Winter Classic was already spoiled

As a big Kadri supporter, I’d be okay with trading big Joe if Naz had shown more to start the season.  Right now, big Joe has got the inside track as between the two of them IMO.   Because we are so desperate for a big (and hopefully #1) C, I can see Colborne being even more valuable to the Leafs than Frattin.  Still don’t think we have to give up any of the three of them though.

Hopefully but my gut tells me the quality of the  FA pool is going to diminish. The will likely be a flurry of moves as teams get down to the lower cap but how many really good players that could help us will be moved? I say not many. This deal will likely put a lot of older players out of work.

Why would Anaheim move Hiller? They’d just be fucking themselves over if they moved their starting goalie. Unlike the Canucks, they don’t have a young guy ready to take his place. 

I wouldn’t move Halak if I were the Blues. At least not until Elliot proves that last year wasn’t a fluke. 

Luongo may be the only starting goalie available. 

Why would Anaheim do any of the stupid shit they’ve done since Burke left?  They’re probably one of the top 3 worst managed teams in the league since that point. They have Gibson, Bobkov and they truly believe in this Fasth character they acquired this summer. They are unduly confident in their goaltending pipeline.
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If Luongo is the only one available, and the price is a top prospect, than we wait and see what we have in Reimer.  Time is on our side, in my opinion.  We are in no rush.  We aren’t going to win the Cup this year, and Luongo may only push us far enough to miss out on a top draft pick. 

I also think Stamkos and Tavares both fully intended to test free agency when they signed their last deals for 5 years vs. going for a homerun 10-15 year contract. But we’ll see if they feel the same way when they come to the end of those deals. 

london vs guelph on now,,,,,,,,,,,lets see how rupert, finn and sparks do today.

and @Burtonboy:disqus We’ll see how the new Brooklyn Islanders do.  I just have this sense that Johnny T might be the one Toronto boy that wants to step up and be that home town hero. Nash clearly didn’t have it in him.

Even with Stamkos, when he becomes a UFA, Martin St. Louis will be long gone, so the dynamics in Tampa may be very different then.

P.S.  Plus with global warming Tampa may be completely underwater by then.

This is true, but I’m kind of hopeful the term limits force players to consider more than how long they can blackmail their current owner into giving them.  If every team can only offer you essentially the same deal, it’s more about where you want to live, what kind of market you want to play for, and so forth.

John-Eric Iannicello ‏@JE_Iannicello
#Leafs defensive prospect Petter Granberg (playing in SEL) will be out until January recovering from surgery. Collarbone injury.

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By the way, that last tweet is no knock on MacKinnon — Jonathan Drouin is just that good! Electrifying.

PVRing it as we speak – off to play some squash.

Oh BTW its turns out Parise was nothing but a greedy prick who took advantage of that huge signing bonus as insurance against of a lock out . NJ would have had a hard time matching those kind of Bonuses