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Britishbulldog

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Forum: Armchair-GM11 mars à 15 h 12
Sujet: Summer Bummer
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Britishbulldog</b></div><div>There is a glaring and obvious issue with this lineup...

...you have Dermott and Brown back on it.

I mean it's over $4 MIL above the Cap...and I don't like Dermott or Brown</div></div>

Yep

0 need for Laughton, Dewar has played 3c and there's an opportunity to create a fun third line with him in the future.


Dermott and Brown ew

Overpay Lybushkin and Samsonov...WHY


Its just wasted cap here and there.


Better solution is this

Give Robertson, Benoit, and Dewar reasonable extensions (based on comparables 1m x 2 years). Liligren (if he stays) 2.75m x 3 years

Go get 2 good FA targets (Roy 6m x 6 years and Demelo 4.6m x 5 years)

Rielly-Demelo
McCabe-Roy
Benoit-Liligren


Then bring back McMann


B6 = Knies-Dewar-McMann / Holmberg-Kampf-Jarnkrok
Forum: Armchair-GM26 févr. à 13 h 0
Sujet: Marner Must Go
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Dave26</b></div><div>Marner is signed for one more year. Tkachuk has 4 more years and a very reasonable contract for what he brings. Hockey is not just about points. Brady is physical and a great leader and makes players around him better and doesn’t have the talent around him that Marner does. Marner is playing with the best goal scorer in the league. <strong>Brady plays the better overall game and isn’t a defensive liability. </strong>Brady is a point per game player who brings a lot of other qualities to the game too. He’s a great leader. And I’m sure if he was playing with Matthews he’d have a ton of assists as well. So your comment tells me all you know about hockey is what you read on the stats line.</div></div>

"Brady plays the better overall game and isn’t a defensive liability." this line makes your last line hilarious. Marner is way better defensively and is an elite penalty killer. he is the much better 200 foot player. dont think its close either
Forum: Armchair-GM11 févr. à 14 h 40
Sujet: Captain Morgan
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Boltsradynasty</b></div><div>Explain how that is anything close to an acceptable hockey play there is less than zero chance you can. It was a complete sc**bag move .
If his feelings are so hurt drop the gloves be a man about it not a complete coward .</div></div>

First of all this play happens so often at this point that to imply it isn't part of the game is just absurd.
Second a big reason these types of plays happen more often is because young guys like Grieg didn't deal with this in minor hockey like we did when I was younger so he had no clue how to defend himself.
Third if you watch in slow motion, Rielly is trying to go for the ribs/shoulder. If you don't believe this watch it in 0.5x speed or watch Martin Biron's breakdown on TSN. Grieg does the stupidest thing you can which is that he tries to put out his arm and catch Rielly's stick. This causes his stick to go from below shoulder height to riding up his shoulder an into his face. If anything the only reason this hits Grieg's face is because Grieg directs the stick that way.

All this being said, the league is stupid. Like the Hughes/Hathaway situation the league will punish the veteran because the young kid didn't know how to defend themselves. As Torts said, its a bad precedent. Your essentially teaching kids like Hughes that they can letup before the whistle and if they get hit the other guy gets a penalty and so he'll keep doing it to draw calls until one day he doesn't get back up. Grieg will keep being an idiot and taking slapshot into empty nets then letting guys hammer him to get major penalties and get under their skin and this will work until the day Grieg gets a concussion and his career ends.

I think the reason this is so polarizing is because its really a generational gap. All the former players came out in favour of it. Bieksa even said he'd do it in Rielly's shoes on national TV. All the journalists, younger fans, etc. are outraged. Problem is that the league needs to sort this because the thing the young people don't seem to understand is that you can complain all you want but at the end of the day, Rielly will serve his suspension and come back and do the same think in the same situation. And next time the kid might not stand up.
Forum: Armchair-GM8 févr. à 18 h 12
Sujet: How a Hanifin and Tanev deal could look like
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>SomeonesOffended</b></div><div>Leafs aren’t paying anything for Hanifin who will not resign in Canada how do people not understand that, and leafs aren’t trading lily at least for another 2 years and then they add to get pulock</div></div>

It's an outdated rumour IMO for a couple of reasons. If this is the case, why did Hanifin almost agree upon an extension with Calgary? Also, players sometimes have Toronto/Vancouver as an exception for teams in Canada they'd be willing to go to (ex McCabe). Hanifin has said in the past it would be an "honour" to play in Toronto and the GM he signed two deals with is here. If the Leafs were able to put together a solid package, I think Hanifin would be willing to re-sign.

Keefe and the Maple Leafs are clearly getting a bit impatient with LIljergren, and with this move there wouldn't be a suitable role for him on this roster and would likely be scratched anyway.
Forum: Armchair-GM28 janv. à 22 h 21
Sujet: David Jiricek
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Brad_Treliving</b></div><div>Did you hate Benoit when we first signed him?</div></div>

He's a league minimum contract. It was zero risk. He's been a pleasant surprise. And while I'd rather see a true (Prime Muzzin type) shutdown defender with term for the 2LD position, McCabe has improved his play considerably this season. I would definitely still want a better option than him im the shutdown role, I don't think he's good enough defensively for that. But I don't know who they could get to be that perfect player, they are not very common. Get some 30+ year old guy already on the decline is just a waste of assets so run with McCabe in that role and stand pat more or less.

Liljegren is very good, only foolish fans don't see what he does. I am not sure yet what his ceiling is but he's 24, playing top 4 minutes and winning those minutes. Keefe has held him back and now he's forcing his way up the depth chart. He's a long term solution for TO on the right. You don't trade him, if you had to to get Jiricek depending on how big a package it would take to get him, maybe. But it absolutely makes their right side worse for this season. Jiricek isn't a top 4 defenceman today.

I'd hope you can make a trade that doesn't include Liljegren. If you could land this kid and keep Liljegren, you have a right side next year of Liljegren, Jiricek and Timmins. That is a young defence with upside and in an age group that could be part of a cup window of the core 3.