Leafs acquire Matt Lashoff
PPP Edit: Linked the official press release. It's an AHL move which is why no Leafs beat writers saw it coming. Andy Strickland broke it as far as I can see. Good on the HockeyBuzzard.
Could be a way to get a contract off of the team's books or maybe Burke hated the thought of someone else having a defenceman.
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MOAR DEFENSEMEN!!!!!
lol agreed I want to post this at TSN cause the comments are facepalm inducing. But that would require signing up, far too much effort. I see he was picked 22nd overall and is only 23, I wonder what his potential is. Never can have too much depth I suppose.
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I feel the same way – facepalm inducing comments but I am far to lazy to sign-up.
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by The Meatriarchy on Aug 27, 2010 8:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Nice deal
Clear out 2 filler roles for one (probably) filler D, but who has a much higher upside if he can finally put everything together.
Lashoff likely won’t turn into much but Berry and Giliati certainly wont turn into anything worthwhile either, so atleast we a getting rid of a contract. Good trade.
Here is Lashoff’s profile at Hockey’s Future for what it’s worth http://www.hockeysfuture.com/prospects/matt_lashoff
Why would tampa trade this guy (for nothing)? He seems like he could actually be an NHLer one day (even a bottom pair guy).
LebdaLebdaLebdaLebdaLebdaLebda… becomes LashoffLashoffLashoffLashoffLashoff?
by Death_By_Leafs on Aug 27, 2010 6:53 PM EDT up reply actions
From Raw Charge:
This move can also be seen as a sort of salary dump. Lashoff’s contract for 2010-11 is a one-way deal, he makes $550,000 playing in the NHL or AHL. With no guarantee that he will make the NHL squad in Tampa… Well, sending him elsewhere seemed like it made sense
…
The move clears out some of the back-log in on-the-cusp defensemen in the Lightning system, and a contract tied to a player that very well might not make the team.
by Brad Ackerson on Aug 27, 2010 6:53 PM EDT up reply actions
The move clears out some of the back-log in on-the-cusp defensemen in the Lightning system, and a contract tied to a player that very well might not make the team.
I was just wondering… shouldn’t that end as: “…and two contracts for two players coming back that very well might not make the team.” I mean isn’t that usually the rule with salary dumps – you have to take something you don’t really need (like in this case the extra AHLer) as the cost for a salary dump?
"There's been four different Cup winners the last four years, and I got one of them (Anaheim) and it was a fighting team. We're playing it that way regardless." - B. Burke, Toronto Maple Leafs GM
I think the guys we sent have AHL salaries… Lashoff only has a one way deal, so he gets paid $525,000 whether in the NHL or AHL.
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by Karina on Aug 27, 2010 8:48 PM EDT up reply actions
ding ding ding
Say what you want about MLSE… but they’re willing to pay a guy 500,000 to play for our minor league team. The 2 guys going to Tampa combined will make like 100,000.
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by nhlcheapshot on Aug 28, 2010 12:03 PM EDT up reply actions
Is there any hope this is preliminary to getting rid of some pieces of the league’s most expensive defense with the 2nd worst GAA?
Bingo.
The defense core itself is fine if our goaltending is a least hovering around league average.
Bobby Ryan...can he be acquired?
blurr1974: No.
by Chris Stoikoff on Aug 27, 2010 7:33 PM EDT up reply actions
To answer your question though, Dave, I don’t think this is a sign that Finger will be moved / stashed on the Marlies. This seems more like helping Tampa out (by taking on salary), freeing up an ELC, and picking up a prospect who will increase the competition for ice-time on our young Marlies defence corp (i beleive this makes it Aulie, Blacker, Mikus, Lashoff and… I forget, someone help me out.)
Finger? ;)
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by Karina on Aug 27, 2010 8:17 PM EDT up reply actions
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by blindfolded tank driver on Aug 27, 2010 8:29 PM EDT up reply actions
He’s not on the Leafs’ reserve list.
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Yes he was.
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by nhlcheapshot on Aug 28, 2010 12:04 PM EDT up reply actions
AHL
i’m gunna go out on a limb here and say that this guy is not gunna see anything more than middle of the pack AHL minutes this season…a D-man with some NHL experience to help our real young guns on the back end.
There’s always that chance that he’s put into a package with another NHL D for a forward, but im not holdin my breath for that deal hehe
"i get paid for the practices...i'd play the geams for free" - Tim Horton
This trade: TB Salary Dump + Leafs’ need for SPC room = AHL d-man.
