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As time goes on, knowing how much Greenway gets hurt, only 34 gp last year...i'm liking his extension less and less.

Agreed. This team was likely to only get better goaltending if it comes from Levi or UPL. Lyon is here that if those first 2 guys falter, the drop to the play Lyons gives you isn't as far.

You paid Danforth more because that is what it took to sign him. Between Doan, Kozak, Danforth, and anyone else up for a 4th line spot, let it be open competition. The best guys get the sports, whoever doesn't...down to Rochester.

I'm good with it. If he regresses SLIGHTLY its a decent deal. If he plays the same as last year or better, its a great deal. Plus, don't need another hole at center.

Good. On paper, He looked like a decent fourth liner but it didn't seem to work out. Good to get something for him and good for him to move on. It's a small, but a good lesson, that sometimes the statistics on paper and even the analytics don't mean much if he doesn't mesh with the coach or the rest of the team.

Ekblad at $6.1m per year to stay in Florida is less than I expected. I guess his injury history, or the fact they are giving him 8 years...maybe that makes up for it?

I'd love Marner, but .. I guess you have to make the call but I don't think you're getting him here without paying him and exorbitant amount of money. That will hurt your roster in many other spots. More importantly, you're going to get close to peak play from him for maybe 2 or 3 more years. Is this team going to contend for a cup then? I don't think so. Yes we all want them to make the playoffs but I don't want to mortgage 5 years down the road from now just to make the playoffs and get bounced in the first or second round. If you could get him at the same rate as any other team then sure, but you don't overpay for a contract that will be bad a few years down the road.

I love the Tavares deal for Toronto. This one I'm not so sure on. Is there a chance Knies will be really, REALLY good? I guess. But over the playoffs, over the last season, the year before basically his entire career, I think he is a product of Matthews. His numbers are worthy of close to $8m when playing with Matthews, if you look at his numbers, his production, his underlying metrics/analytics with not on the ice with Matthews, they are actually below average. Like he's kinda a bad player across the board without Matthews on the ice with him. I linked and posted his metrics with and without Mathews below (reg season and playoffs), but if you look at last year, they numbers are just as bad as this year. https://www.naturalstattrick.com/linestats.php?fromseason=20242025&thruseason=20242025&stype=2&sit=5v5&score=all&rate=n&team=TOR&vteam=ALL&view=wowy&loc=B&gpfilt=none&fd=2024-10-04&td=2025-04-17&tgp=2000&strict=incl&p1=8482720&p2=8479318&p3=0&p4=0&p5=0

Short answer, they are about the same, I think if there are no major injuries, slightly better....but that is only if there are no major injuries...and slightly is not good enough to make a major jump in the standings. 1.) Cozens/Norris. If Norris is healthy, this make the team better. The advanced stats, the simple stats, watching the games....all of those things pointed to Cozens hurting the team more than (or at least as much as) he helped. 2.) I liked Jokiharju, I think he was better than most people thought, but at BEST he was a serviceable mid-pair guy. Losing him not a huge factor. 3.) No clue. I think Peterka caused almost as many problems as he solved with his goals, but the key word there is 'almost'. While I think Cozens was a net negative player, Peterka was still an overall positive. He will be a loss, but hopefully the return will negate that loss. 4.) Clifton for Timmins? Not a big deal either way. 5.) Quinn. If he played like he did the last 1.5 years, I don't want him on the team. I guess the hope is he turns his bad play around (his own end and unwillingness to go to the net). More needs to be done. It'll be easier to have an answer to this question when we know if Byrum re-signs or what the return for him is...and we know more about the quality of goaltending they will get. This team had problem last year, but in my opinion the problems were in this order. 1.) How bad the goaltending was 2.) How bad Cozens and Quinn were without the puck 3.) D-partners/pairings that didn't look in sync with each other. #1 is still a wide open question. #2 has partially been solved, but not totall. #3, well, they are making an attempt, but we have no idea until October (or later) how successful their attempt is.

I know, they do. And I get it, this is a place for fans to vent. I have in the past defended people saying whatever they want, that is what message boards are for. Its just, I don't want to block people, I want to be exposed to all conversations, but when I have an hour to spare and read through various recent posts, it gets tiresome seeing the same people posting about how bad Adams is in the thread about Adams. Posting about how bad Adams is in a thread about a trade. Posting about how bad Adams is in a thread about the draft. Posting about how bad Adams is....you get the point. I get it, people don't like him, but the complaints about him in threads...especially when the post has nothing to do with the topic....for me at least it gets overbearing.

Agree. While I do like watching the games, for me the 'building of the team' is almost as fun, sometimes more fun than the games themselves. There are race car drivers, and their are mechanics that build the race care. More often I find myself a bit more interested in watching the car get built and learning how its built than always watching the guy drive it in circles for 3 hours.

Upon further looking at NHL edge, other analytics numbers, his basic numbers, some highlights posted here, some discussion on the leafs board, some discussion here, and most importantly (for me), me remembering talk about him or watching him with Toronto, my summary of all that regarding Timmins is (and of course I could be totally wrong): -Good skater but very slow (kinda like Jeff Skinner but slower) -Decent size but not an overly physical player, but can use his size for positioning. -Decent accuracy to his shot but not hard shot at all. -Doesn't like to carry the puck. He'll get it passed to him and move it quickly by passing it up to a forward. -Pretty good decision maker in the offensive zone. He knows his limitations and will get the puck to players in better position. Overall, not high on the raw skills, not an aggressive player physically, not aggressive in the offensive zone, or the defensive zone, but willing to play his position and the role asked of him.

A lot of his numbers, with Pittsburgh of all teams, were much better when he played with someone OTHER than Karlsson: Corsi for %: With Karlsson 54.9 With anyone else as his partner: 61.1 (those are both really good numbers, anything about 50 is 'positive' Fenwick: With Karlsson 51.3 With anyone else: 59.7 Shots for/against: With Karlsson 52.5 With anyone else: 59.6 Goals for/Against: With Karlsson 30 With anyone else: 78.6 (really, really good number) expected goals: With Karlsson 50.5 With anyone else: 62.1 High Danger chances: With Karlsson 45 With anyone else: 61.3 High danger goals: With Karlsson 28.5 With anyone else: 66.6 So, that is only from last year in his short time with Pittsburgh, and that is with limited minutes. But in the time he played with and without Karlsson, he not only did better without Karlsson, he was really really good. I haven't had a chance to do a deep dive into his numbers with Toronto for the rest of the year, but at quick glance, they are "OK" (everything is near 50, slightly above or slightly below, but not bad)

Ok, next to the Sabres I probably follow the Leafs the most of any time. Listen to a LOT Of 590 out of Toronto (seeing how I can't stand WGR and Mike Schopp and live in Northern Niagara county so I get the Canadian stations in pretty clearly.) So I'm trying to think of what I remember about Timmins game... Now the stats might prove my impression totally wrong, but what I THINK I remember about him is he was a decent skater but not fast at all, and he doesn't like to carry the puck. He would be a guy on a breakout that once he got the puck, he never took more than a stride or two with it, he would almost immediately pass it to someone else. Was not a 'full motor' guy, but more of a guy that paced himself, conserved energy on the ice and maybe took a slightly longer shift because of it. Of course, he was not one of the main guys in Toronto, so my memory and attention to him wasn't all that great. All this talk and effort acquiring a RHD...I personally never thought Jokiharju was all that bad and I'm not sure how much better these guys are than he was.

Any chance that Timmins is the guy who ends up skating most of the time with Power?