And so it begins...

11 hours ago, Brandon said:

Definitely bridge Laine and then pay up if he gets back to his scoring ways.   To risky to drop the big money today on him.... 

Heard Chevy already offered a trouba style bridge - if I’m Laine, why take a bridge longer than one year... he knows he’ll get $10 million from someone 

It really feels that Darren Dreger is Mitch Marner's (and other Leaf players) press agent.

I'm sure DD is a great guy but never been a fan of him as a broadcaster.

12 hours ago, Goalie said:

All indications are Jets and Laine have agreed on length.. Its a bridge.  2 or 3 years.. Gonna be 6 7 million per is my guess. 6.5 x 2 or 3 years. Gives Jets time to lose some cap for LT via buff and Seattle plus Perreault kuli etc. 

Pretty credible guy on another site says Laine is coming to Winnipeg in a few days. Usually that means a deal is imminent. 

It wouldn’t surprise me if they announced Laine and Connor at the same time.  

 

this is making me nervous

I got a bad feeling about this.

14 minutes ago, The Unknown Poster said:

 

I thought a credible guy on another site said he was on his way to the peg...

14 hours ago, Floyd said:

Package Laine and Little...

I still like Little. His problem is that his wingers dont pass him the puck enough.

https://thehockeynews.com/news/article/nhl-suspends-capitals-kuznetsov-three-games-for-inappropriate-conduct

Laine going to train with a team in Switzerland is all part of the game.

I know it probably is but the longer this takes the more I'm thinking he'll ask for a trade.

 

But I have to keep reminding myself it's just preseason action this month, all this really does is test the vets and see which AHL players are ready to be promoted to the big time not to mention see if the draft picks are ready

Edited September 14, 20196 yr by iHeart

1 minute ago, iHeart said:

I know it probably is but the longer this takes the more I'm thinking he'll ask for a trade.

But I have to keep reminding myself it's just preseason action this month, all this really does is test the vets and see which AHL players are ready to be promoted to the big time

Ask for trade all he wants but he's here until he's 25 ala Trouba.

 

I’d love to start the season with Perrault-Little-ehlers as the second line... they were good

Copp-Lowry-roslo As 3rd

11 minutes ago, Floyd said:

I’d love to start the season with Perrault-Little-ehlers as the second line... they were good

Copp-Lowry-roslo As 3rd

Connor or Laine on the 4th?

 

10 minutes ago, The Unknown Poster said:

Connor or Laine on the 4th?

Assuming we don’t have a deal with Laine...

So Nylander ($6,962,000), Matthews (11,634,000), Tavares (11,000,000) and Marner (10,893,000) equal a cap hit of 40,489,000. I'm not quite sure how you field a contending team with 4 players (albeit really, really good ones) making half of your cap.

 

That seems expensive. 

Laine going to train with the Swiss is a good thing, fact hes training means hes gonna be playing soon. Exhibition in NHL is worse than the CFL and longer. 

More games. If Laine and Connor were sitting at home not training id be concerned. 

Bern Winnipeg.. Its the same thing. 

Buff took an LOA and rumors are possible retirement coming soon or less insane. 

Expect preseason cuts soon. Feeling is some teams are gonna play their starters if u will more. 

Monday.. Comrie starts

Tuesday.. CUT!!!

 

Edited September 14, 20196 yr by Goalie

The buff rumours about retirement are all fan driven.  It’s all over the HF boards with no sources.  The story goes he considered  retirement last season.  But he was here skating so unless he suddenly felt his heart wasn’t in it I don’t really buy it.  

2 hours ago, Goalie said:

Monday.. Comrie starts

Tuesday.. CUT!!!

1 hour ago, The Unknown Poster said:

The buff rumours about retirement are all fan driven.  It’s all over the HF boards with no sources.  The story goes he considered  retirement last season.  But he was here skating so unless he suddenly felt his heart wasn’t in it I don’t really buy it.  

PaMa said it was "nothing sinister" leading me to believe it's totally sinister.

2 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

PaMa said it was "nothing sinister" leading me to believe it's totally sinister.

He's headed through the Big D and I don't mean Dallas...

Interesting - 13 players in the league making more than $10 million and three of them on the Leafs...

9 of those teams didn’t make the playoffs