Maple Leafs Acquire Olaf Kolzig
by PPP on Mar 4, 2009 4:22 PM EST
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PrintWow. The Maple Leafs just acquired Olaf Kolzig, Jamie Heward, Andy Rogers and a 4th round pick from the Tampa Bay Lightning for Richard Petiot.
Kolzig is on the Injured Reserve and is an unrestricted free agent at the end of the year. No worries for Martin Gerber then as he will continue to be the Toronto Maple Leafs' number one goalie. Did anyone else feel like gouging out their eyes after reading that? Well how do you think I feel after cutting my hands off after writing it.
That picture accurately reflects Heward's mental state right now. He is concussed and will join Olaf in free agency this summer. He will likely never dress for the Leafs.
Andy Rogers does not get a nice picture or stats because he is a 22 year old 6'5" defensive prospect. He is a stay at home defender and here is his Hockey's Future profile:
Many scouts will agree with Rogers. His combination of defensive play, physical presence, and sheer skating ability make him an intriguing prospect to say the least. Many teams may look over his offensive shortcomings, simply because of his smooth stride and physical stature.
Future
Finding the combined size and skating ability that Rogers possesses is rare, especially in a defensemen. But because of his limited offensive upside, may find himself further down a club's depth chart.
With his defensive presence, Rogers could play an important role on any hockey club, but he does not appear to have superstar potential.
That tells you all that you need to know about the player that the Leafs are sending to Tampa Bay. They must have a complete set of minor league defencemen by now. Anyway, in a year in which the Leafs' defence was riddled with injuries and the club dressed nine rookies for over 300 man games (eventually) Petiot did not get a sniff.
So it looks like Burke just bought a fourth round pick and a prospect and the Lightning must be in serious financial trouble if this deal makes sense for them.
Update:
Mirtle has more details on the cap/revenue sharing implications of the deal.
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The Leafs have some kind of special cafeteria plan for expired goalies?
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jrwendelman
The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at heroesinrehab.ca/blog
"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)
don’t think it’s a cap move as Kolzig is on IR for probably the rest of the season, seems like more of a cash dump from a team strapped for assets to one with tonnes of cash. They also get more defensive depth and what will likely turn out to be a negligible pick…
essentially confirmed by Burke in presser as a cap move only. Will not affect Leafs’ goaltending “this year”.
jrwendelman
The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at heroesinrehab.ca/blog
"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)
That’s what I thought. If Olie ever wears a Leaf jersey, he’ll be sitting in the stands while he does it.
jrwendelman
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"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)
Thanks for joining.
Yeah, the Leafs are taking some debt off of the Lightning owner’s plates in exchange for Rogers and a 4th.
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I’m just going to pretend this deal didn’t happen.
Will any of these players ever play for the Leafs or Lightning?
by Evening News Team on Mar 4, 2009 4:33 PM EST reply actions
tomorrow I’m gonna wake up and I won’t believe any of today was real
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
tomorrow
I’m not going to wake up as I’m sleeping through to Draft day.
by Karina on Mar 4, 2009 4:34 PM EST up reply actions
If approved, this would drop Tampa to the point where they would be receiving revenue sharing from the league.
Ding ding ding. Tampa’s owners save a ton of real cash because of this deal.
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I’m a Caps fan, but any olie kolzig news strikes my fancy… why in gods name would burke pull the trigger on this one?
It’s a cash dump by the Lightning and if handknit is right a pretty important one.
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by PPP on Mar 4, 2009 4:38 PM EST up reply actions
Eat salary, get a pick and a prospect for “nothing”.
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thanks guys, I appreciate it. Here’s hoping you completely destroy Jose Theodores confidence tomorrow so the Caps are forced to bring up Varlamov for the playoffs
What’s up with Ovie’s injury?
jrwendelman
The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at heroesinrehab.ca/blog
"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)
got hit in the foot by a puck during practice, limped off the ice. It got overhyped by the Toronto and Canadian press during the slow part of the deadline day. I expect him to play tomorrow.
According to the Washington Post Beat Writer Tarik El-Bashir Ovi didn’t appear to be limping as of a couple hours ago.
In other words
BB turns cash (which MLSE has) into extra draft picks (which it did not).
I say, well done.
jrwendelman
The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at heroesinrehab.ca/blog
"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)
nhl network...
is saying the TO-TB deal is Toronto getting a pick for TB salary relief
Also, Andy Rogers was a 1st round pick.
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by blurr1974 on Mar 4, 2009 4:51 PM EST reply actions
Rogers
I like that pick up, he’s not a superstar but he’s big and seems mean and besides, we’re set on D for “superstar”.
I wanted more trades like t his though :(
by Karina on Mar 4, 2009 5:09 PM EST reply actions
Rogers will be a good player to have when we need a fill in on D. Good last minute deal.
by Its Cold In Here on Mar 4, 2009 5:14 PM EST up reply actions
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