The signing of Roman Polak could open the window of a possible Nazem Kadri trade.

The signing of Roman Polak could open the window of a possible Nazem Kadri trade.
- MCharisma91

Kadri for C

Polak is a great signing; lunch-pail d-man, reasonable cap hit, and most importantly a 1 year contract. There's an expansion draft next year, and we don't need to be exposing assets unnecessarily.

Auston Matthews arrives in Toronto today for the first time as a member of the @MapleLeafs. The team's development camp starts tomorrow.

The signing of Roman Polak could open the window of a possible Nazem Kadri trade.
- MCharisma91

Matthews at development camp could mean KadrI is on his way out!

- Fruitcakenipple

The town? I'm cool with that.

Gardiner FINALLY has a 1/2 decent year and we're chucking him to the wolves.


- Garnie

Wolves gotta eat too.

In case you forgot: There Will Be Pain

-Can retain salary on two traded deadline expiring deals. Polak/Greening/Laich/Michalek as required.
-Leafs are stuck with Lupul's deal, so time Nylander's next contract and hope he earns those dollars on long term UFA eating deal.
-The abundant cap space in'18/'19 ear marked for Matthews/Marner next deals.
-Lou said 50% new roster from what ended season: Andersen, Soshnikov, Nylander, Marner, Matthews, Hyman, Zaitsev, Martin & Polak*...9/20 line up (pretty close)
-There will have to be a forward or two moved for futures or package for young player.

Not getting Stamkos and not going on tilt Friday and offering a really stupid long term big cash deal shows the Leafs are prepared to hunker down and eat it another year, see players develop in 'a safe environment' (See: Martin & Polak and other retained vets).

Based on Leafs Twitter this weekend people are ready to jump - there is a Shanaplan and it's disciplined. It will change, but signing two guys to low cost deals with established track records are relatively low risk.

Pain.

EDIT: Rychel and Brown in the mix too.
- Deeps27

This. More or less.

Danny Markov
‏@Danny_Markov55
#20 years of friendship✌ Long time no see. S.Berezin.

Danny Markov
‏@Danny_Markov55
#20 years of friendship✌ Long time no see. S.Berezin.
- nbboy

Nice t!ts, Sergei.

Can anyone name the Leafs highest cap hit for this coming season??

Dont get all the polak hate. Plays a calm simple game, makes few mistakes, never gets caught out of position. For a bottom pairing guy you cant ask for much more. Plus the guy is a brick out there, adds a bit of grit to a team that doesnt have much on the back end. I was glad to see him back!

Better to sign Polak to a cheap one year deal than Russell to an expensive 5 year deal

Can anyone name the Leafs highest cap hit for this coming season??
- bjm1717

Horton or Lupul

Nobody actually counts Horton it's lupul

The signing of Roman Polak could open the window of a possible Nazem Kadri trade.
- MCharisma91

Mike?

It gets better whilst praying and jamming guitar


- Garnie

Danny Markov
‏@Danny_Markov55
#20 years of friendship✌ Long time no see. S.Berezin.
- nbboy

Was that taken in the jail court yard?

Has coveing the Coyotes so long finally made Tanner go off the deep end?

In his latest plus/minus blog, he refers to Simmons as 'perhaps the most influential hockey writer in the world' and when comparing Weber and Subban, he says that 'PK is so superior defensively, it isn't even close'.

- jimi james

Was that taken in the jail court yard?
- burn

Probably just in Russia - same thing.

Has coveing the Coyotes so long finally made Tanner go off the deep end?

In his latest plus/minus blog, he refers to Simmons as 'perhaps the most influential hockey writer in the world' and when comparing Weber and Subban, he says that 'PK is so superior defensively, it isn't even close'.
- Phenom

He's "hero charted" himself right to hell!!!!!

Has coveing the Coyotes so long finally made Tanner go off the deep end?

In his latest plus/minus blog, he refers to Simmons as 'perhaps the most influential hockey writer in the world' and when comparing Weber and Subban, he says that 'PK is so superior defensively, it isn't even close'.
- Phenom

Probably just in Russia - same thing.
- Garnie

I think he's living in fla now.

Probably just in Russia - same thing.
- Garnie

What the hell are they doing in my backyard?

What the hell are they doing in my backyard?
- AdamFrench

the guy with the hammer missed