Recent content by cw

Tverberg & Kressler are RFAs who won't be waivers exempt next year Tverberg looked interesting last season. Don't know if he would be worth a peek Villeneuve is a RFA who has exhausted his waivers exemptions From good reviews, he seems like a worthy candidate to take a look Rifai has caught my...

I was reading (maybe it was said here already) that even if they fall to 5th worst, there is only a 25% chance they would remain there after the lottery. 4th worst is a 44% chance. OTH, they could win one of the two lottery spots ...

Added an assist. 3 pt night. 1st Star 21 goals on the season pts/60 over last 2 seasons is top 6, goals/60 is 68th among forwards over two seasons He's going to help some teams top 6 NHL.com McMann on a Mission

Starting with his rookie season, Babcock gave Marner the 2nd most playoff ice time among Leafs forwards Keefe & Berube gave Marner the most playoff ice time among Leafs forwards Jon Cooper gave Marner 3rd most ice time among forwards at the Nations Cup, 4th most in the Olympics George McPhee and...

He outscored all the other Leafs in the playoffs while he was here and led the forwards in +/- by a significant margin His playoff ppg is top 5 in Leafs history .01 behind Sundin (30 or more GP) If that is absolutely sucking, I don't know what else to say. How come no one on his entire team...

I don't agree. Projections for Marner's contract on the open market were as high as $15.4/yr for 7 yrs Most projections came in at $13.5 to $14/yr He took $12 to go to a team he wanted that was very cap tight. Marner also could have received more if he desired. Rantanen might still be with...

I do not think the core 4 was grossly overpaid by Dubas. Tavares was a top UFA and probably could have got a little more. Marner & Matthews have been top 10 scorers and good defensively since they came into the league Nylander was a cut below because he was not great defensively and didn't rack...

"The architects of this mess in Toronto are many. And there’s no question many of the failings come back to the fact the roster is poorly constructed. This is an old, slow team that is getting outskated every game, a dramatic transformation from not all that long ago when the Leafs were one of...

They've been playing so poorly, I haven't made it past the 1st period since the break. Doesn't seem to be in me to cheer against them.

Trade deadline is a bidding war. Things can get crazy. I'm no Treliving fan. They obviously won the bid to get his services. I'd been looking at him for a couple of years. He was a good character center who could score some and PK, etc - pretty good player. As I recall at the time, they...

I think a bunch of it has to do with their circumstances I'm not happy with what they've done so don't take it the wrong way. Little cap space. League changes for playoff cap and retention making it even tougher to trade At the start of the season, they had one of the weakest collection of...

Treliving has been supportive and defensive of Berube. He'll sprinkle the blame around some and I don't think that's unfair. Team sport. Team loss. But he's said a few times this season that he has to take responsibility. I think he realizes it is pretty hard to look at it any other way.

Yep. He took a 4th place team in the NHL last year and turned it into a 25th place team (& probably falling) this year. Spent max money and a hunk of what little they had left in assets to get there. Fraser Minten has a better shot at a Cup than the Leafs do. So does Mitch Marner

so that ends that

So I'm not fan of Treliving but On the Laughton deal, like the McMann deal, all he has to do is read the email or listen to the phone calls. Then sell to the highest bidder. What they got for Laughton was probably the highest bid. So I'm not going to clobber him for that. I would have taken...