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Forum: Armchair-GM30 déc. 2022 à 15 h 45
Sujet: offer sheet Laf
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>draft_em_sign_em_trade_em</b></div><div>I agree, but it's not the best career move for Laf.

How does the NYR get a 2nd OA and 1st OA picks and development both into 15-20 goal and 35-40 point players.

Kakko and Laf should be near at Matthews and Marner levels by now.</div></div>

That is a different issue, and has some merit. But because Gallant and the Rangers are not developing him well enough, does that mean they should just trade him for what is basically a crap return? What they could do is be better at developing their kids, which may mean a new coach that doesn't shuffle lines all the time and doesn't bench a kid for making one mistake, but rather teaches him how to be better, and also not giving vets like Panarin a pass when they make the same damn mistakes.
Forum: Armchair-GM21 déc. 2022 à 13 h 21
Sujet: the player we should have drafted
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>draft_em_sign_em_trade_em</b></div><div>The thing with the summer of the Brodie signing, Dubas was shopping for a Rh'd Top 4 Dman, but had to settled for another Lh'd with Brodie.

It ain't easy being a GM during the Draft, so many discussions and arguments and options and stress and worry about whether the player will fit into your team and how long the development will take and the pure luck whether you get a stud or dud.

I like variety and at the time Dubas was stuck in the small, fast, skilled Euro or American born players mind sight.

Dubas has not Drafted many Canadians. Not that it matters, my view is that North American players development faster to the Nhl gameplay compared to teenagers trained on the larger oversea ice rinks.

The fancy dangles they do on the larger ice rinks will get them killed in North America because their is less space and time to think. The bigger, stronger and meaner players in North America will scare most Euro youngsters and slow their development.

Willy Nylander is an example of that. His early years as a Leaf he was (and arguable still is) that type of player.</div></div>

Yeah, he was looking for a RHD RD but he ended up with a LHD RD, so it is what it is. You are right about the type of players that Dubas drafts being of one variety, but his goal is to draft high-end talent in the draft, which often equates to smaller skill players based off where they go in the draft.

As for your take on Nylander, it's not accurate at all. 1) His early years, he was right there with Matthews and Marner, he didn't fall off until the year that he sat out. 2) Nylander is like Kessel in that he doesn't put his body on the line which is why Kessel has the iron streak. However, the difference is that Nylander allowing the other guy to get the puck to avoid the play isn't just a selfish play. He often gains possession by stick-checking the opponent and that's why he has so many takeaways vs his giveaways. I'll post a clip for you here (https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/video/william-nylander-proves-can-play-hard-puck/) but recently I believe it was in the Tampa game, his stick check led to a goal.
Forum: Armchair-GM20 déc. 2022 à 18 h 51
Sujet: the player we should have drafted
I honestly think it's way, way way too soon to be having a discussion like this. Schneider has 76 games to his name at this point, and while he's looked good he's also been *heavily* sheltered - 15 minutes a night, more O-zone than D-zone starts, and a truly outrageous PDO helping him along (106.0!)

Meanwhile, the biggest strength of this Leafs team has been their defense - you've turned Ilya Samsonov and Matt Murray into Jennings trophy candidates on the backs of the guys that were more or less here when Schneider was drafted (Rielly, Holl, Sandin &amp; Liljegren were already in the Leafs org by the 2020 draft and TJ Brodie joined shortly after) so it's not like drafting Schneider would have changed that. The one thing the Leafs do have a need for, however, has been skilled wingers with low cap hits - something that a healthy Amirov could have helped with, and hopefully will be able to in the near future.

I just think it's too early to be looking back at the 2020 draft and saying "he blew it!" - let's get some of these guys off their ELCs before we start calling anyone a bust, ya know?
Forum: Armchair-GM18 déc. 2022 à 20 h 26
Sujet: keeping the top 4
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>draft_em_sign_em_trade_em</b></div><div>Americans Gaudreau and Tkachuck wanted to get far away from Canada even though the Flames looked like a Cup contender. So Matthews being also American my point is valid.</div></div>

There is diffence with Calgary when it rather "isolated city" and don't have air direct connections to US centres compared to Toronto . Gaudreau from the East Coast might have trouble remaining with any team too far west. Matthew's brother Brady had no trouble signing with the Sens. UFAs who are older and often with families like the less travel with the Eastern Conference.
In my business, a Canadian business we had trouble finding people wanting to transfer to even take promotions if meant going to Winnipeg. So while there might be some Americans wouldn't want to transfer to Canada, IMO it's more location and convenience of where the NHL franchises are located rather just Canada.
Forum: Armchair-GM18 déc. 2022 à 14 h 32
Sujet: keeping the top 4
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>draft_em_sign_em_trade_em</b></div><div>If Matthews would sign for 8 years as a 27 year old, than his next UFA contract would be a 35+ yr old contract, which means a lot less. So yea, he'd want to avoid that if he was money smart, take $14 x 5 years and cash in again with a 8 year retirement contract as a 33 yr old UFA.

Than again Ovie got a $9+ million 35+ year old contract, so...</div></div>

I think he could still get like 9 or 10 + at 35, but why do that when at 32 someone would still probably give him north of 13, especially as the cap goes up.

Or maybe he just decides to secure the bag and go 8 year, not worry about contracts and all that, and just play it safe in case of injury and stuff in a rather dangerous sport. He's set himself up for flexibility in options. Personally I'd just want to get it over with and focus on winning for 8 years while still making bank. But I'm also not in this position unfortunately lol.
Forum: Armchair-GM11 déc. 2022 à 13 h 43
Sujet: trading Nylander
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>draft_em_sign_em_trade_em</b></div><div>Boston has a long history of team friendly contracts while Dubas has a history of slight over payments. So I can see Pasta and Willy getting equal AAV.</div></div>

The tax rate in Boston is like 44% and in Toronto it is 50%, it's going to make a difference. If Nylander gets a 10m AAV and Pastrnak 9.85m, Pastrnak is actually getting paid more. Dubas doesn't really have a history of overpayment, personally, I think he slightly overpaid only on Marner and had to overpay for Matthews. However, the rest of the guys were market value or lower than if you take into account the guys who took discounts.

What I was saying though is that if Pastrnak is getting 11m in Boston, Nylander isn't getting that without raising his production to above PPG.

I do think Lewis Gross will try to get him to sign elsewhere though. More recently, he gave Treliving a problem with Gaudreau and Dubas with Sandin. Nylander is his next biggest client, he's going to try getting him paid well.

Edit:
Just saw your edit lol.

Nylander and Pastrnak are friends, and Nylander used to be number 88 when they were on a team together when they were younger. If anyone has a crush it would be Pastrnak but I don't think that's the case. Nyander was just 29 cuz of his father probably.