Confirmed with Link: Leafs sign Santa! ( aka Mike Santorelli)

[Drew311]

Another bandaid. Would much rather the kids play.

It's one year..

 

[Guy Boucher]

Legwand looked like a broken man in Detroit. I prefer Santorelli far above Legwand - without even considering the cap implications.

Santorelli has good speed which fits in great with our lineup.

 

[HarryLime]

delete or move

didn't see the other thread

 

[Territory]

Looks like we are going to have 4 good lines... It's a miracle!

 

[Maple Leaf]

what kids

 

[Commander Clueless]

do the leafs really have a track record of monster contracts? relative to other teams?

By monster, I mean big and bad.

Like Clarkson, Komisarek. You know, those.


Maybe not too bad in terms of dollar amounts to these guys, but we do seem to have bad luck with them recently.

 

[Guy Boucher]

A Center will be playing wing... Probably Holland

Santorelli and Kontiola have a lot of experience on the wing. I imagine there will be a lot of experimenting there.

 

[Phion Keneuf]

Looks like we are going to have 4 good lines... It's a miracle!

Yup I'm loving it.

I think Santa can play great with Kadri and Lupul.

 

[Leafs at Knight]

what kids

 

[Commander Clueless]

what kids

Come on now, it's the Leafs! What did you expect?



Seriously though, there's still room. Factor in injuries and guys like Holland, Ashton, Frattin, maybe even Carrick and Leivo will get their shots no doubt.

One of Percy/Granberg is almost guaranteed a permanent spot at this point, unless Franson comes back.

 

[HarryLime]

Not all that familiar with him but at 1.5 I can't complain.

We needed something.

 

[Quares27]

I also think a center will be playing wing. Could be Holland or Santorelli. At least if we have an injury we wont have to bring in another Smithson.

JVR Bozak Kessel
Lupul Kadri Clarkson
Komarov Kontiola Santorelli
Frattin Holland Devane/Broll/Mclaren/Ashton
Orr

 

[Pip]

Canuck fans are pissed he is gone

For good reason, the guy was borderline dominant in ES scoring. He was top 30 in the league in that regard for most of thr games he played last season

Don't look too much into those offensive numbers. Played with the Sedin's at the beginning of the year, IIRC.

He was most often on the second or third line, his stint with the twins was fairly short and he his production didn't predominantly come from playing on that line.

 

[Leafidelity]

way to stick it to the canucks santa

Now we can fix the desirability scale;

Buffalo
Toronto
Vancouver

 

[BertCorbeau]

Beautiful depth move .. As was said above not only is it a versatile group, but a hardworking bunch of players

Excellent ... Quite happy with Nonis/Shanahan's work overall so far

 

[Drew311]

Good depth signing, as long as it doesn't lead to Holland getting buried on the 4th line again.

If the 4th line plays 10-12 minutes a night with capable players like Frattin/Finnish Guy/Leivo then he won't exactly be buried.

 

[eddieO]

Santorelli - Komarov
Bozak - Frattin

I Assume that's our PK

Frattin had virtually 0 time on the PK all of last year. I agree with the other 3 though.

 

[CalgaryLeaf*]

At the time of that clip above he was a 48% career shootout scorer...The Leafs can use a player like that on SO's...Points become very valuable when striving for a playoff spot.

 

[Leafs at Knight]

Thus why TheScore pretty much went out of business.

 

[I Believe]

Very good signing. More cheap depth is never a bad thing.

If the team is doing poorly we can flip him for a pick at the deadline.

 

[con310*]

Looks like we are going to have 4 good lines... It's a miracle!

this what is key in all these depth signings...no big names but hopefully the Leafs can have 4 working lines and I think that will be huge.

 

[Darkside Blue]

As per Rielly, he trains with Santorelli... so could be a familiar move.

Now if the Leafs could just get Kadri to train with them...

 

[Jacob8hockey*]

These 1 year/short term contracts are exactly what is needed for bottom 6 guys. We don't need to look most of them up long term, its fine switching these guys up every couple years and let them chase money elsewhere after.

Who knows, we may have found our 2nd line RW.

 

[TootooTrain]

Now we can fix the desirability scale;

Buffalo
Toronto
Vancouver

 

[Eyedea]

At the time of that clip above he was a 48% career shootout scorer...The Leafs can use a player like that on SO's...Points become very valuable while searching for a playoff spot.

Bozak, Lupul, Santo, JVR? Bring it to the shootout every game.