My take is the PO’s amp up on the forecheck & pressure & where every team faces the toughest tests. It’ll come down to how teams handle the pressure & always how goalies play. Your offence imo won’t be a question but how the team D stands up will be.
- Nighthawk

some guys just can't handle the extra pressure.

Exhibit 1: Jake Gardiner

Could a team like the Avs be interested ? They have a massive amount of cap space.

Or a team like the Cbj. They are a bubble team but have a massive amount of cap space and why not add a 3rd pairing D for cheap for a potential playoff run?

This notion Ceci can’t be traded is ridiculous.
- Santo_44

Wedgie will set you straight

too early to start scoreboard watching?

habs over flyers
kings over panthers
carolina doesn't go to OT with the bj's

dimjim thinks he'll be getting calls on baerschti!?!


idk if dimjim could make it as a poster here. his poop is too crazy for hockeybuzz.
- Tumbleweed

Baertschi at 50% retention plus a 1st rd pick for Ceci?

I'd do that..

I can't seem them signing him at this time to anything that he is worth without ripping out another piece of the core.
- Aaron_85

Barrie is not getting $8M here.. might get it somewhere else

Wedgie will set you straight
- senstroll

I just have a hard time believing that a team with cap space wouldn’t take Ceci.

A seller would take him to make a deal work. Happens all the time they could even retain his salary and flip him for a pick.

You know or...the Leafs could trade him to a team with playoff aspirations but have 10-15 million in cap space.

Barrie is not getting $8M here.. might get it somewhere else
- PatC80

I dont know if he gets 5 or 6 here....

Baertschi at 50% retention plus a 1st rd pick for Ceci?

I'd do that..
- PatC80

i like the structure of it.

i just don't know if we can afford $600k of deadspace with him in the minors next year...

I was with you. Hes a legit blue chipper. Wedgie can downplay it as koolaid drinking or maple leaf disease, but our eyes arent deceiving us.
- mykokes

I'm not saying he is terrible. Far from it.

What I'm saying is that the history of the Maple Leafs is littered with young defencemen who have had unrealistic expectations dumped on them, and then when they don't live up to them, we run them out of town.

Remember Kenny Jonsson?

Jim Benning?

Luke Schenn?

So let's just slow down with the "I think this guy is going to be like Bobby Orr, except he'll also be better than Jesus, and I hope they make a tenth Star Wars movie with Sandin in it where he kills Darth Vader and has sex with Natalie Portman."

Let's just watch him develop at his own pace.

That's all.

Wedgie out!

too early to start scoreboard watching?

habs over flyers
kings over panthers
carolina doesn't go to OT with the bj's
- Tumbleweed

Two points in October are the same as two points in April.

Two points in October are the same as two points in April.
- Atomic Wedgie

true.

i just don't know which 2 points to cheer against in october

true.

i just don't know which 2 points to cheer against in october
- Tumbleweed

When Boston plays Tampa, I cheer for the Norwalk virus.

I'm not saying he is terrible. Far from it.

What I'm saying is that the history of the Maple Leafs is littered with young defencemen who have had unrealistic expectations dumped on them, and then when they don't live up to them, we run them out of town.

Remember Kenny Jonsson?

Jim Benning?

Luke Schenn?

So let's just slow down with the "I think this guy is going to be like Bobby Orr, except he'll also be better than Jesus, and I hope they make a tenth Star Wars movie with Sandin in it where he kills Darth Vader and has sex with Natalie Portman."

Let's just watch him develop at his own pace.

That's all.

Wedgie out!
- Atomic Wedgie

Don’t let leaf PTSD get to you.

The kid is great and they are developing properly. The massive difference between the D prospects you mentioned.

I’m confident.

I wasn’t with Schenn because the wrong guys were making the decisions. And that was in a time when guys like Schenn were overvalued....

When Boston plays Tampa, I cheer for the Norwalk virus.
- Atomic Wedgie

you cheer for marchand?

I will always love you.

The Whitney Houston version.

Not the Dolly Parton version.
- Atomic Wedgie

does that mean you will be my bodyguard, Dermott ain't cutting it.

i wonder if matthews and pasta are scoreboard watching. goals, last 8 games:

3 / 0
0 / 1
2 / 0
1 / 3
1 / 1
0 / 1
1 / 1
2 / 0

i wonder if matthews and pasta are scoreboard watching. goals, last 8 games:

3 / 0
0 / 1
2 / 0
1 / 3
1 / 1
0 / 1
1 / 1
2 / 0
- Tumbleweed

I hope they both push each other to 60 goals.

It’s good for hockey.

When Boston plays Tampa, I cheer for the Norwalk virus.
- Atomic Wedgie

This is fair.

Keefe warns Leafs to avoid Tkchucks side show...

Suck it Grit and tuffness lovers

some guys just can't handle the extra pressure.

Exhibit 1: Jake Gardiner
- Tumbleweed

-9 the past 2 game 7's... (Not a fan of that stat in 2020, but damn, that's a disturbing # in 2 game 7s. Did Babcock make a change and reduce his usage? Nope,

I'm not saying he is terrible. Far from it.

What I'm saying is that the history of the Maple Leafs is littered with young defencemen who have had unrealistic expectations dumped on them, and then when they don't live up to them, we run them out of town.

Remember Kenny Jonsson?

Jim Benning?

Luke Schenn?

So let's just slow down with the "I think this guy is going to be like Bobby Orr, except he'll also be better than Jesus, and I hope they make a tenth Star Wars movie with Sandin in it where he kills Darth Vader and has sex with Natalie Portman."

Let's just watch him develop at his own pace.

That's all.

Wedgie out!
- Atomic Wedgie

I think all those DMen were not developed properly. Johnsson looked good after being moved.
Leafs are really taking their time and developing so well.

I'm not saying he is terrible. Far from it.

What I'm saying is that the history of the Maple Leafs is littered with young defencemen who have had unrealistic expectations dumped on them, and then when they don't live up to them, we run them out of town.

Remember Kenny Jonsson?

Jim Benning?

Luke Schenn?

So let's just slow down with the "I think this guy is going to be like Bobby Orr, except he'll also be better than Jesus, and I hope they make a tenth Star Wars movie with Sandin in it where he kills Darth Vader and has sex with Natalie Portman."

Let's just watch him develop at his own pace.

That's all.

Wedgie out!
- Atomic Wedgie

I think all those DMen were not developed properly. Johnsson looked good after being moved.
Leafs are really taking their time and developing so well.

new blog everyone

I'm not saying he is terrible. Far from it.

What I'm saying is that the history of the Maple Leafs is littered with young defencemen who have had unrealistic expectations dumped on them, and then when they don't live up to them, we run them out of town.

Remember Kenny Jonsson?

Jim Benning?

Luke Schenn?

So let's just slow down with the "I think this guy is going to be like Bobby Orr, except he'll also be better than Jesus, and I hope they make a tenth Star Wars movie with Sandin in it where he kills Darth Vader and has sex with Natalie Portman."

Let's just watch him develop at his own pace.

That's all.

Wedgie out!
- Atomic Wedgie

While this has certainly happened in the past... The first post your started ranting on, was one line of positive, and then the rest was all basically about tempering expectations. But you focused on the one line.

sandin looks like he's going to be a star.

but before we put his name in ink on the roster for the rest of the year, let's see how sandin does against a more physical team; particularly one more than half a step up above an ahl quality team.

i'm not sold on him being able to handle a physical playoff series just yet.

I'd say you're maybe overreacting just a tad.