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Pietrangelo Watch

CarltonTheBear said:
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Pietrangelo at 700K let's go!!!!
 
I'd be really interested in the timeline of whether dubas knew Pietrangelo was truly not going to sign with St Lou and still went with Brodie.
 
Frycer14 said:
I'd be really interested in the timeline of whether dubas knew Pietrangelo was truly not going to sign with St Lou and still went with Brodie.
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If you know Pietrangelo?s asking price and the team?s level of cap flexibility you can answer that question quite easily.
 
herman said:
Frycer14 said:
I'd be really interested in the timeline of whether dubas knew Pietrangelo was truly not going to sign with St Lou and still went with Brodie.
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If you know Pietrangelo?s asking price and the team?s level of cap flexibility you can answer that question quite easily.
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Well, I don't know the former, but I'm interested in is did Dubas sign Brodie knowing the blues had signed Krug, making Toronto a potential 2nd choice and further negotiation, or not?
 
Frycer14 said:
herman said:
Frycer14 said:
I'd be really interested in the timeline of whether dubas knew Pietrangelo was truly not going to sign with St Lou and still went with Brodie.
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If you know Pietrangelo?s asking price and the team?s level of cap flexibility you can answer that question quite easily.
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Well, I don't know the former, but I'm interested in is did Dubas sign Brodie knowing the blues had signed Krug, making Toronto a potential 2nd choice and further negotiation, or not?
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Might?ve been irrelevant. Brodie means there?s an avenue for re-signing Reilly. Pietrangelo tanks that unless we make TSN?s dream come true.
 
herman said:
Frycer14 said:
herman said:
Frycer14 said:
I'd be really interested in the timeline of whether dubas knew Pietrangelo was truly not going to sign with St Lou and still went with Brodie.
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If you know Pietrangelo?s asking price and the team?s level of cap flexibility you can answer that question quite easily.
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Well, I don't know the former, but I'm interested in is did Dubas sign Brodie knowing the blues had signed Krug, making Toronto a potential 2nd choice and further negotiation, or not?
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Might?ve been irrelevant. Brodie means there?s an avenue for re-signing Reilly. Pietrangelo tanks that unless we make TSN?s dream come true.
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Sure, there's lots of opinions as to why they should or shouldn't be pursuing Pietrangelo in this 22 page thread. I'd still be curious as to whether the leafs took themselves out of it because they didn't want to be the last one standing when the music stopped, or because they truly thought signing him wasn't a good idea.
 
Frycer14 said:
Sure, there's lots of opinions as to why they should or shouldn't be pursuing Pietrangelo in this 22 page thread. I'd still be curious as to whether the leafs took themselves out of it because they didn't want to be the last one standing when the music stopped, or because they truly thought signing him wasn't a good idea.
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There is a ?worth it? threshold and then slightly after that is the line that makes it a bad decision for their situation. It was probably close enough to bad that it would not be worth pursuing.

Brodie and Pietrangelo are both about the same age. One is a righty and is more offensively inclined. The other is an experienced lefty on the right side and defensively inclined and cheaper. It seems like a no brainer to me. They have been chasing Brodie specifically for a while now.
 
https://twitter.com/jprutherford/status/1314738210141073409

I thought that sounded crazy, but they are at 81.6M with 14 forwards, 6D and 2G.

Steen (5.75) could be an LTIR candidate and if they could unload Bozak (5.0) or Schwartz (5.35)...

Dunn is thier only remaining RFA
 
So wait... They didn't pony up an extra $1m-1.5m to resign their captain? How much better is Pietro vs Krug?
 
Bender said:
So wait... They didn't pony up an extra $1m-1.5m to resign their captain? How much better is Pietro vs Krug?
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All the talk was it being about structure, rather than total value.
 
https://theathletic.com/2128288/2020/10/09/why-the-leafs-landed-on-t-j-brodie-and-abandoned-pursuit-of-alex-pietrangelo/

In the end, Pietrangelo?s ask was simply too much for Toronto. And it was clear the Leafs were not his first choice, with Vegas the clear front-runner, even after some of Toronto?s top players tried to talk him into coming home.

Unlike Wayne Simmonds, who signed with the Leafs earlier in the day, Pietrangelo wasn?t going to take less to be in Toronto.

?Alex won?t be signing anywhere at a discount,? one source close to the player told The Athletic on Friday evening.
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We'll have to see what the final number is but the only way I'd have been interested in Pietrangelo is at a substantial discount so I'm fine with that.
 
Nik said:
We'll have to see what the final number is but the only way I'd have been interested in Pietrangelo is at a substantial discount so I'm fine with that.
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Sounds like it will start with a 9 and come with bonuses and movement clauses. Though the market drying up sort of leaves only Vegas as a viable suitor (come on, Colorado, don?t let Boston in).
 
I could see New Jersey and Columbus coming up with big offers as well. They aren't the contender types that Pietrangelo might originally have been looking for though.
 
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