Comments on: Possibilities, Possibilities..

By: Barongoalie

Barongoalie — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:15:35 +0000

First of all I'll post some rumours that I have heard about recently.

1) I heard that the Leafs are in fact having talks with Peter Forsberg's agent. The problem with that of course, is cap room as we have filled our cap space with defencemen salaries. So if Forsberg is ever coming to Toronto, I would think that we will have to move Kubina (the Islanders are interested in him I've heard) or give up prospects like Stajan and Coliacovo. Right now we are in no position to give up our young guys. Its time to realise that we need to bulk up our rookies and draft picks to make a solid team from the ground up. Still, the possibility of getting Forsberg is slim, but what a hell of a thrill it would be if we could get it done properly.

2) I have also heard that the Curtis Joseph is still interested in coming to Toronto, and we are working on making it happen. The rumour is that we are looking to trade Raycroft to Ottawa to give a spot for Cujo, and also we create some cap room, and get a prospect or future draft pick from Ottawa. Talks of Joseph coming back to the Buds is always exciting, but we have to make a practical trade to make it worth while. Don't forget, we traded away Tuukka Rask for Raycroft, we sure as hell better get a prospect just as good as Rask back for Raycroft.

Line combos:
Tucker - Sundin - Steen
Blake - Wellwood - Bell
Kilger - Stajan - Battaglia
Antropov - Pohl - Ponikarovsky

Kaberle - Kubina
McCabe - Coliacovo
White - Gill

If Kubina should be traded, move Coliacovo to the top line, and bring up Wozneiwski, Kronwall, or Harrison. Wiat a while before bringing up Stralman as he will probably end up replacing Gill come the end of next season (im pretty sure he only signed a 2-year)

By: wadeaminute

wadeaminute — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:43:36 +0000

Ryan Clowe:
sure 58 games with 34 points, and he's young. He's so terrible...

By: hatterson

hatterson — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:26:20 +0000

Blake is also a good PKer and would add some depth to that position.

Also, rumors are the Peca would be signing for somewhere in the 1.5 range rather than the 2.5 range which would give some wiggle room for the deadline.

By: hatterson

hatterson — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:22:40 +0000

1.) Despite popular rumors, caps lock is *not* cruise control for cool.

2.) Great goaltending? cmon. I'm as big a Leafs fan as they come but I'm not calling it great. I'll give you above average or good, but not great.

3.) Great special teams? We had the 27th ranked PK and 16th ranked PP. Granted the PP would have been better with Tucker and Welly not being injured and the PK would have been better without Peca being injured, however, even with those guys back (this is assuming Peca signs which is far from a lock) and with the addition of Blake, our PP may get in the top 10 in the league but won't break top 5 and our PK will maybe get into the top half. Again, I'll give you slightly above average, or decent, but not great.

By: BLUE_AND_WHITE

BLUE_AND_WHITE — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:14:28 +0000

Heres an idea:

Trade Kubina and Pohl to Chicago for their 2nd round pick 08

Sign Markov 1 year 3.5 mil
Sign Peca 1 year 2.5 mil
Sign Friesen 1 year 2 mil

Blake-Sundin-Steen
Poni-Wellwood-Tucker
Bell-Stajan-Antropov
Kilger-Peca-Friesen
Battaglia-Devereaux

Kaberle-McCabe
Markov-Colaiacovo
Gill-White
Woz

Toskala
Raycroft

Cap hit 50 mil

PP: Tucker-Sundin-Wellwood-Kaberle-Mccabe

Blake-Antropov-Poni-White-Colaiacovo

PK:
Peca-Friesen-Gill-Markov

Stajan-Kilger-Kaberle-McCabe

Friesen, Peca, Markov will instantly improve our dreadful PK, plus we keep all depth at scoring.