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Tinfoil time:
I think that this may also be the kind of favour Burke likes to do so he has a chip to call in somewhere down the line.
Also never hurts to help out a new GM by doing something that’s irrelevant for you, but can help him cut payroll a little and get into his good books from day 1.
by Death_By_Leafs on Aug 27, 2010 8:34 PM EDT up reply actions
If someone could point me to a move where Burke cashed in said chip I might be willing to buy this…for now, I’ll just refer to this as the tinfoil option.
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ya…technically wasn’t it a “tinfoil option” when we took Olaf Kolzig and that other random defenseman a couple years ago?
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wasn’t that for help in the draft… re: moving up? O’goodtimes!
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4th rounder that we defaulted for buying Frogren out of his SEL contract.
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Aug 27, 2010 8:57 PM EDT up reply actions
sooooo then really it just ended up being a show of good faith thing in the end.
but good call, i forgot it was as high as a fourth rounder
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Also
that deal took just enough salary off the books that Tampa qualified for revenue sharing.
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Aug 27, 2010 10:08 PM EDT up reply actions
memory lane
you remember when trades were just about talent for talent? hehe
Clearly i gotta step up my research game a bit cus that’s a really interesting bonus in that trade…thoroughly impressed with the insight.
"i get paid for the practices...i'd play the geams for free" - Tim Horton
at the time there were some concerns that Burke basically took the salary for players he had no intention of ever using and bought a draft pick – which he did.
But it helped a southern NHL team in turmoil get revenue sharing, so I think the Board of Governors looked the other way.
To make it a true ‘hockey deal’ the Leafs sent a career minor-leaguer back the other way.
Good times – I hoped to see more like that, but I guess the situation needs to be just right before those deals can actually take place.
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Aug 27, 2010 11:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Trading two pretty much useless players for one player who appears to still have some potential isn’t exactly my idea of a favour.
by Brad Ackerson on Aug 27, 2010 9:22 PM EDT up reply actions
550,000 > 65,000 + 62,500
cash rules everything around me
cream
get the money
dollar dollar bill, y’all
by Death_By_Leafs on Aug 27, 2010 9:26 PM EDT up reply actions
If only we could make this kind of deal on a larger scale….
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by Karina on Aug 27, 2010 9:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Burke clearing space to allow Hanson to be signed under the total contract limit? Moving two, adding Lashoff = 49 i believe
bingo!
i hadn’t even thought of Hanson…that’s a great call…knew the move was to free up a contract but i didn’t know who it might be for…think you hit the nail on the head here
"i get paid for the practices...i'd play the geams for free" - Tim Horton
Great point
Hadn’t thought of Hanson. That could very much be it.
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he was already in their 50
according to capgeek
Hanson is slot 49; they still have 1 more spot to sign a player.
Heelllo Bill Swea- uh… I mean… Step right up, Joel Champ- huh…
(shrugs)
by Death_By_Leafs on Aug 27, 2010 10:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Gotcha
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bubbly is still unsigned I think
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 27, 2010 11:17 PM EDT up reply actions
and he'll stay that way
too fat for EC Salzburg, heading back to patty roy.
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by Death_By_Leafs on Aug 27, 2010 11:36 PM EDT up reply actions
In the past 15 seconds, I’ve gone from ‘Who the fuck is Tim Brent?’ to ‘Who the fuck is Matt Lashoff?’
I think this is progress.
I also think that this not only frees up a space so we can stay under 50 total contracts, it also frees up spots at forward on the Marlies for the Dale Mitchell/Stefanovich/Kadri/D’Amigo influx next month.
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two people did, you were second. Thus, for the sake of clutter and clarity, one was removed, and one was bumped up.
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 28, 2010 11:44 AM EDT up reply actions
I just really wanted to post that.
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by i2strange97 on Aug 28, 2010 12:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Title posts with pictures next time.
So people can shrink the picture if their computers are slow.
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by nhlcheapshot on Aug 28, 2010 12:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Damn Canadian blogs and their “rules…”
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by i2strange97 on Aug 28, 2010 12:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Ok. This went the opposite way I wanted it. (No Pictures In This Comment)
I’ll just go now. Thanks for your American hospitality.
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 28, 2010 1:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Three people did at around the same time so I deleted the two with the fewest comments.
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