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Either that or its gas.

I hadn't even thought about it until someone brought it up, but the idea of getting Backstrom from MIN is growing on me. Run with him and one of the young guys, then if one of them steals the job, trade him at the deadline. Otherwise, re-sign him.

I think he's just not used to playing this many games in a year. Didn't he play something like 40 last year? If you include preseason, NHL regular, AHL regular and AHL playoffs, he's probably around 100 this year. Mental fatigue and such.

The only way i can see us ending up with #1 + #5 would be moving Schenn+ to NYI for #4, then moving #4+ for the #1. Even then, the pluses are gonna be hefty.

I wonder if the league could make an arrangement where the loser of that game gets the two points. It'd be the hardest-fought game of the year.

And talking about the Pee Pee?

Looking beyond our first pick, does anyone try and move up from our 2nd round pick into the latter part of the first round and go for Subban? Since we're tanking so hard, our 2nd is also gaining in value.(As I'm reading up on this, apparently the star brought up this topic a few days ago. They...

We stink at stinking, dudes.

@DarrenDreger: Leafs brass in Sarnia scouting Yakupov tonight. If only.

So, I have a question. According to Siegel, Armstrong is a scratch for this game. If he's able to play, why are the Leafs able to call up two scratches? Is he considered "injured" due to the nose injury despite having played since the injury occured?

I prefer to follow the MLSE construction code and build my house out of cards.

If there's one thing we can agree on, its that the Sun is barely a newspaper. Stop reading it.

To be honest, all I'm looking for from this game is entertainment. If we win, hooray, take that Ottawa. If we lose, hooray, better draft pick. I just want to see some good hockey.

Agreed, coup was probably the wrong word choice. It was just that in a draft marketed as "Taylor vs Tyler", having not-them as the pick the Leafs gave up would have, in my opinion, entirely changed the optics of this situation.

This may be one of those semantic arguments, and since the old board no longer exists I can't really check this, but did people actually predict they would end last in the East or was that more of a "this might happen" kind of discussion? There were *multiple* people on this board that thought...

Anyone think Lindback may be an option? He's 23, at the end of his ELC (RFA), and with Rinne being signed for the next eleventy billion years, he has to know that he'll never become a starter there. They're in need of some bodies on D, especially if Suter doesn't stick around. Perhaps a...

I've said it before and I'll say it again every time this trade is discussed. If the pick was 3rd instead of 2nd, nobody would care and the trade would have been seen as a coup. I don't think anyone saw them finishing 29th. Missing the playoffs, sure. 5th-10th pick, fine. Heck, even if we...

You know, I'm not entirely sure Gus wants to come back next year, even if the Leafs are interested in keeping him. What would you guys do should he not be interested in resigning? Reimer + Veteran? Reimer + Scrivens/Ryannas/Owuya? S/R/O + Veteran? Trade for a #1?

I think that this is just the same thing that they did with Gus. They gave Gus a bunch of games in a row to see what he has for next year, and now they're going to see what happens when Reimer gets a bunch of starts in a row.

Looking at the situation, I'd take Reimer over Gus. Gus is currently the better goalie, and has the physical talents to be a capable NHL back-up. However, he seems to need a number of games in a row to get in to a rhythm, as we saw earlier in the year. As a back-up, however, he won't be getting...