KirkSave Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 Jumbo could never reach the cup with any of those stacked teams in SJ over the best part of his career and he certainly won't now that he signed in T.O. I think he will be great in the locker room and provide more veteran leadership to guys like Marner and Matthews but other than that, he doesn't put them over the top imo. Wonder if he keeps the beard now that he is separated from Burns? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gawdzukes Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 9 hours ago, Toyotasfan said: “ will play for food “ I'm starving ladies and gentlemen, for a cup o cheese and I think I still be starving could I have a Cup please ..... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post SilentSam Posted October 17, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 17, 2020 18 hours 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. be the only team with a D-Fib at both ends of the bench. 1 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theo5789 Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 I imagine they're hoping for a Mats Sundin effect and hope that it helps their young centers find another level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnews Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 4 hours ago, Teemu Selänne said: If Joe Thornton had signed in Van on this contract I would have been happy. Dude still put up 82 points in his last 143 games (92 in 162 including playoffs). Obviously he's taken a huge decline but as a 4th liner/PP specialist/top-9 injury fill-in I would've been happy. Give some nice saucers to our 4th line sniper Tyler Motte . Plus, 700k is buriable in the minors if it doesn't work out when your other bottom 6 depth C is Jason Spezza....perhaps this is too old school/dinosaur - but your other 4C - as a backup "powerplay specialist" might be targetting the wrong special teams needs....? But Dubas wouldn't be Dubas if he didn't continue to make signings like this. One of these years they will score all of the goals and prove us all wrong. I feel for TJ Brodie though....he's going from playing with Giordano and some good defensive forwards in Calgary (Backlund, Lindholm, Frolik, Ryan...)- to Toronto, where....he'll be scoring all the goals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilduce39 Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 Matthews was in Zurich 5 years ago but I’d probably take the 2015-16 versions of him, Tavares, Spezza and Thornton than the 2021 crew. He’s 41 and seemed to finally fall of a cliff last year. I guess you can’t argue with the price, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boudrias Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 25 minutes ago, ilduce39 said: Matthews was in Zurich 5 years ago but I’d probably take the 2015-16 versions of him, Tavares, Spezza and Thornton than the 2021 crew. He’s 41 and seemed to finally fall of a cliff last year. I guess you can’t argue with the price, though. Joe won't be able to go to the rink in flip flops come January like he was in SJ. That alone will throw him into a funk. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kloubek Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 18 hours ago, Lionized27 said: Grit? Size for sure but his "grit" is gone. He can still play a reasonably heavy game, from what I've seen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lionized27 Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 12 minutes ago, kloubek said: He can still play a reasonably heavy game, from what I've seen. His size will make him strong along the boards and he's never really been much of a checker. Hasn't really been a shot blocker either. Doesn't kill penalties. He'll glove punch the opposition's goalie though! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBatch Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 (edited) On 10/16/2020 at 8:44 PM, DeNiro said: Their power play was not a problem though. They had the 6th best power play. I get that they wanted to get bigger because of their series with Columbus but this was not the kind of bigger they needed. They got bigger and much slower throughout their lineup. I get that Thornton is a big name that gets headlines, but this is not the same Thornton they’re getting. And put in a limited role I don’t expect he’ll be putting up many points. My guess is they feel like they need more veteran leadership to help Tavares with some of the load. Which may or may not help I guess we’ll have to wait and see. For sure. Not to mention instead of relying on AHL fringe talent they have a lot of veteran game experience in their lineup and those types of teams hate to say it - win cups for you. Might be the difference they need to get over the hurdle of their first opponent. Had Boston on the ropes but couldn’t finish them and they went all the way to the final against St Louis...Brodie is better for them by far then Barrie too. I think they might finally have the proper mix given their tough cap situation - and I’m sure Spezza (who’s loved in their room) and Thorton can help Tavares just like you said. They have so much talent in their forward group and a lot of size too - won’t make it easy on opposing defenders. Edit: Biggest use for them is this season could go to the toilet with Covid and like the lock-out year a lot of vets and players in their prime will lose both one year of stats (for some it could of being the difference in a HHOF career, the ones that were in all three lock-outs especially) - and the for some aging vets ended up outside looking in after the dust settled and lost their final year as a result. A Canadian Division for sure can work - the US ones are for sure in doubt ... maybe - ha ha - just maybe they let Canadian teams play each other for the cup and our drought will be done with a big fat asterisk on it. Edited October 18, 2020 by IBatch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanucksForever2 Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 The leafs have signed some cheap, experienced and tough guys this season ( Joe Thornton, Simmonds, Brodie, Bogosian), while still able to keep the main core (Marner, Matthews, Nylander, Tavares, Reilly, Anderson). The emergence of Mikheyev, Sandin, Liljegren could suprise a lot of people. With another year gain from their previous failure, their Core will only get stronger. As much as I hate the leafs and all their bad contracts, I honestly think they stand a good chance this year and could surprise all of us. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyCuddles Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 On paper Toronto looks nasty. If this were 2008. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 (edited) 5 minutes ago, N7Nucks said: On paper Toronto looks nasty. If this were 2008. I dunno, not sure having a couple 11 year olds in your top 6 would be a good idea. Edited October 18, 2020 by DeNiro 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyCuddles Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 2 minutes ago, DeNiro said: I dunno, not sure having a couple 11 year olds in your top 6 would be a good idea. Kids have more energy, it could work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-Dizzle Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 Not sure I get the ‘leadership’ angle.... didn’t the guy get stripped of a letter in SAN Jose? Never really seemed like the ‘good influence’ kind of guy. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down by the River Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 4 minutes ago, J-Dizzle said: Not sure I get the ‘leadership’ angle.... didn’t the guy get stripped of a letter in SAN Jose? Never really seemed like the ‘good influence’ kind of guy. People confuse likeability for leadership. Guys in SJ loved Thornton b/c he joked around and kept things light. That alone is not good enough to be a leader. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slegr Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 Oh my, there have been so many stories on Sportsnet about this bum. Who knew a league minimum signing could be the holy grail for the Leafs. They’ve won another Stanley Cup in the offseason it would appear. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 Is he really wearing McDavids number? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lionized27 Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 10 minutes ago, DeNiro said: Is he really wearing McDavids number? McMefirst wears Thornton's international number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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