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The Official TOTA Toronto Maple Leafs/Hockey Talk Thread (pg. 186)
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| GGM |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zyklon_Jay
do not want. |
I second that motion. He had one good season until teams figured out he consists of his point shot. After that season and his huge contract signing he got fat, lazy and his defensive skills went to pure e. More of a liability for the cost than anything... |
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| Zyklon_Jay |
I'd take him off waivers at half of the salary without giving up anything....everything else is too expensive. He still has some functionality, but not that much.
Habs have youth on their side, PG is just going to sit tight. It is the right play, nothing gets us where we need to be to win a cup. Louis Leblanc will be ready in 2 years.:p |
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| GGM |
Ya agreed on that. If it was at half his salary off waivers he'd help fill in on some of the areas injuries have left holes. But that salary he is on is just not worth touching.
Youth is def the future for habs. Not that we have the big names they do but if you look how Pittsburgh has boomed in the last few years its not all that different. My main concern is the fans/media not having the patience for the youth and scaring them away before they fully develop. Ie. Price goes into a slump and gets eaten alive like Theodore, or if you look at all the heat PK is currently taking for being immature... |
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| Zyklon_Jay |
the fans, they will make money anyways.:p
would you imagine the chaos the team would be if they listened to the fans? we would be stuck with halak over price.
too soon? |
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| srussell0018 |
| Halak over price, or overprice Halak :p |
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| Dior Homme |
| quote: | Originally posted by GGM
Ya agreed on that. If it was at half his salary off waivers he'd help fill in on some of the areas injuries have left holes. But that salary he is on is just not worth touching.
Youth is def the future for habs. Not that we have the big names they do but if you look how Pittsburgh has boomed in the last few years its not all that different. My main concern is the fans/media not having the patience for the youth and scaring them away before they fully develop. Ie. Price goes into a slump and gets eaten alive like Theodore, or if you look at all the heat PK is currently taking for being immature... |
PK can handle the heat. You can tell during interviews. He's also go Price to back him up mentally. I remember seeing Price in interviews with his brim hat covering his face each time he got off the ice. You can tell he got scrutinized a few years ago while Halak was here but now he's doing much better. PK will get through this, but he's not in any worse shape than Price was.
Leaf fans need to be patient like other teams... although its not very easy... |
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| GGM |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zyklon_Jay
the fans, they will make money anyways.:p
would you imagine the chaos the team would be if they listened to the fans? we would be stuck with halak over price.
too soon? |
Hard to say, Halak's stats aren't horrible and considering he doesn't have much of a team in front of him who knows how he'd be doing if still here. And I'll fully say Price is working out amazing this year but it's really the first year the entire responsibility in net is being put on him. I'm wary of young tenders playing hot their first major year (Raycroft, Theodore, Anderson, list goes on..). But no one can say if that situation will happen to Halak either and at this point in time keeping Price looks like it was a smart call.
| quote: | Originally posted by Dior Homme
PK can handle the heat. You can tell during interviews. He's also go Price to back him up mentally. I remember seeing Price in interviews with his brim hat covering his face each time he got off the ice. You can tell he got scrutinized a few years ago while Halak was here but now he's doing much better. PK will get through this, but he's not in any worse shape than Price was.
Leaf fans need to be patient like other teams... although its not very easy... |
I hope he does and you're absolutely right he's handled as best he possibly could so far. But time will tell and I can guarantee you if this kid was playing on some crap team down south they'd be giving him the time/room/support needed to mature without the nastiness he gets here.
Leaf fans def need to be patient but I don't blame them for not being so. The whole post-lockout situation has been dragged out so freaking long with no results I'd be livid as well if I was a fan. Ferguson should have been fired years before he was, Burke shouldn't have declared the rebuilding phase over as soon as he signed on... It's all hindsight now but there's really no reason the most valuable and biggest funded team should perform so poorly for so long. |
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| ChemEnhanced |
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| ChemEnhanced |
| its good to see kessel actually getting into scoring positions and scoring |
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| Zyklon_Jay |
| looks like the nhl really wants the leafs to make the playoffs.:p |
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| MSZ |
| no, i think auld does. |
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| Mach X |
| quote: | Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
you can't see me
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WTF IS THAT?! :nervous:
And, I posted this before, but don't know if you saw it... ;)
http://didthemapleleafswin.com/ |
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