NHL Trade Rumours – Leafs Trading Tavares? Berube to Leafs? Habs Signing KHL Star? Bruins GM Speaks
Toronto Maple Leafs Trade Rumours
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17:40 Leafs Trading Tavares?
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Time Stamps:
0:00 Intro
0:45 Bos vs FLA Recap
4:00 Bruins GM Speaks
6:30 EDM vs VAN Recap, Soucy Suspended
9:20 Sabres Coaching News
10:00 Wheeler close to Return
10:45 NHL Awards News
11:30 Lassi Thompson Signs in SHL
11:50 Habs Signign KHL Star
13:07 Coaching News – NJ, Jets & Leafs
17:40 Leafs Trading Tavares?
Tavares wont be traded,nmc!
It sucks that things haven't worked out with Tavares but if they can find a decent deal, I'd say go for it.
Tavares will be a tough trade, Leafs up against the Cap $97,645,821
On top of referees speaking to the press to explain themselves, I think this should be spread through other leagues. Officials need to be accountable for their actions, not held like paper gods
No chance JT waives his NMC
Who would take a 33 year old at 11 million, maybe if Leafs retain half his salary and they still won't get much, maybe 3-4 round pick
I dont feel like tavares is traded because they resign him next year for at least half of what he is making now, I feel like marner is more likely to be traded unless he is willing to take a major pay cut next year
It amazes me that any player would want to sign with the Leafs when the accountability always rests with the individual. The contract is about term not performance or championships.
The NHL and PA need to consider supporting contracts that can be terminated based on mutual agreement.
Giroux was a C and just moved to LW
Should buy out Tavares contract and upgrade the goalie position with a true contender thats hasn’t past his expiry date with sone of the cap space but they won’t because their the leafs and winning not in the model for them
Sam Bennett should NOT have even been on the ice for the last game, in view of his clear sucker punch on Brad Marchand. Then, as a result of the NHL's predictably dismal failure to act in this matter, they end up with another comtroversy on their hands after making a further dog's dinner of the 'Bennett Goalie interference' call.
As usual, playoff officiating in these playoffs has frequently been as sadly poor as we have come to expect. Baffling inconsistency when it comes to dealing with perceived goalie interference calls (as per my 'Bennett comments' above), top players seemingly getting a free pass at times (the 'high stick to Quinn Hughes face' incident), and the list goes on. Equally predictably, Gary Bettman and the rest of the NHL hierarchy, sit silently up in their seeming ivory towers, offering no accountability, clarification or words of wisdom at all, regarding such matters. Sad stuff, really☹️.
If jt agrees. It's also reason he is the captain of maple.leafs….and world class pro. Put team first. That jersey and its history in this game. Things mkdern fans likely completely don't undersrand. But, it's cart before horse. This franchises problems hasn't been players. Been culture entitled the young core long ago. Now we have elite old school gm. First we find his style of coach thay will demand locker room and bench. And offer players opportunity to take next step as pro players. If anyone we need to move on from is Reilly. He will never be top 5 Norris guy. And time tk use his paychecks to install that quarterback bkieliner. As Brad builds his iron fist brick defensive layer on blue line. Anyway. Like most who came.to to Trento as elite kings in this league lole jt was. It's dubas Era crap failed him. Leaf fans ahoild remember that. We reduced jt to be pondhockey guy as culture from who he was. Top nasty 200 foot puck hungry slot net center….we all remember him and Hyman…look at Hyman now lol…anyway…class dismissed
A team not making the playoffs isn’t going to want Tavares, unless he accepts a huge discount. It’s teams going for the cup that would want him. Not unlike rentals.
Gary and Bill try to placate the southern US market and owners.
The NHL should support the IIHF and ban Russian players
How about bundling Marner and Tavarres?
The NHL has had professional sport's worst officiating for decades, this is nothing new.
It's just magnified now because its playoffs
It's the same every year.
LOL! And who's gonna take him?
Not the Hawks, they have the cap space, but he's on a way different timeline.
Why is Tim called a center is a joke. He's defensively irresponsible and can't take a draw,that's called a winger
If Gilmour was on the Leaf team instead of Tavares, Toronto would have won a Stanley Cup.
Tavares has done nothing as a captain for the team when Comparing Gilmore to him.
Compare Tavares to Crosby who always works to improve his game.
Tavares is a lazy millionaire…
What contending team is going to want those two cream puffs in the playoffs….both don't waive their NTCS…they are going to stick it too the leafs when they both leave for nothing
Bringing back players that are part of a losing culture is ridiculous. Get rid of them.
It is all rigged for the Panthers to get past the Bruins.
In no way am I a fan of either team.
Great Video, as usual, Mike. I don't know about Craig Berube to Toronto, even though it's A Likely Thing. Let me know what you think
Berube if he is hired by the Leafs will hold these entitled players accountable unless upper management continue to coddle the core 4.
Berube seems like the right candidate for the job of preparing the Leafs.
Under Keefe they never looked ready to play they always seemed lethargic or lazy taking periods off not competing for the full sixty minutes.
@brendanaucoin
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Trade Matheson and pick #24 for pick 2, 3, or 4 for Catton Lindstrom, Mitchcov, or Iginla. Matheson is the prime candidate. That means a balanced lineup of Suzuki, Cole, Lindstrom, Dach, Slav, and Maser, Newhook, Roy, Catton or Iginla, 4th line of Beck, Evans, and Armia. A strong D with our #5 pick will make our future a strong contender for the playoffs!
Don't see Tavares waiving is n m c leafs may be stuck one more year.
