Comments on: Is Burke on Thin Ice?

By: leafs_wallace93

leafs_wallace93 — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 02:07:35 +0000

I’m good at riddles, ? is Tim Connolly right?

By: toronto77

toronto77 — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 21:54:15 +0000

So Brian Burke passed on selecting Forsberg for free and ended up trading Schenn for JVR?

Drafting Rielly pretty much killed any chance of the leafs signing Schultz, now that Schenn is gone it opens that window again.

Also trading for JVR I think means Kadri or Kulemin will be traded for a no.1 centremen. JVR is a top 6 forward and so is Kadri. Kulemin has some what already proven himself and if has a bounce back season could still be a very valuable player. Our top two lines will probably be:

Lupul – ? – Kessel
Kulemin/Kadri-Grabo-JVR

MacArthur will either be demoted to the third line or traded and the leafs will be forced to make a decision between Kadri and Kulemin…and the odd man out will be traded

Lupul – ? – Kessel
Kulemin-Grabo-JVR
Frattin-Bozak-MacArthur
Brown-Steckel-Lombardi

Phaneuf-Liles
Shultz???-Gardiner
Gunnarsson-Franson
Komisarek

not much of a difference really…..a no.1 centremen will make a bigger difference and a goalie adding a no.1 goalie????

This team could finally make the playoffs.

By: mojo19

mojo19 — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:29:14 +0000

I don’t think Rielly should make this team, unless he’s absolutely unreal in camp, and undisputedly a top 3 or 4 dman. Otherwise, don’t throw this kid to the wolves. For once let’s do the right thing with one of our top prospects.

And Wallace, ya I think Burke will go after Ryan Suter. Hell, Yandle and Boyle are available for trade, at this point I think he might make a play for them….

By: leafs_wallace93

leafs_wallace93 — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:20:49 +0000

Do you think is going after Ryan Suter on July 1st?

By: toronto77

toronto77 — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:59:36 +0000

I’m kinda pissed not getting forsberg, but Rielly is arguably the best mobile d-man in the draft he is a can’t miss, and I don’t think the same thing will happen to him that happened to schenn.

Though I want to see Rielly play next season, I think it would be wise to let him develop for one more year, unlike what we did with Schenn. The complaint that people have with Schenn is that we didn’t let him develop. Well….in the training camp following his draft year he played well and even had a good rookie season, so there was no reason to send him down if he was playing that good….it was his second season where he started to stumble.

I think it would be good to let Rielly play for the world juniors and try and win a championship.

By: mojo19

mojo19 — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 05:06:10 +0000

Percy and Blacker will be hard pressed to make it, but you never know.
Just to use Frattin as an example, I don’t think a year ago anyone was really expecting him to make it over Kadri and Colborne, and yet here we are. So you never know for sure. One positive is that we now REALLY have deep defensive prospects. haha…. fuck Burke.

By: JoelLeafs

JoelLeafs — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 02:56:52 +0000

Not an idiot, but a sports commentator. Not their fault sport journalism is usually as redundant as the athlete’s comments after a game.

By: toronto77

toronto77 — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 02:30:28 +0000

James Dutchie is an idiot, both burke and gillis looked like they were about to knock him out when he mentioned the luongo situation.

Did Ryan Murray look unhappy to be selected by Columbus? not a smile on his face once.

By: toronto77

toronto77 — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 02:28:06 +0000

Seriously doubt they go after him now. Schultz is comparable to both Gardiner and Rielly. Although signing Schultz would allow for Rielly to take a couple of years to develop. and when Schultz and Gardiner get big contracts in 2-3 years down the road, the leafs can easily ship one of the them out for a great return and have a very cheap but talented Rielly on the team.

Long term it’s smart to let Rielly develop and sign Schultz. Even though the leafs will have a load of offence from the defence with Gardiner, Schultz and Rielly. are the leafs getting too offensive and less defensive with all 3 of these guys on the team? especially if all 3 have the potential to be top 2 pairing defencemen, it creates a good but unnecessary problem.

Burke has to really really concentrate on getting a no.1 centremen and a no.1 goalie, Schultz is not a need right now with Gardiner already on the team.

By: leafs_wallace93

leafs_wallace93 — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 01:36:05 +0000

So what about Schultz?