Re: The Leafs and Eric Staal Rumours
Ever since Burke came in the leafs have only made 1 trade that was giving away a young player for an “older” player. That was the Kessel for Seguin deal. Now I still say the deal was good because at the time they needed a roster player, and Kessel has been dynamite. Besides that it’s been youth coming our way. Gardiner, Lupul, Franson, Bernier, Frattin, Kozun, Holland, JVR, Ashton. There were older guys coming back like Gleason, Bolland and Polak. But since the days of buying older guys with the leafs money, they’ve been going with the youth movement a lot. So this Eric Staal BS is literally out of the blue (lol).
Staal has a NMC, he has 2 of his 3 brothers in the Carolina organization, he loves Carolina, and he likes the coach. The only thing pushing this rumour is the leafs have reportedly always need a big center, he’s slumping a bit, and he’s from Thunder Bay (closer to Winnipeg I think actually).
12 Team, H2H, Keep 6 (in Bold)
G, A, Pts, PPP, FW, SOG, Hits, Blocks
W, Saves, S%, GAA, Game Started
2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4D, 1Util, 2G, 5BN, 2IR, 1IR+, 1NA
C: Horvat, Trocheck
LW: J. Robertson, Byfield (C), Guenther
RW: Pavelski (C), Giroux (C), Svechnikov (LW)
D: Fox, Makar, Bouchard, Morrissey, Gudas
Util: Meier (LW, RW)
G: Oettinger, Georgiev, Samsonov, Woll