One potentially key factor on that front is that Kessel’s production last season with the Boston Bruins came in large part at even strength, with just eight of his goals scored on the power play. Only six players – Alex Ovechkin, Ilya Kovalchuk, Zach Parise, Marian Hossa, Rick Nash and Jeff Carter – had more even-strength goals than Kessel last season, and 13 games into this season, that’s precisely where Toronto needs a boost.
James Mirtle tries to avoid H1N1 as he reports on Ron Wilson's attempts to get blood from a stone. Just kidding. Goals will come.
The Leafs are getting killed at evens which is a big change post-lockout (at least for the first three years) so any boost would be a godsend.
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JEFF
FREAKING
CARTER
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by blurr1974 on Nov 5, 2009 12:33 PM EST reply actions
seriously
as anyone ever thought about trading for him? He looks like a decent little player.
Maybe some sort of Kaberle package would work. Do you think? Throw in a pick? ANyone? ANyone?
Philly was going to give US a first in that deal.
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seriously?
you guys didn’t know this??
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by Karina on Nov 5, 2009 2:27 PM EST up reply actions
oh
I see no reason why I needed to be reminded of this. :(
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by Karina on Nov 5, 2009 2:39 PM EST up reply actions
my sarcasm didnt apparently register
that rumoured deal still makes me wince, and I’m a Kaberle fan.
Carter and Kessel on our top line now? As Clay Davis would say, SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!
who did
Philly end up taking with the 1st that we would have gotten in that trade?
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by Karina on Nov 5, 2009 3:00 PM EST up reply actions
wow
thing is, would we have been bad enough with Carter to draft Schenn?
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by Karina on Nov 5, 2009 3:01 PM EST up reply actions
well i think if we got Carter and a first, Cliffy woulda packaged that first with ours and moved to at least Schenn territory
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 3:03 PM EST up reply actions
hard to say, but i would still say yes, considering we had to trade up anyways.
There is no "I" in team, but there is an "M" and an "E"
what was packaged with our first to get Schenn?
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 3:03 PM EST up reply actions
a lower round pick or two, I think…
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by Karina on Nov 5, 2009 3:04 PM EST up reply actions
yea i think it was a 2nd and 4th…i could be wrong though
There is no "I" in team, but there is an "M" and an "E"
so say with carter the leafs finnished 4 places higher (he hadn’t broken out yet so and his impact wouldnt have been that great for the games after the deadline) and the leafs drafted 11th
the 11th and the 13th over all plus whatever else was thrown in probably coulda got the leafs to 5th
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 3:06 PM EST up reply actions
oh please stop talking about this
it hurts my heart. There’s no question we would currently have Carter + Schenn or close equivalent – Kaberle. I love Kabby, but I’m sorry, I say that’s not a 1-11 team
we wouldn't have Schenn
we’d have Doughty, Bogosian or Stamkos.
Two firsts could get you first overall. That said, they might have sit pat and taken a guy like Boedker or Hodgson
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by blurr1974 on Nov 5, 2009 3:26 PM EST up reply actions
or a double trade up, got schenn, used the other one to get hodgeson or Boedker…
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 3:28 PM EST up reply actions
After Kaberle
there’s nothing left to trade but picks.
If they traded for Carter, I can’t see them taking a shot for Stamkos, they’d be looking for a winger to play with Carter, and chances are that could have been Boedker.
If they still wanted a d-man, Tyler Meyers would have been the last one of the top 10 on the board I think.
Jeff Freaking Carter
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by blurr1974 on Nov 5, 2009 3:30 PM EST up reply actions
well, they’d still need an elite winger for Carter to play with
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 4:03 PM EST up reply actions
ooops
hit post before i was done.
anyhoo, could have taken Hodgson at 7th overall, and drafted again in the late 20s with Philly’s pick.
Long story short, this team would be even younger
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by blurr1974 on Nov 5, 2009 3:28 PM EST up reply actions
if the leafs had traded kabby i think they woulda made a push for an offensive D and doughty probably would have been the main target, then Bogsian.
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 3:31 PM EST up reply actions
ya
and with two firsts, it would have been pretty easy to get.
Drew Doughty is filthy.
this is making me angry….
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by blurr1974 on Nov 5, 2009 3:33 PM EST up reply actions
Not much point in speculating this anymore.
We have Schenn, we have Kessel, and we still have Kaberle.
I am happy with this.
next year…Marleau!
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 3:35 PM EST up reply actions
i love speculating, its my second favourite thing after dreaming up trade rumours
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 3:36 PM EST up reply actions
Don’t get me wrong I love speculating. I am more into the whole, what could we possibly be doing in the future thing though as opposed to what could we have done in the past.
i like doing both
thats why i am curious to see how Burke is going to recoup for the loss of next years 1st over all (as kessel is this years)
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 3:49 PM EST up reply actions
“If the Leafs had traded…”
It’s not like they didn’t want to.
by theothervatican on Nov 5, 2009 3:34 PM EST up reply actions
Thanks again go to JFJ for passing out NTC’s and NMC’s as if they were halloween candy.
leaf fan stuck in ottawa, still. Now truculently rebranded!
and not trading Tucker and McCabe when their value was at its highest
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 3:38 PM EST up reply actions
Boyes and Kessel on a line…
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 3:50 PM EST up reply actions
Both right wings...
If we still had Boyes, we wouldn’t have Kessel.
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by blurr1974 on Nov 5, 2009 3:53 PM EST up reply actions
shhh
your ruining it
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 3:59 PM EST up reply actions
adn
I’d MUCH prefer Kessel.
Boyes’ll be washed up soon, I can feel it in my bones.
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by Karina on Nov 5, 2009 4:04 PM EST up reply actions
Imagine if Rask wasn’t that good or Pogge lived up to his hype.
