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https://twitter.com/JeffMarek/status/880424322397024257 He's before my time, but there has always been a soft spot in my heart for people like him and Gino Odjick.
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I've tried to bring the OP up to date with trades and sufficiently relevant signings. Anything you want me to add that isn't there? (The criteria was my gut feeling of relevance when looking at TSN's free agent tracker.)
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The Marleau deal is good. He plays a year and a half for Toronto then either hangs out on Robidas Island or gets traded to Vegas once his cap hit is significantly lower than his actual pay. e: Once his signing bonus finishes, a team can take him on for 1.25 million in actual pay versus a 6.25 million cap hit.
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:We're talking about a guy who's played a full season since 2009. I know no one would dare question the institutional integrity of such a storied organization but him suddenly having a LTIR-able condition would be awfully Hossa-esque. Yeah but the league office has never cared about anything more official than plausible deniability.
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Jul 2, 2017 23:16
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Kilza posted:https://twitter.com/mirtle/status/882748291083063296 Nice to see Zach Hyman make good on what is almost certainly the only multi-year contract he's ever going to see.
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Spelling Mitsake posted:Has Brian Burke ever done anything good? (Serious question) Tried to barn fight Kevin Lowe over offer sheeting Dustin Penner.
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a false posted:this is one of the best things anyone has done in hockey How many of the top 10 things in hockey history are some version of off-ice confrontation? Because there's Terry O'Reilly going into the crowd, the Flyers fan going into the box to fight Tie Domi, and, while they don't make the overall list, I love Tortorella at the Flames dressing room and injured as gently caress Darcy Tucker going from the press box to rinkside to try and get at Cam Janssen after Janssen hit Kaberle.
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Jul 10, 2017 16:57
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A player going through the glass to smash the green men would be a top 5, for sure
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Jul 10, 2017 19:34
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JoelJoel posted:The signing sucks but what it represents is the real worrying bit. Looked like they were finally committed to building an actual team for a bit there. Shame they're so high on that litch king they got running things. I mean they signed some old dudes, but they didn't trade anyone away either. It looks more like the "veteran mentorship" fetish that led to them giving Roman Polak two years than a team that's trying to skip ahead in the rebuild and go all in. It's not like trading Rask for Raycroft or Steen and Colaiaccovo for Stempniak.
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Jul 17, 2017 22:31
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JoelJoel posted:I dunno, some of the other old man contracts they signed don't seem so awful, but Marleau just screams "we're close and just need that extra piece". Why do you think that? Like, there are more cost efficient options out there, but Zach Hyman was fourth on the team in ATOI last year so they did need another top 6 winger who killed penalties, and Marleau's contract is set up so that he's probably only gonna play two years for the Leafs. They overpaid for a necessary upgrade — they didn't mortgage anything.
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ThinkTank posted:They didn't give up physical assets, but cap space is a commodity in and of itself. Considering JVR's contract is up in a year's time, it probably means the team can no longer fit him in under the cap. Is one year of Marleau worth losing JVR next summer? I'd argue no. They're already trying to trade JVR so I suspect that's not going to be an issue. And, I think, it is probably a good idea to let JVR walk since his defence already comes close to negating his offence, which is kind of impressive, when you consider that his offence is really good. Anyway, I think that talking about cap space in this way is already a bit of a move from the original discussion, which was whether the Marleau signing represented the Leafs trying to go all in or skip the rebuild or something to that effect. To say that they didn't really give anything up to sign Marleau, in the context of the conversation, is probably best taken along the lines of "they didn't trade picks or prospects for anyone." Like sure they could've gotten a comparable player to Marleau for, like, 2.5/1 or something, but burning cap space is not the same as trading futures.
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Jul 18, 2017 13:23
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Ligur posted:hay guyz how is the Leafs defence? Their top six this year is probably gonna be Gardiner/Rielly/Zaitsev/Carrick/Marincin/Hainsey which is fine. Their biggest problem last year was relying on Hunwick/Polak for serious shutdown stands towards the end of the game, and I dunno if they've done anything to fix that, but outside of that they're probably average to above average.
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Jul 20, 2017 11:06
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The Golden Man posted:Jerseys are already ads Sports fandom is a conflict where fans fight with the team for control of the brand. Nobody wants to fight for possession of Allstate Insurance.
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Jul 21, 2017 11:23
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The Golden Man posted:I'm gonna beat Daryl Katz by buying five Draisaitl jerseys I don't know that this strategy promises much success. Jamwad Hilder posted:To me sports fandom is about seeing My Boys from Our City kick the poo poo out of A Bunch of Pussies from The Wrong City so that the people from that place, which is probably lovely, feel bad. Yeah and you want them to be 'my boys from our city' and not 'profitable employee for megacorp.' The players should belong to you, not Rogers.
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Jul 21, 2017 14:50
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Delightfully on-brand for both Burke and Johnson.
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Aug 3, 2017 08:31
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DJExile posted:Justin Bourne has a neat free article on The Athletic about the difficulty in making tactical adjustments mid-game, or even mid-season Want to rescue this from the bottom of a page because it's really good.
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Twin Cinema posted:I am surprised someone didn't post the top centres list and have an aneurysm over Matthews being ranked 4th. It's because Leafs fans are chill enough now that we're not bothered about him being underrated.
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Aug 28, 2017 17:25
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It's September. When do we want to bury the offseason thread?
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Sep 1, 2017 14:19
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Which playoff series did actually break teams? The 2011 SCF seems like the obvious first choice, but what else? Maybe Leafs-Bruins 2013 but I don't know if the 2013 Leafs counted as not-broken to begin with.
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Sep 4, 2017 14:48
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fits posted:sabres havent won a series since 2006 They but they just kind of bled out of their contention cycle, with an increasing number of players walking in UFA. It's not like they made a series of insane decisions overreacting to a playoff loss. Also I'm totally on board with counting Caps-Habs.
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CBJSprague24 posted:Can somebody post the third and fourth goals from PIT/CBJ Game 4 in 2014 for me? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQGz9UoKOKo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfT2jlkqtLI
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Sep 4, 2017 21:24
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Jamwad Hilder posted:man I always forget Bernie Nicholls scored fuckin 70 goals that one year. I mean obviously he was a good player but when you're looking at the list of "Players who score 70 goals in a season" or "Players who had 150+ points in a season" his name always sticks out Doubly so because Jagr topped out at 149 in 1996.
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Sep 5, 2017 18:56
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bewbies posted:lemieux was good enough that he managed to fool the entire hockey world into thinking kevin stevens was a good NHL forward So this is a bit before my time but wasn't Kevin Stevens actually pretty decent until he decided to go all in on the Bryan Fogarty Fitness Plan?
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Sep 5, 2017 19:19
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I have vague recollections of Fleury trying to climb out of the penalty box to fight the crowd at some point. I also always thought it was really funny that Fleury was on, specifically, the Giants.
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Thufir posted:I wonder what the unintended consequences of this will be? Guessing more euro players staying in Europe vs trying the CHL, maybe some top-level NA 18s too? Isn't Pat Lafontaine, who is also the main guy pushing this, trying to start up some kind of league aimed at 18-19 year olds?
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yellowcar posted:He's like 5'7" which was the only reason why he fell all the way to the 2nd round. I mean, he was also like the 4th or 5th best forward in an insanely stacked top 6, so people were also skeptical of how much of his production was him.
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iospace posted:We do need a proper pre season thread I suspect that we do.
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