Quoting: NazemKadri43
All wrong.
Rielly is the new Tyson Barrie. Brodie and Sandin made him expendable. I doubt he gets a 1st round pick at this point
Kerfoot will either be traded/selected by Seattle
Mikheyev will come out of the lineup during the playoffs for Brooks and Nash. He will be traded next season considering how useless he has been this season
Holl was exposed to not be anything more than a liability and a 5th/6th defensemen outside of Muzzin. Sample size is more than enough to show that he will be traded when he played with Rielly, Dermott, and Hutton. He can't carry his own pairing if his life depends on it, and needs to rely on Muzzin to look like a top 4 defensemen
Nylander is a one dimensional player who does not fit into Dubas' philosophy anymore. Elliotte Friedman even said that if the Leafs don't have success, one of Marner or Nylander will be traded. Being first in a very weak division is not success. We expect the Leafs to be first, so it is a requirement. If the Leafs don't win the cup, then the season is a failure and changes in the core needs to be made
Dougie Hamilton is a defensemen you want on your team. The Leafs will be a joke if they re-sign Rielly
Yeah... you're a Leafs troll.
Rielly has been the same thing his entire career. An elite offensive puck moving defenceman that starts the play from his own end. Without him, watch the offensive numbers of Matthews, Marner, Tavares, etc. plummet. He's the same type of player he was when he had his 70 point season and no one complained. He's 12th in points by a defenceman for a reason. Chill on the Sandin hype. He's been good, but let's not forget that he's very inexperienced. To say he's the guy to replace Rielly after 37 career games and he only has 12 points in those games is outrageously ridiculous. It's Toronto media looking for a story.
Kerfoot won't be traded because they have to meet the requirement of at least 2 players that have played a minimum amount of games over the last 2 season AND are under contract for next season. Currently only Kerfoot and Engvall meet that requirement. So Kerfoot isn't traded. He's kept and likely picked by Seattle.. which was my original comment on him.
Mikheyev is one of Toronto's top penalty killers and is signed through next year at a very good cap hit for a third line guy that can kill penalties. Do you not want the team paying defence? Have you forgotten that that's why they're so much better this year than last season -- because they play better defence? Plus Leafs management loves Mikheyev. He's not being thrown away for a garbage draft pick. Dubas traded picks away because he doesn't care about them, he wants to win. Who helps them win more -- Mikheyev or a 4th round pick that likely 3-5 years away from MAYBE making the NHL? ... Mikheyev all day.
Holl is a 4th/5th defenceman. Can play in the top 4 with a capable partner, but can't carry a pair. For his cap hit of only $2M, he's valuable to the Leafs. You say he can't play away from Muzzin, then don't play him without Muzzin? They've done a great job shutting down teams this season. They've shutdown McDavid. I think any team is smart to keep that for only $2M instead of again, throwing him away for absolute trash draft picks when the Leafs have a deep farm system and Dubas clearly doesn't care about picks right now.
Nylander is exactly the guy Dubas wants. One of the top possession players in the league that drives play, is incredible on zone entries, a top offensive talent in the league, and on a great contract for multiple years. Why would Dubas throw that away for a prospect that's 3 years away form MAYBE making the league, and a pick that's at least 5 years away? That's trash.
You trash the Leafs for being 1st in the division, but fail to look at the overall picture. The team is vastly improved in all areas of the game and you're just trolling to get under people's skin which is comical. So they're first in their division, is that bad? First time they've won the division since 1999-2000. Seems like a pretty sizeable upgrade. You call it a weak division, well sorry but they can't control their schedule. It's no reason to knock their success. They had to go up against the best player in the world 9 times this season where they normally play Edmonton only twice, and went 6-3-1 against his team while holding McDavid to under a point per game. Not many teams can say they've ever done that. That's not a failure. So call it a weak division and say it doesn't mean anything all you want, but I guess to you then McDavid getting 100 points in 56 games this season doesn't count either because it was against a weak division.
Dougie Hamilton is not the guy for Toronto. Why is he? Spend $9M on a guy that's going to regress in the later part of that contract, when you already have a great first pair of Rielly-Brodie and a great shutdown pair of Muzzin-Holl. With the style of play that Muzzin plays, he's likely to regress soon and Sandin can play the second pair while you reduce Muzzin's minutes to third pair to keep him from regressing too quick. You then keep your top pair of Rielly-Brodie together and help the forwards create more offence because they have Rielly who can move the puck out of the defensive zone with ease. You can either spend $9M on Hamilton to do that, or you can spend what like $11-$12M on a pair of Rielly-Brodie to do the same thing, and Brodie's defence is far superior to Hamilton's. I'll take 2 guys for $11M rather than spending $9M on 1 guy any day of the year.
Please troll elsewhere. Leafs fans get enough of it.