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aadoyle

NHL Trade Inspector
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Toronto Maple Leafs
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Forum: Armchair-GM8 hours ago
Thread: A Few Misses In An Overall Great Offseason
not really

Brodie has done a good job in the Dzone for us and Holl's defensive numbers have been excellent and his offensive numbers have been fine compared to many other top 4 Dman. Yes weegar would have been nice but at the cost of other important parts to the team no thank you.

the goaltending would have been pretty bad for us especially when u consider Campbell was out twice due to injury. Would not have finished first or even 2nd in the division

Bennett was a gamble that worked out for Florida but it is still to early to tell if he will have repeated success

and going with Strome over Foligno would make no sense as Foligno was brought in not to score but to provide leadership, grit, and improve the teams defense especially on the PK

as for Kadri

he had to go. He got his ass suspended twice in the playoffs costing us against boston. If he as in the 2018-2019 series who know maybe we would have won in 6.

in general this team really is not much of an improvement over the current team. The Dcore improves but everything else falters especially the forward defense.
Forum: NHL23 hours ago
Thread: 2021 Playoffs Discussion Thread
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Kotkaniemi15</b></div><div>Since it’s that time of year again, I’m going to guess who the first cup passes would be for each team if they win the cup:

COL - Landeskog to Johnson
VGK - Stone to Pacioretty
CAR - Staal to Martinook
FLA - Barkov to Yandle
PIT - Crosby to Weber
TOR - Tavares to Thornton
WSH - Ovechkin to Dillon
TBL - Stamkos to Savard
MIN - Spurgeon to Suter/Parise
BOS - Bergeron to Smith?
EDM - McDavid to Smith
NYI - Lee* to Greene
NSH - Josi to Rinne
WPG - Wheeler to Stastny/Thompson
STL - O’Reilly to Hoffman?
MTL - Weber to Price

*I’m assuming he’ll be with the team, like Stamkos last year.

St. Louis &amp; Boston weren’t obvious. I went with Smith &amp; Hoffman, since they’re the oldest players without cup rings.</div></div>

seeing thorton with the cup would be the perfect moment. He has deserved it
Forum: Toronto Maple LeafsMon at 10:06 pm
Forum: Toronto Maple LeafsMon at 10:00 pm
Thread: Leafs Still Don't Seem Built For Playoffs
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>wabit</b></div><div>Time and space are harder to find in the Playoffs because the Refs swallow their whistles, so there is more clutch-n-grab and interference. Solid D-zone play/structure and decent goaltending is what takes teams far in the Playoffs. A high powered offense can win a series, but can't keep it up for the 4 series.

The Leafs are fine in the North where there don't have the VGK, BOS, MN, NSH, etc teams that play the physical, solid defense game to get TOR off their game and wear them down over 7 games. Get to the final 4 and anything can happen. The other 3 teams should be more beat up and worn down from their Divisions.</div></div>

i mean who cares the leafs pp is meh and 5 on 5 they score a tonne, let the refs swallow their whistles lul. Does us a favor
Forum: Armchair-GMSun at 12:00 am
Thread: Who Is Pavel Gogolev
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Claesson4Norris</b></div><div>21 year old Russian winger who played for Peterborough and later Guelph in the OHL. Had an up and down OHL career, but when he was on, he was a pretty excellent goal scorer. He's been very good over a small sample of like 10 games for the Marlies so now he's the next Ovechkin according to some Leafs fans. Realistically, if you're a Leafs fan, he should definitely be on your radar, but probably Don't buy into the hype until he's shown something more meaningful. He could end up as something, but I wouldn't be putting any real expectations on him yet.</div></div>

fun fact I did some digging. He has connections to Robertson and SDA. And dont know why people comparing him to Ovie so much when Ovie got drafted lul. Yes hes got a wide range of shots, and can score from almost anywhere but Ovie is a physical kind of player. Goglov is not. Goglov actually reminds me a lot of Nylander, just is significantly better with holding on to the puck (i.e. u got to take a penalty or the goalies got to catch it to get it away from him)

Since the AHL season is short (Done tomorrow) really did not get to see much of him in a full season but still 5 goals and assists in 10 games aint bad for his first AHL season

Would not mind Dubas signing him and getting him 1 more year in the AHL to see what we got. But if he can perform well would be a nice undrafted steal on a cheap contract we can use in this flat cap and to also increase our scoring depth on all the lines.
Forum: Armchair-GMSat at 11:57 pm
Thread: Who Is Pavel Gogolev
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Byrr</b></div><div>He's just the next guy doing well on the Marlies that Leafs fans are going to overhype.</div></div>

hes not being overhyped at all. The marlies are bad this year and he joined them late and is putting on a performance. 5 goals and assists in 10 games. That is on pace in this shortened AHL season for 20 goals and 25 assists.


Everyone agreed it was very stupid of teams to pass on him in 3 separate due to his skating issues. If you go watch scouting reports on him he was 6th in ev p1/gp in the OHL hanging with guys like Svechnikov, Hayton, Bouchard, and other guys who got drafted despite either having the exact same numbers or less. He has a wicked shot, can score from almost anywhere using all kinds of tricks, and is a puck processing monster.

to soon to say but rn hes looking like one of those undrafted steals