My boss is a great guy. Really smart. Should probably be the president of the airline.

He thinks the moon landing was fake, the earth is flat, Covid was made up to force vaccines on people, Bidens a reptilian, AI controls everything etc etc..
- Arctic_AARDVARK

No.

I'll take a couple of things into consideration here - for one Scabs posts above about Dangle - and I'd say that you have to ask yourself if what you're trading away can provide that level of value in the term where you need it. So we need cheap assets to offset our expensive core, but objectively that specific ship has sort of sailed - Matthews and Marner are 26 and Nylander is 27. Rielly is 29. There is no one the Leafs are going to pick this year with the 18 - 32 pick (optimistically) that's going to come in and assist this lineup in the next 4 years.

So the question is: Can what we have already drafted - Cowan, Minten, Niemela, one of the young goalies - or any of the ancilliary guys who probably project to be bottom-6 at best if they even reach tweener stage - help out in the next 3 years? To what extent? If trading an Easton Cowan gets you Parayko now (which it wouldn't as a 1:1), is it worth it?

Parayko is a big boy. He doesn't move the needle much offensively, but he can provide a lot of what we need in terms of muscle and size around the net. He is currently playing first pairing minutes and he's faring . . . okish at it on a weaker team. He and Leddy are -5 at 5v5 - but St. Louis is a rather minus team. My biggest problem is that while his $6.5m salary is fine for a top-4 guy, his term takes him to age 37.

I don't know the answer to be honest. I still don't think Keefe knows how to coach defense, so adding a guy like Parayko may not fit in until something is done about the system.
- Monkeypunk

I wondered this but also with how fast the cap will raise we will see the next crop of D get a lot of money...we thought Nurse, Werenski, Jones was a lot at 9.5M and that was a few years ago now on a flat cap.

Orlov got 7.5Mx2.

Pesce is likely looking at 7.5M with term.

is 6.5M really a lot in 4-5 years? Not really. I mean Brodie is getting 5M right now and he is a 4-5 guy at the moment. I would argue 5M cap today is a 7M cap in 6 years.

Also even Ekholm had some cap retained, absolutely can expect some retention. Leafs had to with Kessel...its the name of the game when trading aging players with term.

I have looked, the list for even slightly available D that can handle top 4 defensive mins that can provide it now and the next little while is very short. Parayko has to be at the top of Tre's list.


Edit: also don't forget his last 2 years he has a M- ntc and is owed 4.8M each season. That is tradable.

Why do I bother to work hard, when fleecing rubes is so franking easy?

https://boingboing.net/20...2/eli-regalado-fraud.html

Kaitlyn and I are being charged in a civil charge from the Colorado Securities and Exchange Commission for basically selling millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency that is deemed worthless by the state. Now, the reason that they're saying that it's worthless is because there is no exit for people who have bought.

We launched an exchange, the exchange technology failed, things went downhill. And from that point forward, we've just been waiting on the Lord, literally, for a miracle.

So the charges are that Kaitlyn and I have pocketed $1.3 million, and I just want to come out and say that those charges are true. So there's been $1.3 million that's been taken out of. I think it was a total of 3.4 million. But out of that 1.3, half a million dollars went to the IRS, and a few hundred thousand dollars went to a home remodel that the Lord told us to do.

So how this whole thing started is the Lord told us in '21 to walk away from our marketing company. And he said, "I'm going to do a new thing." And then he took us into this cryptocurrency. It was a different cryptocurrency other than
- Atomic Wedgie[garbled] index coin at the time.

Well, that cryptocurrency turned out to be a scam. And so the Lord says, "Give that to 'em, but also give them a 10X."

And I'm like, "Well, where's this liquidity going to come from? And the Lord says, "Trust me."

Well, as money is coming in, we would be sowing it, and at first, it was hundreds of dollars, then thousands of dollars, then tens of thousands of dollars. Money would come in. We'd tithe, we'd sow, more money would come in. And so we were just always under the impression that God was going to provide, that the source was never ending, that God was doing a new thing.

And that we had nothing to worry about.

We sold a cryptocurrency with no clear exit. We did. We took God at his word and sold a cryptocurrency with no clear exit. And so the prosecutors have to take that and say, these people willingly sold a cryptocurrency with no clear exit. What we're praying for and what we're believing for still is that God is going to do a miracle. God is going to work a miracle in the financial sector.

Canada should be more like the USA.

Or at least that’s what I keep hearing..

Carter Ashton
- Arctic_AARDVARK

he ain't no Dman .....


get with the program.....

My boss is a great guy. Really smart. Should probably be the president of the airline.

He thinks the moon landing was fake, the earth is flat, Covid was made up to force vaccines on people, Bidens a reptilian, AI controls everything etc etc..
- Arctic_AARDVARK

Do you push back on any of it, or just let him go?

I mean hes got a point with the Moon landing though. The computer chip in a birthday card that sings is more advanced than the computer they used back then.

I don't see how they're out of it. Everyone has an NMC and no one wants to leave. The only real option here is that in two years when JT is up if he wants too much, they let him walk and use the $11m to find a defenseman. In two years there's not a lot - and most of what is there will likely get locked up before then - but you have aging guys like Burns (40), Hedman (35), Petry (38), Schmidt (34), Orlov (34) who could offer support on a shorter term deal (maybe not Burns) or guys who will cost the moon like Ekblad (29), Provorov (29), Pionk (30), Theodore (30), Chychrun (27), Larsson (33) . . . .

