Comments on: Toronto Media Starting to call on the Leafs to move Kessel

By: leafs_wallace93

leafs_wallace93 — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:21:16 +0000

I was but reading the thread over again I clearly appear to be a sub mental.

By: blaze

blaze — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:33:06 +0000

Well in fairness Pittsburgh did trade a late pick for him and signed him up before July 1st.

By: nordiques100

nordiques100 — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:24:35 +0000

i think he was thinking LN91.

By: doorman

doorman — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:44:01 +0000

Did you forget to add that not once but twice Voukun expressed interest in playing t=for the Leafs….lol….I can completely understand why we didn’t want a successful goalie here!!!

By: mojo19

mojo19 — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:33:47 +0000

Granlund hasn’t proven shit yet. He’s a good looking player, could become a star, but he might not, he might be like a Grabovski or something, which is still a nice player to have but not a franchise player.

No guarantee’s with Granlund, Kessel more proven = need more of a return.

By: toronto77

toronto77 — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:13:58 +0000

I seriously doubt Kessel will want to resign here, if we continue to struggle. Why the hell would he??

In order to keep Kessel here and make the team better, we desperately need to make another Kessel type trade. For example, what would it take to get Grandlund out of Minnesota?

maybe trade Kessel for Grandlund.

Minnesota is on the cusp of becoming a playoff contender for years to come and I am sure Kessel would love to play close to his home town and Minnesota will be a really good team in a quiet market. Minnesota is almost perfect for Kessel right now.

Then Kadri can replace Kessel on the top line. Obviously Kadri isn’t as good as Kessel, but he doesn’t have to be, if Grandlund is the no.1 centre.

trade Kadri and Gardiner for Grandlund.

JVR – Grandlund – Kessel would look amazing for years to come.

Me thinks Grandlund is absolutely untouchable!

Koivu will be 30 this year and you have to start to wonder where does he fit into their future. Grandlund will probably be way better than Koivu when he reaches his prime, and Minnesota would be drooling of a 1-2 punch at centre with Grandlund and Coyle.

if minny does trade Grandlund for Kadri and Gardiner, they get a great top line paring with Kadri and Parise on the wings, and will be ABSOLUTELY set with defence for the future with Suter, Gardiner, Dumba and Brodin!

even if Toronto over pays and Minnesota completely rips Toronto off, I still doubt Minnesota moves Grandlund. This guy is there future and the moment they trade him they will be trying to replace him, look how long Toronto has been trying to replace Sundin!!!

Grandlund is just an example, but he is the type of player we need to acquire. Gardiner would be a huge loss but I think Rielly makes Gardinder expendable.

at the deadline trade Kadri and Gardiner for Grandlund, trade grabovski for a 1st and draft a centremen in the 15th to 30th range in a deep centremen draft, and bottom out to select Monohan.

next season

Lupul – Grandlund – Kessel
JVR – Monohan – Kulemin

By: JoelLeafs

JoelLeafs — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:53:19 +0000

Uhh, you know LW93 is you, right?

By: leafs_wallace93

leafs_wallace93 — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:30:48 +0000

I didn’t hear anyone stick up for Kadri when I was calling him Wellwood Jr.

To be fair to LW93 he’s not suggesting trade Kadri for Hossa either.

Like anyone would pay money to see Zach Kassain.

By: JoelLeafs

JoelLeafs — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:09:24 +0000

Though I haven’t been excessively vocal about it, I think I’ve always stood on the ground that Kadri has better than a 50% chance of being a solid 2nd line guy.

The people that say things the loudest on this site tended to give him no chance, but it was far from the consensus.

By: realistic_leafs_fan

realistic_leafs_fan — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:38:21 +0000

LW93.Read some above comments. There is Kadri supporters who thinks he gets a bad wrap. Yes, alot have had no problem moving hime but I also remember there being alot who wanted to give him more time and thought his value is worth a key piece that we need…I disagreed.