Overhauling the Leafs

[goosedennis]

I didn't want a thread with 1 update & 3 pages of spam.

[goosedennis]

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Leafs Fire Burke

TORONTO -- After two years with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Brian Burke finds himself on the unemployment list along with former head coach Ron Wilson. An unknown official from MLSE has told the Leafs' website that "Burke was an okay general manager, but we feel that there are others who could do his job better tenfold." The Maple Leafs are expected to replace Burke with former Vancouver Canuck Pavel Bure. Ron Wilson does not currently have a replacement, but did have a comment for the Toronto Press: "I dklfdfskldfskn."

[Moses Doughty]

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Viva la Russia

And is Wilson speaking like Don Vito from Viva la Bam?

[goosedennis]

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Leafs Draft Update

Transactions at the draft:
Leafs trade 2010 4th round pick (Toronto) and 2010 5th round pick (New Jersey) to Edmonton for 2010 4th round pick (Edmonton)

NHL Draft
Pick	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt
62	Mark Pysyk	D	6'2"	178
91	Ryan Johansen	C	6'3"	188
122	Stanislav Galiev	LW	6'1"	177
182	Tomas Hricina	LW	6'2"	198
188	Barron Smith	D	6'4"	210
209	Jan Niklas Pietsch	D	6'1"	204

[goosedennis]

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Leafs Re-Sign

Nikolai Kulemin highlights the Leafs resignees.

TORONTO - Only 4 players resigned with the Toronto Maple Leafs, and they were RFA C John Mitchell, RFA LW Nikolai Kulemin, RFA C Christian Hanson and UFA C Wayne Primeau. The Leafs also signed all their draft picks from this year.

[goosedennis]

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Leafs Sign Vets Turco, Prospal



TORONTO - It was announced by Toronto's GM Pavel Bure today that the Leafs have signed veteran players Vaclav "Vinny" Prospal and Marty Turco, each to 2-year contracts. Prospal will make $3 million each year and Turco will make close to $5 million. Bure says that "[The Leafs] hope that the signing of Turco will help us unload JS Giguere's behemoth of a contract." Expecting Giguere to be in the AHL next season, this puts the Leafs at a salary of $38.435, which is below the league minimum. This may cause the Leafs to keep Giguere in the NHL this year.

The Leafs also sent Colton Orr and a mid-level prospect to the Oilers for W Robert Nilsson.

Leafs lines:

Nilsson - Prospal - Kessel
Kulemin - Grabovski - Stalberg
Bozak - Mitchell - Sjostrom
Hanson - Primeau - Rosehill

Phaneuf - Schenn
Kaberle - Komisarek
Beauchemin - Finger

Turco
Giguere

[goosedennis]

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Alright guys, this is my plan for this season:

Simulate until end of year, give an update

Reasoning: It's the Cup Finals ATM irl so...

I'll also simulate the next season and give another update.

[goosedennis]

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GM goals this season:
-Trade Jeff Finger
-Trade JS Giguere
-Disregard GM rep, acquire prospects

Owner goal:
-I will be happily surprised if you make the playoffs, but won't be angry if you don't

[goosedennis]

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End-of-Year Update



TORONTO - It was a tight race for the worst team in hockey, but the Leafs finally "won" it in the end. With a team record of 30-46-6, the Leafs ended the year with 66 points. That was significantly worse than the Minnesota Wild, the second worst team in hockey, with 72 points (31-41-10). I'm sure that the Bruins are happy, as they get to choose from Larsson, RNH, or Sean Couturier. It's also not going to be a good year in the FA department for the Leafs as prospective franchise defenseman Luke Schenn is an RFA.

[goosedennis]

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Leafs Get Stamkos at Draft

Stamkos will now be a teammate of Gunnarsson

MINNESOTA - At the NHL Draft today, Pavel Bure made a swift move, sending D Dion Phaneuf, a 2013 2nd round pick and a 2014 1st round pick to Tampa Bay for C Steven Stamkos. This comes the year that Stamkos becomes an RFA, so it may just be both sides trying to deal from a strength. Evgeni Malkin was a recent acquisition for the Tampa Bay Bolts, so Stamkos sort of became expendable. Steve Yzerman, NHL legend and Lightning GM said this about the trade: "Well, I'm trying to get a nice defenseman here, as I dealt Hedman to Pittsburgh in the Malkin deal." Stamkos, 21, is coming off of a disappointing season where he put 24 in the net and assisted on 32 others for 56 points.

[goosedennis]

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Offseason review:

Resigned C Steven Stamkos to 3-year, $18.975 million contract
Re-upped D Luke Schenn to 2-year, $11.57 million contract
Signed RFA D Drew Doughty to 1-year, $6.155 million contract - sent first 3 rounds of picks to Los Angeles
Signed LW Sergei Samsonov to 2-year, $3.90 million contract
Signed RW Teemu Selanne to 1-year, $790,000 contract
Signed RW Mike Knuble to 1-year, $745,000 contract
Signed LW Jay Pandolfo to 1-year, $550,000 contract
Signed C Doug Weight to 1-year, $530,000 contract
Signed D Adam Foote to 1-year, $550,000 contract


Named Teemu Selanne captain
Named Doug Weight alternate captain
Named Adam Foote alternate captain

[goosedennis]

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Leafs went 43-29-10 and made the playoffs as the 4th seed. They beat the Florida (WTF) Panthers in 7 games but lost to the Montreal Canadiens in 7 games.