But I hate the idea that they'd waste 2 years to try and find a solution to this everlasting problem.
- Monkeypunk

yeah..pretty much.
next season is a bigger cap crunch. so it feels like they need to do something now.
But Tree has lit cap space on fire with his moves so far that have made the team worse.

also, I dont really trust tree to fix it...on account he made the mess

Macoun is the worst Leaf ever

Nothing you can say will change my mind

Turned Ellett from an all star to a 🔌
- mr.sir

Strong feelings. 92-94 - Gill and Ellett played together as the offensive pairing and Macoun and Lefebvre were the shut down pair for those 2 years. Rouse and Mirinov were the bottom pair.

Macoun was great in Calgary and those two years as a Leaf. After they traded Lefebvre ...Macoun really aged ....and things went south.

yeah..pretty much.
next season is a bigger cap crunch. so it feels like they need to do something now.
But Tree has lit cap space on fire with his moves so far that have made the team worse.

also, I dont really trust tree to fix it...on account he made the mess
- senstroll

What was the better alternative? Signing Graves?

Re signing Bunting, Kerfoot and Acciari with term?

Trading for EK?

Give Orlov or Gavrikov big money for 2 years?

He went short term and kicked the can down the road, in terms of additions from July 1st onwards I see a lot of bad from teams. It wasn't a good offseason for players available.

Ok, but I dont recall having to pick either Roberts or Tucker. Seems like a new thing to me.
- Snot Dillingham

Clearly Roberts.
Lol

My boss is a great guy. Really smart. Should probably be the president of the airline.

He thinks the moon landing was fake, the earth is flat, Covid was made up to force vaccines on people, Bidens a reptilian, AI controls everything etc etc..
- Arctic_AARDVARK

the earth isnt flat

- winsix

I’ve played that course. Stuck it to 12’ and missed the putt.

I don't buy this crap. Matthews is on the verge of scoring 70 (frank)ing goals.

Really the thought process will be the exact same as it has the last 4-5 seasons minus the Foligno trade.

McCabe was a term trade, Gio was a vet they figured they could sign for cheap for a few years. I truly believe they thought they could do the same with ROR and Schenn...or at least one of them.

They have never been a blow 1st rounders and their best prospects for guys who they plan on just using for a run.

The media needs a narrative though.
- Santo_44

Outside of gio and McCabe who came with term, pretty much all of the trades at deadline were for rentals.

Do you push back on any of it, or just let him go?

I mean hes got a point with the Moon landing though. The computer chip in a birthday card that sings is more advanced than the computer they used back then.
- Snot Dillingham

All of it hahahaha. But he’s so convinced. And when you debate it he’s got all this info in his response that it becomes clear you’re never going to change him.

My boss is a great guy. Really smart. Should probably be the president of the airline.

He thinks the moon landing was fake, the earth is flat, Covid was made up to force vaccines on people, Bidens a reptilian, AI controls everything etc etc..
- Arctic_AARDVARK

So hes not "really" smart

the earth isnt flat
- drexel

Baloney.

I lay down in the middle of the street at 12:30am yesterday, and I woke up at 10am in the same place! The Earth has less curve than Cameron Diaz planking!

Clearly Roberts.
Lol
- Fakepartofme

Not a chance, Tucks all the way.

Anyone up for Tummy Stix? If not, I'll go find Golfingsince.

So hes not "really" smart
- Fakepartofme

Well there are different forms of intelligence.

The guy can be great at siome things and be completely clueless about others.

Outside of gio and McCabe who came with term, pretty much all of the trades at deadline were for rentals.
- Fakepartofme

I believe the intention was to re sign hometown boy ROR and Schenn.

Also its moot because the GM who made the ROR and Schenn trades was gone before he had the chance to sign them.

There is a difference between a rental and trading for an expiring contract you see as a longer term piece.

What was the better alternative? Signing Graves?

Re signing Bunting, Kerfoot and Acciari with term?

Trading for EK?

Give Orlov or Gavrikov big money for 2 years?

He went short term and kicked the can down the road, in terms of additions from July 1st onwards I see a lot of bad from teams. It wasn't a good offseason for players available.
- Santo_44

oh ok..only choice was to make the team worse. damn

You’re such a victim! You poor thing.


Boo-hoo.


Ps. The world round or flat, it’s (frank)ed.
- Arctic_AARDVARK

Ya because I claimed I was a victim?

All you do on here is cry about how you never start anything, and are bullied all the while starting poop and posting the same stupid poop every (frank)ing day.

Billy this, Willy that it's nauseating & as stupid as you are.

You are a special piece of work, this place was 10000 times better when you were getting banned for months on end, maybe one day it will get back to that and trust me when I say nobody here will feel any way about it other than happy your gone.

Strong feelings. 92-94 - Gill and Ellett played together as the offensive pairing and Macoun and Lefebvre were the shut down pair for those 2 years. Rouse and Mirinov were the bottom pair.

Macoun was great in Calgary and those two years as a Leaf. After they traded Lefebvre ...Macoun really aged ....and things went south.
- The Law

If you ask Nordiques fans, it wasn't Clark and junk for Sundin and junk.

It was Lefebvre and junk and the rights to Marc Crawford for Sundin and junk.

No seriously, Marc Crawford was part of that trade.

the earth isnt flat
- drexel

That's exactly what a secret flat earther would say in public.

Ok, but I dont recall having to pick either Roberts or Tucker. Seems like a new thing to me.
- Snot Dillingham

We didn't have internet forums back then I guess.

Well there are different forms of intelligence.

The guy can be great at siome things and be completely clueless about others.

- Scabeh

Oh i agree. Book smart, street smart etc etc.
But thinking the earth is flat, covid was created to force a vaccine on people (even though most people in NA had already taken vaccines as a child) and bidens a reptilian pretty much rules book and street smarts. So not "really smart".
Maybe he's knowledged with his financials?
Dunno.
But i read the above and "really smart" doesn't seem to ring true for someone who believes in those things.
Just my imo