- Byfuglien Ate Me

Edit: If we can get Petro, Buff and Gudas. Then we’re cooking!

Edit: If we can get Petro, Buff and Gudas. Then we’re cooking!
- Byfuglien Ate Me

Good, Big Buff is gonna be starving.

Matthews (C)
Rielly (A)
Tavares (A)
Marner (B-)
- Steven_Seagull

Can’t really take the “C” from Bland John Smith at this point.

Good, Big Buff is gonna be starving.
- Steven_Seagull

Am I the only fat guy left?

Where’s Fatmarsh and Freaky?

Am I the only fat guy left?

Where’s Fatmarsh and Freaky?
- Byfuglien Ate Me

Freaky's doing a flyby every other year or so. He's bigger than his box now.

Am I the only fat guy left?

Where’s Fatmarsh and Freaky?
- Byfuglien Ate Me

zezels new friend is recuperating

5x8.5

Get it done
- Steven_Seagull

Blues are believed to be offering in the 7.5m to 8m for 8 years range. Given the differences in tax rates, it seems really unlikely 5x8.5 gets it done. You're basically offering him the same take home amount as St. Louis, but for shorter term. Even if Blues are at the lower end of the rumored range, offering 7.5m; it seems likely Toronto would need to be offering well over 9m per before it would make sense for him to take a deal less than 7 years.

It's more like they love having his wife's parents in town to help with their 4 children all under the age of 3. His parents are in the Toronto area, which is why it is thought of as likely their second choice.
- Antilles

Maybe they can sign Cody Ceci to be a babysitter?

Good, Big Buff is gonna be starving.
- Steven_Seagull

Nah, Buff is happy as poop feeding guys into a wood chipper outside Brainerd.

Maybe they can sign Cody Ceci to be a babysitter?
- Kooleus

One of these times, that joke is going to work. I admire your dogged perseverance.

Blues are believed to be offering in the 7.5m to 8m for 8 years range. Given the differences in tax rates, it seems really unlikely 5x8.5 gets it done. You're basically offering him the same take home amount as St. Louis, but for shorter term. Even if Blues are at the lower end of the rumored range, offering 7.5m; it seems likely Toronto would need to be offering well over 9m per before it would make sense for him to take a deal less than 7 years.
- Antilles

I take it you’ve never heard of Canadian Tire

Blues are believed to be offering in the 7.5m to 8m for 8 years range. Given the differences in tax rates, it seems really unlikely 5x8.5 gets it done. You're basically offering him the same take home amount as St. Louis, but for shorter term. Even if Blues are at the lower end of the rumored range, offering 7.5m; it seems likely Toronto would need to be offering well over 9m per before it would make sense for him to take a deal less than 7 years.
- Antilles

Not worth it. He can sign in Buffalo.


Edit: I’m sorry, I take that back. No one deserves that.

Freaky's doing a flyby every other year or so. He's bigger than his box now.
- 21peter

To be fair, he did start the tiny home movement.

To be fair, he did start the tiny home movement.
- Byfuglien Ate Me

true dat

Nah, Buff is happy as poop feeding guys into a wood chipper outside Brainerd.
- Canada Cup

Universal Soldier is such an underrated movie.

It's more like they love having his wife's parents in town to help with their 4 children all under the age of 3. His parents are in the Toronto area, which is why it is thought of as likely their second choice.
- Antilles

I have 3 kids (8,6, 11 months) I’m still waiting for my wifes parents to help lol

They live 30 mins away.

I have 3 kids (8,6, 11 months) I’m still waiting for my wifes parents to help lol

They live 30 mins away.
- bryant

Had this problem. Start casually mixing in the idea of moving just beyond what’s convenient for them. See how fast the narrative changes.

Not worth it. He can sign in Buffalo.
- Steven_Seagull

I agree he isn't worth to the Leafs what it would probably take to get him signed. While he has made some mistakes (Faulk), Doug Armstrong overall has been good at offering players their value, and forcing other teams to over pay if they want to out bid him. Guys like Backes and Shattenkirk as examples.

With the Leafs seeming so close to putting it all together, I expect more players from the area to leave money on the table as UFA's to come try to be a part of their first championship in a while. I'll just be really surprised if Pietrangelo is one of them. Someone will be willing to overpay him. And if he isn't getting overpaid, I think he'll stay here. Him re-signing in St. Louis all but guarantees his jersey in the rafters and a statue out front. (I assume that sounds weird to Leafs fans, they have higher standards for those sorts of honors; but he was the first Blue to lift the Cup and will lead the franchise in many defensemen stats if he stays.)

I have 3 kids (8,6, 11 months) I’m still waiting for my wifes parents to help lol

They live 30 mins away.
- bryant

Obviously can't speak to your situation; but Pietrangelo's wife had tripletts and a husband who was gone for weeks at a time on road trips for work. Pretty much everything in St. Louis has painted her parents as being relatively involved and helping out. There was a decent number of stories about it (for St. Louis hockey media, anyways) because of the fact she had some miscarriages before hand followed by the rarity of having tripletts. They just added a fourth on Saturday. Which could help their desire to stay in St. Louis (I just had another infant, how could we leave my parents when they helped so much!) or hurt it (Wow, this is so much easier when it's one newborn at a time instead of three, we'll be fine wherever!) lol.

Edit: If we can get Petro, Buff and Gudas. Then we’re cooking!
- Byfuglien Ate Me

Fixes the entire right side. Yeah, that would be great..

No.
- The Shrike

He will be a Leaf. Book it.

To be fair, he did start the tiny home movement.
- Byfuglien Ate Me

The cardboard box?

Heiskanen / Jones / Theodore / Hedman / Hughes / Ellis / just off the top of my head that are clearly better. Maybe even Reilly ..

4th best .. hell no..

- dozerD10

Wtf?!

He will be a Leaf. Book it.
- mjones242

I still don't think he will and I have been searching the internet daily for any pictures of Pietrangelo with Maple Leafs bed sheets.... No luck

Wtf?!
- mjones242

Jones/Hedman for sure. The rest maybe in a year or 2..