Leafs Talk

21 Sep 2020 17:02:37
There is only one way Toronto can land petro and that is through signing bonuses if they can keep the cap hit low it maybe possible believe it or not the big four most of there deals are already half paid in actual money I think the leafs being the richest team allows them to do a lot more than any team in the league

21 Sep 2020 22:55:40
Its a great enticement giving bonus money out to sign a UFA but at the end of the day its still a cap hit of between $8.5 and $10 mil per for 7 years. This will put the Leafs in cap problems until it goes up in 3/ 4 years. To make this doable the Leafs will have to trade one of their expensive top 4 and finding a trading partner that will take on that cap hit will be harder then the Leafs and their fans believe. They won't get a return they would want or deserve.

21 Sep 2020 23:43:03
You might be right, I heard Pietro is quite a business savvy guy. If they give him that money up front, float the idea of 16 million this year for him to **** around on the stock market with. That could be enough for him to look at this as a way to start any sort of business venture he may have in mind.

22 Sep 2020 01:13:25
Can someone explain how signing bonuses work
Ie how they count against the cap
Thought the value of the contract is just divided by the number of years of contract
One could pay 30 million in signing bonus on a 40 million 7 year deal but the aav is still 40/ 7
Contract is more attractive if you need to trade it as cash is mostly paid out but cap hit is what it is.

20 Sep 2020 03:34:32
New lines
Hyman,Mathews,marner
Mikheyev,Tavares,nylander, Simmonds,Koivu,Robertson,
Maroon,spezza,engvall
New top 7
Rielly,Pietrangelo,
muzzin,SHATTENKIRK,
sandin,Lehtonen,liljegren

Trade holl,Johnson,kerfoot for picks/prospects let Barrie,ceci,Clifford walk if you add in the kappanen trade that frees up over 19 mill sign Pietrangelo 7x8.5, SHATTENKIRK 3x3.5,Simmonds 2x2.6,koivu1×1.5,maroon 3x1.25 and resign Mikheyev to a 2 year bridge 2x2

20 Sep 2020 00:44:51
So next year Leafs start the season with: a rookie head coach, a rookie assistant coach, a rookie video coach, at least three rookie defensemen and one second year defenseman, and at least two rookie forwards plus Mikheyev (who technically didn’t play enough games that he can still be considered a rookie too) .

I thought the rebuild was over?

18 Sep 2020 15:13:33
In my old account I always used to talk about how the leafs should acquire Robin Lehner. But now since he will be signing in Vegas, the goalies Toronto should look at are Fleury, Kuemper, Markstrom, Holtby. I don’t want Murray. I want someone that is consistent and will be the best goalie out there every night. Not saying Andersen isn’t good but he’s not up there with these goalies because every single one of these goalies haven’t won a cup or have had better seasons the Andersen and I’m ready to see who Toronto will get to replace Andersen in net next season.

18 Sep 2020 17:01:53
3 of the those 4 guys are on the wrong side of 30.

18 Sep 2020 19:35:24
Markstrom is the goalie of everyone's dreams right now. Would love to have him. Issue I'm seeing with every available goalie is age and contract. Those guys you mentioned are not younger than Freddy and most will want same amount of money. Why sign any of them?

I know, everyone will suggest a short term contract. After 30 players want as long as possible though because they know this is the last chance they will get. I don't see it happening.

Dubas seems to me like if he ships out Freddy it's because Soup is the new starter or part of a tandem. No other reason.

18 Sep 2020 20:19:58
I agree LL leafs can’t overpay for an aging goalie so they either keep Freddie and give Scott or Woll another year or move Freddie and target a younger goalie.

20 Sep 2020 03:58:52
At this point, it is obvious to me that it doesn’t matter who we have in net. All we need is an adequate enough goalie that can stop one of every ten pucks, and that would be better than what we had with Andersen last year. Last year was a bad year for Andersen, and it very easily could have been an anomaly, but it revealed something of note: even with such a bad showing from Andersen and Hutchinson, Leafs still we’re in a playoff position when the season was cancelled 70 games played. In other words, they did pretty good despite the bad goaltending. So realistically, Leafs can throw any nhl level goalie in net and expect the same results. You don’t get much worse than what Andersen/ Hutchinson were last year. So you can only go up from here. Trade Andersen, make Campbell the 1a, and slide any cheap free agent goalie in as the 1b. We can’t do any worse.