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Forum: Armchair-GM3 hours ago
Thread: Run It Back Looking To 2026
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>palhal</b></div><div>I don't think understand free agency. Teams don't allow players to walk.....players have the choice. How do you think the Leafs were about to sign Bertuzzi, Domi, Tavares, Brodie, Benoit, Reaves, Samsonov, Jarnkrok. Players decided to sign in Toronto. Same thing if Tavares and Marner decide to sign with other teams in summer of 2026, the Leafs didn't allow them to do it.</div></div>

You stay having the most abysmal takes on this site. Man, do you actually think Marner and Tavares are just going to walk away from the childhood teams after playing on it for 8 years and publicly expressing how much they love playing here?!?

I’m like 95% sure you spewed the same bs about Matthews. If I recall, you even said you’d be happy if Matthews walk so we could use “cap” for other positions. Your past ACGMs (which you rarely ever make) speak for how little you actually know about hockey.
Forum: Armchair-GM8 hours ago
Thread: Coming to our senses
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>palhal</b></div><div>All these trades for Kampf because fan don't think he worth his contract. So trading him is virtually impossible. For sure Kampf will have poor team with on his "non trade list"
Yes, so many Leafs fans can't imagine him not been traded because they have to fill out a fantasy.
Yeah we saw Minten.....he wasn't near NHL ready. He's gotta play big minutes for the Marlies, and since Kampf isn't/can't be traded, Minten is a Marlie in October.</div></div>

Trading Kampf isn't necessarily because he isn't worth his contract. We just have limited cap space and Holmberg. That's really it. A bottom-6 centre with very limited offensive ability. He's very reliable in defensive/shutdown situations and faceoffs. His AAV takes 2% of the cap. I would say that's pretty reasonable for MOST teams moving forward.

I really don't understand why you're so certain Minten will not be in the NHL lineup for game 1 of the season. Obviously there's still a low chance he plays, but why is it impossible? He honestly looked fine in a lot of the games he played. He even stood out in all of the pre-season games. It's also not like he's being tasked to play a difficult role. He's just being used as a defensive-minded 3rd/4th line centre. Unless you're expecting his potential to be top-6, he really wasn't that far from what we expected of him when he played last year. Worst case, he's inconsistent and we play holmberg-dewar at centre.
Forum: Armchair-GM15 hours ago
Thread: How would you make a Mitch Marner Juuse Saros swap more fair
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Just_A_Guess</b></div><div>We're not going to have to do anything. We can run both goaltenders for the year, or at least until the TDL. Mentoring Askarov with his fulltime transition to the NHL is also something of value for Nashville. Never have I mentioned signing both long term.

1sts are great, icing a competitive team is better. We made playoffs this year, by making additions to the roster and avoiding major subtractions (such as trading away our elite goaltending) we will be in a much better position next year. Would have to imagine the plan would be to make a push while Forsberg/Josi/ROR are still competitive and productive.</div></div>

Fair enough. I just don't think any kind of Marner trade gets done without giving up Saros. And given that Askarov could be just as good or even better than Saros over the next 2-3 years, it might be a good idea to swap Saros for Marner.
Forum: Armchair-GM16 hours ago
Thread: How would you make a Mitch Marner Juuse Saros swap more fair
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Just_A_Guess</b></div><div>I would start with removing Saros and including pieces Nashville would be interested in trading.

I understand Toronto is foaming at the mouth for a goaltender, Nashville has lots of futures to offer up for a guy like Marner and maybe even JT and they can dangle those for a goaltender from someone else.

2025 draft picks (Toronto is going to have to pay that signing bonus), Schaefer, Wood, Parssinen, Glass, Lauzon, Lind, Prokop, Tomasino. Make yourself a package and go from there.</div></div>

Why would NSH not be interested in trading Saros? You're going to have to pay him a massive raise into his 30s (likely won't age well). Not to mention, you don't even have to solve or worry about goaltending with or without him for the next decade. If you want to run Askarov/Saros for the next 8 years, go for it. Not sure how you'd afford it though.

Making Saros expendable opens up so many possibilities for short and long-term improvement on your team. And you get out of paying him what would be, in my opinion, a very bad contract. Plus, you guys get to keep your late firsts and B/C-level prospects.
Forum: Armchair-GMMon. at 2:29 a.m.
Thread: Ducks Side of a Marner Trade
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>GiggywithGibby</b></div><div>It's not a matter of not wanting to give those pieces up to acquire a player we want, everything listed in the trade is expendable, it's a matter of we don't want Marner, and you can't seem to get it through your head.

You need to go rewatch (or maybe watch) Miracle. It's not about having the best players, it's about having the right ones, and Mitch isn't. If he was, Toronto would have a cup by now.</div></div>

This is real life. Mitch Marner is a real hockey player. YOU don’t seem to understand that you have no idea why Mitch Marner isn’t the ONLY reason the Leafs haven’t had success the past 8 years. Even if Marner over performed, we still wouldn’t have a Stanley cup. Our team, this season in particular, was borderline ass. And just because he hasn’t found success in the playoffs on one team doesn’t mean he can’t on another. Matthew Tkachuk was literally a playoff ghost until he went to Florida.
Forum: Armchair-GMMon. at 1:55 a.m.
Thread: Ducks Side of a Marner Trade
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>GiggywithGibby</b></div><div>You really want to play "whatabout-ism" comparing Marner, a guy who's constantly accused of not showing up to the playoffs, to McDavid, who has shown repeatedly he is "that guy" by elevating his play in the post season every year? A guy that is capable of driving his own line? A guy who regularly makes it past the first round?

McDavid has shown he's worth the money, Marner has shown he's not.</div></div>

Marner is equally as responsible for the team's shortcomings as any other player on his team.

Regardless, you're giving up practically nothing in return for a 100-point selke-level winger. You can complain all you want about paying him 11 million, but it's really not that much at all given your situation as a team. If anything, it would be perfect. You can easily afford him now, and by the time Carlsson, Gauthier, and Mintyukov need their contracts, the cap will have risen to like 92 million or something and Gibson, Gudas, Fowler will all come off the books. You'll still have like 50 million in cap space. And you're pretty much giving up 2 players and 1 late first rounder, all which likely won't play a single playoff game in your entire franchises history.

This is a legit no-brainer, completely one-sided deal. And the fact that you actually think the Ducks would decline this because of 'leveraging cap space' shows just how much the media and fan base have completely warped the perception of an elite player to the rest of the NHL. It's actually hilarious.