OT: Leafs Lounge: 127 hours edition

[Kyle93]

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[Leafs For Life*]

Bust.

 

[MeowLeafs]

Not enough bacon.

 

[LV*]

Great movie, horrible thread.

Who likes my avy?

 

[Schenn]

My day so far has been throw a cord of wood into the basement, go on HF/twitter for 20 minutes. Repeat. Surprised I have wifi in the garage.

 

[charliolemieux]

Kyle, kyle kyle.

Whattsa da matta for you?

 

[Kyle93]

Kyle, kyle kyle.

Whattsa da matta for you?

lol what?

 

[Kyle93]

Iggy to the bruins now? Jesus the North East is going to be so good next year.

 

[LeafsMonster]

Iggy to the bruins now? Jesus the North East is going to be so good next year.

Our division will be scary good. Only makes for better hockey

Red 2 looks awesome. The first one was great.

 

[SeenSchenn2]

Rookies take note of the OP.

Well done Kyle.

 

[Hurt]

Iggy to the bruins now? Jesus the North East is going to be so good next year.

I'm mentally prepared for a bottom 5 finish in the league.

 

[LeafsMonster]

I feel pretty good about our team. Minus the defense. It looks pretty mediocre, but it gets the job done.

I'm excited to see the goalie battle

 

[Hurt]

I feel pretty good about our team. Minus the defense. It looks pretty mediocre, but it gets the job done.

I'm excited to see the goalie battle

If reports are true that Franson is going to get traded, we're looking at

Dion - Gunnar
? - Gardiner
Brennan - Liles <-- Disastrous pairing

Yikes. This is why Clarkson signing ticks me off. Contract is way too long, way too much money and we AGAIN didn't address a point of weakness. Wingers aren't the issue here, Dave...

 

[DD03]

If reports are true that Franson is going to get traded, we're looking at

Dion - Gunnar
? - Gardiner
Brennan - Liles <-- Disastrous pairing

Yikes. This is why Clarkson signing ticks me off. Contract is way too long, way too much money and we AGAIN didn't address a point of weakness. Wingers aren't the issue here, Dave...

We couldn't get Scuderi, or Ference. Both of them went "home". How do you want us to address defense?

 

[firstemperor]

We couldn't get Scuderi, or Ference. Both of them went "home". How do you want us to address defense?

Would have preferred for us to go after Gilbert + Cooke. I like Gilbert more than Ferrence and he likely comes cheaper.

Would have liked Clarkson but not at that price, keep Grabo, move him up into the top 6 at wing with Lupul/Kadri.

Keep our amnesty at hand until next off-season.

Explore trades but keep our flexibility at hand. Let Bozak walk, Sign Weiss. That would have been a passable off-season, not exactly great.

Great would have required some type of trade. Instead, I feel we squandered our chance and took a massive risk on a low reward.

 

[DD03]

Would have preferred for us to go after Gilbert + Cooke. I like Gilbert more than Ferrence and he likely comes cheaper.

Would have liked Clarkson but not at that price, keep Grabo, move him up into the top 6 at wing with Lupul/Kadri.

Keep our amnesty at hand until next off-season.

Explore trades but keep our flexibility at hand. Let Bozak walk, Sign Weiss. That would have been a passable off-season, not exactly great.

Great would have required some type of trade. Instead, I feel we squandered our chance and took a massive risk on a low reward.

Gilbert is still out there..

 

[firstemperor]

Gilbert is still out there..

Yes but with the cap space we squandered, I would be surprised if we will still be able to get him. That's my qualm. And even my scenario only suggests a 'passable' scenario in my mind (from the Grabo buy-out onwards). I just feel we could have done a lot better this off-season.

With that said, I'm going to fully support the leafs and Clarkson. Hope I'm wrong.

 

[DD03]

Yes but with the cap space we squandered, I would be surprised if we will still be able to get him. That's my qualm. And even my scenario only suggests a 'passable' scenario in my mind (from the Grabo buy-out onwards). I just feel we could have done a lot better this off-season.

With that said, I'm going to fully support the leafs and Clarkson. Hope I'm wrong.

I don't think Gilbert is asking for very much. If we can get Kadri on a decent bridge, same with Bernier, I think we're fine for cap. It's worth it considering Gilbert will likely only get a 1 or 2 year deal to see if he's still got something to offer.

 

[Hurt]

We couldn't get Scuderi, or Ference. Both of them went "home". How do you want us to address defense?

Just because we couldn't address our defensive woes within the first 8 hours of Free Agency doesn't mean we had to throw stupid money/contract at David Clarkson.

 

[DD03]

Just because we couldn't address our defensive woes within the first 8 hours of Free Agency doesn't mean we had to throw stupid money/contract at David Clarkson.

I'm still just asking how you expected us to address our defensive needs via free agency...

 

[Hurt]

I'm still just asking how you expected us to address our defensive needs via free agency...

I don't. I never SAID we should address it via FA. We're talking about two separate things. I'm sure Nonis will look around via trade for defensive help but I'm wondering WHY we brought in Clarkson at that term and for that much money.

 

[LeafsMonster]

If reports are true that Franson is going to get traded, we're looking at

Dion - Gunnar
? - Gardiner
Brennan - Liles <-- Disastrous pairing

Yikes. This is why Clarkson signing ticks me off. Contract is way too long, way too much money and we AGAIN didn't address a point of weakness. Wingers aren't the issue here, Dave...

Seriously we have to address defense. I don't know why nonis is avoiding that.

Possible blacker would graduate, but who would you pair him with? Gardiner? Then we'd be left with liles and fraser... Thats not such a steller defense.

I'd rather get someone to pair with dion, demote gunnar to second pairing. Our first pair has to be stronger, dion gets worn out with too many minutes

 

[DD03]

I don't. I never SAID we should address it via FA. We're talking about two separate things. I'm sure Nonis will look around via trade for defensive help but I'm wondering WHY we brought in Clarkson at that term and for that much money.

Let's not forget Carlyle's team play more of a team defense system, keeping teams to the outside. Clarkson blocks shots, that right there improves our defense. He can also help on the PK no matter what people will tell you.

I think we're hoping Gardiner is going to play like he did in the playoffs. IF Gardiner can play like that, I think we're fine on defense because Gunnarsson can play a 3 / 4 role as long as Franson can stop being greedy.

 

[Kyle93]

Seriously we have to address defense. I don't know why nonis is avoiding that.

Possible blacker would graduate, but who would you pair him with? Gardiner? Then we'd be left with liles and fraser... Thats not such a steller defense.

I'd rather get someone to pair with dion, demote gunnar to second pairing. Our first pair has to be stronger, dion gets worn out with too many minutes

If Franson isnt traded and we manage to sign him it wouldn't look so bad with Gunnar, Phaneuf, Gards, Franson, Liles, maybe Blacker, Brennan/Fraser.

Phaneuf-Gunnar
Gardiner-Franson
Fraser-Blacker

 

[Hurt]

Bobby Ryan to Ottawa pisses me off.

Can we finish this page? Scrolling through a ton of pictures in OP is annoying.