By: BLUE_AND_WHITE

BLUE_AND_WHITE — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:13:08 +0000

Heres an idea:

Trade Kubina and Pohl to Chicago for their 2nd round pick 08

Sign Markov 1 year 3.5 mil
Sign Peca 1 year 2.5 mil
Sign Friesen 1 year 2 mil

Blake-Sundin-Steen
Poni-Wellwood-Tucker
Bell-Stajan-Antropov
Kilger-Peca-Friesen
Battaglia-Devereaux

Kaberle-McCabe
Markov-Colaiacovo
Gill-White
Woz

Toskala
Raycroft

Cap hit 50 mil

PP:
Tucker-Sundin-Wellwood-Kaberle-Mccabe

Blake-Antropov-Poni-White-Colaiacovo

PK:
Peca-Friesen-Gill-Markov

Stajan-Kilger-Kaberle-McCabe

Friesen, Peca, Markov will instantly improve our dreadful PK, plus we keep all depth at scoring.

By: the_next_agent

the_next_agent — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:55:02 +0000

I DOUBT VERY MUCH THAT THE MAPLE LEAFS WILL TRADE FOR AN OLDER PLAYER UNLESS THAT PLAYER WILL HELP OUR PK. I THINK OUR DEFENCE IS GOING TO STAY THE SAME AND THE SAME WITH OUT GOALTENDING SITUATION. THIS TRADE I CAN SEE HAPPENING

TO DALLAS: STAJAN, HARRISON, POHL, THIRD OR FOURTH ROUND PICK

TO TORONTO: JOKINEN AND HALPERN

THIS TRADE COULD HAPPEN BECAUSE HAPLERN HAD A SO CALEED "OFF YEAR" AND JOKINEN HAS BEEN RUMOURED TO BE COMING OVER TO THE LEAFS. HALPERN WOULD HELP OUR PK AND HES A LEADER, WHILE JOKINEN IS A YOUNG STAR AND GOOD IN THE SHOOT-OUT.

STAJAN ISNT MOVING PASSED TO THIRD LINE CENTER ON THIS TEAM, POHL IS GOOD BUT WHEN YOU CAN GET HAPLERN, HES AN EASY PILL TO SWALLOW, HARRISON WELL LIKE MANY OF OUR GOOD YOUNG DEFENCMAN,
IS EXPENDABLE.

THIS WORKS OUT FOR BOTH TEAMS TO. DALLAS GETS YOUNGER AND TORONTO GETS HELP IN THE SPECAIL TEAMS ASPECT OF THE GAME. AND ASWELL THE CAP ISNT REALLY EFFECTED BECASUE THERE ALL WORTH THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY. THE LEAFS LINEUP WOULD LOOK LIKE THIS.

BLAKE         TUCKER           ANTROPOV            KILGER
SUNDIN       WELLWOOD     HALPERN               BELL
STEEN         JOKINEN          PONIKAROVSKY      BATTAGLIA
KABERLA     McCABE           GILL
KUBINA       COLAIACOVO   WHITE                  TOSKALA
                                                                  RAYCROFT

THE ONLY REASON WHY THE LEAFS ARENT CUP CONTENDERS IS BECAUSE WE ARE THE LEAFS. WE HAVE GREAT GOALTENDING, A GREAT SPECIAL TEAMS AND GREAT LEADERSHIP, WHAT MORE CAN U ASK FOR

By: mapleleaf92

mapleleaf92 — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:46:35 +0000

would be nice, but not ganna happen

By: KingCanada

KingCanada — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:13:33 +0000

Omg dude, some of those trades are pretty horrible and unrealistic sorry, some are ok.

Why would the leafs give up a great goalie tandem for a OLD washed up player, bad trade. The leafs arent trading young goalies for wash ups anymore.

Ryan Clowe?!? WHO?? yess i know who he is but he is NOT worth McCabe and ontop of that a pick? ur crazy, as many mistakes that he makes he scores alot too and is a big part of the team.

And if the Leafs are trading away Matt Stajan, its in a package to get back some value like in ur Hossa trade. Were not going to trade him for picks thats stupid. By needing cap space you DONT trade one of your most INEXPENSIVE players hahaha omg... numbers people numbers...look at them..

With that said i really like ur last trade though! And the Kubina trade is OK if the draft picks are high, as expensive as Kubina is he still have lots of value.

By: Cimolini

Cimolini — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:04:07 +0000

Kubina and Raycroft for Marleau??
Is this ridiculous??
I mean we already got a goalie from SJ, so the Raycroft thing might be way off, but a package including Kubina might make sense... SJ may need another big D-man after losing Hannan to COL.