentz - Kampf - Robertson (he's gonna be pissed)

I’d swap Jankrok and Robertson

 

[Leafs87]

The Carlo trade excites me as I wanted him for years, reading the main board makes me sort of nervous but really not a fan of the fact that we traded our next two available 1st leaving us with non until 2028 and we are still arguably not favourites

 

[Roo]

I'd bet my money Berube creates a checking line with Laughton.

Knies - Matthews - Marner
Nylander - Tavares - Domi
McMann - Laughton - Jarnkrok
Lorentz - Kampf - Robertson (he's gonna be pissed)

he is going to be central to a checking line

 

[HockeyVirus]

I'd bet my money Berube creates a checking line with Laughton.

Knies - Matthews - Marner
Nylander - Tavares - Domi
McMann - Laughton - Jarnkrok
Lorentz - Kampf - Robertson (he's gonna be pissed)

That bottom 6 isn't scoring anything. I prefer balanced offense we have the depth now

 

[Zybalto]

My ideal lineup.

Knies - Matthews - Domi
McMann - Tavares - Marner
Robertson - Laughton - Nylander
Lorentz - Kampf - Jarnkrok

McCabe - Tanev
Rielly - Carlo
OEL - Myers/Benoit

Stolarz
Woll

That is a really good team

EXACTLY the team I would ice in the playoffs. It makes Domi actually useful and lets us roll 3 lines to counter the depth we would face....and even if it goes wrong a couple of games in there is chemistry all over the lineup for changes.

Would have to set it up soon though like Keefe did last season and before we got wrecked by injury.

I dont think Stolarz is going to get pulled the same way Samsonov has the last 2 series either.

 

[SprDaVE]

I’d swap Jankrok and Robertson

It's possible. Robertson is underrated at puck retrievals and being a hound.

 

[Warden of the North]

The Carlo trade excites me as I wanted him for years, reading the main board makes me sort of nervous but really not a fan of the fact that we traded our next two available 1st leaving us with non until 2028 and we are still arguably not favourites

The trade board thinks every player the Leafs have/acquire is awful. They are not objective.

 

[Commander Clueless]

Laughton and Carlo fill major positional needs for us for sure.


Unfortunately, neither of them provides much offense.


The team that can't score in the playoffs didn't add production, so we're going to be really counting on guys like Domi, McMann, and Robertson to bring the fire we know they have in there somewhere.


....and the core guys, of course....but that's a given.

 

[Hotpot]

Carlo or Seth Jones 25% retained? They got similar returns. I think I'd rather have Seth Jones...

 

[All Mod Cons]

I think my favourite part of today is knowing that someone in the front office realized f***, f***, f*** we don't have enough money to make this work. And we've only got shit left.

And someone else just said " Call Kyle".

 

[Leafs87]

Carlo or Seth Jones 25% retained? They got similar returns. I think I'd rather have Seth Jones...

Jones is a huge gamble tbh. If he rebounds you got a big 1D that shoots right but if not you got a boat anchor of a contract

 

[Gabriel426]

Carlo or Seth Jones 25% retained? They got similar returns. I think I'd rather have Seth Jones...

But it is really not just Carlo and Seth Jones bc this still 3.5mil diff in cap space.

It is more like Jones plus another player making 960k Vs Carlo plus 4.5mil player.
Let’s say that 960k player is Timmins as that’s the average player in that price range and the 4.5mil player is Tanev.

Carlo and Tanev all day.

 

[colchar]

The Carlo trade excites me as I wanted him for years, reading the main board makes me sort of nervous but really not a fan of the fact that we traded our next two available 1st leaving us with non until 2028 and we are still arguably not favourites

Those would be late picks, so damned close to 2nd rounders, and they can always acquire picks from other teams in the summer or at next year's deadline.

 

[All Mod Cons]

Laughton and Carlo fill major positional needs for us for sure.


Unfortunately, neither of them provides much offense.


The team that can't score in the playoffs didn't add production, so we're going to be really counting on guys like Domi, McMann, and Robertson to bring the fire we know they have in there somewhere.


....and the core guys, of course....but that's a given.

The best part is that Brad understands how we are reffed in the playoffs and made sure he got 2 important penalty killers.

 

[SprDaVE]

The next 3 drafts are going to be 16 teams drafting, while the other 16 watch.

 

[Action Jackson]

Got our 3C and 2RHD

I take back anything bad i said about Tre

 

[dubplatepressure]

Got our 3C and 2RHD

I take back anything bad i said about Tre

I like it.

 

[Action Jackson]

Carlo or Seth Jones 25% retained? They got similar returns. I think I'd rather have Seth Jones...

I'll take Carlo