I can tell you with a very high level of certainty that Babcock will be coaching the leafs next season as well. Not only that, they will make him the highest paid coach in NHL history. He was a strong relationship with Shanahan and loves the media and the challenge of winning with this exact type of team...take it for what it is....but it will happen.
- Kinggilmour

It's a pretty good theory, I could see it happen.

I can tell you with a very high level of certainty that Babcock will be coaching the leafs next season as well. Not only that, they will make him the highest paid coach in NHL history. He was a strong relationship with Shanahan and loves the media and the challenge of winning with this exact type of team...take it for what it is....but it will happen.
- Kinggilmour

Careful - that one can't be a done deal cause of tampering rules 'n poop like that

I can tell you with a very high level of certainty that Babcock will be coaching the leafs next season as well. Not only that, they will make him the highest paid coach in NHL history. He was a strong relationship with Shanahan and loves the media and the challenge of winning with this exact type of team...take it for what it is....but it will happen.
- Kinggilmour

Ya but thats not news

I can tell you with a very high level of certainty that Babcock will be coaching the leafs next season as well. Not only that, they will make him the highest paid coach in NHL history. He was a strong relationship with Shanahan and loves the media and the challenge of winning with this exact type of team...take it for what it is....but it will happen.
- Kinggilmour

I stopped believe you when you werent Jeff Beukeboom.

I can tell you with a very high level of certainty that Babcock will be coaching the leafs next season as well. Not only that, they will make him the highest paid coach in NHL history. He was a strong relationship with Shanahan and loves the media and the challenge of winning with this exact type of team...take it for what it is....but it will happen.
- Kinggilmour

I sure hope it will happen. So what's the deal with Carlyle? Did they just sign him to that contract extension knowing they can fire him easily?

Four years before you joined Hockeybuzz?

Wow, that's a neat trick.
- Atomic Wedgie

I actually had a different account, but after my email address was broken into I re-joined hockey buzz under Kinggilmour.....

Also there will be no ganging up on Kinggilmour, you can take what he is telling us with doubt but he has not posted outlandish comments, any attacks on him just like any attacks on any user will be dealt with by me.
- LeafMan

I don't think anyone's attacking him. Heck, he's more accurate than Ek... am I right?

I actually had a different account, but after my email address was broken into I re-joined hockey buzz under Kinggilmour.....
- Kinggilmour

Howard Berger?

Just for some follow-up information, here is the Soo Greyhounds draft choices from 2011-2013, the drafts that Dubas would have been present for (Assuming OHL draft was after his hiring in 2011, otherwise just 2012-2013)

http://www.soogreyhounds....age/draft-history-2003-12

We oughta be able to deduce this
- TheThrill

We figured it out pages ago. The age is off but we should all call him Brian.

Brian, welcome (back) to hbuzz.

And the Babcock to T.O. 'rumour' makes sense as well.

Howard Berger?
- Scabeh

Also there will be no ganging up on Kinggilmour, you can take what he is telling us with doubt but he has not posted outlandish comments, any attacks on him just like any attacks on any user will be dealt with by me.
- LeafMan

That's fine but if he's full of hot air he's gonna get it lmao (not from me just in general)

someone actually got something right on here and people give him poop for it

Careful - that one can't be a done deal cause of tampering rules 'n poop like that
- Canada Cup

If shannahan and Babcock are as close as he says they are there is no reason for shannahan to talk about it with him...

Just for some follow-up information, here is the Soo Greyhounds draft choices from 2011-2013, the drafts that Dubas would have been present for (Assuming OHL draft was after his hiring in 2011, otherwise just 2012-2013)

http://www.soogreyhounds....age/draft-history-2003-12

We oughta be able to deduce this
- TheThrill

Verbeek / Tecumseh

I don't think anyone's attacking him. Heck, he's more accurate than Ek... am I right?
- harolddruken

I'm making it known, we all know how things can escalate in here. I'm setting the ground rules so there will be no insults thrown at any one.

like I said...the deals I post are already done, they can't be in jeopardy, both parties have already agreed. I would never put anything in jeopardy for any amount of money, I am too closely tied to specific parties involved. If you guys want the inside scoop, I will provide it but speculation is only speculation....this is a done deal as of 1 day ago. If Clitsome gets cleared to play in the next week or so, you will see this deal going through.

Believe what you want. I'm pretty sure I also posted the Giguere trade a few days early as well...just sayin'
- Kinggilmour

Just PM a few of us. And we will talk in code amongst each other and no one will get hurt. You will need a list though. I propose:

Include:
All Leafs on HB

Exclude:
Weirdoh

Verbeek / Tecumseh
- Garnie

Troy Mallette


whys it matter?

I don't think anyone's attacking him. Heck, he's more accurate than Ek... am I right?
- harolddruken

Well he is 100 percent right as from what I have seen.

I stopped believe you when you werent Jeff Beukeboom.
- jbold

Just like the rumor Edmonton was ready to make a major offer for phaneuf? Or how about for months phaneuf was going to either Philly Edmonton or Calgary?
- JVR_42_PK81

Exactly like those, yes. Imagine what was screened out?

Just like the rumor Edmonton was ready to make a major offer for phaneuf? Or how about for months phaneuf was going to either Philly Edmonton or Calgary?
- JVR_42_PK81

While rumors in Toronto always exist, Ek has sort of prided himself on being very picky when it comes to weeding through the many, many rumors which surround the team.

I see Occam's Razor is not welcome here.
- Atomic Wedgie

Oh I am a big fan of Occam's razor, so yeah a lucky guess is an easier explanation than insider information that his *friends* allow to get leaked.

... but he did get everything right about the Winnick deal. There have been lots of guesses and trade specualtion, but I never saw that one, and it happened like 2 days after he said it was done.

So, it is feasible, even if not likely. It is even possible that neither side was right and that he actually did, somehow, get inside information on this one item and the rest is BS.

... I remember sitting at the Madison in Toronto one night when Goodenow was having a sit down with a player at the next table.

What are you wearing
- Aetherial

a banana

While rumors in Toronto always exist, Ek has sort of prided himself on being very picky when it comes to weeding through the many, many rumors which surround the team.
- Atomic Wedgie

Exactly like those, yes. Imagine what was screened out?
- Deeps27

Phaneuf for Staal