Leafs Future (summer)

[The BBKL Insider]

The Toronto Maple Leafs cleaned out their lockers on Thursday morning at the Air Canada Centre and reflected on their crushing Game 7 overtime loss to the Boston Bruins.

Among the first things the team revealed is that centre Tyler Bozak tore his triceps muscle at the end of Game 5 against the Bruins.

The injury kept Bozak out of the final two games of the series.

Mark Fraser, who suffered a frontal skull fracture in the series, told TSN, "Thankfully, there's no brain damage."

rest of article:
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=423314


Good Article, makes me speculate that we let Bozak and MacA walk, also a lot of speculation that we'll go hard after Clarkson (he also just bought a home in toronto)

[bma]

Clarkson is from Toronto.

[The BBKL Insider]

Clarkson is from Toronto.

hence why he's coming home!

[anton]

re-sign flowzak for under 4. sign clarkson.

JvR - Flowzak - Kessel
Lupul - Kadri - Clarkson
Kulemin - Grabo - Frattin
McLaren - McClement - Komarov

or let the Flow walk

Lupul - Kadri - Kessel
JvR - Grabo - Clarkson
Kulemin - Colborne - Frattin
McLaren - McClement - Komarov

but for the love of christ, please sign/trade for a veteran #2 dman.

[kimmer]

sergay gonchar

[Robin Hood]

Leafs are going to win a cup before 2017. I wish Bet 365 had odds on that...

[The BBKL Insider]

re-sign flowzak for under 4. sign clarkson.

JvR - Flowzak - Kessel
Lupul - Kadri - Clarkson
Kulemin - Grabo - Frattin
McLaren - McClement - Komarov

or let the Flow walk

Lupul - Kadri - Kessel
JvR - Grabo - Clarkson
Kulemin - Colborne - Frattin
McLaren - McClement - Komarov

but for the love of christ, please sign/trade for a veteran #2 dman.

i'd let bozak walk and sign Clarkson and a dman,

but yes, we are in a dire need for a dman.

[Robin Hood]

We can - under almost 95% of circumstances - not let Bozak walk. The only situation in which I say no to him is 5M+ which I don't think he needs. We need to give him 3.5 ish (Kyle Turris is a good comparable here).

1. He is amazing at Faceoffs
2. He is a great equalizer vs teams with great Cs - in that we don't need a huge #1 C with Bozak (I mean we do but we can do damage still. Without Bozak - this becomes a huge challenge)

Now if we land a player like Weiss, the picture changes a little.

In a realistic scenario: We land 1F + 1-2D and that is our off season. Keep this roster in tact.

If that 1F is Clarkson + that 1D can provide us with stability on the backend, we will be ready to go into next season. I doubt we see a lot of turnover this year.

I really hope Bozak signs for 3.5-4.

[The BBKL Insider]

We can - under almost 95% of circumstances - not let Bozak walk. The only situation in which I say no to him is 5M+ which I don't think he needs. We need to give him 3.5 ish (Kyle Turris is a good comparable here).

1. He is amazing at Faceoffs
2. He is a great equalizer vs teams with great Cs - in that we don't need a huge #1 C with Bozak (I mean we do but we can do damage still. Without Bozak - this becomes a huge challenge)

Now if we land a player like Weiss, the picture changes a little.

In a realistic scenario: We land 1F + 1-2D and that is our off season. Keep this roster in tact.

If that 1F is Clarkson + that 1D can provide us with stability on the backend, we will be ready to go into next season. I doubt we see a lot of turnover this year.

I really hope Bozak signs for 3.5-4.

If we can keep Bozak at 3.5 i think we do it

in Nonis's interview this afternoon he said they were looking at a deal that worked for both sides, and if they could get something signed they would, if bozak wanted too much he'd let him walk.

No mention of MacA - he's probably as good as gone...and i'd say Komi gets bought out

[Chuck Norris]

Leafs are going to win a cup before 2017. I wish Bet 365 had odds on that...

Good luck with that

[Phion Keneuf]

De-fucking-fence.

[anton]

more than any center, this team needs an Alex Edler, Dennis Seidenberg, Dan Girardi, Dam Hamhuis etc.

I wonder if Giordano is still an option

[bills09]

If availible id like see Weiss and Stephane Robidas signed.
Bozak can gtfo unless he wants 4M or less.
Komi bought out
Grabo traded.

JvR Weiss Kessel
Kulemin Kadri Lupul
Ashton (IMO) Colborne Frattin
Komarov McClement Orr
McLaren D'Amigo (IMO)

Phaneuf Robidas
Gardiner Franson
Rielly Gunnarson
Liles

[Shep]

Clarkson is overrated.
Weiss is overrated.

Bozak at 4mil would be nice, but he'll sign for more.

I'd like to get a steady dman. Robidas, Lydman, Murray, etc.

[Robin Hood]

Carlyle shunned for Jack Adams. Nominees: Boudreau, Quenneville and Maclean

[The BBKL Insider]

Bob Mc, Dreger and Pang speculate clarkson will not resign with the Devils to join his hometown team Toronto.

[Robin Hood]

Bob Mc, Dreger and Pang speculate clarkson will not resign with the Devils to join his hometown team Toronto.

Link?

[The BBKL Insider]

Bob Mc, Dreger and Pang speculate clarkson will not resign with the Devils to join his hometown team Toronto.

Link?

it was on TSN this morning, i think it was the Quiz

[Bruyns]

I remember it being discussed on TSN during the intermission last night too if I recall correclty. Also enjoyed Duthie introducing the panel as "3 prominent hockey analysts" in light of the Gawker article on Ford.

I also can't believe people could think Carlyle was shunned or overlooked or whatever. Therrien in MTL was more deserving and I dislike MTL more than any other team and can admit that. I thought Carlyle did a terrible job of personnel management, Gardiner and Grabovski having a great 1st round further reinforced how badly he mismanaged them and he has driven another quality FW in MacArthur out of town although he isn't that important to the Leafs future.

IMO the Leafs made the playoffs in spite of Carlyle not because of him. They rode a high PDO and remarkable goaltending to the playoffs and were severely outplayed and outshot down the stretch as Randy continued to dress McLaren and Orr nightly while sitting Gardiner and relegating Grabovski to low minutes while inflating Bozak's value by continually playing him with our best wingers.

[thom54]

I remember it being discussed on TSN during the intermission last night too if I recall correclty. Also enjoyed Duthie introducing the panel as "3 prominent hockey analysts" in light of the Gawker article on Ford.

I also can't believe people could think Carlyle was shunned or overlooked or whatever. Therrien in MTL was more deserving and I dislike MTL more than any other team and can admit that. I thought Carlyle did a terrible job of personnel management, Gardiner and Grabovski having a great 1st round further reinforced how badly he mismanaged them and he has driven another quality FW in MacArthur out of town although he isn't that important to the Leafs future.

IMO the Leafs made the playoffs in spite of Carlyle not because of him. They rode a high PDO and remarkable goaltending to the playoffs and were severely outplayed and outshot down the stretch as Randy continued to dress McLaren and Orr nightly while sitting Gardiner and relegating Grabovski to low minutes while inflating Bozak's value by continually playing him with our best wingers.

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