You sign a guy to play RHD with Rielly, you have Liljegren at 2RHD.
In what capacity are you bringing Brodie back?
He clearly isn’t good enough at 1RHD. Enough bandaids there. Fill it appropriately, once and for all.
That leaves Brodie at 2 or 3 LHD.
McCabe is younger, cheaper, and simply a better player now at 2LHD.
Benoit is excellent value and exactly what we need at 3LHD.
We are not in a position to pay Brodie $3m. His play has already started to regress, and he won’t bring value for what he will want to be paid.
Much rather reallocate the $3m on someone like Peeke, and try and sign another UFA RHD this summer like DeMelo, Pesce, Montour, Matt Roy, Dumba, Matt Walker, Hakanpaa etc.
Hell, Bortuzzo is a UFA. Imagine the shitahow a pairing of Benoit-Bortuzzo would be???
In what capacity are you bringing Brodie back?
He clearly isn’t good enough at 1RHD. Enough bandaids there. Fill it appropriately, once and for all.
That leaves Brodie at 2 or 3 LHD.
McCabe is younger, cheaper, and simply a better player now at 2LHD.
Benoit is excellent value and exactly what we need at 3LHD.
We are not in a position to pay Brodie $3m. His play has already started to regress, and he won’t bring value for what he will want to be paid.
Much rather reallocate the $3m on someone like Peeke, and try and sign another UFA RHD this summer like DeMelo, Pesce, Montour, Matt Roy, Dumba, Matt Walker, Hakanpaa etc.
Hell, Bortuzzo is a UFA. Imagine the shitahow a pairing of Benoit-Bortuzzo would be???
Brodie on a good night is a 3 maybe and I haven’t really seen him having good nights much we played two bottom feeders so temper results on that game and fiala jus walked him in recent memory he got walked on the goal in playoffs last year too so no thanks less the number is extremely team friendly
Brodie’s been nothing but a liability this season, hard pass……..
I agree, but I think that 8M is better spent on two defenceman than one. Something like Pesce at 5M and Tanev/Dillon at 3M, give or take a million.
He's still playing top pair with a very aggressive partner and our best PKer
The caps jumping 4M, those numbers look light to me and Brodie at 3M is pretty team friendly but two guys who are never even played for us going to do us that kind of favor?
Tanev 4 - 4.5
I don't want Brodie anywhere near this team once the season is over. He's completely fell apart the last 2 years. He was once regarded our best defensive defenseman, and now he's probably our 4th or 5th. We need to move on and actually find a true partner for Rielly, either Tanev or Pesce should be our target at years end.
I'd be surprised if Tanev couldn't get 4-5M and there's no way a guy like Pesce isn't getting North of that, probably well North
I'm not sure, that cap rise means more money washing around for teams to throw at these types of guys
He's no where near our best defensive defenseman, Keefe can say all he wants but McCabe, Benoit, Liljegren and even Rielly have performed better defensively then Brodie, hence why you've seen his minutes diminish as the season has gone on. Hate to break it to you
Defensive D aren't typically the players who benefit the most from a cap jump. But I'll bite, what do you think Pesce makes on his next deal?
Noting... he's been third in TOI the last three games, and the Number one guy for the PK in minutes played, facing the toughest defensive minutes. He started in the Dzone the most of any D, in 2 of the three games, and was second in the other. He's also +3 over that time.
I could be wrong, but I have a hard time seeing a team allocating 6M on Brett Pesce. If that is the price he is not an interesting addition.
It's ironic that you don't want Brodie on this team, but you do want Pesce.... given Pesce isn't having a very good season at all, and might be on the decline. Pesce just can't keep up with the pace of Carolina's game at all.
I think @Fogelhund did a pretty solid job on that one
Going to be 30ish with name recognition for his defensive ability
Agree to disagree, I think he's a 5x5 guy. If 6M is his market the Leafs can easily pivot to the next guy on the list, as of now there are a dearth of good UFA D available.
He can play the left and the right
He's not worth 5×5 imo and I think he's getting well North of that on the open market
That's an almost 3M dollar defender on the 3rd pair, we can't afford that
