Comments on: Nashville trying to bring Radulov back?

By: Kessel_Leafs48

Kessel_Leafs48 — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:15:53 +0000

yes and dont forget burke traded away a bunch of our spare parts that almost got us to the playoffs to get phaneuf and it made our team a ton better. I say trade all our spare parts, keep our core intact and try to get a franchise guy. We will have a much easier time finding another macarthur or kulimen then finding a franchise player. If your asking me id rather trade lupul, kulimen, kadri, reimer and gunnarson and maybe next years first for yakupov and then draft galchenyuk on top of that instead of trading galchenyuk schenn and kadri for yakupov. Galchenyuk will probably end up being 10X the player any of the other guys will be. Kessel or phaneuf is not the face of our franchise. Kessel is an elite player but not a player that will win you the cup. Yakupov galchenyuk and kessel might, lupul kessel and kulimen wont

By: MystifoLeafs

MystifoLeafs — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:10:41 +0000

Not that I am saying Burke "Will" do this but remember this is the guy who managed to draft both Henrick and Daniel Sedin. While it is highly unlikely I could see the guy trying to do it.

By: reinjosh

reinjosh — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:36:31 +0000

Thats a nice position for you haha.

Better than the one I'm in for this year. I've been a non-playoff team all year because guys like Ovie, Staal, Hiller, Stewart all decided to take the start of the year off. When those guys finally starting heating up, someone else died or got injured. And I can't even lose enough to get a decent high pick next year (I'll probably end up 5th in a 14 team league).

Thankfully it's a keeper league and my core is sort of stacked. And I have 12 picks in the first five rounds haha. I'll have more than half my picks done before anyone else has a quarter.

By: reinjosh

reinjosh — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:30:34 +0000

I still wouldn't do it. This league is won on depth. We can't give that much away on a guy who MIGHT be a big deal. As much as Yakupov looks sweet, thats far to much to give up for just potential.

And I highly doubt Parise signs on a team where he wouldn't be on the top line. I think that Parise probably isn't an option right now...

By: reinjosh

reinjosh — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:28:23 +0000

Well of the three we traded, only Hayes looks like he will be an NHLer. We got a pretty damn good NHLer out of Pateryn and Hayes for Ross still could work out fine.

By: reinjosh

reinjosh — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:26:41 +0000

Probably. I would imagine a few teams protest it but some teams won't. And I can't imagine the NHLPA would be against it.

I honestly think Bettman would be fine with it. Nashville is the perfect example of how to build a small market team into a big market competitor. They built up a good fan base, and don't have to worry about money issues now. Adding Radulov gives them a chance at a cup, and a Cup would be a huge thing for Nashville. It would also give Bettman ammo to work with to keep teams like Columbus, Phoenix etc in their respective cities.

But at the same time, you bring up a good point about the relations improving and him not wanting to wreck that. I think though that legally, his contract allows him to leave, according to rumors anyways.

By: KingCanada

KingCanada — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:57:23 +0000

And all we have left from Toronto's perspective from that draft is Luke Schenn lol. We traded our next 3 picks Jimmy Hayes, Mikhail Stefanovich and Greg Pateryn and got Brad Ross, Fabian Brunnstrom and Mikhail Grabovski lol. Everything else in that draft didnt pan out for us. One trade worked out, another didnt, and the other TBD.

In retrospect we did get Joe Colborne and Jake Gardiner from that draft in later trades...

LA did pretty good in that draft.. Drew Doughty, Slava Voynov, Colton Teubert, Andrei Loktionov..

And Buffalo wow Tyler Myers, Tyler Ennis, Luke Adam..

And then there was the Islanders who had like 13 picks and only have Josh Bailey and Travis Hamonic to show for it lol.

By: KingCanada

KingCanada — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:27:45 +0000

Yes I agree a lil bit of a shakeup is in order. But you dont breakup/trade half the team for one player. The Leafs already went threw a major overhaul in recent years and are the youngest if not one of the youngest teams in the league. This isnt a veteran team of underachieving has-beens. I just dont want to trade away all the youth on the team for one guy thats just stupid.

There are some decent players available as UFAs but its not like the Leafs are the only players looking to sign them. I would like a few veteran forwards like Connolly, Army or Lombardi traded for sure. But when you start talking Kulemin, Lupul, Gunnarsson ect youve lost me, that makes zero sense unless you are getting equal value coming back.

Im not stating that youve said any of this, just venting generally towards the "general consensus" of this thread..

IMO our first, kadri, schenn is decent for the 1st overall (depending on if the Leafs are top 5) but if it exceeds that in demands (and it will) let it go...

By: JoelLeafs

JoelLeafs — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:03:50 +0000

Exact same thing is about to happen in my hockey pool. Because of divisions my likely 6th place finish will have me against the 3rd seed, who happens to have about 50 less points than I do. Sweet.

By: Kessel_Leafs48

Kessel_Leafs48 — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:59:25 +0000

okay agreed its highly unlikely the pick goes anywhere pretty much no matter what the offer is. Im still sticking to my point that we should look to shake up the team and outside our top 6, we gotta make our bottom 6 bigger and actually have a cycle game to wear teams down. wouldnt mind signing jagr this UFA, he has an unbelievable cycle game and uses his body very well and then sign gaustad. our team would be way better on the dot and very big downlow. third line of jagr – gaustad – kulimen would be nice. get rid of armstrong he hasnt been the same since the ankle injury. Lombardi is a guy thats just out of place on our team but can be a very nice addition to another team. I like him just no room for him. sign a greg cambell or kelly type player thats high energy chippy for the fourth line. like a line of cambell – steckel – brown. our bottom six needs to get bigger.