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GhostofPotvin29
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bustaheims said:
Plus Lundqvist is 32, Nash is 29, Richards is 33 - you have to go for it now, especially with the East being pretty weak this season. Chances are if it doesn't work out they can recoup picks for some of those guys.
bustaheims
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azzurri63 said:
Not at all what the Leafs need. Trading for him would have been an absolute waste of assets.
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bustaheims said:
Well if u guys think 3rd and 5th round pucks are assets then good luck. Picks are a crap shoot some players drafted in the 1st round don't even make it or pan out. Also yes I understand the cap. Not sure if they could have done something equivalent to Ottawa taking the cap into consideration. Leafs can score and it's not their problem but Hemsky if healthy is easily top 6 on this team. Like you said the other day Leafs problem isn't defence it's team defence and I've been saying that for years now also.
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azzurri63 said:
They're not just assets to be used to draft players. They're assets that can be used to acquire players that actually address some of the team's needs.
Hemsky wouldn't fit as things stand, but next season if the Leafs let Raymond/Kulemin/Bolland walk I might take a look at him if he comes cheap:
JVR-Bozak-Kessel
Lupul-Kadri-Hemsky
Kulemin/x-Bolland/x-Clarkson
JVR-Bozak-Kessel
Lupul-Kadri-Hemsky
Kulemin/x-Bolland/x-Clarkson
azzurri63
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CarltonTheBear said:
That's exactly where he'd fit so you don't think he would help as things stand like you say. Doesn't hurt to have more offence the way this team struggles in their own end. Definitely help to make the playoffs which isn't a given yet. Personally I think the way the top line is carrying us if the 2 net minders don't steal a few more games like early in the season we won't make it.
azzurri63 said:
With all those players signed though there isn't enough cap space to fit him in. Unless Bolland is gone for the season, but I'm sure they aren't ruling him out. It would also push a Raymond or Clarkson to the 4th line and while I'd be fine with either there I don't think the team is.
WhatIfGodWasALeaf
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Wasn't Dubnyk on waivers?
OldTimeHockey
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Gaborik to Kings looking like it's official
bustaheims
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WhatIfGodWasALeaf said:
He was, but, Nashville retained salary in the trade.
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Jalili
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Potvin29 said:
Bingo. No one in the East is that strong except for Pittsburgh and Boston, and even they have pretty big weaknesses.
I have serious doubts that Boston's defense will hold up the way it is if they don't make additions as of this afternoon. Seidenberg is down for the season, they've already lost Ference, and Chara is 1 year older.
Pittsburgh has a goalie who might implode any time under pressure. You just never know with that guy.
Before today and before the whole St. Louis wants to be a princess in New York thing came out, I would have ranked Tampa Bay as the next best team. But now I'm not so sure.
New York might be the 3rd best team and with a good enough back-end to be the team that comes out on top of the East.
Sudafederov
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Man that TSN TRADEBREAKERS set has to be one of the ugliest, most poorly designed sets I've seen. It's like they completely lost their minds over there.