Sucks we gave guys away but that’s how the chips fall sometimes. We had two of the best goaltending prospects in the league and needed a goalie who was ready to play.
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the problem wasnt so much the goalie traded away it was the return for said goalie.
there had to be better options than Raycroft out there
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 4:06 PM EST up reply actions
Raycroft one season removed from the Calder trophy? It turns out that the freak season he had was his first, not his second.
Hindsight is 20/20.
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still, you dont trade away a top flight goaltender prospect for a goalie who MIGHT bounce back
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 4:13 PM EST up reply actions
You do when you have two top prospects and that goalie won the Calder and is really young.
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it made tons of sense to me at the time, as well.
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by Karina on Nov 5, 2009 4:16 PM EST up reply actions
it didnt to me, then i convinced myself it did, then the wheels fell off and i went crazy
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 4:16 PM EST up reply actions
I remember being so excited when we got toskala……….
There is no "I" in team, but there is an "M" and an "E"
i was actually more excited for Mark Bell, i thought he would rebound for some reason
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 4:26 PM EST up reply actions
me too
plus he’s pretty
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by Karina on Nov 5, 2009 4:38 PM EST up reply actions
I was not happy about the trade.
I hoped Raycroft would be good, but I was pissed off we didn’t get someone proven for our blue chip goalie prospect.
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Nov 5, 2009 6:28 PM EST up reply actions
hey blurr
Patrick Marleau’s Olympic stock is rising: 6 goals, 10 assists during a 9 game point streak
16 points in 9 games…… LUST
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by Karina on Nov 5, 2009 4:12 PM EST reply actions
I know
:(
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by Karina on Nov 5, 2009 4:56 PM EST up reply actions
BUT
wouldn’t it be awesome if Marleau’s on Team Canada and Thornton’s not???
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by Karina on Nov 5, 2009 5:02 PM EST up reply actions
he annoys me. There is no logical reason for it.
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by Karina on Nov 5, 2009 5:06 PM EST up reply actions
you think?
I don’t.
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by Karina on Nov 5, 2009 6:24 PM EST up reply actions
id say a 50/50 shot
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 10:23 PM EST up reply actions
oh sweet fcking christ, enough with jeff carter.
everyone forgets carter was playing like sh8t before the trade deadline that year. That’s why Philly was trying to shop him. He only stepped it up after he was embarrassed by his name being tossed around as trade bait. He scored 15 pts in 18 games from mar 1st to the end of the season. He had scored 38 pts in 64 games prior.
Regardless, IT’S TIME TO LET IT GO PEOPLE.
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NEVAR!
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 5:51 PM EST up reply actions
Jeff Freaking Carter
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by Karina on Nov 5, 2009 6:11 PM EST up reply actions
the new dream is Marleau anyways
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 6:13 PM EST up reply actions
excellent
glad you’ve decided to follow blurr and I.
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by Karina on Nov 5, 2009 6:19 PM EST up reply actions
the more I think about it the more i like it, The bruins will really push to keep Savard, and I think Marleau will be cheaper as he will sign where he wants to play, not where the biggest money comes from IMO
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 6:21 PM EST up reply actions
isn’t marleau the same age as kabby? isn’t the trade kabby crowd saying he’ll be too old by the time the leafs are ‘ready to compete’?
Yesterday is dead, but not my memory.
he is
one year younger than Kabby……
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by Karina on Nov 5, 2009 7:35 PM EST up reply actions
I agree
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by PPP on Nov 5, 2009 7:40 PM EST up reply actions
well then savard is out too
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 7:53 PM EST up reply actions
do you know who had 34 pts – 4 less than carter – in his first 64 games that year too? LEE NINJA STEMPNIAK.
do you know who also had almost the exact same amount of points in their first 18 games in 08/09 as jeff carter did in his first 18 games in 08/09? LEE NINJA STEMPNIAK.
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Do you know who didn't turn out like Lee Stempniak....?
JEFF
FREAKING
CARTER
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by blurr1974 on Nov 5, 2009 6:22 PM EST up reply actions
i’ve always wanted that trade to happen.
the only folks who get their panties in a bunch about this are the ones who think Kabby is untouchable.
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by blurr1974 on Nov 5, 2009 8:31 PM EST up reply actions
it's true
Blurr has always regretted that this didn’t happen.
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by Karina on Nov 5, 2009 8:47 PM EST up reply actions
although im glad we didnt trade him for vorachek and a 2nd
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 5, 2009 8:55 PM EST up reply actions
You might not say that
in 4 years.
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- Sir Winston Churchill
I'm pretty sure he's talking about the Leafs.
by Steve Burtch on Nov 5, 2009 11:57 PM EST up reply actions
In fact
I’d just like to point out that Voracek is 20 years old and he’s on pace to score 23 goals and put up 58 points. AT 20!!!
Kessel put up 60 points last year at 21… and we’re all ready to foist him aloft as our (latest) saviour. If we had Voracek feeding him pucks on the power play for the future they might both be shooting out the lights for YEARS.
Oh and they both play RW so we might actually have a balanced attack in the future. Plus we’d have another 2nd round pick to draft… and that never hurts.
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by Steve Burtch on Nov 6, 2009 12:02 AM EST up reply actions
i just think we can get MORE for him next offseason!
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by JaredFromLondon on Nov 6, 2009 7:36 AM EST up reply actions
you know which player has scored 46 goals? JEFF FREAKING CARTER
Who’s scored 84 points in a season? JEFF FREAKING CARTER
Stepniak’s already hit his ceiling. Carter’s is a lot higher.
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by Karina on Nov 5, 2009 6:24 PM EST up reply actions
hehe
I like this game.
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