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KileDoobis

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Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 28, 2020 at 12:51 a.m.
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Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 12, 2020 at 10:21 p.m.
Thread: Lou Lam we need you back
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>KileDoobis</b></div><div>if Lou were still around, Marleau's contract would've driven Kapanen, Johnsson, and Maybe even Marner out the door. Matt Martin would still be a Leaf and making 4 million dollars. Mike Babcock would still be coach and Auston Matthews would play under 18 minutes in an elimination game. need I go on? i don't mean to say that Dubas is perfect, because he's made some terrible moves. see: Kadri trade. but Lou is NOT the answer.</div></div>

Kadri is the only trade you can really say was bad. And that is only in hindsight. Barrie was considered a pretty good player at the time and just didn't pan out in TO. Many like to say losing a 1st to move Marleau was really bad but it was him or Marner and that was Lou's doing. The poster here is a well known Leaf troll. A complete idiot of great renown. Anyone who thinks Lou has any clue what he is doing should just look at the utter disaster he has unleashed in the Islanders Cap. What would Lou have done if he was given another year in TO? Traded Nylander for some 30 year old soon to be declining cement footed stay at home defenceman, he would have driven Matthews out of town and replaced him with Leo and Brassard and then would have signed Pavelski to a 5 year 8 million dollar contract to teach the youth we no longer have. Lou is ****ing terrible.
Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 12, 2020 at 8:45 p.m.
Thread: Lou Lam we need you back
Y’all are too hard on Dubas lmao, most of his moves have been objectively good or at least fair at the time, although a couple seem bad in hindsight, you can’t help that, sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss, at least he took a shot (e.g. acquired a #1 RHD, he didn’t ask Babcock to use him improperly). This coming year will be the first year one can truly call the team his, with no remnants of bad contracts/coaches from Lou’s time. They’ve finally got rid of the HORRIBLE Zaitsev+Marleau deals, and the last remnants were Ceci (UFA) and the lost 1st so it’s all Dubas from now on. If the Leafs fire him in the next two years it just proves they’re a pathetic organization with no patience. The losses so far I would also argue have less to do with Dubas and more to do with the fact that their young “stars” are immature and lack any sort of compete level. If they don’t do anything for 2 years and another coach you can look at Dubas, don’t be in such a rush to change things, you’ve gotta have trust in somebody and honestly Dubas is not the worst GM. I’ll say again—at some point you have to blame the players. Matthews, Marner, and Tavares are making “destroy lives” money so it’s literally their fault when they don’t produce like they can and should
Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 12, 2020 at 7:18 p.m.
Thread: Adding Cernak And Some Forecheckers
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>KileDoobis</b></div><div>I like Cernak, but I don't think he's enough to move the needle on defence on his own, especially with Holl gone. In the right now I prefer Holl over Dermott defensively, but I obviously think that Dermotts youth should be a factor. I'd keep both if possible, even if that means only having one scratch at a time. I also think that you could just bring back spezza at 700k, and then not aquire verhaeghe, which saves a little big of cap. all in all, while the defence is slightly improved, i dont really think this team is much better than it was this year.</div></div>

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, I can definitely see the argument to keep Holl over Dermott. I just leaned towards Dermott more cuz of age &amp; the fact that Holl struggled in the playoffs.

I think as Spezza ages, he will play fewer games especially during the regular season. I like the way Verhaeghe plays &amp; feel Toronto could use someone like him.
Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 12, 2020 at 4:07 p.m.