[goosedennis]

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Transactions:

-Traded Marty Turco to teh Avalanche for their 1st round pick (9)
-Traded Phil Kessel and a 2012 2nd to St Louis for TJ Oshie, a 2011 1st and a 2012 1st.
-Claimed Matt Walker off Waivers from Dallas
-Claimed goalie Peter Budaj off waivers
-Claimed goalie Brent Johnson off waivers from Pittsburgh

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Draft:
-Traded St. Louis 1st (21) and Colorado (9) 1st to Ottawa
for Ottawa 1st (1)
-Drafted G Ian Gaborik (20) 1st overall
-DRafted C Gregory Jambrosich (18) 110th overall
-Drafted G Jacob Gervais-Chourinard (10) 140th overall
-Drafted D Duncan Siemens (18) 170th overall
-Drafted LW Josh Winquist (18) 207th overall
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Resigning period:
-Signed:
G Jonas Gustavsson to 3-year, $2.24M per year contrac5
G Brent Johnson to 1-year, $685,000 contract
(P) G Jan Gaborik to 3-year, $900,000 entry-level conract
RFA D Drew Doughty to an 8-year, $56,000,040 contract ($7.005 M/year)
RW Robert Nilsson to 2-year, $1.875M per year contract
RW Teemu Selanne to 1-year, $575,000 contract
RFA LW Luca Caputi to a 1-year, $1M contract
RFA D Keith Aulie to a 3-year, $3.000M total contract
RFA D Carl Gunnarsson to a 2-year, $2M total contract
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Salary cap after that: $19.060M
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Goals in FA:
-Acquire a long-term goaltender
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Top goaltenders:
28 y/o BFLY Jimmy Howard (85 OVR, C/C/C, Wants $5.285/4)
29 y/o BFLY Pekka Rinne (84 OVR, C/C/C, Wants $3.580/4)
36 y/o HYBR Evgeni Nabokov (83 OVR, E/D-/D-, Wants $2.580/1)
36 y/o STND Marty Turco (82 OVR, D/D/D, Wants $2.890/1)
40 y/o STND Martin Brodeur (81 OVR, E/D-/D-, Wants $805,000/1)
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Signed:
20 y/o D (P) Gabe Minville (67 OVR, B-/B-/B-, given 3-year min. entry level)
21 y/o D (P) Nico Manelius (66 OVR, B/C/B-, given 3-year min. entry level)
(both on June 3)
40 y/o STND G Martin Brodeur (81 OVR, E/D-/D-, given $750,000/1)
27 y/o D Brent Burns (84 OVR, C/C/C, given 6-year, $34.7M contract)
21 y/o LW (P) Mattias Lindstrom (71 OVR, B-/B-/B-, given 3-year min. entry level)
35 y/o C Chris Drury (82 OVR, D/C-/C-, given 2-year, $3.75M contract)
22 y/o D (P) Jaroslav Kruzik (74 OVR, B/B-/B-, given 3-year, $850,000 entry contract)
(all on June 4)
27 y/o D Brent Seabrook (87 OVR, C-/C-/C-, given 6-year, $33.1M contract)
(all on June 8)
TRADED G JONAS GUSTAVSSON TO EDMONTON FOR A 2ND ROUND DRAFT PICK ON JUNE 10TH
23 y/o C Brett Sonne accepted the qualifying offer presented to him
23 y/o RW Dale Mitchell accepted the qualifying offer presented to him
(June 12th)
28 y/o Jimmy Howard (85 OVR, C/C/C, given 4-year, $5.235M contract)
25 y/o RFA Nikolai Kulemin (81 OVR, C/C/C, given 1-year, $1.925M contract)
(June 15th)
CLOSED POCKETBOOK ON ANYONE WANTING OVER $1.25M
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Prospect progression:
C Ryan Johansen - 67 ovr --> 78 ovr
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[goosedennis]

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Toronto Maple Leafs Preseason Depth Chart - 2012
	STARTER	2ND	3RD	4TH
LW	Luca Caputi (79, B-/C/C)	Robert Slaney (73, B-/B-/C)	Sean Couturier (71, B/B/B)	Brendan Drake (63, B-/B/A-)
C	Ryan Johansen (78, A-/B-/B-)	Nazem Kadri (74, B-/B/B)	Brett Sonne (73, B-/B-/C)	Tomas Hricina (64, B-/B-/C)
RW	Matt D'Agostini (79, C/C/C)	Stanislav Galiev (70, B-/B-/B-)	Mattias Lindström (71, B-/B/B)	Mark Stone (62, C/B-/B)
D #1	Jaroslav Kruzik (74, B-/A-/B-)	Juraj Mikus (73, B-/B-/C)	Nico Manelius (66, B-/B-/B)	Joonas Hurri (66, B-/B-/B)
D #2	Mark Pysyk (72, B-/A-/B)	Barron Smith (69 -insert sex joke here-, B-/B/B)	Gabe Minville (67, C/A-/B)
G	Scott Stajcer (B-/A-/B-)	Jan Gaborik (B-/C/A)

[bthomp05]

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Wow, your whole team is made up of prospects.