Quoting: aadoyle
Look at Dubas first year in Pitt man basically wasted an amazing Crosby season
Again you keep missing it Karlsson is soon gonna be 34 and is with ret making 10m and would cost TOR assets to get. You go oh Montour or Skjei make 6-7 who cares thats still cheaper than EK and they younger and cost 0 assets to get
Save the assets and go get the free agents who play a similar role, are younger, will be cheaper, and wont cost us any assets
Montour at 5.75-7m is still better than going and wasting assets on EK who will be 37 when that deal's done.
Staying clear was the wise move
Yeah bro the Leafs look like a great team with really amazing decisions and wise moves?
Ilya, Edmundson, Bertuzzi, Kampf, Reavo, Klingberg
Dubas didn’t make a team underperform, then when he begins to sell they over perform. They played themselves out of the playoffs firstly, then played themselves out of Buium or Iginla.
Again… like your choice of Montour and Skeji = throwing away this season, because they’re currently signed. You also act like acquiring Karlsson for a first + prospect to get him at 8-9m aav (since at 10m he cost just basically a first) is super expensive. Sure whatever I disagree we often overvalue picks and prospects as fans.
Let’s follow your choice though.
If you acquire either at TDL then extend - that would cost the same as Karlsson. The Leafs would presumably be a better team with Karlsson or Montour so this should be a later first.
So your either getting Karlsson for a 1st + for a FULL year at 33
Or Montour for half a season plus a 6y, 6.5m extension for the same price at 30… with statistically and historically worse production.
Which again; you’re assuming Montour/ Skeji will continue to put up 40+ points at 6.5m x 6 years
How is that not the same as me saying Karlsson could put up 70+ with Toronto?
I’m stating : the Leafs + Karlsson would be a far better team THIS year.
You’re stating the Leafs will be a far better team NEXT year and still suck this year by not acquiring…
Idk maybe I’m crazy for believing in Matthews, Nylander, Tavares, Rielly, + Karlsson. Maybe I shouldn’t believe in this core like it seems many Leafs fans don’t anymore.
Maybe being aggressive, wild, and bold like Vegas actually is just a bad move and sucks.