Recent content by CarltonTheBear

Technically the Leafs "abused" the rule too this season with Pacioretty coming off LTIR in the playoffs when he couldn't have during the regular season. Think it's happened with us once or twice more as well over the years, although obviously all with significantly less impactful players than a...

If he's really retiring I'm not sure using Pietrangelo's cap space on Marner is really the best idea. Their only other RHD is Zach Whitecloud. IIRC Theodore often plays the right side but then you still have a 34-year old Brayden McNabb as your #3 behind him and Hanifin. Feels like going after...

The biggest thing I wonder about in a post-Marner world is how the elite level match-ups work. For all the deserved criticism Marner got he typically was a big part of that role, even in the playoffs when he wasn't producing (2024 being a good example). Can Matthews keep holding those minutes...

But I think his PPG numbers are somewhat masking his decline though. He had career highs in shooting percentage and on-ice shooting percentage this season. And significant career high too in personal shooting percentage at 19%. That beats his previous career high of 17.28% during the 48-game...

1. Danault: I've wondered if the Kings would look to shop Danault as well. New GM, Byfield's game/role/responsibility is increasing, and they might need to clear cap space for a big swing (Marner). With that said I couldn't possibly imagine the Leafs have the trade assets to make this deal...

Karlsson would be an interesting one to revisit this offseason. Coming off a down year, Knights might want to move him for cheap just to clear cap space. Heck maybe even reunite him with one or both of the original Misfits line with Marchessault and/or Reilly Smith.

To a certain extent I'm sure all teams have stuff like this but yeah it's kind of stunning looking back and thinking about all these little mistakes. Like Mike Amadio gets waived by the Leafs a month into the season in 21/22 where he played just 3 games for the team. Next season he's winning...

Won back to back Cups as an assistant with Tampa and typically ran pretty good penalty kills there.

There's really no reason to think there's an ounce of credibility to that report/story. For what possible reason would the Marner side decide to leak their entire version of events to some podcast that covers minor league hockey in Alberta that nobody has ever heard of before? I've come to...

And obviously it's not like we'd be trading him to Buffalo or something. Mitch would give a list of a handful of teams he's hoping to speak to as a free agent, and a trade would give him the opportunity to do a deeper dive of that teams organization and arena and city that the currently accepted...

Carolina did get a 3rd round draft pick from Tampa for the negotiating rights to Guentzel last year. And that was for only about 24 hours before he would have officially became a UFA. If a team wanted to jump the line and try to blow Marner away with a contract offer I'd take a 3rd rounder (at...

This isn't exactly breaking news but man what a depressing list of prospects. Really hoping one of the NCAA guys brought in like Quillan, Haymes, Webber, or Prokop can eventually break through and be a NHLer.

I'm curious if they'll actually replace Lambert or just expand the roles of the current assistants. Marc Savard could take over handling the forwards along with PP while Mike Van Ryn does the defence and penalty killing. Sacco seems like he'd be a solid candidate if they look to make an...

I would add that if there were a possible scenario where the Leafs could trade Nylander for a big package and then re-sign Marner I would still do that in order to obtain that DNA/cap structure change the team possibly needs. But that would require Nylander to waive his NMC, which is unlikely...

Yeah I think you can criticize Marner and his camp for a lot of things but this definitely isn't one of them.