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Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 24, 2023 at 11:29 a.m.
Forum: NHL SigningsJul. 24, 2023 at 9:16 a.m.
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>MatthewsFan</b></div><div>Why make it harder? Well that’s on Treliving for making this mess and putting TOR so far over the cap that IMO the only realistic way of getting out of this is moving Nylander (weakens the FWD depth) or Brodie (weakens the defensive depth). But that’s a whole different argument.

You are right. There is only a handful of teams that have solidified there goaltending night in night out. I wouldn’t want to commit big money on a long-term deal to any goalie unless they were named Vasilevskiy, Shesterkin, Sorokin, Saros, and Oettinger.

Which leads us to I am not even comfortable at all giving Samsonov a large long term deal next season (4/5x5+) Something he most likely will command especially considering it’s basically him and Hellebuyck as the only realistic FA options next year. The market next year is pretty much garbage.

Treliving had an great opportunity to get a potential top 10 goalie on a 2-3 year at a modest cap hit (yes I consider anything under 5 million for an NHL starter modest) to run in tandem with Woll for the next couple of seasons. That would have been perfect.

Instead we get to hope Woll is that guy and find another cheap reclamation project to pair with him.

I guess I’m just higher on Samsonov than most Leaf fans. I personally don’t see him regressing next year, on the contrary, I believe he will solidify himself as a top 10 goalie and get paid accordingly.

Or maybe I’m full of **** and Samsonov regresses next season as a full-time No. 1 and the Leafs decide to move in a different direction.
Time will tell.

And for a goalie who had a knee injury in November and missed 12 games, he certainly didn’t let it effect his play coming back.

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Treliving is responsible for very few contracts on this roster, hard to say this is "his" mess to clean up. He may have jumped the gun on a couple of guys (Klingberg/Domi), but we saw how quickly free agents were scooped up this year. He had areas that needed addressing, and needed to get it done before there were no options left.
Forum: NHL SigningsJul. 24, 2023 at 6:17 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 18, 2023 at 7:20 p.m.
Thread: 3 way
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 18, 2023 at 9:33 a.m.
Forum: NHL SigningsJul. 17, 2023 at 11:51 a.m.