Raking Leaves with David Ayers Zamboni

[Strangelove]

'rana has $25 mil available in cap space. They are going to piss all over free agency like a puppy with 2 peckers.

May I recommend Boeser at $9.5x7?

Or, maybe, just maybe re-up Marner and Tavares at $12.5 each. They lose because they are not top heavy enough. Run with that, you Eastern media ball lickers at TSN.

After they re-sign their few RFA forwards and MaxPac, I figure they'll have ~ $17M to re-sign/replace Tavares + Marner.

(maybe less, if Knies commands tons based on his career season)

Given the way Tavares is just begging to get raped, I figure they'll get him signed for under $7M x 2.

That leaves them with ~ $10M to replace Marner.

Yeah, Boeser works for me.

[Megaterio Llamas]

They'll probably sell it by framing it as replacing expensive 'No-Show' Marner, with a relatively cheaper 'clutch-scorer' in Boeser.[/b

I really hope Brock doesn't end up there....

I think Minnesota is finally free from the dead cap it has been carrying for the last few years. Also, Ehlers is a UFA, and Minny guys like the Peg because it's close by. I can't imagine Brock winding up in Hogtown.

[Megaterio Llamas]

Maple leaves grant Islanders permission to speak to Brendan Shanahan


The New York Islanders have been granted permission to speak to Toronto Maple leaves president Brendan Shanahan about an opening in their front office, sources tell Sportsnet.

Shanahan, whose contract expires on June 30, has been president of the Maple leaves since April of 2014.

Chris Johnston of The Athletic was the first to report that the Islanders had asked Maple leaves Sports and Entertainment, which owns the Maple leaves, for permission to speak with Shanahan.

The Islanders are rebuilding their front office this summer after parting ways with former president and general manager Lou Lamoriello, who previously worked under Shanahan in Toronto. Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reported on Wednesday’s edition of 32 Thoughts: The Podcast that Marc Bergevin and Mathieu Darche will each be getting a second interview for the Islanders’ general manager job, and that Jarmo Kekalainen is also considered a candidate.

The Maple leaves made the playoffs in nine straight seasons under Shanahan, the longest active streak in the NHL, but failed to get past the second round in any of those trips. The club’s season came to an end Sunday with a 6-1 loss to the Florida Panthers in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Friedman reported on Wednesday’s podcast that the MLSE board will hold a meeting “in the next couple of days.” Shanahan’s expiring contract is expected to be on the agenda.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/sports/nhl/ma ... r-AA1FdN0X

[Strangelove]

Oh shit, I so loved Shanny calling the shots in Pigtown.

Run it back!

[Megaterio Llamas]

Oh shit, I so loved Shanny calling the shots in Pigtown.

Run it back!

Well, Lou is available now.

[Megaterio Llamas]

[Strangelove]

No... NO!!

Run it back!!!

[Strangelove]

https://x.com/NorrisWinner/status/1925352722485682199

Dany Heatley
@NorrisWinner

Less than 72 hours after being embarassed in game 7, Matthews Marner, Tavares and the boys were spotted at Pulpit Golf Club in Caledon

[Strangelove]

Well Leafers are whooping it up again following their annual elimination depression.

"YAY, we re-signed Tavares and Knies to great contracts!"

"But we're not running it back because our best-player/whipping-boy (Marner) is walking the plank!"

Well Tavares will be 35 by puckdrop and he slowed down considerably down the stretch last season.

He'll be 38 to start the last year of that contract (4 x $4.4M).

Sure, his cap-hit is greatly reduced, but then so too is he.

Leafers wanted him gone gone gone all season long... until realizing Leaves can't get ahold of a top-6 centre.

I'll admit the first year or two of that contract could be good for them...

Knies signed at 6 x $7.75M and Leafers are raving about it.

But 6 years buys just one UFA season... he'll be a UFA in 2031.

And it's based upon a career year in a contract season.

A year in which he put up an unsustainable shooting percentage in my opinion.

If the contract was negotiated a year ago, he would likely have had to settle at half that AAV and half that term.

And yet Leaves fans are hooting and hollering.

I see it this way, they'll be paying $12M total for these two players next season, same as last season.

One is a declining old man, while the other could be a guy who overachieved last season.

Knies' key linemate, Marner, will be gone, hard to say how the young man will do moving forward.

(and his other linemate, Matthews, is rumoured to be dealing with ongoing back issues)

Whatevs, once again the off-season hysterics at the centre of the universe surprise me.

Looks like the same team to me, minus their best regular season player.

After they re-sign a few of their other forwards, I figure they'll have $11M to replace Marner.

Not much of a "DNA change" if you ask me...