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I liked Clifford. Maybe easier to say this in hindsight I suppose but if the Leafs wanted a part-time goon they probably should have just kept him in the NHL. Surprising a little to see that he's only 34 years old.

Curious to see how long this goes before there's finally a player I'd have put before Valis. I think he's pretty low on this list at 20.

Only way I see Robertson being an everyday top-9er here is if the Leafs split up JT and Willy. Because again I can't see him on a Knies-Matthews top line, I can't see him on a JT-Willy line, and I can't see him on a Roy checking line. But throw Nylander up with Matthews and a slightly more...

Nice to see Nylander 2 back. I know hot streaks aren't exactly uncommon but it's still crazy to see 11 goals and 15 points in 23 games with the Blue Jackets in 23/24 to this. Regardless cool to see the Nylander bros together in some way.

Neither of these asks seem unreasonably high/low. Hard to imagine they'll really need arbitration to find a middle ground here.

I could see this not being a very fun hearing for someone.

They played 3 games together last season (Nov 30, Dec 2, Dec 4), not including the even shorter lived 88-34-16 experiment that lasted 2 games (maybe 1.5). Matthews was also coming off an almost 30-day break and Knies was coming off his concussion. Not sure I'd really put a ton of stock into that...

30 points combined in the first 6 games that season. I'd kill to see advanced stats like we have now from that era.

I skipped all the players with asterisks who have signed minor league deals, since it's pretty rare to see guys like that get poached right away. The only remaining player who's initial hockeydb page made me a little more intrigued was Dominic James, a 23 year old centre who was drafted in the...

Ah the MAD line. God damn was it fun for a few games though.

I'd still probably want someone like McMann or Joshua or maybe even Maccelli at LW1 but I agree that Knies doesn't necessarily need to be locked onto the Matthews line 24/7 and that Nylander should play on the top line more than line-up projections typically have him there. Really though there...

I'm not itching to see Robertson go but I just don't see where he fits. He's not playing on the top line. He doesn't make a ton of sense on the Tavares-Nylander line given that they'll prioritize either a playmaker (Maccelli/Domi) or a forechecker (McMann/Joshua) as the 3rd player over another...

I wouldn't be shocked if he can in a little closer to $2mil, especially with the rising cap. He'll be a really interesting arbitration case. Over the past 2 seasons he has 26 5-on-5 goals. Players tied with him there include Robert Thomas, Tim Stutzle, Quinton Byfield, Juraj Slafkovsky, Pavel...

I don't really disagree but I'm also not looking to restart that debate hah. Just a funny what-if situation. How different would the league look right now if Treliving signed Tkachuk to an 8-year deal after his ELC (like Matthew was allegedly open to) instead of the 3-year bridge. Does that open...

It's crazy that this is all Treliving's fault.

I still like Luke Kunin, who typically has had the opposite problem of being overutilized, for the 4RW spot but by the sounds of it Fasching wouldn't be bad too. In a perfect world you could acquire a 3RW guy by packaging McMann and Robertson for a righty, but scanning through a lot of teams...

This would have been something if the Theodore trade went down.

For whatever reason I was convinced he was a righty and only just noticed a bit ago that he wasn't. We'll see how that all shakes out with the lines.

So we're probably looking at something like: Knies-Matthews-Domi Maccelli-Tavares-Nylander McMann-Roy-Joshua Pezzetta-Laughton-Lorentz Italicized guys being able to move around the line-up. Places for Kampf and Jarnkrok still TBD.