Pogge Signed

Maybe pogge is signed because Toskala is on his way out. There is absolutely no reason to believe that he will not play better with better guys in front. And did you notice that Pogge is really the north american version of the monster? Not in stats but in stature and style? Remember Patty Roy? Both are going to excel under Allaire and will battle for leafs number 1 spot after this year. One Euro, and One Canadian. Toskala can go to another team as a UFA for more than we should even consider offering him and the monster and pogge will be signed together for less. Solid FUTURE in net and on the point, the rest will come, no worries.

Guys, just because we signed Pogge shouldn’t mean the he, or any other goalie is being moved.
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We need goaltending depth. Something we are very thin on right now. By moving any of them, we seriously shoot ourselves, unless we’re getting a solid goalie prospect or proven NHLer back.
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Pogge’s game is way ahead of Reimer. Reimer needs to earn a starting role with the Marlies by outplaying Pogge. Toskala can’t be moved right now, he has no trade value coming off a weak season and surgery. He can build his value up as team’s want to see how well he performs post-surgery.
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Gustavsson, he could be our next #1. Or he may not, only time will tell.

@ G

he did do it to a two bit paper he did it while introducing Bruce Power as a sponsor for the ACC the Leaf Marlies and Raptors.

@Ryan Alexander – Yea, I agree with you about Komisarek in a way – last minute move up on my part.
@B Leaf – It won’t bother me either if Kaberle does NOT get traded, but think that his value will never be higher than now. Cheap contract with two years left – 30 years old – We seem to keep putting off trading him – from last summer – to last year’s trade deadline – now then August 15 – perhaps next year’s trade deadline, or next year’s draft. At some point his value is going to go down – unless he’s here for the long haul.
Perhaps that wouldn’t be bad – still I deal him IF there is a reasonable offer on the table! We don’t want ro risk losing him for diddly squat! But I didn’t say “give him away!”
Any GM out there whose job (and franchise?) may be on the line to make the playoffs – and who are borderline (hello Columbus, Phoenix, LA, Buffalo, Nashville, Florida, Atlanta, Dallas, St. Louis, Edmonton, Minny, etc.) must have extreme interest in a “cheap” player who can run a power play with the best – bar none!
Maybe we should have a pool on the date Kaberle gets traded – from today until June 2011 – my pick would be August 7, 2009! Hopefully Kabs likes the heat – or rain!

The Leafs would be downright stupid to move Pogge. He’s 23! Look around the league – how many goaltenders come in to the league before they are 27 and put up a wall? How many do it on one of the worst defensive teams in the league? He has no value and we lose nothing by keeping him. He will be kept. The one year contract is just to push him.

@o2baleaf
I found the quote.(sorry).. but wow that is a very obscure quote.. “I will find him somewhere to play” nowhere does this say out of the organization.. only he will have a place to play.. it is the writers premise that it is not within the TO organization..it would take a very one sided view point to assume this ment he is being traded.. I still feel that what TO will do is go with Koskala as 1st.. Monster as back up.. then in the minors it will be Pogge and Remier (sp). With the help of Francois Allaire why would you give up on a young, potentially great, goaltender before he even starts to work with him? You have a butterfly goally with the best buterfly coach in the world and you trade him??? WHY?

Trade Pogge, are u all nuts, 23 years old, tons of potential, a goalie coach that suits his style, big,butterfly,athletic…When JFJ traded Rask everyone went nuts, is Rask in the NHL, NO, then take the fact that no goalies last season looked awful good in front of that D…this year our D will be very good, Toskala will be solid, so will Gustafsson, Pogge, won’t get a snif… Ur Goalie is only as good as the team in front of him…If BB has patience and brains he will hold tight on Pogge, and within two years he will have a goaltender to trade for a front line forward, Vesa Toskala…

@O2baleaf
sorry friend.. but do you think Burke likes to shy away from the lime light? I love his style.. we need that in TO from our GM..Burke has never seen a mic he has not liked..if he wanted to send this message it would be front and center and not in the background.. it would be in lights in downtown TO..Burke is loud and brash but he is straight foreword and honest…what he thinks he says.. for good or bad he says it.. I think we have had too may management people who were full of sh#t and said whatever the fans wanted to hear..we now have a GM wo will tell us the truth even if we do not like it..that in itself is a step forward…

@Richard
A+

@ Alex Torsier
My username links to my blog. That’s why.

Pogge should be our Marlies started, and I hope we keep Kaberle. I have been thinking alot and it just makes sence to keep him. He didnt have a bad year last year but far from his best. There are two things that can happen:

–1 We make the playoff = If Kaberle helps up into the playoffs that great and we keep him because were already a playoff team, so with him, Komi, Beauchemin and Schenn headlining our defence, we are a few forwards away from serious contenders
–2 We miss the playoffs, and he obviously will play alot better then he did last year, drives his stock higher, and we re-visit the trade talk.
—-Take it a step futher, and think….next year the only other good puckmovers are Gonchar (36 years old) and Lidstrom (40 years old). I doubt Pittsburg and Detroit would let either of them walk (thats if they are both still producing good numbers). That leaves Kaberle a slim pickins for whoever wants a good puck mover. No Bouwmeester, no Pronger, just Kaberle. I hope we keep him, and by the end of next year we will have a better idea if Stralman is ready to step in our top 4 or not too

Dave Moore;

Pogge hasn’t proved shit yet either.

so if you feel that strong about Toskala and Gustuffson, maybe the leafs should sign a veteran goalie.If Burke said he will find him a new home, he will. Burkie hasn’t lied to us yet.

Lee, just curious why is Kaberle’s trade value at an all time low? Because he had a broken thumb and missed a few weeks? Did I miss something?