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Forum: Armchair-GM23 févr. à 18 h 13
Forum: Armchair-GM9 sept. 2023 à 7 h 43
Sujet: DEPTH AND DEADLY D
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>JAKE6</b></div><div>How many goals did the leafs score in the first round?
Vs how many did we score in the 2nd?
That’s why we lost. We had 0 offense and couldn’t solve Brobovsky. Simple as that, you can trade an offensive threat for 5 shutdown dmen if you like. It still won’t solve our lack of offensive production</div></div>

You're proving my point.. they showed they can score plenty of goals against the best goaltender in the world. If you run into a hot goalie you have play mistake free and wait for your bounces. Every game against Florida was a 1 goal game except the 4-2 loss in game one. Jake "Muzzin 2.0" McCabe was on the ice for 6 more GA than GF - the panthers scored 4 more goals than we did to win the series. We controlled most of the play in the series but you can point to egregious mistakes in every game that cost us. We had the better offense, they made fewer mistakes. It's literally been the same thing every year but some people can't seem to grasp that I guess.

If our excessive investment in the forward group hasn't resulted in enough scoring and our goalies have posted back to back years of sub .900%, both of whom we paid as our backups because the goalies we acquired to be our starters didn't play a single playoff game for us and ended up being cap dumps, why would we keep going back to that philosophy when we have nothing but failure to show for it? Matthews, Marner, Tavares, Nylander, ROR etc. can't solve Bobrovsky, or Vasi the year before, or Price, or Korpisalo, but the next 3rd liner we sign will be that difference?

We had to play our 7 million dollar forward Nylander on the 3rd line because he couldn't handle top 6 matchups and needed to be sheltered with offensive zone starts, yet he still got outscored more than any other forward on the team. That means the team was losing when Nylander was on the ice against the other team's 3rd lines, and we're going to pay him close to 10 mil until he's 36?

The strategy to beat the Leafs is pretty simple and has always been the same. Collapse around the net and keep the forwards to the outside. This might leave more space at the point but only Rielly is a threat to provide offense from there anyway. Then just wait until we inevitably make a mistake to create an odd-man rush the other way and bury your chance on a weaker goaltender.

I'm not even talking about shutdown D necessarily, though we definitely need a better shutdown pair than Brodie and McCabe. We also need defenseman who can create offense from the point when our forwards have no space in the offensive zone.

Your whole theory goes against all conventional wisdom and we have nothing but failure to show for it. Guess what? Spending assets to add two D-men to our top 4 at each of the last 2 deadlines, 2 of whom were bottom pairing D making close to league min that we played with our best D man (Lyubushkin and Schenn) and the other 2 who we had to pay extra for to get retention because we couldn't afford them at more than 2 mil (McCabe and Gio), while asking them to play higher in the lineup than they should, and acquiring guys like Mrazek and Murray to be your starters only to have them play zero playoff games before becoming cap dumps, or spending assets on rentals like ROR and Foligno because you're not deep enough at center, all because you invested half your cap in 4 forwards who as you've said haven't been able to give us the scoring we needed to overcome our goals against, HASN'T WORKED. Like, not even ****ing close.

Toronto is supposed to be the Mecca of hockey and our fans should be among the most knowledgeable in the league, but somehow Carolina, Vegas and Tampa fans seem to have figured out the absolute basics before most Leafs fans have.

Also, I've already explained that this roster would be better offensively than last year's as well as being better defensively. That's what can happen when you spread out your cap.

Thankfully Treliving has enough sense to see what needs to be done - take notes.
Forum: Armchair-GM25 août 2023 à 11 h 28
Sujet: cap compliant
I don't disagree that Jarnkrok has some value in a vacuum, but real quick, here are the teams that, as we speak, have $2.1M in cap space available:

-Philadelphia
-Arizona
-San Jose
-Columbus
-Detroit
-Nashville
-Buffalo
-Chicago
-Anaheim
-Montreal*
-Florida*
-Pittsburgh*

Don't forget, Jarnkrok has a 10-team NTC. We have no way of knowing exactly which 10 teams are on it, but let's just say he wants to play on a winner and doesn't want to play on a team that finished bottom-10 last year. Unfortunately, of those 12 teams up there, 8 of them were bottom-10, leaving you Nashville, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Florida.

