Rumor: Big Thread / Big Promise - Friedman and Johnston's Big Name/Big Promise continued

[ottomaddox]

Continue here.

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Any guesses as to who this player was? Will we know in the next couple of days?

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Was this just a lie to keep the angry fans at bay?

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[hullsy47]

Continue here.
I think things have changed in leafs Land
Not sure who's running the show
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Any guesses as to who this player was? Will we know in the next couple of days?

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Was this just a lie to keep the angry fans at bay?

 

[CapspaceKiller]

This player doesn't exist

 

[ToneDog]

I thought that player was Bertuzzi. Better make sure his back is 100% before trading for him or better get him real cheap.

 

[1specter]

Didn't CJ walk back these comments recently saying we're basically just gonna be doing some bargain bin shopping and otherwise remaining status quo? That's certainly the vibe Dubas is giving as well

 

[The Best Leafs Ever]

Future Considerations and Erik Kallgren was really big! Super pumped for next season already.

 

[ottomaddox]

I thought that player was Bertuzzi. Better make sure his back is 100% before trading for him or better get him real cheap.

Perhaps it was him, but "big name"?

He is a name, but would he really have had that much impact?

 

[PromisedLand]

First of all, any "one" good player isn't going to change the culture or attitude IMO

In addition, there is no cap left to bring in a solid/good player to begin with unless a roster play making significant cap is moved, which dubas/shanny have already said they wont move.

Friedman has gone into Dreger business of click bates and smoke shows

 

[The CyNick]

Baiting those clicks.

 

[ottomaddox]

First of all, any "one" good player isn't going to change the culture or attitude IMO

In addition, there is no cap left to bring in a solid/good player to begin with unless a roster play making significant cap is moved, which dubas/shanny have already said they wont move.

Friedman has gone into Dreger business of click bates and smoke shows

You might be right, but their insider information is pretty much taken as The Gospel on HF.

I'm starting to lose my patience with Friedman and Johnston.

 

[Punch Drunk Loov]

Yeah I believe we read the word significant with CJ earlier, which was later revised after Dubas spoke publicly

 

[Cleetus]

First of all, any "one" good player isn't going to change the culture or attitude IMO

In addition, there is no cap left to bring in a solid/good player to begin with unless a roster play making significant cap is moved, which dubas/shanny have already said they wont move.

Friedman has gone into Dreger business of click bates and smoke shows

 

[29Potvin]

Sounds like PK Subban

 

[Bluelines]

It's Ovie, The Great 8, will be coming to the Leafs... his jersey will fit nicely in the rafters between Horton/Clancy (#7) and Conacher/ Kennedy (#9).

 

[Bluelines]

Sounds like PK Subban

For all that is decent NO!!! Please sweet baby Tom Cruise... NO!!!!!

 

[PromisedLand]

You might be right, but their insider information is pretty much taken as The Gospel on HF.

I'm starting to lose my patience with Friedman and Johnston.

I think Dubas and co. use mouth pieces from Sportsnet and morons from Athletic like mirtle/seigel as a PR stunt to keep things quiet or provide fake news to the leafs fans to avoid a serious backlash.

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Was this just a lie to keep the angry fans at bay?

yes

 

[djdev]

Sounds like PK Subban

please see yourself out....

 

[Wafflewhipper]

Just trade Marner for Eichel and thats a start. All Marner and Matthews have accomplished together is become predictable. Another scenario is trade Marner to Buffalo for a package of good young players (Cozens) being a must and it would help them convince Eichel to stay. They really don’t want to lose Eichel I’m sure. Buffalo is a good place for Dubas to look hard at. They have the package of prospects and cap to facilitate moving Marner. Yeah i want to move my one time favourite player in Marner. Four years of flat cap here breeds necessity.
Marner has to go and sending him to Buffalo would likely help Buffalo talk Eichel in to staying. There is something there if Dubas had half a brain to call and kick the tires

 

[Stephen]

Just looking at their assets, cap space and unwillingness to touch the core, I would say the cavalry is not going to be arriving any time soon.

 

[Bluelines]

It's a scratch my back I will scratch yours kinda thing, most of the insiders have relationships with player agents... this is where they get most of their "Inside" info. DD is a bit of a different cat, he is more of a speculator, he says things like, If I were (insert GM's name here), or you've have to think (insert GM's name here), he's more of a wordsmith than an Insider.. At one time I had inside info with Montreal and with Calgary, I knew scouts in the Calgary org and I knew a well known coach with the Montreal Canadians. Heard lots of gossip on Price and some other big names. I was sitting close to one of the big scouts for Montreal in January 2020 and heard most of his comments on their plans for the next draft, to a guy who reported to him. Not because I was eves dropping, or even had a clue who he was. He talked kinda loud enough for anyone in ear shot to plainly hear him. This fan walked up to his table, asked are you so and so, he said yep, so I looked it up on the internet and it said scout Montreal Canadians.

I have no doubt Friedman and Johnson were telling us what they were told, but they are used as a tool by agents to further their cause, sometimes the info is more to manipulate organizations than it is to give free info on a players status.

 

[Bluelines]

please see yourself out....

LOL, I second this...

 

[ULF_55]

Weren't the Rangers trying to land Eichel.

Maybe they'll do the deal for marner?

 

[paulhiggins]

Stale clickbait from June 4. I smell stinky dead worms.

 

[Mickey Marner]

I thought that player was Bertuzzi. Better make sure his back is 100% before trading for him or better get him real cheap.

I don't want to trade with Detroit, Yzerman would take Dubas to the woodshed.