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Tavares

Bates said:
Here's a bunch of ifs.  If the Coyotes had an OK 1st line center and if the Leafs could sign sign Tavares I would be Ok with sending Matthews home for OEL and that 1st line center of their's.
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Did you happen to drop a mind altering drug before you wrote this?  I drank a bottle of Sake for lunch and had no such notions. I actually watched Nylander undress OEL about 10 yards in front of me at the Yotes blue line, skate in and bury a beauty.  Great defence man, I like him but we have plenty of potential OELs in our system, courtesy of the our draft.
 
How did I miss Nik posting the tweet before I did? Dang need to pay more attention.

https://twitter.com/downgoesbrown/status/1011375312653955072
 
herman said:
How did I miss Nik posting the tweet before I did? Dang need to pay more attention.

https://twitter.com/downgoesbrown/status/1011375312653955072
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Nik is Down Goes Brown? *thinking gif*
 
hockeyfan1 said:
C'mon Johnny T, forget Lou & Trotz.  Think Babs, Shanny & Dube.  Sounds better anyways.  :D
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They look better too.

https://twitter.com/davidnestico200/status/1011379084004417538
 
I guess that one play makes him terrible then???
OEL is a legit number 1 D and we really don't have one in the system, last season made that very apparent.
Highlander said:
Bates said:
Here's a bunch of ifs.  If the Coyotes had an OK 1st line center and if the Leafs could sign sign Tavares I would be Ok with sending Matthews home for OEL and that 1st line center of their's.
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Did you happen to drop a mind altering drug before you wrote this?  I drank a bottle of Sake for lunch and had no such notions. I actually watched Nylander undress OEL about 10 yards in front of me at the Yotes blue line, skate in and bury a beauty.  Great defence man, I like him but we have plenty of potential OELs in our system, courtesy of the our draft.
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Babcock went along to talk to Dubas about re-signing Komarov. "sure this Tavares kid is ok, but Uncle Leo..."
 
Tavares is getting married this summer and his future wife is from Oakville.  You can order your Tavares San Jose jerseys now.
 
Zee said:
Money will be similar in all offers, tax havens notwithstanding, so you have to sell something a bit different. Toronto has that for a guy like Tavares. Whether or not he wants it is another question altogether. 
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I really don't think you do have to sell something different. I think the approach of the team should effectively be that of any other team, with the primary focus being on Tavares and how he fits into the club, how highly the team thinks of him and what they're willing to give him. They need to sell him on the club and the city.

Because otherwise, what if the hometown angle doesn't really play? Should they just rule themselves out of any free agent who isn't from here or is from here but doesn't really think about that much? They need to be good salesmen on the opportunity and Tavares himself.

A lot of the best free agent signings the Leafs ever made were guys who had no connection to here. When they signed them, they won them over with their club and, quite frankly, money. That should be the focus.
 
So if they fail to acquire Tavares can we stop pretending that players remotely give a damn about playing for their home team.  We don't sign guys to hometown discounts and we don't attract top free agents.
 
L K said:
So if they fail to acquire Tavares can we stop pretending that players remotely give a damn about playing for their home team.  We don't sign guys to hometown discounts and we don't attract top free agents.
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I don't think so, because then if they do land him, people will use the same logic and suggest that we always can, just see Tavares, John.
 
L K said:
So if they fail to acquire Tavares can we stop pretending that players remotely give a damn about playing for their home team.  We don't sign guys to hometown discounts and we don't attract top free agents.
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I'll reserve judgement on this until Matthews commits here long term and doesn't jump to go and play in Arizona.
 
L K said:
So if they fail to acquire Tavares can we stop pretending that players remotely give a damn about playing for their home team.  We don't sign guys to hometown discounts and we don't attract top free agents.
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On the flipside, how has attracting top free agents worked out for NYR?
 
Bender said:
L K said:
So if they fail to acquire Tavares can we stop pretending that players remotely give a damn about playing for their home team.  We don't sign guys to hometown discounts and we don't attract top free agents.
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On the flipside, how has attracting top free agents worked out for NYR?
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Reasonably well?
 
CarltonTheBear said:
https://twitter.com/MikeCormack/status/1011592868446654464

*gasp* he's a nerd just like Kyle!
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Geez, hey John this isn't rocket science, it's just hockey man.
 
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