Bottom 10 finish next season pretty sure. Kids will have a good year to grow and adjust this year, get another nice pick.

I'd like one more tank tbh
- walshyleafsfan

Not me. I think they should have enough in the cupboard moving fwd from this draft to start trending upward.....especially if #91 shows up. Besides, I can't take another season of hoping for losses.

Apparently the Pitt pick is being used to flush Lupul.
- Atomic Wedgie

I think we'll probably trade down 600 times this year

Bottom 10 finish next season pretty sure. Kids will have a good year to grow and adjust this year, get another nice pick.
- ClarksonDavid

Nolan Patrick will look good in Leafs blue and white

Nolan Patrick will look good in Leafs blue and white
- pinksocked

would be nice..

Not me. I think they should have enough in the cupboard moving fwd from this draft to start trending upward.....especially if #91 shows up. Besides, I can't take another season of hoping for losses.
- Phenom

Meh. I dunno. If we start the upward trend next year I think we may fall short of our overall goal. One more semi tank (icing Bozak, Laich, Greening, Lupul, Hunwick, JB, etc all) on the cards.

Dwayne Casey would ground and pound the Heats coach

Why, cause i don't like it.
I own an eatery and pub and I never hear the end of it.
Plus half the people out this way are either Hab fans or Senatards.
- the_eye

Has the suckage of the Leafs hurt business much?

I can't imagine too many people prefer Vesey to Stamkos
- walshyleafsfan

I look at it as long term viability and cap management. I think that we'd have a conflict in the next couple of years, if Matthews becomes a star. Do you tell Stamkos to play the wing on the top line, or move to the second line? Should we have a second line centre making $10 million per year? Once all of these young players come out of their entry level deal, they'll need that money to pay Nylander, Marner, Matthews and possibly Vesey. If it was a deal that was in the $8 million a year times 5 years, then it's viable for Stamkos.

Bottom 10 finish next season pretty sure. Kids will have a good year to grow and adjust this year, get another nice pick.
- ClarksonDavid

Nothing wrong with that.

Watching the Lottery will still be exciting, but not a disappointment if they don't win.

Meh. I dunno. If we start the upward trend next year I think we may fall short of our overall goal. One more semi tank (icing Bozak, Laich, Greening, Lupul, Hunwick, JB, etc all) on the cards.
- walshyleafsfan

Won't be the worst team in the kesgue but bottom 10 I figure forsure. Should still be a way more interesting and fun season.

1st overall. Franchise centre.

Nylander is very good prospect, but not a 1st overall.
- burn

There's no rebuttal to this.

Meh. I dunno. If we start the upward trend next year I think we may fall short of our overall goal. One more semi tank (icing Bozak, Laich, Greening, Lupul, Hunwick, JB, etc all) on the cards.
- walshyleafsfan

If you look at all the poop we took back, it sure seems like MLSEL was committed to another year of suckage.

Has the suckage of the Leafs hurt business much?
- Atomic Wedgie

Don't know, only have one series to gauge it by.
But we packed every playoff game.

Heat are getting dirty. Raps are killing the Heat


already cracked 100 points

100 - 81

I look at it as long term viability and cap management. I think that we'd have a conflict in the next couple of years, if Matthews becomes a star. Do you tell Stamkos to play the wing on the top line, or move to the second line. Should we have a second line centre making $10 million per year? Once all of these young players come out of their entry level deal, they'll need that money to pay Nylander, Marner, Matthews and possibly Vesey. If it was a deal that was in the $8 million a year times 5 years, then it's viable for Stamkos.
- PrinceLH

Mathews will not make 10 a year till he nears free agency.

I look at it as long term viability and cap management. I think that we'd have a conflict in the next couple of years, if Matthews becomes a star. Do you tell Stamkos to play the wing on the top line, or move to the second line? Should we have a second line centre making $10 million per year? Once all of these young players come out of their entry level deal, they'll need that money to pay Nylander, Marner, Matthews and possibly Vesey. If it was a deal that was in the $8 million a year times 5 years, then it's viable for Stamkos.
- PrinceLH

You could always trade Stamkos - if you had to.

You could always trade Stamkos - if you had to.
- Atomic Wedgie

Not to mention that you don't even know what you have with Mathews and he's already worried about his cap hit.

Mathews will not make 10 a year till he nears free agency.
- the_eye

Matthews will end up with an 8 X 8 deal, at the end of his entry level deal, if he pans out as an elite centre. He could wait and do a bridge contract for more, but he could get 3 years at great money to offset buying the last 5 years of that deal.

Don't know, only have one series to gauge it by.
But we packed every playoff game.
- the_eye

I have a friend who is a beer exec.

I'll ask him if they have crunched numbers.

Won't be the worst team in the kesgue but bottom 10 I figure forsure. Should still be a way more interesting and fun season.
- ClarksonDavid

But how they gonna do in the league?

Raps.

You could always trade Stamkos - if you had to.
- Atomic Wedgie

If you sign Stamkos, it'll have a no trade deal of some kind attached to it. Submit 4 teams, or something like that. Better to just let the youngsters on the team to grow together.

Heat are getting dirty. Raps are killing the Heat


already cracked 100 points

100 - 81
- pinksocked

they haven't done this to often during this series.

Matthews will end up with an 8 X 8 deal, at the end of his entry level deal, if he pans out as an elite centre. He could wait and do a bridge contract for more, but he could get 3 years at great money to offset buying the last 5 years of that deal.
- PrinceLH

How do you know what his game will translate to in the NHL.
Lots of time to worry about that in 5 or 6 years, and Stamkos will only have 1 or 2 left.