Man in the Mirror
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Re-sign McClement @ 1.5m?
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Bure All Day
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that's about twice his worth, although considering how the management operates, they probably will
Magic Man
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Not really, if he's anything like last season where he was used properly(minimal 5on5 minutes+ alot of pk time) thats a good price, but if he's overused like this season it makes him look terrible.
I'd say keep him at that price, and he'll probably accept it
Semantics
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No. We have like 5 kids on the Marlies who can fill that role at minimum wage and who have a future with this team. Let them battle it out for the job.
Drew311
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Jay Mac is a decent player but the Leafs shouldn't be paying more than league minimum for 4th liners thanks to the Clarkson contract. His big selling point was the PK but it was shown this season that it can be terrible with him being an integral part of the unit. Get rid of Orr and McClement and run with a 4th line of:
Bodie - Carrick - D'Amigo
All these guys can play and cost nothing.
Bodie - Carrick - D'Amigo
All these guys can play and cost nothing.
Mess
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McClement has a higher FO% @ 53.6% then any other Leafs centers.
That is why Carlyle uses him so much.
He is dreadful on possession and has no offensive ability. If he's still an excellent PKer, the team's results don't reflect it. No reason to spend so much money with more evidence suggesting he's a bad 4th liner than a good one.
Diatomic
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Only 46.8% on the PK when they matter most in his case since that is his 'specialty'.
His 55.7% when ES boosted it, which is also when he faced the easier competition than all of Bozak, Bolland and Kadri and likely as a result faced easier faceoff competitions.
McClements ES TOI in 2013/14 = 11:18 in 2012/13 = 11:31 overall TOI this season 14:45 last season 15:14. so he played basically the same minutes last year as he did this season, even considering this year Bozak/Bolland was hurt and he had more minutes because of it, so not sure what your talking about.
Bure All Day
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Give that spot to Carrick. Quite frankly, I am hoping for a bottom 6 of;
Leivo - Holland - Ashton
Komarov - Carrick - D'Amigo
Either the shot of youthfulness boosts this team back on track, or we lose, finish bottom 5, and get a top player in a really strong draft. If we lose, might aswell lose with young players, rather than guys like Bolland, McClement, Kulemin, Raymond etc on overprices deals we would end up signing them too
Leivo - Holland - Ashton
Komarov - Carrick - D'Amigo
Either the shot of youthfulness boosts this team back on track, or we lose, finish bottom 5, and get a top player in a really strong draft. If we lose, might aswell lose with young players, rather than guys like Bolland, McClement, Kulemin, Raymond etc on overprices deals we would end up signing them too
Yeah, agreed. Time for a youth movement. If we sink, we sink, if we swim, we swim.
Also, I remember reading a rumour that McClement didn't want to re-sign here anyway. Could've been BS but who knows.
LeafalCrusader
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I say sure. So long as he's used like a 4th liner and penalty kill specialist. McClement was awesome his first year here.
napoleon in rags
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Duke Silver
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That's just an average, it's clear he was used more in certain stretches this season, and then heavily relegated when the centres came back. He was playing ridiculous 2nd line minutes mid december-end of january(17-20 min a night) which is around when our pk went down hill.
He specifically left money on the table to come to Toronto, not much money but I'm guessing he was offered 1.7-1.8m by other teams(he put up more points in previous seasons) but accepted 1.5m from us.
I think people have short term memory with him though, he was great for us last season, but was all over the place this season. But long-term he has always been a solid pk specialist, and I'd much rather resign him than bank on a rookie.
Man Bear Pig
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The Leafs PK was near tops in the league last season and was praised, which included McClement getting plenty of that praise. It was bad this season so lets give him the axe. Not sure what exactly you expect from a fourth line center in terms of offense. I thought that the best teams build their penalty kill off their bottom 6? otherwise, what's their role exactly? letting a player like McClement go at a cheap pricetag would be an awful,awful move if this team plans on doing anything next season. Jay isn't the problem, playing him with plugs like Orr and Mclaren is. It's a different ball game when he's playing with kids like D'amigo and Ashton, guys who can actually play a bit, not some goons who are useless.
