Mike Augello: Leafs Waive Murray, Sign Pacioretty & Lorentz

Well.
1.5 years of Tree and the leafs have what seems to be quality goalie depth and D depth.

Still early, but looks good

Wonder if Patches will be in the starting lineup on Wednesday

Wonder if Patches will be in the starting lineup on Wednesday
- TheMussel

Yes.

Yes.
- AdamFrench

Wonder if patches gets cheered or booed at the Bell Centre

Wonder if patches gets cheered or booed at the Bell Centre
- TheMussel

How is that even a question? I think they might pelt him with gauze.

How is that even a question? I think they might pelt him with gauze.
- AdamFrench

Only gauze? The French are so soft!

Now that the roster is pretty-much set, it's time for everyone to get in their Leafs predictions:

https://www.hockeybuzz.co...188971&page=last#23553295

Happy predicting!

Only gauze? The French are so soft!
- Monkeypunk

I've had a beer bottle thrown at me for wearing a Leafs hat in Montreal.

Only gauze? The French are so soft!
- Monkeypunk

They don't want to actually injure him, because they don't want to see him win another Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy.

Jonas Siegel
@jonassiegel
It’s looking like this will be the Leafs opening night lineup:

Knies — Matthews — Marner
Domi — Tavares — Nylander
*Pacioretty — Holmberg — Robertson
Lorentz — Kämpf — Reaves

Rielly — Tanev
Ekman-Larsson — McCabe
Benoit — Timmins

Woll

*Bobby McMann rotating in

Well.
1.5 years of Tree and the leafs have what seems to be quality goalie depth and D depth.

Still early, but looks good
- Fakepartofme

The signing of Stolarz looks good. We can give credit to the last guy for all of the other guys except Woll, who have to give the credit to the last guy before the last guy to!

If Hakanpaa can have an impact - even just play 50 - and play in the playoffs, he could be the type of guy they need on the backend to make them harder to play against. I mean that's a pretty duh statement, but we always see how big of an impact "bad" but physical defensemen like Lyubushkin, Schenn or Edmundson have when they come to this group. Obviously Tanev is a great acquisition for now. Hopefully he also stays healthy.

I think the biggest thing I have with Treliving is this pursuit of that soft puck moving D - like Klingberg and now OEL. We have Rielly and Liljegren. I'm sincerely not sure that OEL was necessary since he's not much of an upgrade over Liljegren, especially given his age. Like overall in the playoffs last year Florida wasn't that good at 5v5 and OEL was no better than the rest of his team despite playing weaker opposition.

I've had a beer bottle thrown at me for wearing a Leafs hat in Montreal.
- TheMussel

That was probably by a Leaf fan! I've been to games in Montreal - it's always the drunk Leaf fans who start poop.

That was probably by a Leaf fan! I've been to games in Montreal - it's always the drunk Leaf fans who start poop.
- Monkeypunk

why would you do that

Jonas Siegel
@jonassiegel
It’s looking like this will be the Leafs opening night lineup:

Knies — Matthews — Marner
Domi — Tavares — Nylander
*Pacioretty — Holmberg — Robertson
Lorentz — Kämpf — Reaves

Rielly — Tanev
Ekman-Larsson — McCabe
Benoit — Timmins

Woll

*Bobby McMann rotating in
- gravyface

Thanks.

I guess Timmins and Myers are the 7 & 8 options? I didn't catch any news where they were sent down.

Jonas Siegel
@jonassiegel
It’s looking like this will be the Leafs opening night lineup:

Knies — Matthews — Marner
Domi — Tavares — Nylander
*Pacioretty — Holmberg — Robertson
Lorentz — Kämpf — Reaves

Rielly — Tanev
Ekman-Larsson — McCabe
Benoit — Timmins

Woll

*Bobby McMann rotating in
- gravyface

Reaves instead of Mcmann is

why would you do that
- TheMussel

For the former part - games in Montreal are awesome. I love the atmosphere and the people have always been good to us there. They respect the rivalry and if you give as well as you get in the verbal sparring, it's all good fun.

For the latter part - I might get drunk, but I am not a big guy and my wife insists she won't fight people for me, so I'm not going around starting crap!

Reaves instead of Mcmann is
- senstroll

He's going to fight Wifi...whatever.

He's going to fight Wifi...whatever.
- AdamFrench

who?

who?
- senstroll

Xhakej

Xhekaj?

who?
- senstroll

Arber

Reaves instead of Mcmann is
- senstroll

Sounds like Patches and McMann will be rotating in and out. I'm ok with this. And while Robbie had a great preseason, who knows what he's going to look like 10 games in, so dry your tears my sweet little angel, everything's going to be alright.

I'm more confused as to Timmins in.

How is that even a question? I think they might pelt him with gauze.
- AdamFrench

so not quite like the Koivu return??

That was probably by a Leaf fan! I've been to games in Montreal - it's always the drunk Leaf fans who start poop.
- Monkeypunk

Not in my experience.

As someone who has been to at least 20 Leaf games in Montreal the stupid / drunk fans starting poop was 50/50 at least if not more Habs fans starting it.

A friend and I were challenged repeatedly to “go outside” by 6 drunk Habs fans at a restaurant post game simply because we had Leaf jerseys on and the Leafs won. We had never seen these guys before never mind spoken to them. Guess we were smiling too hard.

It was so aggressive many other customers who were Habs fans tried to intervene and told us not to go outside (we had zero intention of doing so 6 on 2 lol). The manager of the restaurant (Dunn’s if memory serves me correctly) called the police and these losers eventually left but we banded together with some other Leaf fans to walk back to the hotel.

Wild times!