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winsix
Season Ticket Holder
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Henry Hudson's Fairchild 24 South Porcupine
Joined: 04.03.2016

Feb 10 @ 1:54 PM ET
Can we swap Johnsson for Brown?
- Garnie


Not sure, johnsson's value is pretty decent right now, Brown with 5 goals and 19 points - even if he's good on the PK is unlikely to get much interest. A rookie that is second in goal scoring and third in points maybe a little.
bobbyisno1
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: I'm excited to see that
Joined: 08.28.2010

Feb 10 @ 1:55 PM ET
Should have held out for $8m
- Garnie

Meh, 7.5, 8 what's the difference really.
Arctic_AARDVARK
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Everybody calm down, AB
Joined: 07.24.2011

Feb 10 @ 1:59 PM ET
Need a RHD, and Montour not likely as you say. Manson would be better than Zaitsev - slow but not a marshmallow, less money, and would be ok as a 5th or 6th until we move him.
- winsix

Idk how badly they actually need a RHD tbh...

I think it’s overblown.. how often do you watch a game and go, “if he was a RHD that wouldn’t have happened!”

Rarely I assume, because I don’t see it, ever.
Atomic Wedgie
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: The centre of the hockey universe
Joined: 07.31.2006

Feb 10 @ 2:00 PM ET
Muzzin filled in Perry pretty well earlier this week. It was a clean hit, bothered Getzlaf and Ritchie enough to go apesh!t. Could use a couple more like that.
- winsix

It wasn't even that hard a hit - more of a push into the boards.

I love the pace and skill of today's NHL, but good Lord, it's soft.
Arctic_AARDVARK
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Everybody calm down, AB
Joined: 07.24.2011

Feb 10 @ 2:04 PM ET
It wasn't even that hafd a hit - more of a push into the boards.

I love the pace and skill of today's NHL, but good Lord, it's soft.

- Atomic Wedgie

Lawwwwdy!

I think they’re saving it for the playoffs. That’s how the NHL is now..

But on another note, when the last time a guy got suspended or fined for doing something dirty? I think the message is sinking in and guys don’t want to get suspended.
Atomic Wedgie
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: The centre of the hockey universe
Joined: 07.31.2006

Feb 10 @ 2:08 PM ET
He showed us last night what he is capable of, and in doing so put the rest of the league on alert. Now that Willie is on fire the Leafs are going to be so much harder to defend against.
- TrashPanda

Do you mean now that Willy is a tire fire?
Atomic Wedgie
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: The centre of the hockey universe
Joined: 07.31.2006

Feb 10 @ 2:11 PM ET
Lawwwwdy!

I think they’re saving it for the playoffs. That’s how the NHL is now..

But on another note, when the last time a guy got suspended or fined for doing something dirty? I think the message is sinking in and guys don’t want to get suspended.

- Arctic_AARDVARK

It's peobably abit of that, but also a bit of lack of physicality.

Less hitting leads to less retaliatory cheap shots.

mykokes
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: RELEASE THE LATVIAN!, ON
Joined: 11.09.2009

Feb 10 @ 2:12 PM ET
I said it earlier..gauthier had his best game I've seen against the habs last night. It's too bad for him we don't play Montreal 82 times a year in his hometown. Even funnier...hes on pace to score more points on a line with Johnson than he ever did in the ahl.
winsix
Season Ticket Holder
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Henry Hudson's Fairchild 24 South Porcupine
Joined: 04.03.2016

Feb 10 @ 2:15 PM ET
It wasn't even that hard a hit - more of a push into the boards.

I love the pace and skill of today's NHL, but good Lord, it's soft.

- Atomic Wedgie


I agree with this - but how does it make you feel when a guy flips a puck over the glass - its an automatic two (never missed) and an injury causing high head shot might get a 2 minute call 60% of the time.
daeth
Colorado Avalanche
Location: 43 points, ON
Joined: 09.15.2005

Feb 10 @ 2:25 PM ET
I said it earlier..gauthier had his best game I've seen against the habs last night. It's too bad for him we don't play Montreal 82 times a year in his hometown. Even funnier...hes on pace to score more points on a line with Johnson than he ever did in the ahl.
- mykokes

he actually had a couple hits!!
DeflatedPucks
Pittsburgh Penguins
Location: NYC, NY
Joined: 04.29.2016

Feb 10 @ 2:30 PM ET
He showed us last night what he is capable of, and in doing so put the rest of the league on alert. Now that Willie is on fire the Leafs are going to be so much harder to defend against.
- TrashPanda

its true. the pens-lightning game paused when the alert went out.
winsix
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Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Henry Hudson's Fairchild 24 South Porcupine
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Feb 10 @ 2:32 PM ET
It wasn't even that hard a hit - more of a push into the boards.

I love the pace and skill of today's NHL, but good Lord, it's soft.

- Atomic Wedgie


Like I said - two minutes for a stupid puck flip and the guy gets only four for re-arranging Neal's face.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1BQPnvAkhw

Santo_44
Toronto Maple Leafs
Joined: 10.20.2014

Feb 10 @ 2:33 PM ET
Idk how badly they actually need a RHD tbh...

I think it’s overblown.. how often do you watch a game and go, “if he was a RHD that wouldn’t have happened!”

Rarely I assume, because I don’t see it, ever.

- Arctic_AARDVARK


Rielly was preassured in his own zone against the boards in what should of been an easy out on his forehand...instead was a backhand that he fanned on and went right on a Habs players stick and almost a goal.
Arctic_AARDVARK
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Everybody calm down, AB
Joined: 07.24.2011

Feb 10 @ 2:34 PM ET
its true. the pens-lightning game paused when the alert went out.
- DeflatedPucks

Wow.. I knew the Leafs were influential, but I didn’t know it had the wide reaching effect that it has!

