Want it Fast & Hard (No, That's Not What She Said...)

Of course when the rest of my row came back a few minutes later from the acc club (you guys were not kidding) I had to tell them how it was a crap goal.

Another difference: I was surprised by it.

The difference is, it looked to me like Kabby’s shot was tipped by the defender’s stick—deflected downward just enough to get between arm and pad. Oh and the difference was also that Kabby’s shot was actually on net.

I’m greedy, I’m going to ask for both to be dragged down.

Leafs #8 (or higher) – (30th pick? I wish)
Montreal #9 (with 13th pick)
Ottawa #10 (with 12th pick)

That would be beautiful

it’s not a cut and dry issue.

this year, I’m even ok with trading a #1 overall for Kessel. Looking at his draft year, I still can’t believe Jordan Staal and Erik Johnson went before him.

that we traded away over a year before the draft do not bother me in the slightest

The Niedermayer deal? That’s an idiotic assertion because there’s ZERO guarantee the Leafs would have taken him.

What bothers me are things like the Rask trade… then we know what we had, and we can be SURE he’d be ours.

I also am bothered by the fact that we traded picks in order to pick Luke Schenn when we could have stayed right where we were and picked Tyler Myers and 2 other players in that draft, without helping the Islanders get better, or the Sabres draft Myers.

I am mainly irked by that because I was calling for the Leafs to draft Myers long before the actual draft.

id rather see them get crushed in 4 games than be a bubble team. if anything to end the goddamn playoff drought

Was Semin the guy who wouldn’t either sign, or just cross the pond, until he was guaranteed NHL playing time? I know he’s not the only Russian to do so, but for some reason I thought their was a hiccup with him and the Caps after getting drafted.

All of these numbers just magnify the implications of that horrid start.

when you realize the Leafs only have 3 forwards who cost over $3 million as a cap hit.

Even if Poni and Stajan make 4… that brings the total up to 4 guys making between $4 million and $6 million.

Asking a free agent born and raised in the GTA who has never played for the Leafs, and asking a guy who’s played his entire career for the Leafs are two separate things.

JFJ tried to exploit the first one, which doesn’t exist.

Even with all his mistakes, the two best deals he made as GM were the ANtropov and Kaberle deals. Guys who had played their entire career in Toronto, and who signed to what were widely believed to be underpaid contracts.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to think Poni and Stajan might take a tiny bit less to stay. (Maybe they ask 3.8 instead of 4, for example)

Stalberg in Stempniak’s spot makes sense to me. Hanson will have to be re-signed, won’t he?

That’s exactly how I feel about Kulemin his year. It’s nice that the hooplah only lasted for a few weeks last season and he has been allowed to develop quietly into a solid second year player on the 3rd line.

If he gets 10-15 goals and 20-25 assists with a decent +/- I’ll be happy.

He’s getting 15 minutes a night almost exclusively a even-strength so it looks like RW is still easing him in.

You give veterans a lot of money when you’re close to competing for something meaningful. The Leafs weren’t close when he was signed and have not been close since.

He might be a 4 million dollar player, but not on the Leafs. Maybe on a team that doesn’t have cap issues, has lots of young players in place and can afford to pay a guy 4 million to basically contribute 60 points and not much else.

Wait… I can’t think of a single team that fits those criteria…

he was also a 1st round draft pick, 22nd overall.

Part of his problem is he has NEVER played a full 82 games… injury issues?

7 separate seasons with 20+ points in the NHL isn’t that bad though. His D isn’t great but he’s only been a minus player 4 times in 11 years.

He’s not that great, but at this point he’s a fill in replacement level guy… so no biggie.