DanM
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Rosen back on the leafs. I'm thinking Carrick becomes our 7th D
Rielly-Hainsey
Gardiner-Zaitsev
Borgman-Rosen
Carrick
I love it
I can get on board with this!
Rosen back on the leafs. I'm thinking Carrick becomes our 7th D
Rielly-Hainsey
Gardiner-Zaitsev
Borgman-Rosen
Carrick
I love it
Oh so if he isn't "loaned" they can't send him there? Does M have any say then? Weird wording.
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/threads/leafs-acquire-pickard.2394881/Or they could just wait to get him for free?
Well first of all, let's go by this with bullet points.
1- All he did was win games when we needed him to? He had 6 wins and 7 losses with us. He didn't put us in the playoffs at all. He played pretty well overall for sure but the Leafs couldn't wait to get Andersen back in net.
2- Pickard played for one of the worst teams in NHL history and still put up respectable numbers, which were better than Vezina trophy winner Varlamov. He was getting destroyed in nets with shots game in and out. He had really good 5on5 numbers despite playing for that bad team. He also was one of the MVPs for Team Canada this past World Championships. Saying he only collected losses in Colorado is like saying Matt Duchene is a bad player because of his -34 last season.
3- Are you forgetting how we got McBackup in the first place? Waivers. And from of the best teams in the league at the time because they wanted a more consistent, younger and better backup. Sounds familiar? Plenty of people are completely puzzled as to why they think Subban can do better because nothing shows that he can.
4- Pickard is more dependable now and very likely moving forward.
I see a chance to improve our team, I do it. I like McBackup though and he's a cheap and fine veteran option. I can only hope he will hold the fort and we don't have to rely on him for more than 25 games. I don't think it's fair to only look at Pickard and his stats from last year and disregard his body of work since entering the league. I don't want to make a big deal out of this though because I'm fine with McBackup either way.
Toronto demoted Rosen to the AHL and kept the higher-paid Martin Marincin on the NHL roster for Tuesday’s roster deadline, a strategical cap move that allowed the club to maximize its savings on Joffrey Lupul’s long-term injury relief. Rosen says the Leafs didn’t inform him of the plan.
“It was disappointing. You want to start up,” he says. “But I’m starting up now.”
Marincin was swiftly waived, Rosen returned to the big club, and the Swede was informed Friday after practice he’d be skating in Toronto’s home opener, under the bright lights of 2017-18’s first episode of Hockey Night in Canada. His girlfriend flew across the ocean for the event.
“I don’t really know what to feel,” Rosen says. “It’s a dream come true. It’s going to be awesome to get out there and just enjoy it.”