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Driedger18

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Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 1, 2023 at 8:55 p.m.
Thread: Bertuzzi and Barbashev
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Driedger18</b></div><div>Is Steeves really a "career" AHLer if he's only in his 2nd AHL season? 81pts in 100 GP. AT 22 Bertuzzi had played 127 AHL games so was he a career AHLer?</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>HockeyIsMyPassion61</b></div><div>No comparison, Bertuzzi came into the league at age 21. Already spent 3 seasons in GR from the time he was drafted in 2013. Steeves is already 23 and in his 2nd season in the AHL. Yeah that's pretty much telling me that he's a career AHLer.</div></div>

Bertuzzi was drafted in ‘13 out of major junior and played parts of 3 seasons in the ahl. He also joined a wings team that was - well terrible.
Steeves went to university and was signed as a FA in ‘21; he’s spent 2 years in ahl and is putting up decent numbers. Leafs are a lot better team than the wings were in 2018-19.

Not saying Steeves is equivalent to bertuzxi but he’s not a terrible prospect, I’d rank him squarely in middle tier. Projects as bottom 6 player.
I agree the offer is too low; Bertuzzi is worth a 2nd imo or 3rd + Steeves.
There’s no inter divisional concern because:
1/ wings aren’t making the playoffs this year, so who cares where they trade him
2/ Bertuzzi is a FA; very doubtful Leafs can extend him so he won’t come back to haunt them next year or year after
Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 13, 2020 at 6:39 p.m.
Thread: Retooling the core
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>dzad96</b></div><div>That' exactly my issue with him tho, is that "he fits the current style". The style needs to change. It's proven year after year that the "leafs style" simply can not win in the playoffs. It just can't. And maybe changing the personnel and personnel type helps to change the "style".</div></div>

I think they need a blended style. Possession game but with more bite when they need it, and I think that the issues come down to team structure, lack of veteran leadership aside from Tavares, Spezza, Clifford, and Muzzin, and lack of physicality up and down the lineup, all of which are easy fixes, that can be addressed either internally or for cheap, so that you don't necessarily have to blow up the core 4 to fix (at least for now).
Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 6, 2020 at 11:44 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 16, 2019 at 12:54 p.m.
Thread: Minimal Trades
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>BigDog91</b></div><div>Brown is worth a 4th at most.
Ducks laugh at you and never pick up your call again. Also you do know that with LTIR u need to still be under the cap when season starts. So, for example I will not be able to sign marner till after the season starts. Also he will make more then 10 million.</div></div>

So take a 4th... his salary is now an obstacle. And it doesn't have to be to the Oilers, they just seem like the best fit to me. They desperately need wingers, he's played with McDavid before, he'd get the opportunity to succeed he's just not going to get here, and we know the Oilers have already tried to get him once.

Ducks aren't exactly in a position to laugh.

Actually you don't. This is exactly the same stunt the Leafs pulled with Horton and Lupul a couple years back. Horton we know is eligible for offseason LTIR, and Kesler can be dealt with in the ordinary way on the last day of training camp. <a href="https://www.capfriendly.com/ltir-faq">https://www.capfriendly.com/ltir-faq</a>

Marner *may* make more than 10M, but I'm not convinced. Kucherov makes $9.5M. Sure that's in a low tax state, but at the same time:
- Kucherov scores a ton of goals. Marner puts up assists like crazy, but goals get you more $$.
- Kucherov is at least the second-most important part of the Lightning, maybe even most important. Marner has at LEAST Matthews and Tavares ahead of him, maybe even behind Reilly since the Leaf's back end isn't as good as Tampa's.
- Florida has low tax, but in Toronto players can pack away far more in endorsement deals. And it's free of escrow. Not to mention the fact that players are paid in USD, which means more purchasing power in Canada. Monetarily it's a wash.
- Marner is local guy who presumably doesn't want to go anywhere else anyway.
- If at the end of the day they can't come to terms and someone decides to offer sheet, that's four 1st rounders and and extra $9M to spend. Leafs have all the leverage here.