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Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 7, 2018 at 5:56 p.m.
Thread: Why does everyone overrate Matthews..... A list of players better than him
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>jp_harvey</b></div><div>That's alright, my friend. I'm still a kid in my heart, even at 31 years old :D..and to answer your "40 goals isn't a bad thing" comeback, when every single one of the other players mention are improving as quickly as you or faster and putting up more points and playing more important minutes than you are, yeah it means he still has a few things to master/learn before being classified as better than these guys...nearly a PPG player lol all the others put up more than 90 pts last season and ACTUALLY contributed to the team success in the playoffs. Find better arguments to convince anyone</div></div>
You know what’s hilarious? In his draft year before the leafs won the lottery everyone said he’s a franchise player. As soon as the leafs won the lottery, everyone says he’s not even a elite player. Explain that to me? Everyone loves to hate the leafs and I don’t understand it. I know have these players listed (probably more) are better than him. But some I just don’t understand. Hall is very incosistant and is a up down player. Wheeler has been a 60-75 point guy now suddenly he gets 90. Scheifele has a slight edge on Mathews (I really like Scheifele) because he’s done PPG 2 years in a row. Mackinnon came out of nowhere this year and got 97 points. Kuznetsov again, suddenly scores 83 points.

I like every single player this guy has listed but you can not deny the fact that Matthews developed his two way game this year, was on a 40+ goals 80+ point performance. His playoffs was disappointing but so was half the teams playoffs. All leaf fans want us some respect, but we can’t get that because everyone else has some personal vendetta against us.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 7, 2018 at 5:29 p.m.
Thread: Why does everyone overrate Matthews..... A list of players better than him
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>jp_harvey</b></div><div>Toronto fanbase like this guy?! Hahaha! That poor dude has seen all Leafs game plus ONE game not featuring his Leafs and he knows every player in the league...Matthews has dominant "shifts", not games. He needs to learn how to be consistant on a nightly basis. Hall Wheeler Scheifele MacKinnon are all above Matthews "right now", but probably not forever. Matthews has NEVER been as impressive as McJesus and Crosby and he surely will never be. Get a grip on reality, kid</div></div>

He’s not even a Toronto fan. The only people who use “kid” as a insult are kids themselves. Matthews IS better than a number of people on this list and WILL one day be better than at least half of them. Didn’t realize a 40 goal year and then imporiving to a point pregame player was such a bad thing.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 6, 2018 at 9:21 p.m.
Thread: Karlsson Trade: Quantity or quality?
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>MG1986</b></div><div>The Senators just want more of a sure thing. That is why the deal with the Lightning make sense, because Sergachev is young, controllable and has proven he is more of a sure thing then some other prospects, who may have been included in this deal. I'd say Glass is more of a sure thing than Susuki, but when you try to quantify any trade, extra points are usually added for the positional need and size. There are of course always exceptions and size doesn't mean everything, but the chance of success, at least as a probability goes up the more physically mature the player, which tends, for some reason, to equate to size. I do like Susuki. He is super fast and has a good hands and a good shot, he's been working on his 200-foot game as well. Still, he remains more of a one-dimensional player, especially when you stack him up against Cody Glass.</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>MG1986</b></div><div>The Senators just want more of a sure thing. That is why the deal with the Lightning make sense, because Sergachev is young, controllable and has proven he is more of a sure thing then some other prospects, who may have been included in this deal. I'd say Glass is more of a sure thing than Susuki, but when you try to quantify any trade, extra points are usually added for the positional need and size. There are of course always exceptions and size doesn't mean everything, but the chance of success, at least as a probability goes up the more physically mature the player, which tends, for some reason, to equate to size. I do like Susuki. He is super fast and has a good hands and a good shot, he's been working on his 200-foot game as well. Still, he remains more of a one-dimensional player, especially when you stack him up against Cody Glass.</div></div>

