Confirmed Trade: [TOR/DAL] Connor Carrick for 2019 conditional 7th round pick

[MattySnipes]

Good for Carrick! Kid gives great interviews. Very well spoken, but tremendously lacks hockey iq.

 

[Dr Pepper]

Good for Carrick! Kid gives great interviews. Very well spoken, but tremendously lacks hockey iq.

Tremendously? Man, he must be completely lost out there.

Or maybe he's better than you think.

 

[serp]

He's not the next Dan Boyle . I do see some similarities to another former Leaf and Star Stephane Robidas though.

Stars aquired him for a 6th as well , which the pick here will probably end up as as well.

 

[Dr Pepper]

Leafs and Stars tangle in Dallas on Tuesday.

Should be a good one.

 

[Roman Yoshi]

Leafs and Stars tangle in Dallas on Tuesday.

Should be a good one.

First to 6 wins.

 

[7even]

Love Carrick. Was never at his best in TO but a really easy guy to root for. I hope he can break out in Dallas. I'll never forget his godlike run in the '16 playoffs with the Marlies. Had a hat trick in like one period on his way to 18 points in 15 games.

 

[Kamiccolo]

Funny how a guy who can't make our defense goes elsewhere and is suddenly good. I suspect the same will happen with Gards. The Leafs defense is fine. The issue is they are all Carrick type D but better (Strong, offensive puck movers) and Carrick was the worse of the bunch. Leafs are desperate for strong shutdown crease clearing cycle stopping D so Babs played anyone like that over him on the bottom pairing (like Polak).

The issue isn't lack of talent it is lack of ability to execute the system. Either the coaching staff suck at explaining the system to the players or the players aren't smart enough to execute it. However given their abilities and ability to follow the system from the blueline through the offensive zone, it must be a system issue.

Like I said before, Carrick was going to become a Stralman type. He would find a fit and be a very good top 4 D for someone. Sadly in Toronto he would never be given that chance simply because the need for a different type of player on defense was greater than the value Carrick brought by being a better player.

 

[Ciao]

All the best to Carrick. Good hockey player and an even better person. He deserves all the success in the World

 

[Dynamite Time]

All the best to Carrick. Good hockey player and an even better person. He deserves all the success in the World

Looks like he’ll get a full chance here. Thank you for the thumbs up for him.

 

[orbiter11]

This move and the Mchilleny waive have made me very skeptical of Dubas. I guess because he was the GM when Tavares signed he has a bit of a leash but nothing hes done beyond that has made me secure with him. Ozighnov is not NHL ready and may never be(I could see that in training camp),and Carrick has already proved that hes a 5,6 d man, so you move him when you have no other viable options? I cant wait to see Sparks against chicago tonight.....

 

[Crazy Monkey]

This move and the Mchilleny waive have made me very skeptical of Dubas. I guess because he was the GM when Tavares signed he has a bit of a leash but nothing hes done beyond that has made me secure with him. Ozighnov is not NHL ready and may never be(I could see that in training camp),and Carrick has already proved that hes a 5,6 d man, so you move him when you have no other viable options? I cant wait to see Sparks against chicago tonight.....

2 games LOL

 

[izzy]

2 games LOL

what he said isnt about 2 games, its not like carrick and mcbackup were rookies. his post is related to losing nhl players who proved themselves for nothing

 

[SoundAndFury]

Well Carrick was terrible in the pre-season, like next level of terrible. Picking him over Ozhiganov would have made no sense.