Recent content by Champ Kind

No doubt about it, but context matters. That's trade deadline stuff. And the steep price paid for these relatively decent players is in line with what the other contenders paid at last year's deadline. I mean, look at Tampa's big deadline trade last year. TB got Yanni Gourde, Oliver...

From your lips (or fingers) to God's ears, Prince.

Very good points, but why have you left this as an either/or situation?  What would the B, D, B & S money AND the Marner  money do?  My rough math suggests that would offer about $28M to spend, plus the potential for impactful players returning in any deal.  I would also say that the Leafs, in...

The Incredible Pulkk would be fun.

I just wanted to chime in on the Marner debate: the reason it's such a polarizing topic is that there's really no win for the Leafs here.  As Herman has pointed out - and advocated directly last year at this time - the time to have traded Marner and tried to maximize his value was pre-July 1...

So, just wondering, but why do you qualify Marner's regular season point totals by saying "he missed almost a month" and, yet, you say Mitch and Willy had the same number of playoff points?  Surely an unbiased argument would note that Willy missed several playoff games and had come off some...

Shoot, my mistake, I thought Ullmark was UFA this year. Edit forthcoming.

Ooooooo, good, I get to be the frst one throwing out reactionary and baseless organizational moves. First, and foremost, let's get a good old Bay Street two-for-one special happening and sign Brett Pesce and Rod Brind'Amour.  They can split the U-Haul costs by driving up together. Second, sign...

Forgive my petulance, but if Woll plays the Leafs win 1-0. Morgan Rielly, after a great playoffs last year, was pretty bad all series and brutal tonight.  N rhe ice for both goals and, more importantly, looked completely overwhelmed on both sequences.

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I don?t disagree, but Herman?s 1:14 ratio s about right, at least tonight he was an absolute momentum killer tonight, especially in the third.

Nobody gives the puck away like Marner does.  Noooooobody.

Looks like Matthews didn?t practice today for a reason.  He is off, way off.

Extremely well said and accurate.  As Herman says, if this was 2002 then assemble as many good, high-priced players as you can.  In 2024, you have to make choices, and I'm aligned with Herman in that Marner's $11-12M need to be distributed elsewhere. Plus, Domi is doing a pretty darn fine...

I respectfully disagree.  He got in hard on the hards.  Sure it was embellished, but that?s going to get called.