Leafs need a trade coming up. I wonder if chuckwoods is here lol
Chuck doesn't give us the news anymore Someone ruined it for the rest of us
Leafs need a trade coming up. I wonder if chuckwoods is here lol
Chuck doesn't give us the news anymore Someone ruined it for the rest of us
Well for starters you can stop focusing that the teams issues is on the blue line in the first place... Morgan Rielly in time will be the guy next to Phaneuf there's your top pairing D men and a hell of an upgrade in due time.
Phaneuf - Rielly
Gardiner - Franson
That's the top 4 for this team when it's ready to take the next step but as usual we have no patience and chase other teams players at bloated contracts only to hate them in the end.
The teams issues is at the other end of the ice. If they started to play more in the oppositions zone with more vigor and purpose by improving a rather none existed cycle game as 5 man units on the ice the shot totals wouldn't be so lob sighted and they would be playing a hell of a lot less in there D zone rope & doping like they are right now. People are constantly ripping on the D at every mistake they make as the reason for this hockey the team plays when it's actually the same issues as last year in that the offense can't sustain a cycle that's the weakness of this team. The D zone coverage is actually solid they just need to get there $hit together and pick up the pace and compete a hell of a lot harder on the cycle playing offense.
Certainly very few top-4 capable defensive defenders are available. Crap even we need one that's truly capable of top-4 duties.
IMO we should be shopping Franson, Gardiner and Kulemin. These guys are good, yes, but they just don't bring enough of what we need right now.
It's a bit of a crapshoot right now - moving targets, players are available in windows that may never open again. Really bizarre scene.
Ranger for Boyd Gordon?
not sure if the LTIR is enough to make it work long term but Gordon is a solid 3rd line C that would fill in for Bolland
Ranger is an Eakins guy
u say we need guys that are top 4 dmen but u want to trade 2 top 4 dmen? lol.... and there both young, i agree we should be looking at trading for a young potential top 6 C (couterier, couture type) and Gardiner or Franson will need to be involved but i would be very displeased if Nonis is shopping these players because they are good players and are part of our core.
Chuck doesn't give us the news anymore Someone ruined it for the rest of us
“If somebody told me yesterday that I would be traded to Calgary, I would have been like, ‘Wow, you’ve gotta be crazy.’ But I guess it does happen. I was in shock ... But now I’m really, really excited.â€
Horak is only 22 and was one of the Flames’ best defensive forwards for chunks of the 2011-12 campaign, but he’s been on a yo-yo between Calgary and Abbotsford.
The 20-year-old Brossoit just turned pro after an impressive junior career with the WHL’s Edmonton Oil Kings. He is the ECHL’s reigning goaltender of the week after back-to-back shutouts for the Aces, but the Flames feel good about their stash of puck-stopping prospects.
The Target:
The Return:
The real target ... Bryzgalov