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Nik the Trik said:Looks like we'll be spared a year of the Drew Doughty watch anyway. Reports are he'll sign his extension ASAP.
Nik the Trik said:Looks like we'll be spared a year of the Drew Doughty watch anyway. Reports are he'll sign his extension ASAP.
cabber24 said:No idea how the Leafs will improve their D in a meaningful way. Just don?t see how it?s possible. Our D is not good enough, we cannot be considered a contender with the current group on D. We?re not even close to accomplishing anything with this group. What are we going to do? Weber?
louisstamos said:cabber24 said:No idea how the Leafs will improve their D in a meaningful way. Just don?t see how it?s possible. Our D is not good enough, we cannot be considered a contender with the current group on D. We?re not even close to accomplishing anything with this group. What are we going to do? Weber?
Just a matter of hoping someone in the system ends up developing into a high end guy. Could be Liljegren or Sandin, could be Dermott, could even be someone we haven't drafted yet. Just keep throwing darts at the dartboard, and hope something sticks.
CarltonTheBear said:I'd actually be more comfortable with Tavares at an $11mil AAV long-term than I would be with Doughty.
Heroic Shrimp said:Defensemen are far less predictable than forwards in the draft, and there will assuredly be future high-end defensemen available even in the Leafs' relatively poor draft positions in the future.
Nik the Trik said:Heroic Shrimp said:Defensemen are far less predictable than forwards in the draft, and there will assuredly be future high-end defensemen available even in the Leafs' relatively poor draft positions in the future.
Things get a little more complicated however when you look at the gaps between when these guys were drafted and when they were winning Norris trophies.
Heroic Shrimp said:True, it kind of sucks how all of those guys were no good for their teams until they won their Norris Trophies.
cabber24 said:No idea how the Leafs will improve their D in a meaningful way. Just don?t see how it?s possible. Our D is not good enough, we cannot be considered a contender with the current group on D. We?re not even close to accomplishing anything with this group. What are we going to do? Weber?
bustaheims said:cabber24 said:No idea how the Leafs will improve their D in a meaningful way. Just don?t see how it?s possible. Our D is not good enough, we cannot be considered a contender with the current group on D. We?re not even close to accomplishing anything with this group. What are we going to do? Weber?
Since defence is, and has always been, a team game, the Leafs can actually do a lot to improve themselves defensively without adding a clear #1 d-man.
CarltonTheBear said:Doughty re-signing really just goes to show how crazy it would have been for the Leafs to NOT go after Tavares. A guy of their talents actually hitting July 1st at this stage of their career happens once a decade, maybe once a generation.
CarltonTheBear said:Doughty re-signing really just goes to show how crazy it would have been for the Leafs to NOT go after Tavares. A guy of their talents actually hitting July 1st at this stage of their career happens once a decade, maybe once a generation.
Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:So what happened to the pronouncements (Bob?) that Tavares was going to publicly whittle the list yesterday?
Nik the Trik said:Well, I think if you skip over technicalities a really franchise level player has hit free agency five times in the 12 or so years since the cancelled season. However, I think the only two times where the player actually changed teams were such cautionary tales that teams will effectively give those guys whatever they want to avoid it happening again.