Why would you return here in August? Why would you return at all?




- mjones242

Boredom

FIFA has entered the chat
- GreatGigInTheSky

What about the mafia

DeGrasse!
- mr.sir

Man, that was a great race.

If DeGrasse could ever improve his starts, he' be setting WR's. He'd probably have also won the 100M.

Sucks that Brown finished 6th. Another guy that went to my high school.

What about the mafia
- TheMussel

I just mentioned them?

I wanna see the best beat the best.

The only difference between professional and not professional is the money they make, basically.

Olympic athletes train all the time and compete in their respected events on the regular.
- GreatGigInTheSky

That's what World Cups are for.

I didnt read it the blog, but this ^^

Dubas has said being in LTIR space is not a great place to be and only used it for a specific purpose.

I get that TB used it and won the cup, but they also had to be without Kucherov the whole season.
- senstroll

Right now, if you exclude Brooks & Liljegren from the roster, you have 13F, 6D, 2G, and Kessel's $1.2m retained cap hit - which puts us at $81.419m - or just under the $81.5 cap. Liljegren is waivers exempt for one more year (which surprised me), but Brooks is not.

Because you can be over the cap by 10% in the off-season, the Leafs can have a cap hit that ranges up to $89.65m until the start of the regular season. If they added Kesler (which they could do because of the 10% offseason allowance) and placed him on LTIR (which you can use during the offseason for any player who is medically unfit to play and will not be by the start of the season), it would give them LTIR relief in the form of $6.7m (Kesler's $6.875 - about $100k to the cap) which would let them keep Liljegren on the roster and add a decent piece under that relief cap.

While we can argue that that living in LTIR sucks (it does because it's flat, it's limiting, and it is effectively gaming the system), the ACSL (Accrued Cap Space Limit) is not going to be significant when you're as close to the cap ceiling as the Leafs are.

Right now, barring trade, the Leafs are going to have to expose Brooks or Engvall to remain cap complaint. They are also at the mercy of small injuries - if a player is injured for a few games, which is not enough to be placed on LTIR, we need to have the cap room to get a replacement from the AHL, and if we can't even fit Liljegren's cap hit in, we're pooched.

Living in LTIR may be the only solution for this year's team. The alternative moves back to trading Kerfoot for cheaper help on the wing.

Right now, if you exclude Brooks & Liljegren from the roster, you have 13F, 6D, 2G, and Kessel's $1.2m retained cap hit - which puts us at $81.419m - or just under the $81.5 cap. Liljegren is waivers exempt for one more year (which surprised me), but Brooks is not.

Because you can be over the cap by 10% in the off-season, the Leafs can have a cap hit that ranges up to $89.65m until the start of the regular season. If they added Kesler (which they could do because of the 10% offseason allowance) and placed him on LTIR (which you can use during the offseason for any player who is medically unfit to play and will not be by the start of the season), it would give them LTIR relief in the form of $6.7m (Kesler's $6.875 - about $100k to the cap) which would let them keep Liljegren on the roster and add a decent piece under that relief cap.

While we can argue that that living in LTIR sucks (it does because it's flat, it's limiting, and it is effectively gaming the system), the ACSL (Accrued Cap Space Limit) is not going to be significant when you're as close to the cap ceiling as the Leafs are.

Right now, barring trade, the Leafs are going to have to expose Brooks or Engvall to remain cap complaint. They are also at the mercy of small injuries - if a player is injured for a few games, which is not enough to be placed on LTIR, we need to have the cap room to get a replacement from the AHL, and if we can't even fit Liljegren's cap hit in, we're pooched.

Living in LTIR may be the only solution for this year's team. The alternative moves back to trading Kerfoot for cheaper help on the wing.
- Monkeypunk

Explain this to me like I am 5

Right now, if you exclude Brooks & Liljegren from the roster, you have 13F, 6D, 2G, and Kessel's $1.2m retained cap hit - which puts us at $81.419m - or just under the $81.5 cap. Liljegren is waivers exempt for one more year (which surprised me), but Brooks is not.

Because you can be over the cap by 10% in the off-season, the Leafs can have a cap hit that ranges up to $89.65m until the start of the regular season. If they added Kesler (which they could do because of the 10% offseason allowance) and placed him on LTIR (which you can use during the offseason for any player who is medically unfit to play and will not be by the start of the season), it would give them LTIR relief in the form of $6.7m (Kesler's $6.875 - about $100k to the cap) which would let them keep Liljegren on the roster and add a decent piece under that relief cap.

