• For users coming over from tmlfans.ca your username will remain the same but you will need to use the password reset feature (check your spam folder) on the login page in order to set your password. If you encounter issues, email Rick couchmanrick@gmail.com

Jim Hiller is the new Head Coach

cw said:
" clear cap room for potential re-toolin"
That one smelled pretty badly to me

Benoit at $1.35M/yr vs RFA Andrae with arbitration hammer is roughly a cap sawoff
Ersson they're unlikely to re-sign so that isn't a cap problem

Who here thinks Woll wouldn't get picked up on waivers after a team effectively just traded a 3rd rounder for him?
I think that is very unlikely.



So their clear cap room claim strikes me as BS
Click to expand...


I think it's a cap clearing move in the sense that the goalies were going to cost somewhere around $8.25m next season and now the goalie room will come in around $4.55m.
 
dappleganger said:
I think it's a cap clearing move in the sense that the goalies were going to cost somewhere around $8.25m next season and now the goalie room will come in around $4.55m.
Click to expand...

They have around ~27 million of cap space right now and no one to really even spend most of that on anyway. How much more do they need??
 
herman said:
Hildeby (841k)+Andrae (874k QO) isn't going to even remotely command Woll + Benoit numbers (~5M); Philadelphia yo-yo'd him so much he also has almost no arbitration case. Conservatively, that's 3M more room without making a hole in the roster, getting a better skater, and an additional trade chip/sweetener in the 3rd rder, for the price of 30ish games of whatever the drop off is between Woll to Hildeby (your mileage may vary).

Sure it's all marginal stuff, but they stack up in whatever direction they go.
Click to expand...

AFP Analytics project Andrae, with RFA arbitration, will get 2.12M/yr x 2 years which is > Benoit at $1.35M x 1 year

The stuff with moving Woll is something a grade school child could figure out
Stolarz or Woll had to go. Over the last 3 seasons, Woll is 21st among NHL goalies in save%, only 2 years left on his deal
So they knew they could dump him any time to get free of his cap hit and not make a hole in the roster. One email would do it.
I do not see it as some big accomplishment. A GM could do it in their sleep.
 
cw said:
I do not see it as some big accomplishment.
Click to expand...
I don't think anyone is extolling this transaction as foundational or mountain moving, but there was merely some confusion about why the transaction was made. My confusion now is in trying to figure out what point you're trying to get across.
 
herman said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/2067310171970285625
Special guest star on the zoom call lol

The one in which John Chayka presents a more robust case for hiring Jim Hiller than Keith Pelley presented for hiring John Chayka.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2067317632303325393
One of us!

https://twitter.com/x/status/2067314787424362904
Willy approved
Click to expand...
Surprised Simmons didn't bust in when Jim was talking "John, how did you arrive at hiring Jim, because 19 of the 20 GM's I talked to said he was a no talent hack."
 
cw said:
AFP Analytics project Andrae, with RFA arbitration, will get 2.12M/yr x 2 years which is > Benoit at $1.35M x 1 year

The stuff with moving Woll is something a grade school child could figure out
Stolarz or Woll had to go. Over the last 3 seasons, Woll is 21st among NHL goalies in save%, only 2 years left on his deal
So they knew they could dump him any time to get free of his cap hit and not make a hole in the roster. One email would do it.
I do not see it as some big accomplishment. A GM could do it in their sleep.
Click to expand...

They weren't going to get Emil Andrae for free.

Emil is replacing Rielly -- Rielly $7.5m/yr x 3 years > Andrae $2.12m/yr x 2 years.
 
I really don't think Andrae is the Rielly replacement. I think he's a win your third line minutes with a guy who doesn't chuck pizzas up the ice replacement.

The only way the clearing cap space comment makes a lot of sense is if they have who they're targeting and plan to spend right to the top of the cap. Obviously then it makes a lot of sense to move off of two potentially unreliable goalies, and now you only have one potentially unreliable goalie and one developing goalie with a third one waiver exempt if need be. I don't think that's a terrible play. I'd rather AA play a bit than a Michael Hutchinson type and Hildeby showed a lot last year given the tumult the team was in.
 
Bender said:
I really don't think Andrae is the Rielly replacement. I think he's a win your third line minutes with a guy who doesn't chuck pizzas up the ice replacement.

The only way the clearing cap space comment makes a lot of sense is if they have who they're targeting and plan to spend right to the top of the cap. Obviously then it makes a lot of sense to move off of two potentially unreliable goalies, and now you only have one potentially unreliable goalie and one developing goalie with a third one waiver exempt if need be. I don't think that's a terrible play. I'd rather AA play a bit than a Michael Hutchinson type and Hildeby showed a lot last year given the tumult the team was in.
Click to expand...

Ok, I was being facetious but your left side is now OEL - McCabe - Andrae.
 
herman said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/2067316292051173649
https://twitter.com/x/status/2067314200645382293
Good question

https://twitter.com/x/status/2067308042035568987
Water is the essence of wetness. And wetness is the essence of beauty.
Click to expand...
It reminds me of the Sebben and Sebben corporate mission statement:

"Putting clients first by putting employees first, immediately after prioritizing fiscal responsibilities and leveraging profitability towards exceeding by empowering our employees to put clients (and themselves) first, in a diverse and respectful environment of only those that come first, first."
Click to expand...

As a side note, I had this printed and posted on my desk for years with our bank's logo on it and no one ever noticed.
 
herman said:
I don't think anyone is extolling this transaction as foundational or mountain moving, but there was merely some confusion about why the transaction was made. My confusion now is in trying to figure out what point you're trying to get across.
Click to expand...

" it allowed us to create some flexibility."
too much bluster or spin for my taste - beyond the phrase - it was the feel of the presentation
 
Jim Hiller:
mapleleafshotstove.com

Jim Hiller on the Maple Leafs' style of play under his leadership as head coach: "We'll have a style of play that the players will be excited to play in"

After his introduction as the 41st head coach in Maple Leafs franchise history, Jim Hiller discussed rejoining the organization, his past experience in the market, coaching the Leafs’ star players, the opportunity to draft first overall later this month, and the style of play he’s looking to...
mapleleafshotstove.com mapleleafshotstove.com

John Chayka:
mapleleafshotstove.com

John Chayka on the hiring of Jim Hiller as Leafs head coach: "It starts with alignment... We want no space between the coaches and the front office... We think Jim gives us the best chance to do that"

GM John Chayka discusses his process for arriving at the decision to announce Jim Hiller as the 41st head coach in Maple Leafs history. Opening Statement on the Hiring of Jim Hiller as Head Coach Chayka: First, I’d like to welcome Jim, his wife, and their family back to Toronto. This is a city...
mapleleafshotstove.com mapleleafshotstove.com

Transcripts of the media availability from this afternoon
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top