Recent content by herman

I mean when negotiating outside of arbitration, the offers are usually higher than what Teams put forward for the hearings to anchor the rulings.

Gearing up for the stretch drive to Training Camp. The PPP voters appear to be struggling with this list (because it's not great).

This is player-elected arbitration. Leafs didn't even low ball him that much on this case, which are usually lower than what teams have actually slid across the negotiation table to try to bring the arbitration award amount down.

That is pretty hilarious that they’re going through with this process if those are the numbers involved. 1.89M x 1 yr?

Apparently Varland has a flamethrower and some nasty hooks to complement, and under team control-ish until 2031

Can someone explain this in Leafs/NHL terms? Were his parents ASoIaF fans?

Pretty much, yeah. He touched the scoresheets of 19 teammates, out of 32 skaters who suited up for the Leafs.

Reminded me there was a Knies to Kampf to Nylander goal and a Lorentz - Kampf - Nylander shift that turned into a breakaway goal.

Maybe that's what he likes -- manufacturing a chip on his shoulder 12 of his 15 goals were against poop teams (inc BOS). A comparable might be... Jonatan Berggren who hit 12/12 in a similar role on a worse team last season and signed for 1.85M for one year. Treliving probably offered 1.35M...

It takes time to shift organizational philosophies like this, especially when the personnel and coaching were organized around pure possession hockey for so many years (see all the prospects that have expired and moved on from the org). It was very apparent in the final Dubas and then...

Robertson remains the only arbitration case remaining, scheduled for Aug 3

Yeah, some of them are stupid at dumping, and not everyone was super committed to chasing. It will be very beneficial to have both a ground/run/chase and air/pass/possess game to flip between as the situation and matchup calls for.

I like this. Adds on top of the muscle memory too, which gives more overhead for processing. This is all I could think of when Keefe said “When teams play the Leafs, they set up the game for the Leafs to beat themselves”