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You're one of "those guys" eh? It's almost as if people around here like to discredit Toronto just to fit in.

What about Carter Ashton, Tyler Bozak, Cody Franson, Nazem Kadri, Joe Colborne, Tyler Biggs, Matt Finn, Jerry D'amigo, Matt Frattin, Brad Ross, Nicolas Deschamps, Greg Mckegg, and then include draft picks into the mix and Toronto still has NOTHING??

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Let's be realistic, I would say 99.673% of trade rumors are different degrees of educated speculation.

Dreger leaks info GM's intend to leak.

Burke wanted FLA and whatever other team to know how low his offer was to keep a bidding war from developing.

Exact some thing can be said about Tallon and his reluctance to give up prospects.

Gillis also played the game by mentioning that there are many teams interested and he was in no rush.

It a game, a slow borring game!

Who will be the first to bend over?

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So I take it you're one of "those guys" who is willing to settle for Burkie's table scraps and 'B' prospects (isn't lumping people into categories fun?).

If it makes you feel better, I believe that Calgary has a craptier prospect pool than your precious Leafs. So rest easy because your mediocrity will still be better than whatever roster the Flames will be able to cobble together.

As far as I'm concerned Tman, there is no player on the Leaf roster right now that Burkie will trade and who will push us over the top, and there is no player aside from Riley who has any sort of stellar future potential in their system. Sorry to say it and dash your hopes.

You're going to have to take your Leaf glasses off for a bit here.

Carter Ashton will not amount to anything. Merely suggesting him as a candidate for Luongo is absurd. I'm fairly confident in that assessment. Same goes for Mckegg.

Then you have young Matt Finn, and Brad Ross. Both haven't played pro hockey. Brad Ross played on a stacked Winterhawks team so I'll reserve my judgement on him once I've seen him play in a more reasonable lineup. Finn just got drafted.

Bozak, Frattin, and Franson aren't prospects anymore in the traditional sense (age). I think even "people like you" would agree with me on that. Franson would be a depth D man on the Canucks in all likelyhood and Bozak might slot in for Kesler at the beginning of the season but then what? Is he the capable 3rd line center the Canucks have been looking for?

Kadri and Colborne are huge projects. Kadri isn't the savior of the Leafs, and Colborne is just another big body who hasn't put all the tools together. We have one of those already.

And so we're left with Biggs, D'amigo, and Deschamps. All still cutting their teeth in the minors.

So in truth I never suggested the Leafs had "NOTHING". I'm just saying they don't have anything right now to help us, and the only player who we could use as a cornerstone of this franchise moving forward is most likely Riley. And that's the bottom line. We can draft our own D'amigos and Mckeggs.

By the way I realize you probably aren't a Leafs fan. I'm just messin'.

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So I take it you're one of "those guys" who is willing to settle for Burkie's table scraps and 'B' prospects (isn't lumping people into categories fun?).

If it makes you feel better, I believe that Calgary has a craptier prospect pool than your precious Leafs. So rest easy because your mediocrity will still be better than whatever roster the Flames will be able to cobble together.

As far as I'm concerned Tman, there is no player on the Leaf roster right now that Burkie will trade and who will push us over the top, and there is no player aside from Riley who has any sort of stellar future potential in their system. Sorry to say it and dash your hopes.

You're going to have to take your Leaf glasses off for a bit here.

Carter Ashton will not amount to anything. Merely suggesting him as a candidate for Luongo is absurd. I'm fairly confident in that assessment. Same goes for Mckegg.

Then you have young Matt Finn, and Brad Ross. Both haven't played pro hockey. Brad Ross played on a stacked Winterhawks team so I'll reserve my judgement on him once I've seen him play in a more reasonable lineup. Finn just got drafted.

Bozak, Frattin, and Franson aren't prospects anymore in the traditional sense (age). I think even "people like you" would agree with me on that. Franson would be a depth D man on the Canucks in all likelyhood and Bozak might slot in for Kesler at the beginning of the season but then what? Is he the capable 3rd line center the Canucks have been looking for?

Kadri and Colborne are huge projects. Kadri isn't the savior of the Leafs, and Colborne is just another big body who hasn't put all the tools together. We have one of those already.

And so we're left with Biggs, D'amigo, and Deschamps. All still cutting their teeth in the minors.

So in truth I never suggested the Leafs had "NOTHING". I'm just saying they don't have anything right now to help us, and the only player who we could use as a cornerstone of this franchise moving forward is most likely Riley. And that's the bottom line. We can draft our own D'amigos and Mckeggs.

By the way I realize you probably aren't a Leafs fan. I'm just messin'.

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The point I was trying to make is that people will be like trade Luongo for Bjugstad straight up! Then someone could suggest Luongo for Franson, Colborne/Bozak, and a pick (which actually helps us with a third line center and depth on defense) and then everybody laughs and says we want to win now, how does that push us over the top with all that "leaf garbage"

Well how does Bjugstad help us win now, or push us over the top? I would love to have Bjugstad don't get me wrong, and you're right I am not a leafs fan in any way, but I just find peoples comments ironic sometimes.

