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The Official 2026 Off-Season Thread: Revenge of the Nerds

BG said:
The other interesting thing about the Raddysh sign & trade, was that one of the most well-respekted managers in the NHL (and in our division) needed to put pen to paper for John Chayka, supposedly one of the least-respekted managers in the NHL.

Tampa could've dragged their feet, they could have asked for more, they could have out-and-out refused to make a deal with the Leafs. Instead they took a late pick, and did the deal early.
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The probable scenario was that Tampa went to Raddysh with their contract offer. Raddysh's camp probably responded with "we are going to free agency", so Tampa knew that they would get nothing in return when he walked on July 1. Further conversations ensued, a deal with Toronto was made, and you know the rest.
 
leafman101 said:
And Dubas only did that out of principle because he overpaid to dump Marleau. And the Leafs value for salary trades was way off.
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Has anyone else ever given up a 1st rounder—let alone one that’s just outside of the top-10 too—just to dump one year of a contract?

Carolina took Dubas to the cleaners on that deal, then went and picked Seth Jarvis with our 13th overall pick.

And if all that wasn’t bad enough, the reason Dubas was so desperate to dump that last year of Marleau’s contract was so he’d have the space to keep Johnsson & Kapanen and sign them to 4x$3.4M & 3x$3.2M respectively.
 
Kapanen was worth the 15th overall in thst draft, and they didn't think the pick they traded would be nearly as high as 13th.
 
One of the street hockey guys today (Kings fan) was going off about how much he hated Hiller. Said he’s not offensive minded at all, leans defense big time, and makes terrible decisions in the clutch. He said we should expect our offensive game to suffer a lot. I told him everything I’ve seen seems to show that the numbers were very good in LA and that maybe it’s a personnel thing, but he was having none of it.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
One of the street hockey guys today (Kings fan) was going off about how much he hated Hiller. Said he’s not offensive minded at all, leans defense big time, and makes terrible decisions in the clutch. He said we should expect our offensive game to suffer a lot. I told him everything I’ve seen seems to show that the numbers were very good in LA and that maybe it’s a personnel thing, but he was having none of it.
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Hiller coached the roster the way it was constructed, he's said so himself. Felt that a 1-3-1 was the only way to go, and he's probably right. When Adrian Kempe is your best offensive player, playing firewagon hockey will get you beat 6-3 a lot.
 
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