Mike Augello: Leafs Top-40 Prospect List - #2

Still interested in the Soo thing... Not safe.. bad team, mngmnt what..

Oh and 1st I hope..

Topi better

Topi better
- BINGO!

Stop being stupid.


But I agree.

Topi better
- BINGO!

Minten better...probably...more useful soon for sure.

Robertson hasn't really shown me anything that screams NHL. Was hoping for a Caulfield type player and feel like we have ended up with a Malgin 2.0...with maybe a better shot. JMHO.

Little 4th liners are a hockey oxymoron to me and I don't see Robertson in the top 9.

Topi better
- BINGO!

Read that Topi has been taken off his Liga team PP and is being asked to play a more defensive game. He’s still on top PK but has been moved to second pairing.

Sandin getting no Big Club Respect.

#1 has to mean something.

Still interested in the Soo thing... Not safe.. bad team, mngmnt what..

Oh and 1st I hope..
- dozerD10

The Soo is pretty far north in Ontario perhaps that was meant. It's about an 8 hr drive from Toronto in good weather.

From last blog-

Hockey news article about Dubas

4. He's borderline likable.
But beyond all this mish-mash, the Maple Leafs' generalissimo has survived one of the dumbest moves in Toronto hockey history -- the absurdly expensive signing of John Tavares.
First, we must dispense with the fact that Honest John is a genuinely good guy who, more often than not, means well. Unfortunately, none of that Boy Scout stuff gets his club past the first playoff round.
The fact is that Tavares never was a superstar on Long Island and it's even debatable how good a captain he was at the time.
Good, by the way, is not to be confused with great.
So what Dubas has is a player who isn't worth half the salary he's getting; who the Islanders did very well without; thank you.
Dubas wasted a ton of Larry Tanenbaum's good money on the Captain, disrupted his salary cap, and is stuck with Johnny Pyjamas
- mr.sir

This might be the single stupidest thing I've read.

"We've moved on"- Lying Islanders fans

Kadri is a far better skater than JT ever was. Which is why JT is not going to last as long in the league.
- TurdFergeson

Speed was never a part of Tavares' game, which is why he'll remain a very good player long into his career.

Still interested in the Soo thing... Not safe.. bad team, mngmnt what..

Oh and 1st I hope..
- dozerD10

Nobody who has ever been to the Soo has ever said "Still interested in the Soo..."

The Soo is pretty far north in Ontario perhaps that was meant. It's about an 8 hr drive from Toronto in good weather.
- Cush29

Holy smokes... that's like LA to Frisco... damn... that can't be any fun kind of bus ride.. or maybe it is... party bus..

Holy smokes... that's like LA to Frisco... damn... that can't be any fun kind of bus ride.. or maybe it is... party bus..

- dozerD10

Could be worse.

Toronto to Thunder Bay is about 15 hours.

Toronto to Kenora (still in Ontario - population 15,000, and one more Stanley Cup victory than Buffalo) is about 20 hours.

And that's with perfect weather, which you absolutely will not have, ever.

Edit: I'm just commenting on the vastness of geography of Ontario - neither Thunder Bay nor Kenora have OHL teams.

Holy smokes... that's like LA to Frisco... damn... that can't be any fun kind of bus ride.. or maybe it is... party bus..

- dozerD10

One of my BFFs growing up played for the Soo Greyhounds for a couple of years.

Keep in mind, this was pre-internet.

He says that it was just horribly lonely. It was like you were living on the moon.

From last blog-



This might be the single stupidest thing I've read.

"We've moved on"- Lying Islanders fans
- GreatGigInTheSky

Since he joined the Leafs, Tavares is 23rd in the NHL in scoring over that time - behind these guys: Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, Patrick Kane, Jonathan Huberdeau, Nathan MacKinnon, Artemi Panarin, Brad Marchand, Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, Johnny Gaudreau, Steven Stamkos, Aleksander Barkov, David Pastrnak, Sidney Crosby, Mark Scheifele, Alex Ovechkin, Sebastian Aho, Mikko Rantanen, Matthew Tkachuk, Nikita Kucherov, Kyle Connor and Mika Zibanejad.

