TomasHertlsRooster
Don’t say eye test when you mean points
Being a solid team =/= running away with the league. This is the same attitude Shark fans have with their new core. Just because there are good players coming up doesn't mean they are as good as the current ones. That is what I am saying, their days as the top dog are limited.
Clueless yet again. Regarding Tampa, Point and Kucherov are their two best forwards. Regarding San Jose, Hertl and Meier are their two best forwards. All 4 of those players are very young. Tampa will be a dominant team for years to come.
There are multiple projections out there. Leafs are fine not moving anyone besides maybe Connor Brown. It just means letting Gardiner walk, bridging Kapanen and Johnsson, and then basically have a 4th line of near league minimum/ELC players.
And you are a self admitted Leaf hater who can't see the forest from the trees. Leafs are going to have all of their kids locked up. That is it for cap issues. Next year is tight for sure but after that they are fine. I mean they won't be able to be careless with cap space or anything but every good team faces cap management.
Worst case scenario they end up losing guys like Kapanen or Johnsson who aren't very good anyway according to this board so who cares?
The worst case scenario is that they lose Jake Gardiner who is an important member of an already questionable blue-line and also lose Kapanen who has been one of their most valuable secondary forwards this year. Neither of those are team killers but they both hurt. You can whine about how certain members of HF don’t like those players but you know the value in both of them and you know that it’ll hurt if they lose them.
They’re also currently inferior to both Winnipeg and Tampa so if all 3 teams take the same level of losses due to cap implications, Toronto will be in a worse place than either of those teams.