While we can argue that that living in LTIR sucks (it does because it's flat, it's limiting, and it is effectively gaming the system), the ACSL (Accrued Cap Space Limit) is not going to be significant when you're as close to the cap ceiling as the Leafs are.

Right now, barring trade, the Leafs are going to have to expose Brooks or Engvall to remain cap complaint. They are also at the mercy of small injuries - if a player is injured for a few games, which is not enough to be placed on LTIR, we need to have the cap room to get a replacement from the AHL, and if we can't even fit Liljegren's cap hit in, we're pooched.

Living in LTIR may be the only solution for this year's team. The alternative moves back to trading Kerfoot for cheaper help on the wing.
- Monkeypunk

This explains a lot.

Explain this to me like I am 5
- Santo_44

If the Leafs don't invite Ryan Kesler over for a playdate, they might lose their friend Engvall or need to send someone else away.

Oh and if someone gets hurt, it will be difficult to handle if it's just a small booboo.

If the Leafs don't invite Ryan Kesler over for a playdate, they might lose a their friend Engvall or need to send someone else away.

Oh and if someone gets hurt, it will be difficult to handle if it's just a small booboo.
- Scabeh

I just don't understand how the Leafs can invite a new friend as well as Engvall to the playdate.

Mom doesn't have enough money for ice cream for everyone.

Best post ever on this site ZZ. Well done.
- underhill14

Copied and pasted

I just don't understand how the Leafs can invite a new friend as well as Engvall to the playdate.

Mom doesn't have enough money for ice cream for everyone.
- Santo_44

That's only because Little Mitch over there took 5 servings of banana split....

If the Leafs don't invite Ryan Kesler over for a playdate, they might lose their friend Engvall or need to send someone else away.

Oh and if someone gets hurt, it will be difficult to handle if it's just a small booboo.
- Scabeh

That's fantastic. I might need you as my editor.

DeGrasse!
- mr.sir

Martin Short is still Canada’s greatest Olympic athlete

“I’m not that strong a swimmer.”

https://vimeo.com/353695716

I just don't understand how the Leafs can invite a new friend as well as Engvall to the playdate.

Mom doesn't have enough money for ice cream for everyone.
- Santo_44

Mom already bought the ice cream with the extra money she had in the summer. If Kesler isn't around to eat it, we can give it to someone else or more than 1 someone else since Kesler normally eats a lot of ice cream.

That's fantastic. I might need you as my editor.
- Monkeypunk

With your great analysis and my ability to dumb down everything, we'll be unstoppable.

Sportsnet, here we come!

Mom already bought the ice cream with the extra money she had in the summer. If Kesler isn't around to eat it, we can give it to someone else or more than 1 someone else since Kesler normally eats a lot of ice cream.
- Monkeypunk

That's only because Little Mitch over there took 5 servings of banana split....
- Scabeh

Mom already bought the ice cream with the extra money she had in the summer. If Kesler isn't around to eat it, we can give it to someone else or more than 1 someone else since Kesler normally eats a lot of ice cream.
- Monkeypunk

So, she bought extra ice cream, but then Kesler got mad and took his puck and went home.. So now, there is extra ice cream to share with Adam Brooks?

With your great analysis and my ability to dumb down everything, we'll be unstoppable.

Sportsnet, here we come!
- Scabeh

With your great analysis and my ability to dumb down everything, we'll be unstoppable.

Sportsnet, here we come!
- Scabeh

You're a regular Craig Button

You're a regular Craig Button
- TheMussel

I don't get enough respect because I'm sometimes completely wrong?

Like when he said the Habs wouldn't win 1 playoffs games against the Leafs?

I don't get enough respect because I'm sometimes completely wrong?

Like when he said the Habs wouldn't win 1 playoffs games against the Leafs?

- Scabeh

You’re top 3 Habs posters but don’t expect big congrats for explaining things “down” to a 5 year old level.

So, she bought extra ice cream, but then Kesler got mad and took his puck and went home.. So now, there is extra ice cream to share with Adam Brooks?
- PatC80

In this painful analogy, it's more like Kesler never even came over but he was supposed to. Now we have extra room at the table and someone should eat the ice cream before it melts. Whether that someone is Brooks or Rakell or Liljegren, or perhaps all three, who am I to say? I'm not the party planner.

In this painful analogy, it's more like Kesler never even came over but he was supposed to. Now we have extra room at the table and someone should eat the ice cream before it melts. Whether that someone is Brooks or Rakell or Liljegren, or perhaps all three, who am I to say? I'm not the party planner.
- Monkeypunk

I hope Dubas knows what he's doing.

He hasn't been throwing partys for 40 years like uncle Lou.