With regards to his $11m salary - almost all of the names in that list are making or deserve to be making at least $10m.

David Alter
@dalter

Sheldon Keefe says John Tavares has an oblique strain and is out a minimum of 3 weeks.
2:11 PM · Sep 27, 2022

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Could be worse.

Toronto to Thunder Bay is about 15 hours.

Toronto to Kenora (still in Ontario - population 15,000, and one more Stanley Cup victory than Buffalo) is about 20 hours.

And that's with perfect weather, which you absolutely will not have, ever.

Edit: I'm just commenting on the vastness of geography of Ontario - neither Thunder Bay nor Kenora have OHL teams.
- Atomic Wedgie

All true. I drove from Barrie to Winnipeg once.

I'll never do that again BUT the drive between Sault Ste. Marie and Thunder Bay was very nice.

One of my BFFs growing up played for the Soo Greyhounds for a couple of years.

Keep in mind, this was pre-internet.

He says that it was just horribly lonely. It was like you were living on the moon.
- Atomic Wedgie

It's a city that is very 'small town' like. Everyone knows everyone & if your not from there you are from 'down south' and automatically considered a bum hole until you prove differently.

David Alter
@dalter

Sheldon Keefe says John Tavares has an oblique strain and is out a minimum of 3 weeks.
2:11 PM · Sep 27, 2022

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- Atomic Wedgie

Obliques are likes backs ... Damn... that's gonna be a problem for more than a while. Kerfoot can't go anywhere now... he's in the middle.

58/34/88
then LW / Kerfoot / 16

It's a city that is very 'small town' like. Everyone knows everyone & if your not from there you are from 'down south' and automatically considered a bum hole until you prove differently.
- Cush29

Having a sister live in TO proper.. is one thing.. .but as a SoCal'er.. .that border region around the great lakes and areas E is something that I'd not mind a summer driving around.. Quaint, friendly very unique and different area of both countries.

Since he joined the Leafs, Tavares is 23rd in the NHL in scoring over that time - behind these guys: Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, Patrick Kane, Jonathan Huberdeau, Nathan MacKinnon, Artemi Panarin, Brad Marchand, Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, Johnny Gaudreau, Steven Stamkos, Aleksander Barkov, David Pastrnak, Sidney Crosby, Mark Scheifele, Alex Ovechkin, Sebastian Aho, Mikko Rantanen, Matthew Tkachuk, Nikita Kucherov, Kyle Connor and Mika Zibanejad.

With regards to his $11m salary - almost all of the names in that list are making or deserve to be making at least $10m.
- Monkeypunk

Odds are, he'll still be a very effective players in the last 3 years of his deal.

Yes, he'll be overpaid for the 2nd half of his contract, but signing Tavares wasn't the mistake some are trying to make it.

Odds are, he'll still be a very effective players in the last 3 years of his deal.

Yes, he'll be overpaid for the 2nd half of his contract, but signing Tavares wasn't the mistake some are trying to make it.
- Scabeh

You sign JT at 11M until he is 34

You do not sign Mikheyev at 4.75M until he is 32, Hyman at 5M until he is 35, Nuge at 5.25M until he is 37.

Those are risk for mistakes, ones that I am happy Dubas does not make.

You sign JT at 11M until he is 34

You do not sign Mikheyev at 4.75M until he is 32, Hyman at 5M until he is 35, Nuge at 5.25M until he is 37.

Those are risk for mistakes, ones that I am happy Dubas does not make.
- Santo_44

Mikheyev until 32 isn't bad, it's the money involved that's a little much.

Hyman will probably turn into a mistake eventually I agree.

Nugent-Hopkins is actually a very good contract in my book.

#1 is probably Matthew Knies

#1 is probably Matthew Knies
- frenchy94

Dude, spoilers!

This blog series was months in the making.