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Mathew Barzal

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    [Rumour] Maple Leafs shopping Nikita Zaitsev

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    3 minutes ago, rekker said:

     Its been proven. Tanking doesn't work. It doesnt. It's a lottery and we suck at it. Hughes and EP are legit and we didnt need top picks to get them. First or second overall picks would of been nice but you need some luck and we dont have any. 

    Of course, I'm not even talking about the lottery. In the top ten, you should be guaranteed a top-six forward or a top-four defenseman if the scouting team does their due diligence. The quality of available players drops off quite a bit between each third of the first round.

     

    This year, for example, more than likely one of the US national studs will fall to us. That opportunity doesn't arise at 15-20.

    [Rumour] Maple Leafs shopping Nikita Zaitsev

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    47 minutes ago, Provost said:

    You literally posted that you wanted to make moves hat would result in us finishing in the bottom 10 for the next two years and that finishing there was a good thing.

      

     That is about as dead on the definition of “tanking” as you can get.

    Fair, I guess.

     

    I'm more inclined to say tanking is synonymous with what the Penguins did to get Lemieux. Grabbing the players stated in the OP would be lateral moves for stability and depth. I'm okay with that as we still have a fairly young roster that needs to grow into their shoes. We were extremely competitive for most of last year while still finishing bottom 10. That's not a terrible fate IMO.

    [Rumour] Maple Leafs shopping Nikita Zaitsev

    in Trades, Rumours, Signings

    Posted · Edited by Mathew Barzal

    57 minutes ago, Provost said:

    Good luck signing Petterson and Hughes to decent deals to be on a team that has been at the bottom of the league for that many years.

      

    By the time the 2020 and 2021 picks are likely ready for the NHL, we would be trying to re-sign Horvat already and trying to convince him that we might be playoff bound before his last couple years of prime are gone.

      

     Tanking at this point isn’t just regular dumb, it is entirely inane and counterproductive to any hopes of making the playoffs for many years, never mind a Cup.  It would have blown the chance to win with this case core of young guys.

    Our defense is and will be god awful for the foreseeable future. Hughes is the only shoe in defensive prospect we have. I don't believe any of the defenseman currently on our roster (including Hutton and Stecher) should be locks on a playoff roster.

     

    We'd either have to pay through our ass to acquire a UFA (always terrible decisions) or trade one of our forward studs to acquire a bonafide #1. Tanev and Edler will not be around to see this generation to contend.

     

    Tanking isn't the word I'd use here. We just simply are not that good of a team. There are too many holes in this roster that can't be filled with offseason pick ups.

    Adam Gaudette | #96 | C

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    45 minutes ago, Alflives said:

    JB said after the season was over that he felt Gaudette was better off in Utica but injuries forced him to play up here.  If we still have Sutter and Beagle, I don’t think your opinion about Gaudette is a bad one at all.   

    Oh did he? That's good to know!

    A Game Of Thrones: To the point of the TV show, no spoilers beyond that

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    55 minutes ago, I.Am.Ironman said:

    I was half expecting that though thankfully it didn't happen.

     

    As for the second point.. I'm not sure I agree. Which ones? If every single character ends up dying in a "fitting" fashion don't you think that kind of takes away from the show? A little too story book so to speak? That's what originally made GOT so great, the ruthless killings regardless of arcs or trajectory.

     

    That being said, I thought the Clegane bowl was fitting, the Lannisters I was meh on but there were poetic aspects to it - Jamie and Cersei dying together in eachothers arms, truly in love with eachother, Cersei's harda$$ persona fully crumbled along with her city which ends up crumbling on her both physically and metaphorically. And Jamie killing Euron on his way to try to save Cersei. Also Varys getting burned for the good of the realm was perfect for his arc. He protected the realm to the bitter end and burned alive for it - although I would have liked to physically see that and have him have an opportunity to say his 'last words'.  Come to think of it there may have been a few too many 'fitting' deaths.

    Bronn. What was the purpose of setting him up as an assassin if Cersei and Jaime just died together?

     

    Jaime. His whole 7 season arc had his moral compass flipped on its head, then it gets thrown out the window for 'poetic' death with Cersei? LOL.

     

    Dany. Sure, she can turn into the mad queen for all I care. But the reasoning behind doing so was not fleshed out at all in the show. It was such a leap in logic from the few uncomfortable 'I don't fit in' scenes she had, to completely burning a town of innocents (all while not even trying to go after Cersei mind you).

     

    Varys and Tyrion. Initially intelligent and cautious individuals become blithering idiots by the shows end.

     

    The Dragons. A decent sized boulder defended Jon from dragon fire and now that $&!# just blows up buildings on command? Not to mention Drogon's evasiveness stat must be +100 compared to Rhaegal.

     

    The Golden Company. ... why even bother showing up?

     

     

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