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Forum: Armchair-GMNov. 10, 2021 at 10:17 p.m.
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Forum: Armchair-GMOct. 21, 2021 at 12:35 a.m.
Thread: Klingy Eh Rad
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Barilko14</b></div><div>But you dont trade a 23 yo 90 pt forward in order to keep a 28 yo dman who's going to get 8 x 8 and then look like E. Karlsson 2 years from now.

I love Rielly, but age catches up to everyone. What happens to his game once he's a step slower? When he can't just beat his man up the ice and gain the zone, or he cant out skate his mistakes.

How many high paid long term deals that start when the player is 28/29 end up looking good in 3 or 4 years.

Do you really think that Hyman deal is going to look good 3 years from now? Again I loved the guy, but how does his playoff track record look? Would he all of the sudden become Justin William's when he's 30?</div></div>

I see your point. But I still think there are better values out there for 12m than Marner at 11m
Forum: Armchair-GMOct. 21, 2021 at 12:10 a.m.
Thread: Klingy Eh Rad
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>mvp13</b></div><div>As a sub DAL fan, this is actually fairly interesting. A lot of expiring contracts on either side, with the only staying pieces being Faksa for TOR and Marner/Kerfoot for DAL. I can see DAL doing this if they're completely out of the playoff picture, but it does handcuff them pretty good on the defensive side for the current year.

On the TOR side... I don't know. I think they would need some reassurance they would be able to keep any of these guys. But at the current cap, and their likely demands for the new contracts (Klingberg wants and will get 8million from someone, for example), I don't really see it happening. Maybe you keep Klingberg, but lose Reilly? Is that really beneficial for TOR? I don't know.

Overall, it's a bit more interesting after the initial look. I think it really depends on playoff picture and extension talks with all the expiring contracts</div></div>

Actually from my POV of Leaf fan, I kinda like the idea of the expiring contracts. Leafs rid themselves of 11m Marner, 3.5m Kerfoot, 1m Liljegren, in 22/23 , have Faska and Dallandrea at a combined 4m, and than have 12m more in cap space with the trade. Even in 21/22, the Leafs might be better on the ice with the trade.
Forum: Armchair-GMOct. 20, 2021 at 11:23 p.m.
Thread: Klingy Eh Rad
As a sub DAL fan, this is actually fairly interesting. A lot of expiring contracts on either side, with the only staying pieces being Faksa for TOR and Marner/Kerfoot for DAL. I can see DAL doing this if they're completely out of the playoff picture, but it does handcuff them pretty good on the defensive side for the current year.

On the TOR side... I don't know. I think they would need some reassurance they would be able to keep any of these guys. But at the current cap, and their likely demands for the new contracts (Klingberg wants and will get 8million from someone, for example), I don't really see it happening. Maybe you keep Klingberg, but lose Reilly? Is that really beneficial for TOR? I don't know.

Overall, it's a bit more interesting after the initial look. I think it really depends on playoff picture and extension talks with all the expiring contracts
Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 16, 2021 at 6:38 a.m.
Thread: Playoff Habs STAREDOWN Central
Your line makeup doesn't jive with your description, you say line 2 is a defensive line but you have 2 of our worst defensive wingers together on that line in Drouin and Hoffman. I would rather split those 2 up and run.

Toffoli/Drouin-Suzuki-Caufield
Hoffman-Kotkaniemi-Gallagher
Drouin-Paquette/Poehling/New Center-Anderson
Lehkonen-Evans-Armia

Toffoli with Zuke and Caufield worked well in the playoffs, so they stay together but an alternate version would be to put Dru there as a playmaker for a speedier line with loads of offensive talent when we need a goal. KK gets a shooter for the first time to bury his many many many missed setups over the past 3 seasons. How many times did we see KK set up Armia, Lehkonen or Byron ect. Just to have them miss the net or shoot right at the goalie?! Drouin and Anderson worked well to start last season before Drouin got hurt so let's reunite them and either give Poehling a shot at running a speedy crash and bang scoring line or bring in another more offensive center or allow Paquette to run this line. Evans with Lehkonen and Armia would give the opposing teams fits trying to get the puck away from them. Plus they all have decent scoring ability and excellent shutdown ability. This is our shutdown line. Line 1 would likely chip in 85ish goals (maybe a bit high but not unrealistic IMO) a season, Line 2 80ish goals, Line 3 maybe 60ish goals and Line 4 maybe 40 goals in the season. This gives the Habs approximately 265 goals in the season or 3.25 goals per game average (I am trying to be conservative). That would put us in the Toronto, Edmonton, Tampa scoring range from this past season. We might not have the top end talent of those teams but our scoring is spread out acrossed all 4 lines compared to the others who rely heavily on their top 2 lines to do the scoring.
Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 15, 2021 at 10:14 p.m.