I'll make the assumption that the Panthers and Penguins aren't necessarily going to go out of their way to waste their LTIR space on a bottom-6 guy at this point - since they won't be accruing cap space til the deadline like non-LTIR teams, those dollars are more precious and probably get hoarded til much closer to the deadline.

That leaves you the Sabres &amp; Predators. Buffalo has more young forwards than they currently have roster spots for all of them, so I don't think a 32 year old Jarnkrok really appeals to them. Maybe Nashville likes Calle, though - he's played there before, and he's clearly better than a lot of what they currently have penciled in to their bottom-6. But, y'know, if they're you're only option to move this cap that you NEED to move to be compliant, you surely can't really expect them to give you full value, right? After all, isn't getting cap compliant valuable enough in its own right? Especially when you're moving a guy that's not really integral to your team...I mean, if you want to move TJ Brodie, I GUESS someone would pay for *him*, but then you have to play Connor Timmins every night, right?
Forum: Armchair-GM13 août 2023 à 9 h 40
Sujet: Reasonable Moves
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LeafsFanForSomeReason</b></div><div>The biggest issue for Toronto in the playoffs has been producing goals/offence (went 7 straight games this playoffs with two goals or less en route to elimination) and Nylander has been our best and most consistent guy for that over the last 3 years.</div></div>

People keep saying this like they don't realize we're always the team to have more cap invested in our forwards than our opponents. Put together a collection of elimination games from any playoff series and most will be low scoring affairs. That's why teams talk about building from the net out and being able to win those 2-1 games. The formula has been rubbed in our faces over and over again and yet we still continue to double down on this theory despite our failures.

How did we win our first elimination game in 19 years? We played a perfect defensive checking game and waited for our chance. How many goals did we need to win? Two, one in overtime. We probably would have won 1-0 if not for an egregious error by WIly as well.

As for your last point, this couldn't be further from the truth... Over that 7 game stretch Nylander had 2 goals, one a fluky bounce off the ref to leave him alone in front, the other a turnover he was able to skate on to and score what was a rare softie short-side on Bob. Over that 7 game stretch he had a -7 goal differential despite being sheltered from the top two matchups and often starting in the offensive zone.

Marner, Matthews and Rielly have all been better of the last 3 years, as were ROR and Knies in his short stint last year.

The Knights of Nylander are truly a loyal bunch...
Forum: Armchair-GM31 juill. 2023 à 0 h 12
Sujet: Pesce and Olaf
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>gmurrayt</b></div><div>He is lazy at times and does not put the team first. There have been numerous instances in the play offs that have been highlighted where he just bails on a play because he doesn't want to sacrifice himself. And one of the most important requirements of play off hockey is to sacrifice for the team. How do you think the minimum wage players feel when they see that type of play, they say to themselves "why should I go out and sacrifice for the team if the so called super stars who make a lot more money aren't willing to do it." He has tons of skill and talent, but his actions on the ice too many times just scream "me first". That is the culture that a team needs to get rid of to be successful, and that is my guess why someone like ROR probably got out of dodge at the first opportunity, because he knew he mental make up of the team, and knew it is not the foundation of a Stanley Cup winner.</div></div>

Sure. But I was replying to him being called the worst defensive player in the nhl
Forum: Armchair-GM10 juill. 2023 à 22 h 24
Sujet: TreeLeafing Part 2
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>MurraysGloveSide</b></div><div>Kressler alone is nowhere near enough to dump the Murray Contract. Arizona knowing the Leaf's cap situation probably demands a 2nd+. </div></div>

I don't even think it's about knowing the Leafs are painted into a corner. I don't think Arizons want the salary that comes with the contract, even if it was a 2nd+. They already have two decent goaltenders on decent contracts. The only team that can buy out Murray now is the Leafs, because they waited until after the first buyout window, and the second window only works on guys you had at the TDL. So you can't throw out a 2nd and say to another team, "He's your problem now. Just buy him out."

Someone has to pay him $6 million in real dollars in addition to eating the cap. Pretty sure it won't be Arizona. I don't think the Leafs want to give up what it would take to offload him, so they just need to bite the bullet and buy him out. Or trade someone else to make cap room and sit on him for a year without the cap penalty in 24-25.

Either way it's ugly, and teams will all tell you "Not my problem". Chicago is one of the few teams with deep pockets and cap space, but they are going to want to get paid well for the inconvenience.