Trades & Free Agency Thread: 2024-2025 - Trade Deadline Approaches

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Hard to argue against his position.
This would be 3rd. year in a row over 100 points.
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Over his contract he's:
9th. in NHL points
6th. in goals


Next year how much more will Kyle Connor be looking at?
Over his contract he's Top 15 player, Top 4 in even strength goals.
I'm ALL-IN on Rantanen.

Never-mind 100 point regular season, lets talk playoffs when it REALLY counts.

Mikko Rantanen


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Mitch Marner

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& Auston Matthews [combined]

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Summary

Mikko Rantanen 34 goals vs. AM @ 23 goals + MM 11 goals = 34 goal total.
Mikko Rantanen 101 points total vs. AM @ 48 points + MM @ 50 points = 98 points total.

Mikko isn't just 3 X the goals and 2 X points >> UFA Marner he is also more productive than Matthews and Marner combined come playoff time.
 
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I'm ALL-IN on Rantanen.

Never-mind 100 point regular season, lets talk playoffs when it REALLY counts.

Mikko Rantanen

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Mitch Marner

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& Auston Matthews [combined]

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Summary

Mikko Rantanen 34 goals vs. AM @ 23 goals + MM 11 goals = 34 goal total.
Mikko Rantanen 101 points total vs. AM @ 48 points + MM @ 50 points = 98 points total.

Mikko isn't just 3 X the goals and 2 X points >> UFA Marner he is also more productive than Matthews and Marner combined come playoff time.
I don't disagree that Rantanen is the better playoff performer
But can't just say "3 X the goals and 2 X points" while ignoring he's also played 40% more games than Marner.

Pointing out a 1.25 PPG and 0.42 GPG over a 0.88 PPG and 0.19 GPG says enough already
 
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At what point are we going to have the Morgan Rielly conversation? Dude looks cooked at 30.
Yeah Morgan is absolutely cooked.

He's too shite defensively to play this poorly offensively. Having said that i doubt being a new dad is helping his performance on the ice.

Id trade him if there's a legit hockey trade to be made but i doubt it.
 
At what point are we going to have the Morgan Rielly conversation? Dude looks cooked at 30.
Yeah Morgan is absolutely cooked.

He's too shite defensively to play this poorly offensively. Having said that i doubt being a new dad is helping his performance on the ice.

Id trade him if there's a legit hockey trade to be made but i doubt it.

People said the same thing about Tavares last year. Sometimes a player has a tough stretch or even a tough season. Just because they are not having a good season doesn't mean they can't bounce back. Rielly has done a lot for this team on and off the ice and generally does well in clutch situations... give him time.

This market/message board always turns on players so fast, especially defensemen.
 
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get Reaves off the team and work on getting Domi off too. Brutal contract.

Setting aside the general enforcer debate for a moment, Reaves isn’t even that. Just the definition of half hearted and half assing your job.
 
People said the same thing about Tavares last year. Sometimes a player has a tough stretch or even a tough season. Just because they are not having a good season doesn't mean they can't bounce back. Rielly has done a lot for this team on and off the ice and generally does well in clutch situations... give him time.

This market/message board always turns on players so fast, especially defensemen.

I largely agree. His skating has looked slow for a while. Everyone says he is a great skater. I don’t see it personally.

If we could do mo&do for miller I would.

Knies. Matthews. Marner
Mcman. Miller. Willy
Robby. JT. Patches
Lorent. Kampf. Dewar

McCabe. Tanev
Oel. Xxxx
Benoit. Timmins.

Just need one D.
 
I largely agree. His skating has looked slow for a while. Everyone says he is a great skater. I don’t see it personally.

If we could do mo&do for miller I would.

Knies. Matthews. Marner
Mcman. Miller. Willy
Robby. JT. Patches
Lorent. Kampf. Dewar

McCabe. Tanev
Oel. Xxxx
Benoit. Timmins.

Just need one D.

His skating definitely has slowed down from what we've know of him. His elusiveness was his best attribute in his skating, being able to use his agility to create offensively and defensively.

I'd keep Rielly over Miller personally. Miller looks like crap as well for the record.
 
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At what point are we going to have the Morgan Rielly conversation? Dude looks cooked at 30.
When everything does get "on the table" I could see it. Once Shanny is gone he can be evaluated based on his contract and his usage rather than his history (which is one of post season failure but of tenure and popularity). I have no idea why his feet don't move anymore but he doesn't seem to move with any urgency or hustle until after he gets beat. Mo is a summer move if it were to happen.

I remember what a gazelle he was when he came up and compare that to now. I thought it was too much bulk but you can see in pictures with him and the Mrs he has no upper body thickness so it must be the lead in his ass. 16:27 last night though. It makes more sense to play him lower in the lineup for a while and make him push his way up with some strong play. Being bitched at by fans is no motivator at all, but reduced ice time is something else.
 

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