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Leafs should call Tampa and say we might be willing to give them Bozak for Drouin ... all they need to add to the deal is Vasilevskiy and a 1st.
 
they should throw in permission to negotiate with stamkos, while they're at it.

also... that's a done deal.
 
LOF probably thinks Leafs can get Drouin for Bozak, Phaneuf, Lupul, and a 6th.


But giving up the 6th would make him hesitant because *insert current NHL player here* was once drafted in the 6th round.

#fullretard
 
It's kinda interesting Yzerman is putting so much stock in Copper when he's apparently the reason Stamkos and Drouin both want out of town.

At the end of the day, it's the players who win championship.
 
Sometimes putting your team in a playoff position on a consistent basis is more important to some teams. Not justifying it as a fan and i don't think a GM hamstrings his team in hopes of just making the playoffs but having a coach have the ability to makes the playoffs consistently is important to revenue.

Tampa and St Louis need to put butts into seats and get TV viewers to stay alive. Keeping a team consistently in the playoffs year after year if a sure way to keep viewership up.
 
But yeah, the past couple pages here are comical. LOF, you don't seem to have any idea of a) how highly regarded a prospect Drouin is/was; b) how well he's produced since being drafted; c) the odds of getting a player better than him outside the top-10 in a draft (infinitesimally low); d) how ****ing talented Jonathan Drouin is.
 
mbow30 said:
the headache is stamkos. usually players are hesitant to leave once the dollar figures are floated, regardless of their situation (e.g. rick nash re-signing in columbus, of all places). they're in a bind because their star forward doesn't want to re-sign a market deal in florida, with a team that just made it the finals.
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If they play him as a centre only and don't have him take a secondary role in the playoffs, maybe things are different.
 
Wayward DP said:
But yeah, the past couple pages here are comical. LOF, you don't seem to have any idea of a) how highly regarded a prospect Drouin is/was; b) how well he's produced since being drafted; c) the odds of getting a player better than him outside the top-10 in a draft (infinitesimally low); d) how ****ing talented Jonathan Drouin is.
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The masses can think what they want. It was 100 against 1 in here when Burke was trading for Kessel too. Laugh about Kulemin, but only one guy thought he would score 30 before he did. And Beauchemin was complete trash as a Leaf, regardless of what he was before or after.

As for Drouin, I'd like to get him at a major discount, not by trading two firsts for him like we did for Kessel after he'd already proved himself somewhat. There's a lot we can do with two firsts. I just personally would like to use them at the draft table.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
As for Drouin, I'd like to get him at a major discount, not by trading two firsts for him like we did for Kessel after he'd already proved himself somewhat. There's a lot we can do with two firsts. I just personally would like to use them at the draft table.
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And you honestly think Tampa is willing to let Drouin go for super cheap ?

If so, why would they want to trade him so cheaply ?
 
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And you honestly think Tampa is willing to let Drouin go for super cheap ?

If so, why would they want to trade him so cheaply ?
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Even if they were going to let him go cheaply (I don't think they will, but lets go on the hypothetical that he's available cheap).

If they are giving him away, why would they give him to a divisional rival?
 
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