Florida had a solid season from Theodore and Clemmensen, and still have Markstrom waiting in the wings. Tampa has Lindback, and just drafted Vasilevski, Washington has Holtby and Neuvirth. Who's to say all these teams aren't content with starting the season with what they have before deciding to make a move? If any of their goaltending presents itself as a problem they are not likely to do anything about it for at least 3/4 months into the season. Any of these teams could just say screw this at the asking price for Luongo and play our bluff, knowing that as soon as the season starts we are at more of a disadvantage.

Toronto therefore is really the only desperate team, and if it turns out to be our only option something like Franson, Colborne, 1st would be a good return regardless of the "leaf haters" here. B)

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Let's be realistic, I would say 99.673% of trade rumors are different degrees of educated speculation.

Dreger leaks info GM's intend to leak.

Burke wanted FLA and whatever other team to know how low his offer was to keep a bidding war from developing.

Exact some thing can be said about Tallon and his reluctance to give up prospects.

Gillis also played the game by mentioning that there are many teams interested and he was in no rush.

It a game, a slow borring game!

Who will be the first to bend over?

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The point I was trying to make is that people will be like trade Luongo for Bjugstad straight up! Then someone could suggest Luongo for Franson, Colborne/Bozak, and a pick (which actually helps us with a third line center and depth on defense) and then everybody laughs and says we want to win now, how does that push us over the top with all that "leaf garbage"

Well how does Bjugstad help us win now, or push us over the top? I would love to have Bjugstad don't get me wrong, and you're right I am not a leafs fan in any way, but I just find peoples comments ironic sometimes.

Florida had a solid season from Theodore and Clemmensen, and still have Markstrom waiting in the wings. Tampa has Lindback, and just drafted Vasilevski, Washington has Holtby and Neuvirth. Who's to say all these teams aren't content with starting the season with what they have before deciding to make a move? If any of their goaltending presents itself as a problem they are not likely to do anything about it for at least 3/4 months into the season. Any of these teams could just say screw this at the asking price for Luongo and play our bluff, knowing that as soon as the season starts we are at more of a disadvantage.

Toronto therefore is really the only desperate team, and if it turns out to be our only option something like Franson, Colborne, 1st would be a good return regardless of the "leaf haters" here. B)

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If I was MG I'd call Burke out and say "anymore lowball offers will not be hurd by the TML and untill they are ready to make a reasonable offer then I wont talk to them as theres still many teams interested and I am looking hard at them all which means something might be done quick" Thats should scare Burke a bit into making a better offer.

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I agree with you when you say that the Leafs are the most obvious trade partner. Problem is, like I said, their prospect pools isn't as intriguing as Florida's (to me at least).

If they truly are our only option I'd prefer to see Bozak or Frattin coming the other way instead of Franson in the deal you mentioned. Franson, Colborne and a 1st doesn't cut it in my estimation (earlyish-mid first + project forward + 6/7 Dman).

Keep in mind that Lack is the wild card here. If he isn't ready for the show we might need a goalie coming back to us.

I also agree that Bjugstad isn't the player to push us over the top. Nor am I saying that he should be the ONLY piece coming back to us in a trade. I just think he has more upside than most Leaf prospects and would be a nice piece to fit in somewhere in the future. He was a player I was hoping the Canucks would draft that year, however unlikely it was that he would slide to us.

I just don't want Gillis to settle, and I'm glad he is taking his time and standing his ground.

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Im glad he's standing his ground too. Look at it this way......

-Tomas Kaberle was apparently worth Joe Colborne and a first round pick than we should get more for Luongo.

-If Francois Beauchemin is worth Jake Gardiner and Jofferey Lupul than Luongo should get us more than that too.

-If relatively unproven Jaroslav Halak is worth two prospects than Luongo should fetch us double.

- If Rick Nash who arguably has a worse contract than Luongo is worth Dubinksy, Anisimov, Erixon, and a 1st than Luongo should get us AT LEAST half of that ( top pick and a prospect)

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It's painful for me to not bring up the whole than/then thing when it's misused four times in a row, but I'll stick to the hockey stuff. It's easy to declare trade winners a year or two later when someone (Halak, Lupul) seriously overachieves. I don't think it's fair to look back and call it a one-sided trade. In the moment, on paper, most trades are going to satisfy the needs of each side, even if it means dumping salary or getting rid of a problem in the dressing room (Cody).

I think a Luongo trade will be very fair on paper, but it'll be a couple years before we can say who won. If Luongo wins the Cup in another town and our incoming prospects retire in the ECHL, well, that will end up being talked about for a very long time. :)

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Sorry boss, when is the spelling test? :P Anyway, I wasn't declaring any trade "winners or losers" or even saying that they were one sided, but simply trying to guess what the Canucks should hope for in a return based on market value given recent examples.

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Im glad he's standing his ground too. Look at it this way......

-Tomas Kaberle was apparently worth Joe Colborne and a first round pick than we should get more for Luongo.

-If Francois Beauchemin is worth Jake Gardiner and Jofferey Lupul than Luongo should get us more than that too.

-If relatively unproven Jaroslav Halak is worth two prospects than Luongo should fetch us double.

- If Rick Nash who arguably has a worse contract than Luongo is worth Dubinksy, Anisimov, Erixon, and a 1st than Luongo should get us AT LEAST half of that ( top pick and a prospect)

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Sorry boss, when is the spelling test? :P Anyway, I wasn't declaring any trade "winners or losers" or even saying that they were one sided, but simply trying to guess what the Canucks should hope for in a return based on market value given recent examples.

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