Value of: 3rd line center to the Leafs

[Vancouver Canucks]

He started his career in Seattle in 2001 and he was traded to the Yankees in 2012.

That I didn't know.

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

What does that have to do with acquiring a 3C? Pretty much all the guys listed are over 25 if not older. Draft more centres. Or trade for center prospects then. That has nothing to do with why you can’t move Marleau to c and move kapanen up the lineup

I read your post wrong I read it as why don't we shift a Marlie to center because I had just woken up.

As for Marleau he wasn't brought here to be a center he's said it, management has said it everybody has said it

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

Sign a Schaller type to compete with Aaltonen and it's fine assuming Nylander is a C.

Nylander is unlikely to play center next season that idea needs to die.

 

[Canuck Luck]

I read your post wrong I read it as why don't we shift a Marlie to center because I had just woken up.

As for Marleau he wasn't brought here to be a center he's said it, management has said it everybody has said it

Plans change though. To be set in stone in plans from day 1 before he’s even played a minute for the leafs is insane.

 

[rent free]

That I didn't know.

oh. if you were to associate ichiro with a team, it'd be the mariners. hell, if you associated the mariners with a player, it's be ichiro

 

[Vancouver Canucks]

oh. if you were to associate ichiro with a team, it'd be the mariners. hell, if you associated the mariners with a player, it's be ichiro

I mean, Cano.

 

[rent free]

I mean, Cano.

Ichiro was the face of the franchise for a decade and is their greatest ever player. Cano has been there for like 5 years.

 

[unitedstars87]

Even if that is true, and it's not that does nothing for us now, and we need somebody that can play 3rd center now

Won’t know till he’s given a shot

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

Won’t know till he’s given a shot

We know now

 

[carter333167]

The Blues have a couple.

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

The Blues have a couple.

Sobotka and who? Berglund?

 

[Ciao]

Nylander is unlikely to play center next season that idea needs to die.

I don't share your opinion on this, and I don't know of any reason that next season won't be the time that Nylander transitions to centre.

It's a bit snotty, you know, to pronounce that this idea "needs to die."

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

I don't share your opinion on this, and I don't know of any reason that next season won't be the time that Nylander transitions to centre.

It's a bit snotty, you know, to pronounce that this idea "needs to die."

We saw it this year it failed, also and I keep saying this breaking up things that work is stupid

 

[Ciao]

We saw it this year it failed

You're wilfully blind to the fact that it was due to injury and he wasn't sheltered.

Moreover, with such a young player, the fact that it didn't succeed at first doesn't mean it won't ever succeed nor be tried again.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if they work on this right from the outset, depending on what else happens with the roster.

Nylander certainly has all the skills to be be top-six centre. He needs training and practice in the role.

 

[Advanced stats]

We saw it this year it failed, also and I keep saying this breaking up things that work is stupid

Stop, it didn't fail. It's not as bad an idea as you're painting it to be.

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

Stop, it didn't fail. It's not as bad an idea as you're painting it to be.

It did fail and breaking up lines that work and our top 6 does is stupid idea, why break up lines with proven chemistry when all that's needed is a 3rd line center?

 

[therealkoho]

It did fail and breaking up lines that work and our top 6 does is stupid idea, why break up lines with proven chemistry when all that's needed is a 3rd line center?

because it's so very LeaFland unfortunately

 

[therealkoho]

You're wilfully blind to the fact that it was due to injury and he wasn't sheltered.

Moreover, with such a young player, the fact that it didn't succeed at first doesn't mean it won't ever succeed nor be tried again.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if they work on this right from the outset, depending on what else happens with the roster.

Nylander certainly has all the skills to be be top-six centre. He needs training and practice in the role.

and he was given chances at both the AHL and NHL levels and hasn't been what they want, while people may wish he is a centre does not make it so

there is no real excuse young player or not, he is just not cut out to handle a centreman's duties at this level

 

[therealkoho]

the reason I ask is because he really isn't any better or even equal to Bozak in measurable terms and he's slightly more expensive. There have been questions about his intensity and commitment in the past and whether or not that's innuendo I don't know. He doesn't skate as well as Bozak nor handle the puck quite as well. He gets very little PP time and only slightly more PK time.

He's bigger then Boz but doesn't hit and shys away from the physical side of the game, He has not once broken 49% in the circle. There's a reason he's been moved around.

Because we need a 3C

read the post above your's and counter the argument

i'll meet you back here later

still waiting Anish

 

[brokeu91]

Sobotka and who? Berglund?

Yes. Berglund is actually a pretty decent third line center. He plays good defense and may score twenty goals

 

[rent free]

still waiting Anish

who cares about all that stuff? he'd fit right in to the leafs.

also its pretty pathetic that you were actually waiting an entire day to post this.

 

[CupInSIX]

Eakin for Kapanen 500k retained

 

[rent free]

Eakin for Kapanen 500k retained

not bad. you are the one retaining right?

 

[Unsustainable]

Victor Rask for Kap

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

because it's so very LeaFland unfortunately

This is true