What's Next for The Maple Leafs?

marakh wrote:

davetherave wrote:@ASQ> If I remember correctly from the WJC, Chris DiDomenico is one ornery and talented guy as well.

He's a very good 2 way forward, but was injured in the last part of the season last year and was very missed during the memorial cup run. But he's more of a project, needs to get bigger. Likely 2-3 years away.

davetherave wrote:

marakh wrote:

davetherave wrote:@ASQ> If I remember correctly from the WJC, Chris DiDomenico is one ornery and talented guy as well.

He's a very good 2 way forward, but was injured in the last part of the season last year and was very missed during the memorial cup run. But he's more of a project, needs to get bigger. Likely 2-3 years away.

@Marakh>Scott Gomez type?

davetherave wrote:Seeing as very few of you--if any--were around when the Leafs won their last Stanley Cup, I will take it upon myself to inform you that George 'Punch' Imlach was one of the meanest, nastiest hockey executives ever to walk the earth.

The Leafs won several Cups under his thoroughly foul-mouthed and mean-spirited tutelage.

The Maple Leafs may be a ways from Imlach's teams, but Burke and Wilson will be as nasty as they gotta be to make Toronto a factor again.

davetherave wrote:@ASQ> how do you see Bozak and Hanson as assets for the Leafs?

Tuk Tuk wrote:

davetherave wrote:Seeing as very few of you--if any--were around when the Leafs won their last Stanley Cup, I will take it upon myself to inform you that George 'Punch' Imlach was one of the meanest, nastiest hockey executives ever to walk the earth.

The Leafs won several Cups under his thoroughly foul-mouthed and mean-spirited tutelage.

The Maple Leafs may be a ways from Imlach's teams, but Burke and Wilson will be as nasty as they gotta be to make Toronto a factor again.

That was 40 years ago. Hockey's changed since then.

davetherave wrote:

marakh wrote:

davetherave wrote:@ASQ> If I remember correctly from the WJC, Chris DiDomenico is one ornery and talented guy as well.

He's a very good 2 way forward, but was injured in the last part of the season last year and was very missed during the memorial cup run. But he's more of a project, needs to get bigger. Likely 2-3 years away.

@Marakh>Scott Gomez type?

davetherave wrote:@ASQ> how do you see Bozak and Hanson as assets for the Leafs?

asq2 wrote:

davetherave wrote:@ASQ> how do you see Bozak and Hanson as assets for the Leafs?

Bozak I've watched some of, Hanson I've seen very little of apart from his time with the Leafs (apparently he had a hattrick in the Leafs rookie game).

I think Hanson's probably more of a 3rd liner-type. Bozak can be and probably is a top-6er, but definitely not a guy who can carry an offence.

cas wrote:

asq2 wrote:

davetherave wrote:@ASQ> how do you see Bozak and Hanson as assets for the Leafs?

Bozak I've watched some of, Hanson I've seen very little of apart from his time with the Leafs (apparently he had a hattrick in the Leafs rookie game).

I think Hanson's probably more of a 3rd liner-type. Bozak can be and probably is a top-6er, but definitely not a guy who can carry an offence.

In other words, Bozak = Kunitz, Hanson = meh

davetherave wrote:Remember when Eddie Shack used to eat garlic before a game so he could breathe in goalies' faces?

That was Maple Leafs hockey, eh.

davetherave wrote:Remember when Eddie Shack used to eat garlic before a game so he could breathe in goalies' faces?

That was Maple Leafs hockey, eh.

Tuk Tuk wrote:

davetherave wrote:Remember when Eddie Shack used to eat garlic before a game so he could breathe in goalies' faces?

That was Maple Leafs hockey, eh.

Still stinks, just not for the same reason