Around The League 2018-19 Offseason edition
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A) How would Lou even know what was part of the Leafs pitch? It's not like JT is gonna embarass the organization he's signing with by squealing on them.
B) It's Shanny, he's not gonna play the age card or otherwise denigrate Lou to begin with.
C) People wanted Lou to offer sheet teams out of spite or whatever here, he doesn't believe in that - period.
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Honestly, Bobby Ryan is probably worth about $4.5-$5 million per year, at least as of right now. Barring another drop off even further. He's still a 40+ point player, if he plays an entire season, but he's only played 62 regular season games in both of the last two seasons.
For what it's worth, he had a bit of a rise in production this past year from the year before. He scored 25 points in 62 games in 16-17, he scored 33 points in 62 games in 17-18. He had 15 points in 19 playoff games in 2017. So he had 40 points in 81 games that year. Produced at a 44 point pace this past year.
So I think 40 points is probably something he can do if he plays 80 games. I think he would have been signed if he was bought out, but it might have been more of prove it contract, but I still think it would have been more than $1 million per year. It's not like he's as old as Cammalleri.
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remember when I was told Vegas should have sold at the deadline because they weren't going anywhere in the playoffs?
Devil X
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Beside frankly the JT and Long Island thing is not Lous mess. He inherited it. I know some here like to blame Lou and have fun with the “another player leaving for his home town.” But this ship sailed a while ago and it didn’t matter if Lou was there or not. This was a totally failure on the part of the Islanders ownership to not dump Snow seasons ago and get better management in there.
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Haha their D still sucks and Ron Hainsey plays a lot of minutes for them.
They still allow a lot of shots and when the puck isn't hitting Andersen, they allow a lot of goals too.
At least they didn't bring back Polak. Unfortunately for Dallas, they signed him instead.
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Yeah, I haven't been one to defend Lou over the last half decade, but no one should be pinning this on him.
Quite honestly, I tend to believe that Tavares had his mind made up on leaving before they even hired Lou.
But I think out of respect for the organization that he was then under contract to, he listened a bit and played ball and communicated with them. I think he wanted to leave early before this though.
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Yeah, JT leaving isn't nearly his fault. His other moves the last couple days? Those are horrifying.
And here's another one of them, if that happens.
He needs to stay away and let the Leafs deal with that shitty contract.
So *IF* we were to eat his contract to get EK (not saying I'd do it), we'd really be eating like 3.5-4M, since we'd be getting a 4M-ish RW, which we could probably use.
Just brainstorming here... What if we were to trade for Hossa's dead contract and pick up an asset, then turn around and trade him as part of a deal to Ottawa for EK and Ryan? They don't really care about cap space as much as actual money, and Hossa would only be taking up space. In fact, they can probably use it to hit the cap floor.
At the same time, we gain EK, Ryan (a RW which we might be able to use), and whatever asset we get from the Hawks, or the asset could be used as part of the deal also.
So something like:
1. Trade a 7th for Chicago's 2nd and Hossa.
2. Trade Hossa, Severson, our 2019 1st, Chicago's 2019 2nd for EK and Ryan.
Maybe that doesn't do it but you get the idea. Acquire Hossa to get an additional asset to soften the blow of the trade to Ottawa.
Corey or KK to the Isles for Ho Sang, then pick up Lehner to share starting duties. Make it happen
ScottyK
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GrossCorey or KK to the Isles for Ho Sang, then pick up Lehner to share starting duties. Make it happen
Ho-sang is cancer
Lehner?? WowCorey or KK to the Isles for Ho Sang, then pick up Lehner to share starting duties. Make it happen
ScottyK
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Indeed. I think he's actually pretty good.
Hmm... in retrospect, maybe this is a bad idea. Lehner has some lockerroom issues too. Maybe it's too much cancer to deal with.
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Hate to say it, but is he really any worse than either of our two current goalies? He was as bad this past year as Cory has been the past two years. He was a .920% goalie the year before that.
The mistake was not trading him this past season when he didn’t sign last offseason.
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I'm not even sure what the report is. What is it exactly? I must have missed it earlier.
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