Comments on: Was last year's deadline really that bad?

By: LeafyMcLeaf

LeafyMcLeaf — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:45:45 +0000

Domi was a solid player, and played great on a line with Kilger and Reichel.

Wade Belak and Aki Berg hardly played.

Ya, Reichel and his two forty goal seasons, seven twenty goal seasons, not including one with 18 goal in 45 games in the lockout shortened season. and his rookie year with 19 goals in 66 games. All in eleven seasons. He was a solid twenty goal scorer till he got throw onto the third line in Toronto.

To be honest, the same can pretty much be said for Mikael Renberg.

Why criticize the secondary scoring for not putting up huge numbers.

By: LeafyMcLeaf

LeafyMcLeaf — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:34:31 +0000

Did you hear I love Montreal now Linty?

Ya, since the whole "FAKER" chants at Crosby, and the shit they're giving him, Habs fans are my favorite fans.

Cindy better keep his head up.

By: TheFish12

TheFish12 — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:48:55 +0000

So baiscally what your saying is that how boring a trade deadline is depends on what happens in the playoffs?

That only makes sens in hindsight. If there was a three team trade like this go down:

To Philadelphia
Martin Havlat
Jack Johnson
1rst Ronder Chicago

To Chicago
Alex Frolov
Joni Pitkanen
Simon Gagne

To Los Angeles
Jeff Carter
Tuomo Ruutu
1rst Rounder Philadelphia

Now forget for one second that this is totaly and absolutely impossible.

Even if this has no effect on the standings, these teams are all still the three lowest seeded teams and all miss the playoff, I say that this trade makes the deadline alot more exciting then edmonton adding samsonov and carolina adding recchi.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that your reasoning is completely irrelevant and the only thing that makes a deadline interesting are the deals that go down on that day, not what happens in the playoffs after, thats what makes the playoffs interesting

By: broc

broc — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 05:52:13 +0000

Any team with Reichel, Renberg, Domi, Belak and Aki Berg has destiny to it alright… destiny to disappointment.

By: saku_rulz

saku_rulz — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:51:35 +0000

even though he sucks, there was the theodore/abby swap last yr…right before dday….in the week before!and in 2004,kovy was brought in in the week before also…so, if history repeats itself,we should see the habs trading in about 2 weeks……

By: Lint07

Lint07 — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:10:33 +0000

yeah, that's right.

Actually the fake injury thing is what sparked him up (or more precisely Souray sparked him up after the game letting him know how what he did was selfish and stupid). He was all over the ice for the next 3 wins against Boston and we went from 1-3 to 4-3.

By: Uncleben

Uncleben — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:22:13 +0000

ahhh… back in the day when antropov wanst in the starting rotation…

By: LeafyMcLeaf

LeafyMcLeaf — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:16:33 +0000

Kovalev was terrible until that series, and lets face it, he half assed in defensively, even once blatantly faking an injury to get out of back checking.

He did have a great playoff overall though, ten points in eleven games.

By: LeafyMcLeaf

LeafyMcLeaf — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:14:54 +0000

In 13 games the Maple Leafs played after the deadline, including one that night, Ron Francis played 12, had three goals, ten points. Not bad for a 41 year old. In the playoffs he missed one game with a back injury in the playoffs and had 4 assists in 12 games on the fourth line.

Mogilny-Sundin-Roberts
Nolan-Nieuwendyk-Tucker
Kilger-Reichel-Domi
Renberg-Francis-Stajan
Ponikarovsky-Antropov-Fitzgerald

Leetch-McCabe
Kaberle-Klee
Marchment-Johannson
Pilar-Berg

Belfour
Kidd

I really thought that team had a little bit of destiny to it.

By: polastem

polastem — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:36:45 +0000

Meh, I just hope there's a few more deals with bigger names this year, rather than last year's 4th line players heading to other teams contending looking for depth. Oh, and Francis was injured for half the games he played with Toronto, and was a healthy scratch for the others, lol, so no, he wasn't much of an addition to the team, he was more of a name addition than an actual impact addition.