Phaneuf to the Leafs

Quote Originally Posted by weeble5672:



Gustavsson needs some time. Too much pressure to put on a guy switching to an entirely different style of pucks. Toskala was finished in Toronto no matter what they did with him. Giguere, in my estimation, is just some insurance for the next year or so while Gustavsson improves on his knack for giving up giant rebounds.

I do see the need to have a guy mentor Gustavsson but the price tag is kinda hefty.

Fuckin Burke..

Real winners today are the Bruins who just locked up Hall or Seguin. I am sure that was another "great" trade for the Leafs though and anyone that criticized it was a hater.

Did you watch White play last night.........best all around defensemen.....not a chance.  Fantastic deal for the Leafs.

And you base that on one game?

I dont care what anyone says these where 2 good trades for TO

Burke is the F***ing man and blake and his big contract are gone.

As a long time Leafs fan I love these trades:

White - average at best

Hagman - invisible 90% of the time

Stajan - never gonna make it in T.O. (had his chance)

Mayers - LOL

Blake - double LOL

Toskala - triple LOL

Great news all around.  Shipped out 7 useless bums for 1 stud D-Man and some potential.  I'll eat 1 more year of Giguere's contract in exchnage of 3 years of Blake's (who should be in the AHL)

White's been a better player than Phaneuf over the past season and a half, but obviously you'd still rather have Phaneuf on your team in the long-term. You have to think he'll pick up his game at some point.

I'm not a Burke fan, and I had a huge problem with the Kessel trade, but I think that this one's pretty good. The problem is that by trading away three of your top six forwards and getting none back in return, they've basically guaranteed a bottom two finish in the standings. It makes that first Kessel draft pick look really costly.

Who are the number one and two centers now? Tyler Bozak and John Mitcheel?

Remember leaf fans this is what burke said today

( We are still open for business. We are not done.)

The only problem is that they dont have much more left to give up IMO.....if kaberle doesnt waive his NTC,what other valuable talent do they have?

Exactly. All that's left of any value is Ponikarovsky, and trading him for another forward wouldn't really get you anywhere. I don't think Beauchemin is movable, so the only option is to trade Kaberle and Burke said today that he was going to honour the no-trade clause.

unless they are willing to part ways with schenn, kadri or bozak. i really don't see what other assests of any value they have to move.

It would have been nice to get a draft choice or 2 in these deals today. It is my understanding that the Leafs will pick around 90th overall in the upcoming draft. I guess Burke is sticking to his guns when he said this is a shitty draft other than a few elite players going early.

I'm not sure what to think of these deals as of now but I do know this, the Leafs are very thin up front and THANK GOD THEY TRADED JASON BLAKE. Nothing I can think of that is harder to watch than Blake skating all over the ice and accomplishing nothing most of the time.

Quote Originally Posted by Silvershark:

Don't forget with Phaneuf comes Elisha Cuthbert

She's declining faster than Phaneuf.