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There's a reason I said that this "may" be a factor with Tavares. I'm not claiming to speak authoritatively on this, just that it's something to consider if Tavares isn't ultimately the choice. Hockey players already spend a lot of time away from their families during the season so adding the...

Hey, I'm just glad we're talking about my failure to account for the precise contractual mechanism the Leafs would use in that situation and not my garbled metaphors of "shaping into" a direction. That post was all over the place: F-.

It's pretty unlikely but if they are committed to naming someone as Captain and they want it to be Matthews eventually but think recent events may indicate he needs more seasoning, I wonder if a short term solution along the lines of giving it to Muzzin would be the move. He's got the whole "Cup...

I was just talking about the general sense of things. Yes, I'm sure that if that was the direction things were shaping into the Leafs would demote him first.  Thank you for the reminder of the cap implications of my previous post.

The Spezza thing does kind of read as strange. Both in the smaller "Why scratch Spezza for Ottawa" sense but also in the larger way of really wondering about the decision to bring him in at all unless you were pretty sure he was going to be on the team. My hunch is that this is indicative of...

Right but it was reported quite a bit that the specific sticking point was Marner's salary vs. Matthews' salary and if you look over the thread, which is a chore I know, there was an awful lot of "No way does he deserve what Matthews got". Which, again, would be a strange thing for a team to...

So obviously this is entirely speculation but it seems now that there at least seems to be at least some sort of "McDavid might ask for a trade" vibe out there what with the continued seasons of futility and his now being reduced to playing with pretty depressing linemates. So, without...

Well, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

It would be kind of weird to name someone captain after you just had a long and protracted contract negotiation which seemed to hinge on the fact that the team didn't think he was as valuable as several of his teammates.

Something to maybe consider with regards to the Captaincy is that while things like the fairly nebulous quality of "leadership" is important, it is also very much about being the public face of the organization and representing the team at various events and things. As a result, there is a...

I mean, they have a guy in Tyler Benson who's 21 and was a PPG player last year in the AHL. If they're not giving him a real shot it seems unlikely that they'd import another team's version of that guy.

It feels like Anderson has been their goalie for 20 years. He's really wrapping up a weird career. I feel like he could have been a real difference maker if he'd found a place where he could make 35-45 starts a year and then been the starter in the playoffs but he's always struggled to rise...

I'm not sure which of the google results you landed on but I'm referring to the use of it to mean a large, impending #2.

I'm sure I'm not the first person to bring it up but I'm having a difficult time with the ECHL team's name and separating it from its slang usage. Couldn't have gone with, like, Dogs or something?

I don't know about that. The defense is a mess, sure, but the Red Wings are returning a couple of 30 goal scorers and a couple more guys at 20+. The only returning Sen with 20 goals was Tkachuk. Beyond that it's Bobby Ryan at #2 with 15.

Well, no. It's your opinion that they're awful. Likewise, the people in charge of the broadcast probably feel that it's pretty good considering the budget they have. Regardless, nobody above the producer at Sportsnet is likely to make a change unless they think it will tangibly affect the...

I know some people prefer that NHL players don't demand trades the way NBA players do but at some point a player as good as McDavid being in a situation as lousy as Edmonton is really hurting the entire league. 

Yeah, maybe it's wishful thinking but Boston seems vulnerable to me. Obviously their stars are still going to be good but age has to hit them at some point, no? And there's not much depth there.

Now that's a strawman.

I'd be more inclined to listen to you in that sense if you didn't pull basically the exact same "woe is us" chicken little routine in the Matthews thread about a deal where even you yourself admitted that your only issue with it is it might put the Leafs in a moderately worse cap situation 6...