NHL February 2016 |OT| Parlez-vous tankçais?

A team can change radically in six years. Then again the Leafs haven't done much in the past 10 years.

The Leafs definitely don't have "nothing" - they are close to having nothing, but Marner, Nylander, Rielly, and Kadri alone go against that notion.

Marner and Nylander are both question marks. I will never trust junior stats, the NHL is something else and many of them never adapt properly
 
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Craig Custance ‏@CraigCustance 23s23 seconds ago
Annual salary breakdown of the Dustin Byfuglien contract: $8 million, $8 million, $8 million, $8 million, $6 million.
 
didn't Byfuglien say no to a 6/36M contract? did they really offer him more?!



I honestly think you guys have nothing, and it's nothing about the rivalry and nothing personal

next year the Leafs will have at least 4 prospects graduate... 2 of them elite level... and they'll still have one of the better prospect pools in the league... probably because they're expected to have at least 15 picks heading into the this years draft
 
Its actually a decent deal for the jets. They don't have to pay a 38 year old Buff, 5 years is more manageable and the cap hit isn't that bad.
 
God damn that is a lot of money for Buff. I guess that is his big retirement contract though... probably. (Turns 31 next month)
 
What individual players get, e.g. Subban getting 8 x 9, doesn't affect the percentage of HHR going to the owners.

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that's not what i'm saying. If Buff is getting 7.5 a year, Stamkos the 25yo two times Maurice Richard trophy winner is DEFINITELY getting a 12M AAV contract
 
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Craig Custance ‏@CraigCustance 23s23 seconds ago
Annual salary breakdown of the Dustin Byfuglien contract: $8 million, $8 million, $8 million, $8 million, $6 million.

Not bad.

Even $6 million by the time he's 36 probably isn't the worst.
 
You can probably count the number of D-men who are better than Buff on one hand. I don't really think it's much of an overpayment, especially at the 5 year term.

Norrisson, Subban, Doughty, Keith are the ones I'd say for sure. Maybe Hedman, and a couple others.
 
You can probably count the number of D-men who are better than Buff on one hand. I don't really think it's much of an overpayment, especially at the 5 year term.

Norrisson, Subban, Doughty, Keith are the ones I'd say for sure. Maybe Hedman, and a couple others.
uhhh, weber, suter maybe letang (at least with how hes playing right now)
 
Alexei Emelin, 6' 2" 216 lb is such a great defenseman, I can't believe Bergevin would trade him, he's so good! He really loves the color BLUE for some weird reason! He would be such a good piece for a team that would win in, let's say the next 6 years...

I wonder who could want this fine gentleman, who loves medias and won't crack under pressure

did I mention he likes the color blue?
 
Alexei Emelin, 6' 2" 216 lb is such a great defenseman, I can't believe Bergevin would trade him, he's so good! He really loves the color BLUE for some weird reason! He would be such a good piece for a team that would win in, let's say the next 6 years...

I wonder who could want this fine gentleman, who loves medias and won't crack under pressure

did I mention he likes the color blue?

Nonis would've probably been sold on this
 
Probably

He traded Gunnarsson + 4th round pick + retained salary for Roman fucking Polak.

Man that trade still pisses me off

Liles for Gleason is still the worse D-man swap

at least we might be able to get something out of Polak at the deadline. 4th sounds about right.
 
You can probably count the number of D-men who are better than Buff on one hand. I don't really think it's much of an overpayment, especially at the 5 year term.

Norrisson, Subban, Doughty, Keith are the ones I'd say for sure. Maybe Hedman, and a couple others.

Yeah, he's 2nd in the league in D scoring this decade.

http://www.quanthockey.com/nhl/seasons/2010s-nhl-defensemen-stats.html

A team like the Jets who are nowhere near the cap ceiling and have trouble getting free agents would be crazy to let him walk, assuming they haven't seen any red flags while watching him every day for the past six seasons.
 
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