Even some some dgen Bruins fans are getting involved.
winsix
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Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Henry Hudson's Fairchild 24 South Porcupine
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Feb 10 @ 2:34 PM ET
its true. the pens-lightning game paused when the alert went out.
- DeflatedPucks

that was a good game - I especially liked it when Sid was ready to pile-drive 5'2" Tyler Johnson.
Arctic_AARDVARK
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Everybody calm down, AB
Joined: 07.24.2011

Feb 10 @ 2:34 PM ET
Rielly was preassured in his own zone against the boards in what should of been an easy out on his forehand...instead was a backhand that he fanned on and went right on a Habs players stick and almost a goal.
- Santo_44

Ok
DeflatedPucks
Pittsburgh Penguins
Location: NYC, NY
Joined: 04.29.2016

Feb 10 @ 2:38 PM ET
that was a good game - I especially liked it when Sid was ready to pile-drive 5'2" Tyler Johnson.
- winsix

t'was a good one. pens neutralized the PP and kuch but dem other (frank)as lit up desmith. lightning are legit good dis year, making up for the dolphins being tire fire as usual
DeflatedPucks
Pittsburgh Penguins
Location: NYC, NY
Joined: 04.29.2016

Feb 10 @ 2:40 PM ET
Wow.. I knew the Leafs were influential, but I didn’t know it had the wide reaching effect that it has!

Even some some dgen Bruins fans are getting involved.

- Arctic_AARDVARK


during the intermission interviews, garrett wilson wasn't asked about his first career goal but his thoughts on the 6ix
21peter
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Peter I Island
Joined: 11.18.2014

Feb 10 @ 2:41 PM ET
Muzzin filled in Perry pretty well earlier this week. It was a clean hit, bothered Getzlaf and Ritchie enough to go apesh!t. Could use a couple more like that.
- winsix

Sure was a thing of beauty

And imo, a big hit like that often works better as a gamechanger than a lame scrap...
aminnes
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Mrs. Buzzkill, AB
Joined: 12.17.2008

Feb 10 @ 2:45 PM ET
The question is what is better for the club, trading away several guys or only one or two to get under the cap. I see a lot of pundits saying they need to get space and trading away Brown, Kap, and/or Johnsson will give them space. For me, all those guys combined will get paid what Nylander makes. So 3 guys leave, and their spots are filled by plugs and minimum salary players? I think keeping those three makes the team better than only keeping Nylander. He just held out for too much money. He should have taken 5 like what he was worth. Shame really.
Santo_44
Toronto Maple Leafs
Joined: 10.20.2014

Feb 10 @ 2:48 PM ET
The question is what is better for the club, trading away several guys or only one or two to get under the cap. I see a lot of pundits saying they need to get space and trading away Brown, Kap, and/or Johnsson will give them space. For me, all those guys combined will get paid what Nylander makes. So 3 guys leave, and their spots are filled by plugs and minimum salary players? I think keeping those three makes the team better than only keeping Nylander. He just held out for too much money. He should have taken 5 like what he was worth. Shame really.
- aminnes


Sigh
winsix
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Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Henry Hudson's Fairchild 24 South Porcupine
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Feb 10 @ 2:51 PM ET
The question is what is better for the club, trading away several guys or only one or two to get under the cap. I see a lot of pundits saying they need to get space and trading away Brown, Kap, and/or Johnsson will give them space. For me, all those guys combined will get paid what Nylander makes. So 3 guys leave, and their spots are filled by plugs and minimum salary players? I think keeping those three makes the team better than only keeping Nylander. He just held out for too much money. He should have taken 5 like what he was worth. Shame really.
- aminnes


Next year will be tight for Leafs, and there will be a few salaries that have to go - the most obvious one would b Zaitsev. Nylander is likely here for the long haul - and he should be. Doubt Marleau goes anywhere, but stranger things have happened. The salary cap will go up significantly in the 2020-21 season - with gambling money and Seattle. Next year it will be the third and fourth line players and marginal d-men that are squeezed out of the picture imo.
Arctic_AARDVARK
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Everybody calm down, AB
Joined: 07.24.2011

Feb 10 @ 2:53 PM ET
during the intermission interviews, garrett wilson wasn't asked about his first career goal but his thoughts on the 6ix
- DeflatedPucks

Ironically “the six” is the last place in Canada anyone should want to hear thoughts on.
winsix
Season Ticket Holder
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Henry Hudson's Fairchild 24 South Porcupine
Joined: 04.03.2016

Feb 10 @ 2:55 PM ET
Ironically “the six” is the last place in Canada anyone should want to hear thoughts on.
- Arctic_AARDVARK





Drake says hi.
aminnes
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Mrs. Buzzkill, AB
Joined: 12.17.2008

Feb 10 @ 2:57 PM ET
Next year will be tight for Leafs, and there will be a few salaries that have to go - the most obvious one would b Zaitsev. Nylander is likely here for the long haul - and he should be. Doubt Marleau goes anywhere, but stranger things have happened. The salary cap will go up significantly in the 2020-21 season - with gambling money and Seattle. Next year it will be the third and fourth line players and marginal d-men that are squeezed out of the picture imo.
- winsix


3 or 4 years from now his salary probably looks not bad at all, but the big window is now. Now and the next few years. Who in their right mind would touch Zeitsev? When looking at the team the question is who can they move and actually get a return while also clearing space. Brown - not nearly enough cap. Kap, lose depth and a good Pk guy, plus still not enough cap cleared. Johnson, coming into his own, and could by all rights end up just as good a producer as Nylander for cheaper, is that worth gambling away for a very small amount of cap relief? Someone big has to go, and the only option it looks like is Nylander in the summer, unless there's someone else but.
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