Yeah maybe. I dunno, now that boston has Bertuzzi I could see the leafs making a bit of a bigger move.

Not sure why theyd worry about Boston they arent getting past Tampa.

Boston cup odds at 75%

Marchand - Bergeron - DeBrusk
Zacha - Krejci - Pastrnak
Hall - Coyle - Bertuzzi
Foligno - Frederic - Hathaway
Greer, Nosek

Lindholm - McAvoy
Grzelcyk - Carlo
Orlov - Clifton

Ullmark
Swayman

FML

I slept on this and I think this could happen: tinfoil time.

Arizona wins first overall.

Huge market team with top 10 pick wants him. 31 owners want this because marketing.

Huge market team signs 2 players with wildly front loaded signing bonuses and pays the bonuses. 20 million each. 5 year terms. Then sends those 2 skaters to Arizona, and their top 10 first, and some later picks. In exchange for Bedard.

The NHL gets to basically allow a team to buy the first overall.

The coyotes get good players at high aav but low cash out annually, and a good pick in a deep draft.

Okay anyway.

Any playoff teams in the east should be worried about boston. any road to the SCF goes through them

I was close wrong player

Orlov on the 3rd pairing is wild

they will manage to lose in 6 to Pittsburgh in the first round through devil magic

Absolute filth.
Feel bad for whoever has to go up against this in the 1st round, be it Florida, Ottawa, Pittsburgh, Buffalo or the Islanders

Just as wild as having ghost on the 3rd pair in Carolina.

The entire East is nuts all six divisional teams are going all in.

embarrassment of riches

You could make a pretty damn good roster with the players moved this year.

Meier - O'Reilly - Kane
Beauvillier - Horvat - Tarasenko
Niederreiter - Granlund - Bertuzzi
Jeannot - Namestnikov - Barbashev
Hathaway
Dadanov

Chychrun - Ekholm
Orlov - Hronek
Gavrikov - Schenn
Zaitsev

Korpisalo
Quick

Boston and Carolina have to be the 2 favorites at this point.

seriously. I want to say that this is the year toronto beats tampa bay, IMO we've been the better team, not as consistent but we have a higher ceiling. But its soooooo hard to tell after this deadline. we'll see how the team gels after all these moves.

My only worry is the goalies. 10/10 times im picking vasy over Samsonov/Murray.

Imagine any of those teams outsing this lineup in rd. 1

Piggybacking on this cuz I had the same thought - Toronto has basically redone their entire bottom-6 and 1/3 of their D-corps in the past two weeks.

Their lineup 2/15 vs. CHI(maybe not the exact lines/pairs, going by TOI):

Bunting-Matthews-Marner
Jarnkrok-Tavares-Nylander
Engvall-Holmberg-Kerfoot
Anderson-Kampf-ZAR

Rielly-Brodie
Giordano - Liljegren
Sandin - Timmins
(Holl was hurt? idk)

Engvall, Anderson & Sandin are out; McCabe, Lafferty, ROR, Acciari, Gustafsson, & Schenn are all in. That's a ton of turnover, with potentially more to come.

Leafs fans: you worried about a speedbump over the last 21 games while this team coalesces? You're 4 points up on Tampa but they have one game in hand - I wouldn't necessarily be freaking out, but it definitely would be something I'd be concerned about.

Genuinely I get it. Steve Dangle said it too, these guys need a bit to get to know their new team. Now, if we continue to play like sht after this road trip, then im concerned.

we're not that far removed from Columbus vs. the Lightning a few years ago!!

lol who am i kidding, Boston or Carolina will turn the Isles into bug paste if they make the playoffs.

I feel like these wild card teams are so unbelievably streaky and unpredictable. they could do anything.

Pastrnak signed 11.25m x 8 yr

Damn that’s a payday

Sweeney cooking up some breakfast this morning….

damn, what happed to Bruins star players always taking discounts