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Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 26, 2019 at 1:16 p.m.
Thread: First Timer
With how well Larkin, AA, Hronek, Hirose, Bert, and Bowey have looked the last couple weeks, this could realistically be a playoff WC or 3rd seed atlantic team next year. But that begs the question of whether this core of players could end up competing for a stanley cup in 2-3 years afterwards. I personally think buying this offseason would be a mistake.

Byram would be a good pick if we fall to 5 or 6, but we also would be better off with a potential 30-40 goal scorer in Podkolzin or Kaako, so hopefully we are lucky in the lottery. Cholo, Byrum, DDK, Hronek, Bowey, Myers would be a solid d-core in 2-3 years, but again, I don't know if adding Skinner (who I think is overrated and not worth that much), fixes the forward core enough to give him that money for that term. We won't need to sign him for that contract if we get a 2nd or 3rd pick. The Myers signing would be great for our future on defense though, as long as we can move Daley and/or Big E like you suggested.
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 28, 2019 at 3:52 p.m.
Thread: ok lets see next year
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>OldNYIfan</b></div><div>I think that Gardiner walks, Hainsey retires and Toronto trades Zaitsev. That allows the Maple Leafs to re-sign everyone else and leaves a left side defense of Rielly, Muzzin and Dermott -- hardly a weakness. The question will be how Dubas addresses the two open right-side defender slots (Liljegren should be ready for the bottom pair). I suggested Nick Jensen and Scott Mayfield, but unfortunately the Capitals shrewdly got to NJ first.</div></div>

Yea if that is the case, the Leafs will have to sign a lower end rh d-man in free agency. It's just that is such a big downgrade from having Zaitsev and Gardiner on the back end. And yes, I know both of them have flaws but you aren't going to sign someone that is as good as either of them. Would resigning Hainsey for another year at 2.5 mil be that bad a deal or do the Leafs really think he is retiring?
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 28, 2019 at 3:28 p.m.
Thread: ok lets see next year
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>OldNYIfan</b></div><div>No, thanks, we'll keep Johnsson and Zaitsev, as we will get a better offer for a package including Zaitsev somewhere else.</div></div>

How are you going to keep all of Kapanen, Johnsson, Brown, Marner, Gardiner, and Zaitsev with all the cap trouble you are in? Without moving Brown and Zaitsev, which the return will not be great for, you aren't signing Kap, Johsson, Gardiner, and Marner. And if you can't resign Gardiner, you aren't moving Zaitsev. And if you move Zaitsev, you have to resign Hainsey on another 1 year deal, and he's probably asking for similar money as he's making this year. It's cap hell and Toronto is going to have to make a sacrifice or two.

I'd like to point out that a 3rd for Zaitsev and Johnsson is ridiculously low, but the point still stands.
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 25, 2019 at 5:44 p.m.
Thread: My thoughts on Ottawa
As a Wings fan and outsider, I think they did a good job on going full rebuild/firesale at the deadline. I think it would have been a mistake to keep any of Duchene, Stone, or Dzingel. That being said they mismanaged that Duchene situation to an extreme. They banked on being able to resign Karlsson, and failed. I guess its a risk they thought they had to take at the time but damn. It handicapped them hard. Now they are looking at a rebuild that projects them to be competitive in 2023-24ish, as a conservative guess. If they had just sold that year, they could have just gone through a retooling and have been competitive in the next couple years after. Now they have to rely on draft picks panning out, rather than retooling and staying with a Stone, Chabot, Dzingel core.
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 25, 2019 at 5:25 p.m.
Thread: Only One Year Away
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>TheWolfe</b></div><div>And I'm totally fine with the moves Holland made. He moved who he needed to. Rental goalie market is always funky and the return for Howie probably wasn't enough to justify shipping him. I love that there were people screaming "wHy DoN'T ThEy TrAdE ERiCsOn" or abbie but NOBODY is taking on those guys with their contracts. So many fans of this franchise think its still 1997...</div></div>

I agree with this sentiment. It's valid to ask the question, "why did we give Abby 7 years at 4.25 mil when he is at best a 3rd line power power forward?", but to say that management can just snap their fingers and his contract be gone is much different. It's not the end of the world.

If there weren't teams offering a 2nd round, or 3rd and mid round pick for Howie, then there's no reason to move him. You don't give up your starting tender for the next 2-3 years for something like a 3rd round pick, or whatever teams were offering, especially when there isn't anyone ready in the system. Watching Bernier in goal this year shows me that he won't be able to make up for the youngster's mistakes on the ice like Howie does night in and night out, and losing 4-2 every night isn't going to develop the young players.
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 24, 2019 at 11:27 p.m.
Thread: Leafs Again
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Jamiepo</b></div><div>You are taking zaitsev... not just his contract. To be honest I think this is the top end of what we would get back but on a team with more of a need for a RHD this trade may go through. I think the leafs would take any pick if they needed him moved for cap reasons. In this agm it is just ridiculous. Keep zaitsev over stralman and save 500k but you can’t put marleau.</div></div>

I know we would be getting Zaitsev, but it makes no sense to take on his contract. It has term and a big cap hit for a 3rd pairing guy with alleged attitude problems. Leaf fans have quoted on other AGMs that he just doesn't have a good, winning mentality and he doesn't really care about getting better. There's no way the wings take on that contract, which would just give cap relief to their biggest rival. The only way they move it is through a draft day deal imo, where they pair him with picks to move down in the draft or whatever need there may be.