Recent content by Nik

Or, hear me out, Leafs are starting a new chapter, Sharks have their franchise cornerstone in Celebrini and want to build around him. Nylander or Matthews for the #2 Pick plus a young defense prospect, the other one for a top pairing guy and the Leafs take Mckenna and Stenberg.

Just out here working on my two passion projects; seeing the Leafs win a cup and bringing peace to the Middle East. Results so far have been...mixed.

Well, don't ever say my years of going deep cover in the NHL front office didn't pay off. You guys don't even want to know how I managed to rig this one.

It just drives me nuts that no matter how many times something like this can just devastate entire families, entire communities even, and people still get behind the wheel after drinking. Things like Uber make not doing something so criminally stupid easier than ever and there are still idiots...

The decision to trade Matthews for Alex Nylander was a controversial one but I liked it.

Terrible signing. The Leafs need playoff success and there's no evidence OEL can be a contributing guy on a winning team in the postseason.

Junior coaches will always talk up their guys.

I think Datsyuk is a good example of guys who are a reflection of how the way we think about "HOF numbers" are probably going to change after the muted offensive years we saw during his career. We all grew up with the 1000 points and roughly ppg standards and it resulted in the...

Man it feels good to be able to say this: Eat it, Oilers.

Also the league can now credibly say something to the effect of "We wanted to come back to Arizona but it was Merulo who walked away". I don't think it would appease many people in Arizona but if you ever had any sort of legal issues with fans/local politicians it's a reasonable way to pass the...

Roenick's an interesting one as I'm not sure why his argument got any better after all these years. I don't really know what Roenick over Mogilny really says about their criteria other than I guess they're inclined to like a C over a winger the same way a GM might? I think Datsyk and Weber are...

From my highly technial "just take a OHL C who can score" scouting program, I'd like to see Luchanko or Beaudoin. Connelly or Hage would be acceptable secondary targets.

If you never had politicians who weren't willing to do the work of the billionaires and try to sell people on the economic benefits of arenas(which there's near unanimous consensus on from actual economists who study the issue are wildly inflated and don't measure up to nearly any other use of...

Leaving aside that this "private money" included the city spending 200 million on infrastructure upgrades to accommodate the building and 700 million in tax relief there was still the reality that this group, whose financing was always dubious, wanted the city on the hook for a pretty...

I don't think this is an entirely fair reading of the situation. The only reason anyone "wanted" this move is because the League trying to stay in Arizona moved past plan B or C and we're on Plan V at this point, a plan that has involved the team playing in a college arena the last few years...