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Sarge said:
I have higher hopes for Ashton, especially considering that A) this is his first full professional season at any level and he hasn't looked out of place, and B) he's a fair bit bigger than Armstrong - built more like a power-forward type than a checking pest type.
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Kessel_81 said:
As a member of Tank Nation I could agree with putting that butter top line in the microwave.
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bustaheims said:
Obviously, I'll take that too.
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DarrenDreger: Ryan Hamilton and Nazem Kadri recalled by the Leafs. Must be injuries or flu bug.
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bustaheims said:
Nice!... If anything, it's something new(ish.)
Deebo said:Sarge said:Apparently Ashton has been promoted to the Bozak/Kessel line. I mean, great for Ashton but how bad have things gotten for it to come down to this.
Clearly winning doesn't matter anymore, I'm all for trying out different line-up combinations.
They may be fiddling around with a physical defensive winger for that line, something MacArthur is not for the most part.
Re the Ashton/Armstrong comparisons, I think Army is still banged up so Carter likely brings more on that alone and even when Colby is healthy he's crafty on the boards but not in a 'big' way, physically, like Ashton has started off.
Great opportunity for the kid.
Glad to see Hamilton get the call if for nothing but a nod and a chance to show something in a ufa year, if he plays it'll be his first NHL game.
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Nothing really... He's having a good year and is being rewarded for it. I think as you say, he's pretty much a career AHLer... but I like him.
?I feel like, at any point, I can break out and become the player I know I can be,? Kadri said. ?I think that they still have full confidence in me, and kind of look at me as that high-profile player. And I realize that they maybe want me to get a playoff run under my belt like the [Mike] Richards and [Jeff] Carters and [Corey] Perrys ? I know that Burkie likes to kind of play it that way.
?I?m not arguing. I?m putting my nose to the grindstone. I just think that a lot of people have maybe lost it a little bit in me, because they see that I?m not being called up yet ? and [the Leafs are] struggling right now ? and when they look at the point totals down here, they don?t see me getting player of the month, or two points every single game.?
Funny he says that and is called up...
Edit to add: Then I read this after posting, d'oh!
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The #leafs have only put in official paperwork for Ryan Hamilton to be called up on emergency. Nazem Kadri has not been called up just yet.
?I?m not arguing. I?m putting my nose to the grindstone. I just think that a lot of people have maybe lost it a little bit in me, because they see that I?m not being called up yet ? and [the Leafs are] struggling right now ? and when they look at the point totals down here, they don?t see me getting player of the month, or two points every single game.?
Funny he says that and is called up...
Edit to add: Then I read this after posting, d'oh!
David Alter @DavidAlter590
The #leafs have only put in official paperwork for Ryan Hamilton to be called up on emergency. Nazem Kadri has not been called up just yet.
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lamajama said:
Well, he is from The Shwa.
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Maybe for a preseason game but never for a regular season game in the NHL.
I was hoping they'd give him more of a look in preseason. He's a big boy and he moves pretty well for his size. He's got some finish (in the AHL) but he might chip in a few and he can check - good defensively. He's also versatile in that he can help on the PP and PK. That's what he's done at the AHL level. How well he can translate that to the NHL speed, I don't know for sure but he's had me interested for a while. I wouldn't expect him to get any PP ice time.
If he wants a NHL job, he has to do something he doesn't do enough of with that big body of his: hit. If he does that and keeps the rest of his game simple, he might turn some heads. I wouldn't project him as a top 6 but I thought he might (long shot) turn out as a decent third/fourth liner. Some of the appeal for me was we had too many water bugs and not enough big bodies for the puck battles. Hamilton might help there.
Again, he's a long shot but he's earned it. He's a pretty complete, well rounded AHL player with good character.
lamajama said:I just hope he's not this year's version of Boyd Devereaux
Name a fringe NHL forward who never scored more than 9 goals in a NHL season during his career in the NHL (that was well above average duration) but scored a hat trick in his last game in the NHL. A trivia question fans of no other team except maybe Ottawa might get.
I say Ottawa because nine years previously Devereaux scored his first hat trick of the two in his career against the same team.
I think the odds of Hamilton repeating such a feat are rather slim but the game winner could always deflect in off his butt.
lamajama said:I just hope he's not this year's version of Boyd Devereaux
are you talking about the year we drafted kadri...boyd devereux scored a frew goals to lead us to a win over the sens in the last game of the season giving us draft choice # 7. If they had lost to the sens they would have had pick #5 which is the slot that brayden schenn was picked by LA.
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sneakyray said:lamajama said:I just hope he's not this year's version of Boyd Devereaux
are you talking about the year we drafted kadri...boyd devereux scored a frew goals to lead us to a win over the sens in the last game of the season giving us draft choice # 7. If they had lost to the sens they would have had pick #5 which is the slot that brayden schenn was picked by LA.
Devereux scored a hattrick in his last NHL game (I think it was his last). What a way to go out!
Zee said:sneakyray said:lamajama said:I just hope he's not this year's version of Boyd Devereaux
are you talking about the year we drafted kadri...boyd devereux scored a frew goals to lead us to a win over the sens in the last game of the season giving us draft choice # 7. If they had lost to the sens they would have had pick #5 which is the slot that brayden schenn was picked by LA.
Devereux scored a hattrick in his last NHL game (I think it was his last). What a way to go out!
Yep - his last game - to personally assure the Leafs of going from 5 to 7.
I was crying my eyes out at home after destroying the TV.
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