Speculation: Mike Peca vs Dave Bolland: which one gave a better impression...

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...during their short time as Leafs.

Both might have helped Toronto if they weren't injured, but I find it interesting how similar their short stay was in Toronto.

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[WilliamNylander]

I guess Bolland but both weren't really going to be much help

 

[Damisoph]

Bolland was good until he ****ed up his achilles or whatever it was. Peca didn't do much but at least we didn't give up assets for him and then he ****ed off the next off-season.

**** Bolland.

 

[Stephen]

Bolland was good until he ****ed up his achilles or whatever it was. Peca didn't do much but at least we didn't give up assets for him and then he ****ed off the next off-season.

**** Bolland.

Bolland's greatest act as a Leaf was arguably leaving as a free agent. He'd have wrecked this team so bad had he accepted Nonis' offer.

 

[Damisoph]

Bolland's greatest act as a Leaf was arguably leaving as a free agent. He'd have wrecked this team so bad had he accepted Nonis' offer.

ya you're right. Just annoyed we gave up three picks for him.

 

[Menzinger]

Both were forgettable - the fact Nonis traded multiple picks for Bolland makes his legacy worse.

 

[hamzarocks]

ya you're right. Just annoyed we gave up three picks for him.

True but atleast we got a couple of nice picks for Winnick. 2 2nd and a 4th.

 

[FlareKnight]

Probably Peca. There wasn't the same kind of contract issues to worry about with him nor the same cost to acquire him. The fact that it was fairly uneventful is what makes it better than the Bolland situation .

 

[mcleex]

So many guys that didn't work out here. Remember Versteeg when we acquired him from Chicago
Or how about Lee Stempniak?Terrible

 

[Xscout*]

So many guys that didn't work out here. Remember Versteeg when we acquired him from Chicago
Or how about Lee Stempniak?Terrible

this thread could end up very sad.
Decent return for versteeg at the time. Ended up being percy and leivo iirc.

Stempniak still hurts steener is one of my faves currently active.

 

[cwulf]

I have an Owen Nolan leafs jersey.

 

[moon111]

I have an Owen Nolan leafs jersey.

I have a kid named Owen so there. Many didn't like the trade, but in all honesty at the time, the Leafs needed to gamble on make their team the best 'NOW'. And players were something you could flash your wallet at and buy back then.

 

[93LEAFS]

I liked Bolland as a Leaf to start, then he tore his Achilles and has never been the same. The trade is annoying, but I can live with it (in a vacuum, not the repeated throwing away of 2nds which was a Nonis trademark before Jim Benning). But, as stated earlier, thank god we didn't re-sign him to what he wanted.

 

[12345678910]

Signing Bolland would have taken us from cap purgatory to cap hell.

 

[Leaf Lander]

Who cares


They hardly played for us

 

[Anthrax442]

I have an Owen Nolan leafs jersey.

He was good out of the gate but then got hurt in the playoffs and was dragging his ass on the ice, it looked sad. Next season he brought more, but I think he missed the playoffs, so he was pretty much a bust. Too bad, we were stacked that year.

 

[IWD]

I have a kid named Owen so there. Many didn't like the trade, but in all honesty at the time, the Leafs needed to gamble on make their team the best 'NOW'. And players were something you could flash your wallet at and buy back then.

I thought Boyes was going to be a good one, but he ended up being pretty average. McCauley was a good depth player, but those concussions... the first? Well, a crapshoot. I was disappointed in Nolan. I was so stoked when we got him. A true powerforward with skill. It was nice watching him give Webb a beatdown, though.

Peca was great before Tucker destroyed him. Wasn't the same player on the Leafs.

 

[Mess]

Who cares


They hardly played for us

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