Waived: 2020-21 Waivers Thread

[Sergei Shirokov]

How's Boyd?

I've liked Vesey so far, hopefully this is another solid addition.

 

[attackfan71]

Vancouver is beginning to piss me off lol. They can keep vesey but Boyd was great fourth liner and type of depth we need for playoffs. Hate seeing him picked up. But he will probably play third line minutes and get great opportunity there.

 

[Knies iT]

Toronto’s depth is overrated and slow yet every waiver player gets scooped.

Vancouver filling out their team with TOR’s taxi squad.

 

[MapleLeafs9]

 

[Canuck Luck]

It’s better than our turd of a meal in Eriksson/Michaelis/roussel so ya we want it! Any chance y’all have a 3rd string goalie to give us for free too? Although Aquaman may only allow Benning to trade for one if we send some salary back

 

[Leaf Fans]

How's Boyd?

I've liked Vesey so far, hopefully this is another solid addition.

He is a fourth line guy with some speed. He pots one once in a while. I don't think he is too much of an upgrade on what you have, but some new blood.

 

[deckercky]

Vancouver is beginning to piss me off lol. They can keep vesey but Boyd was great fourth liner and type of depth we need for playoffs. Hate seeing him picked up. But he will probably play third line minutes and get great opportunity there.

Vancouver claims all Toronto waivers.
Calgary signs all Vancouver free agents.
This is the way.

 

[Mitch nylander]

How's Boyd?

I've liked Vesey so far, hopefully this is another solid addition.

boyd is great. I liked him a lot more than vesey. Not super skilled but works his heart out every shift:

 

[Lupuls Grit]

Vancouver is beginning to piss me off lol. They can keep vesey but Boyd was great fourth liner and type of depth we need for playoffs. Hate seeing him picked up. But he will probably play third line minutes and get great opportunity there.

The Canucks will gladly trade you Brandon Sutter for a third round pick...

 

[Northernhawk]

Vancouver claims all Toronto waivers.
Calgary signs all Vancouver free agents.
This is the way.

Kind of reminds me of the Canadian Football League! Some players have played in every team at one point!

 

[Northernhawk]

Best waiver pick up ever has to be Steve Sullivan by Chicago from yes again Toronto!

 

[uncleben]

Best waiver pick up ever has to be Steve Sullivan by Chicago from yes again Toronto!

Hey,
For as much hate as Leafs fans get thinking every other team wants our spare parts, the Leafs have the most waiver claims against in the League in the past three years, with seven guys! The next closest team is Winnipeg with 5, and that's counting Comrie being claimed from them twice.

 

[CupInSIX]

What kind of madman puts that much ketchup on the plate?

 

[TheGroceryStick]

Boyd shoulda replaced Vessey for good on the bottom line in Toronto and won't take long for nucks fans to think the same.

Solid, vanilla hockey player that does enough to be a reliable bottom line guy

 

[BiPolar Caps]

Canucks now with four former Capitals
Jay Beagle
Braden Holtby
Nate Schmidt
Travis Boyd

 

[attackfan71]

The Canucks will gladly trade you Brandon Sutter for a third round pick...

I said I was pissed cause they are taking our depth doesn’t mean we want Bennings mistakes. Sutter is probably good depth but. Those guys come at a league minimum. Not the 4 million cap hit. But it’s probably good news for Boyd cause benning will sign him for 3 years at 3 mil and think he is getting a deal after sutter contract is done lol

 

[Lupuls Grit]

I said I was pissed cause they are taking our depth doesn’t mean we want Bennings mistakes. Sutter is probably good depth but. Those guys come at a league minimum. Not the 4 million cap hit. But it’s probably good news for Boyd cause benning will sign him for 3 years at 3 mil and think he is getting a deal after sutter contract is done lol

I have really been impressed with watching Boyd this season. I think he is a good candidate for next year to be the Canucks regular 4C. I think they can likely find a trade deadline home for Sutter and I wonder if this opens up the possibility of either trading or buying out the last year of Beagle's contract as well.

 

[Canuck86]

I have really been impressed with watching Boyd this season. I think he is a good candidate for next year to be the Canucks regular 4C. I think they can likely find a trade deadline home for Sutter and I wonder if this opens up the possibility of either trading or buying out the last year of Beagle's contract as well.

Guy can't win faceoffs in the NHL tho it seems, but maybe he just needs to take more draws to get that practice in!?

 

[Northernhawk]

Hey,
For as much hate as Leafs fans get thinking every other team wants our spare parts, the Leafs have the most waiver claims against in the League in the past three years, with seven guys! The next closest team is Winnipeg with 5, and that's counting Comrie being claimed from them twice.

That's what happens to good teams...it's the bottom teams that grab the waiver players
The Hawks have lost their fair share over the years...Carter Hutton, Carl Dahlstrom

 

[Michel Beauchamp]

Toronto’s depth is overrated and slow yet every waiver player gets scooped.

Vancouver filling out their team with TOR’s taxi squad.

Could it be that Toronto is waiving the wrong players ?

 

[Sergei Shirokov]

He is a fourth line guy with some speed. He pots one once in a while. I don't think he is too much of an upgrade on what you have, but some new blood.

boyd is great. I liked him a lot more than vesey. Not super skilled but works his heart out every shift:

Good to hear, could use some more speed at the very least. Maybe a better version of Hawryluk.

I expect he'll be in a lesser role than Vesey, but excited to see what he can bring nonetheless.

 

[TheRexman]

Could it be that Toronto is waiving the wrong players ?

Do you really think so?

 

[Michel Beauchamp]

Do you really think so?

I'm simply asking the question.

 

[uncleben]

Could it be that Toronto is waiving the wrong players ?

There was no other option this round through, really.

Spezza has been more valuable than Boyd, and otherwise you're exposing a guy like Engvall or Mikheyev, which makes no sense

 

[uncleben]

That's what happens to good teams...it's the bottom teams that grab the waiver players
The Hawks have lost their fair share over the years...Carter Hutton, Carl Dahlstrom

Yeah, I was being cheeky

I only went back three years, in which only Dahlstrom fell in there (Hutton left as a UFA)
Looks like their roughest recent patch was 2013/14-2015/16 where they lost Stanton, Kostka, Erixon, Tikhonov, Sekac in that stretch of three seasons


EDIT: My curiosity got the best of me. I went back 10 years. Leafs had 11 players claimed, surpassed only by Pittsburgh's 14 players claimed. PIT had SIX players claimed in two season 2012-13/2013-14 (Strait, Boychuk, Kostopolous, MacIntyre, Jeffrey, D'Agostini) that pushed them over the top

Buffalo and Calgary only had three each in that whole ten years (Finley 2012-13, Tropp 2013-14, Grant 2016-17; Hagman 2011-12, Byron 2015-16, Hamilton 2017-18)