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Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 2, 2021 at 4:46 p.m.
Thread: realistic offseason moves
Here are my thoughts on your opinions.

1. Firing Keefe fixes nothing. In fact I think he is an excelent coach. They do however need to change the assistant coaches as many of the systems run by Malhotra and Hakstoll were abysmal...

2. I really love the idea of getting Driedger and completely agree that we need a 1A 1B tandum next year. Driedger may price himself out though and him and Campbell would only have a combined 135 games or so which would be concerning..

3. Why would you trade Holl? Him and Muzzin was a great shut down pairing all season and playoffs.. He is great value at his current contract to imo.

4. Oleksiak would be great, but he had a great year in Dallas if i remember right so he should price himself out of leafs range ($1M or less). Either him or Benn would be fine. At the end of the day they would be replacing Bogosian and play the same style though so you're not really gaining anything

5. Kuraly is great, but at the end of the day it is still a depth signing and our depth guys this year were fine. If anything I think you would be better off not paying a 4th line winger $1.8M and instead get a guy like Simmonds or Perry who would sign for less than $1m

6. I like all those guys in the NHL as well
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 2, 2021 at 4:34 p.m.
Thread: Start developing and Marner rant
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>faulkmydzingel</b></div><div>In all honesty Marner is paid about 1.5 mill too much. If the Salary Cap had kept rising as well anticipated it would it wouldn't be as glaring. Matthews was paid about a million too much and 2 years to short on term. So now it is up to Dubas to find an extra 2.5 M in value for free. This is also the final year of Kessel on the books. Another 1.2 million. So it is darn close to 4 million that Dubas needs to find in value in other players to make up for these mistakes, his mistakes or not.

This year we got outrageous value on return for Spezza. I hope beyond reasoning that he comes back. Convincing a player like Getzlaf to sign for a low deal would be of extreme value. I said it at the start of the season that Montreal got the greatest bargain in Corey Perry however. He is a playoff performer.

Resigning Hyman is of top priority. Getting a solid tandem for Campbell. And acquiring yet again another grit type player who can go anywhere in the lineup. Foligno, Coleman, Jenner. Let Sandin continue to try and develop on the 3rd pairing. Brooks should play full time now (so happy about that too!). Hopefully another kid is ready to make an impact. Robertson in my mind has shown zero reason to be full time NHL ready. If other players such as Bogosion and Simmonds are available for cheap deals they bring value as well. Bogo was great for us in the playoffs.</div></div>

I think re-signing Bogo is also a priority to play with Sandin/Dermott. He would have to be about $1M or less though..
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 2, 2021 at 4:24 p.m.
Thread: Start developing and Marner rant
Ignoring his poor Playoffs, you can't take his regular season stats away from him by saying "he plays with Matthews"..

Marner put up similar stats with Tavares (also a star) but most importantly he did it with Bozak and Van Riemsdyk

As for the St. Louis comparison, he signed 2 contracts in the salary cap era. The first was at age 28 and was 6 years at 13.46% of the cap. This would be $10,969,900 per year over 6 years today... Keep in mind that this contract also took him to the age of 35 so it missed most of his prime, which Marners deal is not.. Despite this, the value is actually $900k above what Marner is being paid..

If you are however referring to his final contract, I dont think it is fair to compare a guy signing at the age of 22 to a guy signing at the age of 35 but nonetheless.. St. Louis signed a 4 year deal worth 9.47% of the cap, which would be $7,718,050 per year today. He would only have been making about $3M less than Marner and you get a 35-39 year old St. Louis vs a 22-28 year old Marner...

To blame Dubas for any of this mess is a bit crazy too. Not only does he have to sign his stars young because that is what the league is dictating now, but not even 3 years ago people were praising Marner for being the only "playoff player" the leafs had while jumping all over Willy. This year is now the complete opposite. This isnt to defend Marner though, because when you are being paid like he is then he needs to perform. My point is to defend Dubas as he made all the right moves.

Just a horrible take tbh..
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 18, 2021 at 4:01 p.m.
Thread: Team of Johns
This got me thinking about what is the most common first name in the NHL.. There are clearly not enough first name Johns to fill out a full roster so I wanted to figure out if any first names that could do this..

