Speculation: Should the leafs take a run at Rick Nash?

[Halla]

Leafs are already stacked up front, but with the cap space to give nash a deal should they?

1 year 5 mil should get it done.

20g/16a/36pts in 66 game average over the past 3 seasons.


Hyman-Tavares-Marner
Marleau-Matthews-Nylander
Nash-Kadri-Brown
Johnsson-Lindholm-Kapanen
*Ennis/Leivo

I don't think any team is touching that top 9. Tampa is close but they are top 6 heavy

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[SHANNYPLAN]

Marleau - Matthews - Nylander
Nash - - - - Tavares - - - Marner
Hyman - - - Kadri - - - Kapanen
Johnsson - Lindholm - - Brown

 

[Martin Skoula]

I think he could be a real money puck signing for the Tavares-Marner line. He looked dangerous in the playoffs but didn't get any actual production out of it. I think with the frequency that he drives the net, he could look a lot better with an elite garbageman like Tavares coming in to clean up those rebounds.

 

[TorontoTrades]

We could use his defensive game I think on a 1 year deal it's worth a shot. Makes us stupid deep and limits his minutes playing with Kadri on the 3rd line.

 

[Yamazaki]

No.... he’s done. I’m also a little spiteful, I don’t want him to be here when times are good and trending up for us.

 

[PuckMagi]

Nash is better than wasted cap space.

I'm happy if we sign anyone to a 1 year contract.

The only benefit to going into the season way under the cap is that we'll bank up some cap space for a big trade deadline acquisition. But with Horton's contract, we would need to be quite a bit below the cap to bank up any room. So I think our options are to play $8 million + below the cap to start the year so we can afford a piece at the deadline... OR ... we spend the to cap from the beginning and hope we can still make some trade deadline deals that work with our cap space. This would basically mean that almost equal salary would have to go back in a trade deadline deal.

I guess it will be up to Dubas and the cap people to decide which is the best way to go. We have so much cap room right now, that if we just go with this roster, we could potentially afford to add some big names at the deadline and build a super team that would be over the cap had it been assembled from the start of the season, even with Matthews and Marner making under $1 million. If we had no Horton contract, we could have been in a lot better shape. It really screws us when trying to make deadline deals. Oh well... we have enough cap space this year to work around the Horton deal anyways... and next year is the last year of the deal and we'll be right up against the cap from the start of the season for sure.

 

[Zybalto]

Yes please....


I'd love to see a re-creation of an actual line from the most dominant team in International best on best history.

Marleau-Tavares-Nash

....just for a game or two.

If Nash takes a 1 year deal at a cheap price, come on home and then call it a career.

 

[zeke]

just say no to Big Fat Rick Nash.

 

[Polaris1010]

No way.

The organization should play the kids.

 

[Mr Hockey]

This is tough one ... will we be trading for a guy like Nash at the deadline and giving up prospects or a 2nd rounder?

 

[Stephen]

I'd take Rick Nash at something close to league minimum.

 

[bonjovi0308]

Can he play d?

 

[biotk]

Leafs are already stacked up front, but with the cap space to give nash a deal should they?

1 year 5 mil should get it done.

They sign Nylander, and then Nash for 5M. That forces potentially 4.5M of performance bonuses this season to count against their cap next season.....so the team is screwed going forward for the benefit of one year of a 34-year-old Nash taking up space on a team that is already stacked offensively?

 

[taurine330]

Yes, ´been saying that since the start of the offseason but was laughed off.

 

[Gabriel426]

I say yes, bc he might not score goals like he used to but he was good defensively esp in the playoffs. He might even be a better winger next to Matthews and Willie

 

[leaffaninvancouver]

No, play what we have and grow together, keep developing Marlies to replace the role players.

 

[Joel Ward]

If he feels as though he is up to it, absolutely. On a 1 year deal, we have the cap space and he would add further depth to what we will be relying upon to win.

Gives Babs lots of options and tons of competition.

 

[Jozay]

He's done, but I wouldnt mind it.

I font blame him for not wanting to come here before. The org was mediocre.

 

[Goleafsgo95]

Could be interesting and make moving a young forward in a package for a D painless for this year. He doesn't produce in the playoffs but a Nash-Kadri-Brown shutdown line would be good.

 

[Nylanderthal]

1 year for approximately whatever the dollar amount would be to not use Horton on ltir so bonuses would not carry over. He’d force two of Kappy/Johnsson/brown onto the fourth line, but that means we would have an extra first line a second and third instead of a fourth.
Marleau matthews Nylander 1a
Hyman Tavares Marner 1b
Johnsson Kadri Nash 2
Kappy Lindholm Brown 3

 

[Dog]

No, based on want Johnsson to get as much playing time as possible. Plus, Leivo geez when will the guy ever get to play. Bringing in Nash would be something the old leafs would do.

 

[Americanadian]

Yes, but halfway through the season similar to last year with Gionta and Kelly. If we sign him in the new year at 1x5M it won’t affect the bonuses.

 

[meefer]

If we've got $5 million spare to hand out, there's got to be a D option we can investigate who'd be a better option than Nash.

 

[Skin Tape Session]

He's done, but I wouldnt mind it.

I font blame him for not wanting to come here before. The org was mediocre.

Mediocre? We were putrid, like mtl putrid, build on pillars of dog shit with idiot manegment for decades, cruel/angry fams, no future in sight. I dont blame him one bit.

Now if he would sign 1 year between 2.5-3.5 im down. He could be recast by bobcat and squuezed dry of what he has left

 

[TheProspector]

A cheap one-year deal? Sure.1.37 p1/60 would be our 9th most productive forward last year (in between the surprising Matt Martin and Tyler Bozak). He scores well on exit and entry statistics, is still one of the best volume shooters in the game, and shoots from the right areas of the ice (high shot rates from cross-slot passes, one-timers).