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2 minutes ago, grandmaster said:

Wow. I really think the Leafs have done really well. They have so many of these reclamation projects for dirt cheap. At least one of them will be a hit. 
 

Low risk versus high reward.

 

Simmonds - 1.5M

Thornton - 700K

Spezza - 700K

Bogosian - 1M

 

Add Brodie, a good defenceman. 
 

I like the moves. 

 

Their defense is marginally improved. 

This is not a position which needed to be addressed in Toronto...but obviously Dubas knows how to allocate cap space.

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Thornton, for the first time in his NHL career - at age 40 - was under 50% in the faceoff circle last year.

 

What better time for the Leafs to swoop in and sign him.....

 

Also didn't kill a second of penalties last year....

 

Maybe, make a bottom six center out of him yet....

 

Anyhow - uh - not a surprising signing - was expecting it.

 

Might get some assists there - can still pass the puck - but that bottom six....?  Are they ever going to shut anyone down?

 

 

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9 minutes ago, DeNiro said:

Fixed.
 

These are not reclamation projects. They’re players who are well past their prime.

 

Despite what leafs media will tell us, signing a bunch of good old Ontario boys is not the way to build a team.

 

You never know. I personally like it. I’m willing to bet that at least one of these bargain signings will be a hit, leaning towards Jumbo Joe as the most probable.

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28 minutes ago, grandmaster said:

Wow. I really think the Leafs have done really well. They have so many of these reclamation projects for dirt cheap. At least one of them will be a hit. 
 

Low risk versus high reward.

 

Simmonds - 1.5M

Thornton - 700K

Spezza - 700K

Bogosian - 1M

 

Add Brodie, a good defenceman. 
 

I like the moves. 

 

And the players that have left?

 

Kapanen

Johnsson

Ceci

Barrie

 

I just don't see them being any better.

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1 minute ago, Rick Blight said:

And the players that have left?

 

Kapanen

Johnsson

Ceci

Barrie

 

I just don't see them being any better.

It looked to me like Joe was going thru the motions in some of the games I watched last year. Thorton and Spezza? Spezza looked like he was outplaying some of the younger guys last year. Maybe this works in a short season. 

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4 minutes ago, DeNiro said:

His beard left him after claiming that Joe was holding him back. It was last seen on a beach in Miami.

 

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Jumbo Slow. Good luck in TOR. Character guy - one of the best passers in the games history imo.

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1 minute ago, Rush17 said:

Jumbo Slow. Good luck in TOR. Character guy - one of the best passers in the games history imo.

Hard to argue with his stats but I’d never describe him as a character guy.

 

Should have never been captain in San Jose. 

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