Thx Mike for listening what some of us are calling out since COL trade............

Keep it up with the "new you" when Hyman back and create the following :

1st Line...... Hyman - Tavares - Marner
2nd Line...... Moore - Matthews - Nylander
3rd Line..... Johnsson - Kerfoot - Kapanen
4th Line.......Mikheyev - Gauthier - Spezza

Mikheyev has been way to good to be relegated to the fourth line.

Matthews line has looked good. Why are you messing with it?

As Mikheyev so Moore.....the difference is you wont need to pay Moore next year and he can do the job for 775k.

With Mikheyev to 4th Line you are creating another strong Line, again both Mikheyev as Moore for that spot, just Mikheyev wont leetch on Matthews and demanding more money, while Moore should leetch on Matthews and being 40 Pointer for 775K. Lets see how good Mikheyev is when hes not sheltered....Brown got 28 Points there last year....still didnt see anything that would put Mikheyev in front of Moore....

Matthews Line is working true...but now if you put "mediocre" Grinder to that Line ( which would be Moore in that case ) you create a killing 3rd Line with Johnsson - Kerfoot - Kapanen which would have upper hand over 90% of 3rd Lines in the League.

Oh, the problem the Leafs have....too many good wingers. Right now I'd have Timashov in the line up and not Spezza. Mikheyev or Moore can go to right wing.
Everyone points to the return of Hyman. Even when he returns, there might be other injuries...and more juggling.
IMO, the LWers of Hyman, Johnson, Moore and even Mikheyev are pretty interchangeable on any line. Yep, Kapanen seems to better much better on the right wing.
As suggested by Laudan, the Leafs third line can be very good compared to others.

I know it's your thing but I'm not holding the team back to prevent a player from doing well so his contract asks are lower.

I want my players to succeed. If they succeed so much that they're expensive we can trade them for value

Still dont see hows that putting Mikheyev being better then Moore.......its a tactical thing and longterm thinking....50M are tight in 7 Forwards.....no place for screwing around
anymore....





First Round Pick or Higher: Frederik Andersen (1st+2nd), Martin Jones (1st+Sean Kuraly)
Second Round Pick Or Higher: Cam Talbot (2nd+3rd), Brian Elliott (2nd+Conditional 3rd)
Third Round Pick: Petr Mrazek (Conditional 3+4), Scott Darling
Fourth Round Pick: Anders Nilsson, Al Montoya (Conditional), Ben Bishop (Rights)
Fifth Round Pick or Below: Calvin Pickard (6th + Lindberg contract), Scott Wedgewood (5th), Dustin Tokarski (Future Considerations), Tom McCollum (Cond. 7th), Mike Condon (5th), Jonathan Bernier (Future Considerations), Antti Niemi (7th, Rights)
Skater of Then-Value: Ben Scrivens (Zack Kassian), Antti Raanta (Ryan Haggerty), Niklas Backstrom (David Jones)
Skater as Contract Swap: Jack Campbell, Reto Berra, Dustin Tokarski (again), Anders Nilsson (again), Anton Khudobin

Here’s what we’ve got since (in cases where a goalie was the key piece, not just a token contract), in reverse order:

November 30, 2019: Eric Comrie for Vili Sararijarvi
November 1, 2019: Louis Domingue for a conditional 7th
September 27, 2019: Antoine Bibeau for Nicolas Meloche
July 30, 2019: Mike Condon + 6th for Ryan Callahan + 5th
July 23, 2019: Garret Sparks for David Clarkson + 4th
June 30, 2019: James Reimer for Scott Darling + 6th
June 14, 2019: Connor Ingram for a 7th
February 25, 2019: Keith Kinkaid for a 5th
February 12, 2019: Marek Mazanec for a 7th
January 3, 2019: Jared Coreau for Future Considerations
December 29, 2018: Michael Hutchinson for a 5th Round Pick
June 27, 2018: J-F Berube for Jordan Schroeder
June 22, 2018: Philipp Grubauer + Buying Out Brooks Orpik for a 2nd Round Pick
June 13, 2018: Peter Budaj for Andy Andreoff

My guess is Tymashov will go same way as Sandin.....Petan and him filling for 16 Games till Hyman back, then both send down for Cap reasons, if he will make impression would help him pump the trading price. Im coming to that from preseason exhibitions where Agostino show more, but was sent down....and if you check current setup of TML, it goes grinding LWs and speedy RWs, so with Hyman ( if he wont be traded ), Johnsson, Moore and Mikheyev ( if not lost cause to expensive as i mentioned in previous posts ) hes and expendable LW comparing to Marchment and Agostino being bigger, grindier and proly cheaper....

( GAA 20th......SA 24th......SCA 27th.......PP 8th........PK 16th.... for 2018/2019 )