Leafs continue to build through free agency

PKC wrote:Why does everyone have such a hard on for Schenn?

I think he's a great young defenseman, but I wouldn't build a team around him...the same way you wouldn't build a team around Anton Volchenkov, Jason Smith or Greg Zanon.

504Heater wrote:

PKC wrote:Why does everyone have such a hard on for Schenn?

I think he's a great young defenseman, but I wouldn't build a team around him...the same way you wouldn't build a team around Anton Volchenkov, Jason Smith or Greg Zanon.

I've secretly wondered this from the moment they took him. Franchise D-man? Perhaps, but not the be all to end all, that's for sure.

davetherave wrote:It's Toronto's hockey karma...it's been effed up for decades...

SensFan71 wrote:In Toronto he is, the media there has the ability to do that, make you a freaking superstar or a piece o' Dung, we should be loving the fact that is who they think is a franchise player.

Hockeyhero22000 wrote:did he really say that about "canada's team" i didnt realize that

Hockeyhero22000 wrote:you are right i kinda liked him before but that kind of ignorance adn arogance annoys me

PKC wrote:Why does everyone have such a hard on for Schenn?

I think he's a great young defenseman, but I wouldn't build a team around him...the same way you wouldn't build a team around Anton Volchenkov, Jason Smith or Greg Zanon.

Good defensive defenseman are fantastic to have, and possibly even essential, but they don't win you championships on their own, and you don't build a team around them.

And that's all that Schenn is, a defensive defenseman. Teams need defensemen that are great going both ways to build around -- Pronger, Niedermayer, Green, Markov, Boyle, etc...

If Burke had a chance to move up to first in the draft by trading Toronto's first and Luke Schenn, he'd be a damn idiot for not doing it.

SeawaySensFan wrote:

SensFan71 wrote:In Toronto he is, the media there has the ability to do that, make you a freaking superstar or a piece o' Dung, we should be loving the fact that is who they think is a franchise player.

The second shared his delight at being chosen by "Canada's Team" in the draft, he was instantly in the piece o'Dung category for me.

beedub wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

SensFan71 wrote:In Toronto he is, the media there has the ability to do that, make you a freaking superstar or a piece o' Dung, we should be loving the fact that is who they think is a franchise player.

The second shared his delight at being chosen by "Canada's Team" in the draft, he was instantly in the piece o'Dung category for me.

Perhaps the perception that players have about Toronto is different than that shared by many on this site.

I read, I believe on TSN.ca, that Tavares, when he heard that Burke was making a serious pitch to get him, was jacked. He was very excited to play in Toronto. It appears that players do not perceive it as the 'black hole' as some fans do.

beedub wrote:Were that the entire truth, then he should praying and hoping that NYI is successful, as IMO, there is no worse a team, or no better team to showcase himself on than the Islanders. No offense, but NYI is in much worse shape than TO.

I believe he truly feels that Toronto is where he needs to be. I am sure it's a sentiment shared by a lot more players than you think.....

SensFan71 wrote: There were rumours about this being a Lindros situation with Tavares saying he refuses to play for the Isles

SeawaySensFan wrote:

SensFan71 wrote: There were rumours about this being a Lindros situation with Tavares saying he refuses to play for the Isles

I heard Kypreos plant that little seed in Garth Snow's head yesterday.

He might as well just have said "trade the pick to my hero, Burkie, because Tavares won't play for you anyway".