After some digging and excel magic, there are only 6 first names that appear 20+ times in the players who played at least one NHL (not including goalies). The names are

Alex / Alexander / Alexandre (25)
Nick / Nic / Nicholas / Nicklas / Nicolas / Nicolas (24)
Jacob / Jake / Jakob / Jakub / Jaccob (22)
Matt / Mathew / Mathieu / Matthew (20)
Mike / Michael / Micheal / Mikael / Mikey (20)

and my personal favorite since there is only ONE version of it..

Ryan (20)

As a side note, there are only 12 John / Johnny / Jon / Jonathan first names in the NHL players who played at least 1 game this year (not including goalies) and you have all of them (plus Toews since he did not play this year)
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 18, 2021 at 3:04 p.m.
Thread: Offseason
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>ZachHymanForTheHart</b></div><div>1. If Kerfoot is exposed, Holl would be protected. And vice versa.

2. definitely an underpay. I’m optimistic for Hirvonen, I like him but Jost in already an NHLer so you’ll need a bit more there. I’d assume something like a 3rd + 5th. Maybe.

3. The Rangers aren’t the right team for Dermott. And I’m not sure he has that kind of value. There’s definitely a market for him, but not there, not for that I don’t think.

4. Let Bogo walk or he has to be okay with being a depth guy. The only way Liljegren will get better at this point is by playing actual NHL minutes.</div></div>

I made a separate comment as to why Holl cant be protected unless another eligible player is signed and exposed instead of him.. I do agree though that Holl should and likely will be protected.

I think Dermott still has a place on this team as a 6/7 defensman, he is still only 24 and many defensmen dont fully develop until their mid/late 20s.. The only issue will be if he is willing to sign for under $1M again..

I disagree regarding Bogo and Liljegren.. I think Liljegren can definately improve from another full year as a top pairing guy in the AHL while playing the odd stint with the big club next year. Similar to the Dermott comment, lots of defensmen take a bit longer to develop. Playing big minutes in the AHL can often be better than bottom pairing NHL minutes.. Plus, as a general rule for contending teams, you should never have a player on your roster "to develop".. Liljegren (and Sandin for that matter) will have to make the team on merit alone.

With regards to Bogo, I think he definately has bought in to being a depth guy and helping teach the young guys how to be good pro's. At the end of the day though, he has to be better than Sandin/Dermott/Liljegren since we want to put together the best roster possible.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 18, 2021 at 2:57 p.m.
Thread: Offseason
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>TrueCanuck</b></div><div>Why not just protect Holl instead of having to trade something to protect him?</div></div>

The reason a lot of people are using is that the Leafs dont have any qualified defensmen to expose after Holl.. so by the rules they have to expose one of Rielly/Brodie/Muzzin/Holl

My argument is that all it takes is signing someone like Dermott to an extension prior to the draft to allow for protecting Holl..

I havent heard anything either, but the rules are technically that one defensman who is signed through next year and has either played 40 games this year or 70 games over the last two years in the NHL must be exposed. I assume that as the last two years have been shortened that these requirements will be changed to "27 games this year or 54 games over the last two years".

This would mean that the leafs could pull some funny buisness like signing Ron Hainsey to a 1-year league min contract just to expose him, then they could burry his contract in the AHL and scratch him every game.. This would need the player to be on-board, but I dont think it would take to much convincing to have him sign a piece of paper for $800,000 to do nothing for the year... They could even have him act as a sort of development coach while paying him his player salary..
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 17, 2021 at 4:13 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 4, 2021 at 5:04 p.m.
Thread: AVS FANS I HAVE A QUESTION
I imagine that the market dictates Landeskogs value at least on par with Rantanen. Rantanen is the better player probably, but his contract eats up mostly rfa years, not ufa years. On top of that, Landeskog has value as the captain and also will likely be looking to make up for a cheap previous deal. However, he may elect to go longer term to offset the cost.

I think the Aves give him an 8x$8.5M deal which imo is fair for both sides

Based on this, I think he may be tempted to leave if he is offered either 6 or 7 years at anything north of $10M (probably mostly in signing bonus) as this would have him hitting UFA again at 34/35 looking at possibly another 3-4 year contract.

This all changes if the Aves offer him a below market value contract. If they only offer something like 6 x $7.5M then he may be tempted with a 7x$8M deal or better tbh..