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# Elliotte Friedman: Tim Thomas to Toronto?
- URL: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/elliotte-friedman-tim-thomas-to/
- Published: 2010-01-25T17:55:13.000Z
- Updated: 2010-01-25T17:55:13.000Z
- Author: Jason Orach
- Tags: Opinion Poll, #chorus, #Import 2023-04-05 11:27

["30 Thoughts" by the CBC's Elliotte Friedman](http://www.cbc.ca/sports/blogs/2010/01/time%5Ffor%5Fcanadiens%5Fto%5Fconsider.html?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) is a blog post I genuinely look forward to on a weekly basis, much like Big Daddy Drew's Dick Joke Jambaroo. Friedman is a respectable and credible source, and in this week's column he writes:

> The [Maple Leafs](http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/teams/TOR?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) say they will take an ugly contract if the rest of the booty is worth it. Philly (a prime candidate) does not have a first-round draft pick. He’s got to get either a first-rounder or a high-end prospect to make sense. You know who’d make sense – and I STRESS I’m guessing here, too – is [Tim Thomas](http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/players/54839/Tim%5FThomas?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com), but he’s got a no-trade for the first three years of his contract.

First things first, people have pointed out that every year pundits and scribes say "Team X will take a bad contract to get a first round pick" and the closest thing that has happened in that vein was Toronto taking a fourth round pick from Tampa in exchange for bad contracts.

Tim Thomas has a .914 save percentage and three years remaining on his contract with a cap hit of $5M. He's a clear upgrade in net for Toronto. Much like the Nylander situation in Washington I don't think the Leafs are talented enough to say that they don't have room for Nylander or Thomas. Echoing the Nylander situation though you have to imagine the [Bruins](http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/teams/BOS?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) would be crazy to move a decent goalie so soon after re-signing him.

Your question of the day then is did Brian Burke hack into Elliotte Friedman's CBC account to convince the Bruins to give us a good player and a pick somehow? What other explanation is there for this article?

### Did Brian Burke hack into Elliotte Friedman's CBC account?

| Yes | 160 |
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| No  | 59  |