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Forum: Armchair-GM2 hours ago
Thread: A Scouts Proposed Marner Trade
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>MitchJr</b></div><div>What scout proposed this?</div></div>
Thanks for pointing out that in a typical senior moment, I forgot to hit "Save" after typing out the explanatory Team Description. It's Jason Bukala, the principal of The Pro Hockey Group, who does the scouting reports for CapFriendly. His detailed evaluation of all 26 Maple Leafs this past season are the 26 new scouting reports indicated by that red "26" in the top menu, and constitute the bulk of his long article that appeared on the MSN news crawl today. That article included an analysis of both the team with Marner, and the team without him plus a possible trade getting there. (The CF scouting reports are an abbreviated version of what he wrote about each player in the article.)

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>MitchJr</b></div><div>What scout proposed this? Absolutely ridiculous:
1/ Marner waives - in a contract year - to play for the worst team in the league 🙄
2/ nothing of interest for the Leafs; Ferraro is undersized and plays the wrong side
3/ Leafs adding Liljegren &amp; Robertson confirms this so called scout is just a troll</div></div>
I wouldn't say that he's a troll, because apparently CF treats him as legitimate, but the reason I posted this is precisely because my reaction is the same as yours. To me, even if Marner <strong>were</strong> to waive his NMC (which I doubt just on a general basis), I refuse to believe that it would be to go to San Jose, a team that is no more likely to do better next season with Celebrini than Chicago did this season with Bedard. And it's way heavy on the Toronto side in any event.
Forum: Fauteuil - DG3 hours ago
Thread: Wishes for summer
Welcome to CapFriendly. Sometimes, it's not too friendly.

Since this is your first effort, you're probably unaware that this very trade, either exactly or something very similar to it, has been proposed dozens of times, and always by Habs fans only. We're not convinced that Sean Farrell is an impact player in the NHL, a LhD (no matter how highly you value him) as a major element of a Trevor Zegras trade is unappealing given that we have even greater strength and depth there than you do, and the Winnipeg first doesn't have much wow factor when we own the Edmonton first. Our standing ask for Zegras remains the same: a quality right-handed forward prospect like Owen Beck or Filip Mesar plus your 2024 first-round draft pick. If that seems high, understand that contrary to popular but misguided rumor, Zegras isn't on the block and it would take a high-quality, high-value offer to get him. We're perfectly willing to keep him as one of our top 6 for the rest of the decade.
Forum: Armchair-GM4 hours ago
Thread: upgrade----gt2025
I'm not a fan of any of these moves.

I doubt that the upgrade from Moore to Necas (if any, given that the local boy was our leading goal scorer this year and excellent defensively) is worth the almost 80% increase in cap hit.

Our best LhD for a first and a prospect RD (as good a prospect as he is) leaves us with two rookies on the right side and more than double the cap hit to bring in Werenski, whom neither he nor Columbus will agree to move.

Danault and Spence for futures -- like the Anderson trade -- is a surrender to the belief that the team won't compete for another two seasons.

Basically, what you've done here is traded away three valuable top-quality veterans in their prime for one younger first-line player and exchanged the experienced Jordan Spence for the untried Scott Morrow, thereby seriously weakening our defense and postponing our window of contention from now to the future. Moreover, since the first trade shouldn't happen, the Werenski trade could only occur with our own 2024 and 2026 firsts, which isn't acceptable even if Columbus and Werenski himself were so inclined.

The only "upgrade" I see here is signing Dakota Joshua, but I think that you're at least 10% short of what he's going to go for.
Forum: Armchair-GM7 hours ago
Thread: LaCombe cost Anaheim fans
There are some interesting possibilities here. The same pick swap is available in the second round because we have the Boston pick. Also, we're lacking a 2025 second, so yours for our 2025 third is an idea. I think that you would have to add a little in a pick swap. If we're talking about straight value,

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Manson</b></div><div>Maybe a Second and a decent forward prospect.</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>StDetroitBlueWings</b></div><div>2nd + Dylan Peterson or Tanner Dickenson?</div></div>
I don't know your team too well, but they might be right. Also, since those two prospects are centers, we'd look at Simon Robertsson and Marcus Sylvegard, because we're thin at RW. I know NOTHING about any of the four of them, so please don't be insulted if I've stumbled on your second-best forward prospect. But I think that LaCombe has definite second-pairing potential.
Forum: Armchair-GM20 hours ago
Forum: Armchair-GMYesterday at 3:10 p.m.
Thread: Easton Cowens Team
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>shucket</b></div><div>What I don’t understand look at the haul Dubois got, and Marner is gonna be traded for nothing?</div></div>
What you don't understand is that there's a third theory governing Marner trades, which is the one to which most of us outside Leafs Nation subscribe: in addition to (1) Marner should get what you think he's worth, and (2) Marner is going to get a lot less than what you think he's worth, there's (3): Marner isn't going to get what you think he's worth because almost teams can't afford it, i.e., <strong>he'll cost too much</strong>.

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>shucket</b></div><div>People think since he has a NMC and gets to pick where he wants to go he holds no value. If he’s available 31 teams will try and make it work and you’ll be surprised the amount of assets they give up for him when they do.</div></div>
(1) That's not what most people think, in large part because (2) very few people think that Marner holds no value. On the contrary: the reason why people decline proposed Marner trades, 9 times out of 10, it's because the cost of paying to acquire him is too high. That's because he's the inevitable result of the by-now-discredited theory of constructing a roster by concentrating a gigantic and inordinate amount of cap space in a very few ultra-high-quality assets.