Trading Marner will be easier to move instead of Tavares. There's really no point in trading Tavares at this point in his career. He might just leave anyways at the end of next season and the Leafs won't really get any return value back either.
I think Swayman was too far out of position to make the save on the Bennett goal. I don't know if that makes a difference, I haven't read the rules on it.
How does Shannahan still have a job?
tavares for seth jones. maybe the leafs can throw something else in. otherwise, the leafs are retaining salary to dump him.
marner, liljegren, pick for zegras and gibson.
leafs get a 2C, a top pair dman, and a proven goalie. not much cap relief but this is what they'd have spent it on anyway.
Armchair GM here:
To CBJ: 2024 1st rd (WPG)
Owen Beck
Riley Kidney
To MTL: David Jiricek
It's not weird it's corrupt
I've heard some of the Refs give a reason why there is or isn't a goal, such as The Puck Didn't Completely Go Over The Goal Line. Therefore, We Have No Goal. I would like, as you've said, that there's always some type of explanation on every play, especially Why It Is Or Is Not A Distinct Kicking Motion. Let me know what you think
If I was Treliving Here is what I would do. You need to go to every single player who has a NTC or NMC and ask them individually if they even want to be there anymore. If they all say yes then you ask ALL ofthem IF there was a position or a trade that they believe will help the team and also put them on a team and a chance to have success as well would they consider moving. If they all say no then theres nothing the team can do, you ride out JTS contract and you kill another year and go all in the year after next when they have that extra money .
By Askin everyone even if they dont intend to move them say Matthews , it says to say Marner if he says no , ok well its not that they just dont ant me theyre not pinning this on me they asked everyone so if he says no he doesnt think the teams saying hes the problem.
IMO. The core 4 are all back next season, Marner will resign, this is all posturing from managment to get through another year to get JTs contract off the books . with Tavares contract gone they dont need to move on fro Marner they can make this team deeper by the increase in cap that will undoubtedtely happen again next year and the 11M from JTs contract I dont think they resign him unless he takes say 3M and ill take a 3rd line checking role.
The leafs will do the same thing as they did last season without the benefit of the flat cap and it going up next year. because they only reason DOMI and Bertuzzi signed the 1 year deal and ame to toronto was to bet on themselves and get a longer term deal and more money when the cap goes u this next season.
Here is how I see if playing out. Core 5 returns. Domi/Edmundson Return. They sign a veteran to platoon games with Woll , not a true number one like a Saros or a Markstrom , They make a big free agent signing for the least amount of years possible for the least amount of money possible to pacify the fan base. And wait it out til when JT comes off the books,
Thinking Bennett has "key photos" of little man Gary. Dude does pretty much whatever he wants on the ice and the zebras bizarrely ignore it. The sucker punch was obvious because you can see Bennett's arm extend…the question there is does he hit Marchand with the butt end of his stick. Crickets from player safety. Last season there was the vicious and dangerous undertaker wrestling play on Matthew Knies but weirdly neither the zebras or player safety saw a thing. For me Sam Bennett is the new Raffi Torres. Everyone knows he's a dirty POS intentionally injuring players every chance he gets, but for some reason the league doesn't care.
For reference, I've no dog in this hunt. I don't care one iota whether Florida, Boston, or Toronto win games…okay I do prefer for the Leafs to lose most nights. lol …and I watched that nasty play on young Matthew Knies and it ticked me straight off. Bennett should've been suspended for the remainder of the playoffs for that…yet the officials didn't even seem to notice or care. Very strange.
This is my thoughts. Management is trying to pacify the fan base until JT comes off the books. Marner wont be traded. Look at it this way, this draft isnt the deepest of drafts that ive heard of anyways but they chose to still hold onto that first round pick rther then using it to get a rental or get a real impact player to help them win. Why is that? because they see the flawed way this roster has been nuilt now after so many failed attempts, they know theyre not built to win in the playoffs. They know they need a guy like a Konecny and a Laughton, they know they need a goalie who can win games by themselves they know they need to be tougher and better defensively. And the team they have now cant be that team. So why throw away assets to bandaid a flawed team no matter the value of the pick. By flawed i mean having 4 players over 11M , but once JT comes off and the cap goes up two more times. Theres only 3 and the cap goes up they will be able to spend that money to really deepen this team and get a proper left winger , get that piece on offence and defence when before they were having to choose one or the other,
Leaf fans wont want to hear this however next year wont be any different. It will be a transition year. Transition year to get JTs contract off the books. They will resign Marner to a Matching contract to Nylanders. 26-27 and 27-28 will be the years they go all in and actually try to win and spend the assets to do so,
They only care because it lead to a goal, if it wasn’t a goal then NOBODY would care, be consistent, just because there’s a goal in the area of the play doesn’t mean it becomes a complaining point. Nobody has to explaining anything, the NHL does not pay podcasters to complain or watch TV.
They are much more likely to open Tavares’ contract and offer him 5 years at $5 million per year.
Is anyone really surprised at the missed calls by the oficials? Before there was only one on the ice to screw the game up now they can do it twicw as much. Soon they will have a third one to overrule the screw ups on the ice. As Roenick once said "NHL wake the hell up".
Leafs need a lot of changes before they can compete with Florida. Otherwise they will never make it past the 1st or 2nd round in the playoffs playing the best Atlantic division teams
Trade…. Trade…. Trade….
Does anyone really know?
Marner and Tavares are in control !…. Does anyone know what they are thinking?.. both of them can say “NO”. All this trade talk is JIBERISH!
If AI comes along far enough you could have AI analyzing every interaction and play. It would make everything much more consistent. Use real life refs for the implementation of the calls rather than making them