Also depends on Andersen's health doesn't it? He is not playing tonight, this we know. All I know is Lou would place a premium price on goaltending. Not sure where Dubas stands if Andersen is not 100% healthy.
Andersen is day today, he is not traveling with the team to New York. He passed concussion protocol and it has been he has a neck injury that is nothing major.
Well he will have to because a loss tonight pretty much seals this season fate...too little too late for dubas.. roomie GM mistake not addressing this sooner
A loss tonight won't change the fact he won't overpay for a backup goalie.
No GM should ever intentionally overpay. All that says to me is that GM is far more interested in saving his job in the now than he is interested in protecting his team’s future. Now when Dubas does get his new back up goalie we fans can have fun arguing about whether he overpaid. In his mind the price he paid will be fair, or he wouldn’t have made the deal.
That's not what I'm really implying, and you're missing the bigger picture here. Leafs without a goalie well enough to even solidify a wild card berth= missing the 2020 playoffs. If you don't think this starts turning into a disaster you're as delusional as most Leafs fans are labeled. You guys cannot miss the playoffs. You are not a rebuilding team anymore, nor are you even a retooling team. You're supposed to be true playoff contenders. And you're team as of right now is insanely top heavy and with multiple contracts that are left with nothing but question marks. You're gonna start losing players due to paying the big trio 10+. You can't win like that, whatsoever. In the next few games if the Leafs lose due to horrible goaltending (Hutch can't stop a beach ball sometimes) you'll soon reach that defcon level 1 I was talking about and you'd be damn certain they'd pay the price to get someone who can actually propel them into the playoffs. Point is missing this year and getting some lottery pick that's not even in the top 13 is just gonna cause a slow decent into madness for them. Eventually they'll realize Matthews or Nylander will finally have to go to pay off other good pieces. Seriously.... good luck trying to pay Muzzin,Barrie,Rielly in the next years, Andersen, Sandin when his ELC is up, AND also keep your two third line wingers. It's just not gonna happen guy. The Blackhawks effect without even making it to the ECF.......it's just sad really.
So basically, you're saying the Leafs should get a backup goalie better than Hutch? I agree. That's why we are talking about Campbell in that other thread.
Value wise, Hell ya...but even at 50%, Leafs can't fit Anderson without more cap moving.
Nope and playoffs become just that much farther from reality. You never have to over pay for anything but when your slow to react and dont address your teams glaring needs it's kinda comical now.
If we are looking at a package from Ottawa including Anderson...lets try and work Demelo in there.
I absolutely agree, i too would like Dubad to somehow address our glaring need...RHD. Not sure how he does that.
Deal from the strength which is forward. They have lots of moveable assets who would fetch a nice return. Kapanen comes to mind. Time is quickly running out to save this season though. A loss tonight pretty much does it . There are D man available. Not sure if Larsson is but straight up for kapanen would be fine. Manson comes to mind. Justin shultz from pitt. Brandon montour another. Dubas is reluctant to give away an asset to address an need . That will be the doom of the 2019/2020 leafs. There is always next year!
Manson would be my #1 target, i don't think Anaheim deals him for Kapanen+ though. Montour might work, would love Larsson as well.
The only saving grace is that they have offense to outscore their issues...doesn't always work, but it is what it is.
On tsn, Dreger said the panthers need and are actively looking for a backup, and have more assets than toronto. There is lots of competition for the leafs in the goalie market
10 goalies? The TSN segment you have already referred to, and apparently didn’t comprehend, already debunked your theory.
