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2026-27 Toronto Maple Leafs General Discussion | Official: Sundin & Chayka to lead front office

Columbus will now take offers on Were ski. Knies for Werenski straight up? Werenski is the better player but older, and Knies is under team control for 6 more years.
 
Guru Tugginmypuddah said:
Guess who his agent is?
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Guilt Trip said:
He refuses to play defence so yeah, dead.
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I will never understand how a hockey team tolerates that.
Guys like that can be poison to a team and maybe that is part of the problem with this team.
They're listening to offers for Knies ... why not this guy?
You can replace him with a less talented player because that player will play in both ends of the ice.
The result would be a team with everybody pulling their weight all over the ice - together.
Not a team where the skilled lily dipper gets special treatment because bruising is beneath him or he's not in the mood or whatever.
 
cw said:
I will never understand how a hockey team tolerates that.
Guys like that can be poison to a team and maybe that is part of the problem with this team.
They're listening to offers for Knies ... why not this guy?
You can replace him with a less talented player because that player will play in both ends of the ice.
The result would be a team with everybody pulling their weight all over the ice - together.
Not a team where the skilled lily dipper gets special treatment because bruising is beneath him or he's not in the mood or whatever.
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Yup. He can put up the points and that's what fans of his looks at and ignore the rest. If he played both ends of the rink he's a top 15 at worst. Guy is so talented but 1 dimensional. He's the guy I'd actually be looking at moving too.
 
Bullfrog said:
Are you guys drunk? lol.

One-dimensional or not, you need that talent. There's ways to deploy it properly.
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They just miss Mitch

And to be fair, Mitch Marner is a unicorn two-way winger with well above average defense. Him and Hyman coming in at the same time with Nylander (and to a lesser degree Kapanen) meant some wingers got all the defensive development reps because that’s what the team needed then.

Nylander helped pad the stats of a lot of defense-first linemates over the years. Who’s job was the harder one on each of those plays is debatable. I’m sure they both appreciate each others gifts.
 
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