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Giving Bracco a Chance

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Team: 2020-21 Toronto Maple Leafs
Initial Creation Date: May 27, 2020
Published: May 27, 2020
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Give Bracco a chance to boost his trade value at the start of next season. Bracco takes a discount in return for being guaranteed 10 games with Matthews.

If it doesn't work out no harm done. It just makes it easier for us to pass him through waivers. Switch Nylander back to Matthews wing and push the the LW up one line. Throw Gauthier or Brooks in on the 4th line to be LW.
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21$81,500,000$81,049,783$0$0$450,217
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Marner, Mitchell
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Hyman, Zach
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Bracco, Jeremy
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Mikheyev, Ilya
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Brooks, Adam
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Dermott, Travis
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May 27, 2020 at 1:41 p.m.
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Poor Auston
May 27, 2020 at 1:44 p.m.
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Poor Auston


It's only 10 games... he'll live. That's why he's getting paid so much.
May 27, 2020 at 1:47 p.m.
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I'd just let him run the PP.
May 27, 2020 at 1:51 p.m.
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Honestly I would rather see Brooks playing big minutes with the Marlies. See him as a pretty good 3C option in another year.
May 27, 2020 at 1:54 p.m.
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Quoting: Leafs_and_Sens_Fan
It's only 10 games... he'll live. That's why he's getting paid so much.


Bracco had a lot going on with injuries and off the ice last year. Certainly has hurt his value, but not sure he is washed up. Just hard to pin where he is, which gives everyone reservations about his ability to make the jump.

I for one am unsure. The skill is there, but last year's regression - issues or not - was concerning.
May 27, 2020 at 2:14 p.m.
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The bracco love is so hilarious.

Cant wait until he signs in the KHL
May 27, 2020 at 2:20 p.m.
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Quoting: swinny
Honestly I would rather see Brooks playing big minutes with the Marlies. See him as a pretty good 3C option in another year.


Agree with Brooks as a Marlie. He will never be anything more than a 4th line player in the NHL. He just won't. That is fine. We don't need him to play up in the lineup.

A 3C? Forget it. No chance.

He has value as a 4th line player and an injury sub no doubt.
May 27, 2020 at 2:28 p.m.
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Quoting: leafs101
Poor Auston


he may surprise some people. Nobody thought binnington would be what the blues needed and look what he did. Led them to a cup
May 27, 2020 at 2:29 p.m.
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Quoting: LeafsFanForSomeReason
I'd just let him run the PP.


I would put him on the third line and see what he does. Also would throw him on pp2. I think Bracco could surprise some people
May 27, 2020 at 2:33 p.m.
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Quoting: aadoyle
I would put him on the third line and see what he does. Also would throw him on pp2. I think Bracco could surprise some people


Realistically, I wouldn't do either, but if I were trying to up his value like mentioned, I'd put him on PP1 with Matthews and Tavares
May 27, 2020 at 2:33 p.m.
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Quoting: Trevorchef
Agree with Brooks as a Marlie. He will never be anything more than a 4th line player in the NHL. He just won't. That is fine. We don't need him to play up in the lineup.

A 3C? Forget it. No chance.

He has value as a 4th line player and an injury sub no doubt.


Think he has more game than a 4C, but if that's what he is, that's what he is. Depth is depth.
May 27, 2020 at 2:39 p.m.
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The goal is to win games, not boost a fringe NHLer's trade value.

I do think Bracco has a spot in the NHL, but that spot is on a bad team that needs wing depth. But he's more of a guy to take a chance on as a waiver claim than giving up any assets (maybe a change of scenery type of trade?) to get.
May 27, 2020 at 3:15 p.m.
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Quoting: littlejerryseinfeld
The bracco love is so hilarious.

Cant wait until he signs in the KHL


The Bracco love? He has essentially been written off by every Leafs fan. I actually think he can still be a player. Probably not with the Leafs, but given the opportunity I think he could be a player
May 27, 2020 at 3:18 p.m.
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Quoting: MadLin27
The Bracco love? He has essentially been written off by every Leafs fan. I actually think he can still be a player. Probably not with the Leafs, but given the opportunity I think he could be a player


A leafs fan has him on the top line, another being offer sheeted here after having 0 nhl games his entire elc
May 27, 2020 at 3:21 p.m.
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Quoting: littlejerryseinfeld
A leafs fan has him on the top line, another being offer sheeted here after having 0 nhl games his entire elc


I have seen 1000 examples of him getting traded for a 5th rounder.
The kid led the AHL in scoring a year ago. He has some upside.

Just saying I could see him cracking an NHL lineup somewhere and being a 3rd line winger
May 27, 2020 at 6:59 p.m.
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Quoting: littlejerryseinfeld
A leafs fan has him on the top line, another being offer sheeted here after having 0 nhl games his entire elc


I put him with Matthew's just to gauge where hes at as a play not because he's better than Nylander and Marner.

Yes I also had him offer sheeted. But you forgot to mention that there was no compensation associated with the offersheet because the offer was for 1.395M for 1 season...
May 27, 2020 at 7:26 p.m.
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I put him with Matthew's just to gauge where hes at as a play not because he's better than Nylander and Marner.

Yes I also had him offer sheeted. But you forgot to mention that there was no compensation associated with the offersheet because the offer was for 1.395M for 1 season...


There is zero chance he even gets a one way deal.
May 28, 2020 at 1:17 a.m.
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A gm saying, “take a discount and I’ll let you play with this player,” is not a real life concept.
May 28, 2020 at 1:41 a.m.
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A gm saying, “take a discount and I’ll let you play with this player,” is not a real life concept.


I mean the team fits under the cap even without the discount. But it has been done before.
May 28, 2020 at 9:46 a.m.
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I mean the team fits under the cap even without the discount. But it has been done before.


Oh? I would love to hear some example of that.

Imagine a GM coming to a coach and saying, “you’ve got to play this rookie that looks like he sucks on the top line because I promised him that so he would take a discount!”
 
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