Comments on: Where to go from here?

By: toronto77

toronto77 — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:23:09 +0000

ya, i'm not too crazy about brown and schenn has a lot of potential. Schenn is good friends with doughty and the two of them paired up could be deadly. But LA already traded their pick to CLB, i guess i could settle for a second though.

By: toronto77

toronto77 — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:20:04 +0000

I agree, these guys are professional athletes they don't need to be given motivation, they should be motivated to play every single game.

By: realistic_leafs_fan

realistic_leafs_fan — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:49:14 +0000

Honestly, I wouldn't give up Grabo and Kulimen +pick for Schenn. Too unknown yet.

By: Steven_Leafs

Steven_Leafs — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:13:46 +0000

true about Lombardi, IMO we would have to give back a top 9 forward plus the defenseman so I'm not sure who we would give them that doesn't look like a loss for us.

I'm ok with taking back cap in the Philly deal, if anything that is a player to help with the playoff push. But remember that Schenn's cap hit is 2.774M (3.11M if he was in the NHL all year) while Grabovski is 2.9M and Kulemin is 2.35M, they would only take on about 2.5M which they may still be able to do, if they cant it wouldn't be hard to take back a bit.

By: realistic_leafs_fan

realistic_leafs_fan — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:59:05 +0000

All is fair as I respond.lol

Didn't even look at what picks we had available...replace with what might work.

Gus deal, it works either way to me.

I can't see L. A. Wanting Lombardi and his contract.

Philadelphia does not have the cap room to take on Grabo and Kulimen while giving up Schenn. This also leaves us without a real centreman. Who's left? Connolly?....I hated the Connolly signing and now everyone knows why:) Wouldn't we rather have that cap space available to make a real trade.

By: NonLeafFansAreGay

NonLeafFansAreGay — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:50:34 +0000

shut the f*ck up, you sound like an idiot.

By: Steven_Leafs

Steven_Leafs — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:41:44 +0000

"Go ahead and rip it apart now.lol"

If you insist, lol. Actually those are not that bad.

To Toronto

Harding

To Minnesota

Gustavsson and 2012 3rd

personally I would take out the 3rd, and add a conditional pick going both ways based on if the goalie re-signs.

To Toronto:

Harding
conditional 2013 3rd

To Minnesota:

Gustavsson
conditional 2013 2nd

Minnesota gets the better conditional pick since Gustavsson is a downgrade.

The Brown trade is interesting, I mentioned on another blog on here that LA shouldn't trade Brown unless they get a forward and a defenseman that can play now. Maybe swap Frattin for Lombardi or something. Also we do not have our 2012 4th.

And even though that would probably be the price for JVR, I wouldn't pay it. While MacArthur is a downgraded version of JVR I wouldn't send away Kadri+ for that upgrade.

I personally would love to see Grabo, Kulemin, pick for B.Schenn. We would have 2 top prospect big centermen in Schenn and Colborne, I would love that.

By: realistic_leafs_fan

realistic_leafs_fan — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:20:34 +0000

To Toronto

Harding

To Minnesota

Gustavsson and 2012 3rd

No real risk of a move. Minnesota gets a capable back-up and a pick while getting some return for Harding. We get a potential starter.

To Toronto

Brown

To L.A.

Gunarrson, Frattan,2012 4th

L.A. Gets D after losing Johnson and prospect + pick. We get size and leadership.

To Toronto

JVR

To Philadelphia

MacArthur, Kadri, Holzer, 2012 2nd

Philadelphia gets secondary scoring with a little grit, top prospect, young stay at home D prospect and a 2nd rounder and a little cap relief. We get young possible star and more size.

Brown Grabo JVR

Kessel.Bozak Lupul

Armstrong Connolly Kulimen

M.Brown Steckel Crabb

Lombardi

Phaneuf Franson

Liles Gardiner

Schenn Aulie

Komisarek

Reimer Harding

We don't sell the farm but get better and bigger.

Go ahead and rip it apart now.lol

By: Steven_Leafs

Steven_Leafs — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:01:02 +0000

Smart move by Burke for saying no, Gardiner is looking crazy good, if he keeps improving we could have an Erik Karlsson type player. (one can dream, Karlsson is insane).

Burke should have offered Kulemin, Schenn, pick for Carter, Johansen (assuming there is truth to that). Grabo being a UFA is a bad pickup for Columbus. Oh well, LA's offer was better either way.

By: Steven_Leafs

Steven_Leafs — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:56:58 +0000

While I'm ok with not getting Carter considering the cost, we could have used him. His salary is good, very good actually, in 2-3 years, assuming they keep prodcing, we will be paying Kessel 7-8M and Lupul 5.5-6.5M (and if they keep producing at a point per game, maybe even more).

Carter's contract 5 years from now will be a bargain. 8 years from now is when his contract may be bad but only if he fails to keep producing at which point he will be making next to nothing in cash and will be an excellent contract to any cap floor team.

Schenn, 1st, + is a bit much to pay, but I guess I wish we were in the running.