I agree with that the lighting would win. There is a lot of risk with Suzuki compared to Glass. Suzuki hasn’t grown much this year which is concerning, which further puts a urgency and need of his two-way game development. Mean while Glass has a good two-way game, can generate offence and only really has to add 10-30 pounds so he can’t be pushed around. But what I love about both is that there RIGHT HANDED!!! Two guys who have good potential are right handed centres
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 6, 2018 at 12:23 p.m.
Thread: Karlsson Trade: Quantity or quality?
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>MG1986</b></div><div>My impression of the situation was that Tampa willing to give up Sergachev plus a first rounder, in addition to other pieces, makes them to the team to beat. I wouldn't say Vegas is out of it for their unwillingness to include Glass or Brännström, it is their unwillingness to include high end prospects in addition to young NHL talent plus some of those prospects. I am of course referring to Shea Theodore specifically.</div></div>

I will rather them not give up Glass. I think he’s gonna be sick. Something about Suzuki makes me nervous when ever I watch him play. I’m not sold on Brännström, just seems like there’s a defence issue from what I hear. Hague looks pretty good so I’d rather them keep him. I’ve honestly never been sold on Theodore.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 6, 2018 at 10:16 a.m.
Thread: Karlsson Trade: Quantity or quality?
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Goldendelicious</b></div><div>This is not really comparing quality vs quantity. The quality of what Vegas is giving up is very good. Also consider their picks likely to be higher than TB's.

An example of quality vs quantity would be examining what BUF got from STL vs what they should of got for O'Reilly. STL gave up quantity over quality. For example:
STL trades quantity - Thompson, Berglund, Sobotka, 1st, 2nd
STL trades quality - Thomas, 1st, 2nd</div></div>
Bro that’s what I been trying to tell sen fans on Twitter! They’re won’t listen so now I gotta make trades around what they want. This is what I came of with to please them, but I think the Vegas trade minus one of the d-man is still very good
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 4, 2018 at 10:39 p.m.
Thread: "We Can And We Will" ~ Kyle Dubas
Before I say what might happen, I need to explain how I view contract terms.
A deal in the 1-3 year range is short term. A deal in the 4-6 range is a medium “I 100% want to win” term. 7/8 years is long term, pay me my money and hopefully we win. Now for the contracts...

Matthews and Marner (I think) will be our version of Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews for ever story. I think they’ll sign matching 6 year $8 Million deals. What that does for them is that when the Tavares contract is up, they will get there big pay days.

Nylander on the other hand is a tough one. If any of our 3 young guns were to sign a “prove it” deal, its him. I think the Team and Nylander meet in the middle, 4 years in the 5-6.750 range.

Just a thought when I looked at the Blackhawks and there players from those cup winning teams. My only concern with this concept is that there retooling now, but if we win a cup or 2 during these contracts I can live with it.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 21, 2018 at 1:17 p.m.
Thread: Saw this on twitter
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>PistolP</b></div><div>I was referring to the Lucic contract. I agree that things may have happened that will cause Erik to leave, but I'm saying if that happens I would rather see them get rid of bad deals rather than take back a bad deal. I'm not saying Lucic is a terrible player, but he is overplayed, same as Bobby Ryan. So dump Ryan's contract with the Karlsson deal, even if it means getting less return. That leaves the goalies contracts, and the Gaborik contract as the remaining worst deals. Gaborik's real money goes down big time next season, so if he doesn't qualify for LTIR, then use him when you can this year and buy him out next year. I say this knowing that the owner is watching every penny. The cap floor will be higher next year, so you have to hang on to some deals, and I do think the goalies will be better, as will Smith.</div></div>
I don’t think it’s a bad thing to take on those contracts. U have to reach the cap floor. It’s part of rebuilding and the Ryan contract is only 4 more years. U still have $20 million in cap space
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 20, 2018 at 11:29 a.m.
Thread: Saw this on twitter
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>coga16</b></div><div>It was already speculated yesterday on twitter that Edmonton is on EKs no trade list.

@frank_seravalli
believe the #Oilers are one of the 10 teams on Erik Karlsson's no-trade list. Hard to say with 100% certainty as these lists change and they can change at any instance. Aside from figuring out how EDM pulls it off, my impression was a few months back it was a non-starter.

might be a hard sell for Edmonton to have EK waive his NTC and sign an extension there</div></div>

I don’t know why he wouldn’t want to go there. He would immediately be the power play quarterback and make that team a contender. Plus McDavid! Passing passes to Matt Duchene or McJesus? I think it’s something he would at least consider