Dans cette vidéo, je passe en revue la signature d’Oliver Ekman-Larsson par les Maple Leafs de Toronto et j’explique pourquoi il s’agit en fait d’une signature intéressante et sous-estimée. J’utilise des mesures avancées, des données sur le plafond salarial et des informations contextuelles pour tout décomposer.
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I want the leafs to go out and aquire Brandon Tanev at 50% retained. If they have to give up robertson to do it so be it he wants out anyways….
Free balling I'm righting that song would be a good man scape intro song
I agree that it's time to let Timmons go that cap space is just too important to leave tied up in a 8th dman
he's back!!!
I'm more concerned with them giving Liljegren 2 x 3M who was a healthy scratch in the playoffs. With the money they gave OEL and Liljegren they could have got Zadorov or Pesce.
Ill always watch your videos DTSB. Been here since very very early on. might have been under DJP before , but you have the best videos that actuallly make sense.. I watch some videos and i shake my head i was watching one the other day where theyre saying oh no the leafs HAVE to make aa trade now theyre over the cap… Its like do you do ANY research at all…. ANY? once youre not carrying 3 goalies and 9 defencmen theres actually room for the leafs to sign a depth forward. So welcome back@ wish you had more time for this. I realllllly think you coul ake it big.
We got 1 D man under 30 yrs old, the combined age of our D is over 180 yrs , that is an issue .
OEL is here for one reason. Reilly doesn't have a point shot on the PP. OEL does. PP gets stuffed in the playoffs b/c Reilly doesn't have a good shot. In the playoffs, you need a good hard shot from the point.
Better than the 8 or 9 mil Canucks were paying him.
3.5 is a steal compared to that.
@7:38 – That's actually the problem. He's a decent #4/#5 the exact same way that Liljegren is. But what the Leafs desperately needed was an elite #3 to push everyone down a notch. It should be 1. Rielly 2. Tanev 3. ___ 4. McCabe 5. Liljegren 6. Benoit/Jani. This is just my opinion. Should have signed a center or a top 4 D. We need Roy or Mountour. But all good. Cap world.
7:38 – that's actually the problem. OEL is a #4/#5 and we needed a #3 and now we're out of cap space.
Looking at this, Rielly is overpaid for what he produces. Most will say Tanev is a much better defenseman for the position and he's at 4.5mill. Rielly is basically an offenseman in a defenseman position and we don't need that.
If you actually watch defensemen on the Leafs during games, you will see that players like Benoit and McCabe are all over the ice losing their man while Connor Timmins understands who is dangerous and LITERALLY ALWAYS picks up the right man and eliminates the threat. Anyone who does not like Connor Timmins either has never had to play defense or they were awful at it. We need MORE Connor Timmins. Yeah, he occasionally turns over the puck but I will live with that if he can recover like he usually does, contributes offensively like he does, and will pick up the guys setting up for the backdoor one-timer instead of being a moron like most of the NHL by leaving the backdoor wide open.
btw your videos are the best by far. So many people just screaming at the screen for views (*cough steve dangle cough" . Very few like you who break things down.
Vote this comment if you want to see Steve shave his head again! 🙂
At this point any defensive improvement is good.
Hi Steven, perhaps a topic for future could be your analysis of the tax advantages for US/FLA teams vs CDN markets. Cheers
If there's something about OEL that I question it's this. Which version of OEL are we getting. The one that ended his tenure with the Vancouver Canucks when he regressed pretty badly or the bounce back season that he just had with the Florida Panthers. That's pretty much it. I'm happy he's a Maple Leaf but with any player. There's bound to be risk involved. Hope it pans out.
its been awesome to get your insight back on here, bud. hope youve been keeping well!
OEL is not going to make the Leafs better! Another bad signing by the Leafs to regret. He used to be a good offensive defence a but always a horrible defensive defenceman. Lazy and out of position
Yeah ive never had a problem with OEL as a player. It was just his contract value vs his actual value that had me.
3.5 million is only about 4 percentnof the cap, and if he is on the second line, or even the third line but getting pp and pk time to up his average minutes, then he isbperfectly fine.
Top Quality job!
Glad for your insight, hope you come up with more content soon
As a fan I will wait and watch him play before commenting on OEL. Treliving is a fan’s general manager. It may take time to build up the team. Hockey is hard. Nice to see you back
Great vid. Like your level headed approach. Not a cheerleader, not a pessimist.
Excellent journalism sir
Leafs had no choice but to spend a whole lot of bad back-end bucks to woo some "older" but still capable defensemen because Kyle Dubas was a complete duface.
The geniuses are clearly clueless with regards to the playoff run he just had with the Panthers. Keep reattempting to pass grade 8 you twits!
Steeeeeeeeeeve
The amount of people still complaining is hilarious😂😂 it seems it doesn’t matter what the leafs do, leaf fans will still piss and moan. This is the best back end we’ve had in a long time. If anybody thinks getting rid of marner for Pennie’s on the dollar or just let him walk is a fucking idiot. I’d rather pay him an extra mil over losing him. It’s just unfortunate the leafs have so many casual fans who don’t know there ass from there elbow when it comes to hockey
You do a great job on these videos and i appreciate you making them!
Anyone to replace useless Reilly would be helpful going forward
I still want the forward group to be changed. It's weak on the left side, and center depth can be constructed better assuming Domi plays on the wing. I really hope they are still working on trading Marner and they just want to keep it hush-hush because that cap money can do wonders for these problems. We're so strong on the right side that losing Marner and slotting Domi with Matthews would barely be noticeable, and the potential benefits elsewhere in the forward group would be huge.
I love the D-core and goalie tandem, though. This is definitely good enough to go deep in the playoffs.
Right now, without major forward changes, I'm praying Cowan is ready for the NHL because that would help a lot on the left side.
It IS good to have you back!
He also played top pair for the Panthers in the first months of the season when Montour and Ekblad were recovering from surgeries.
weird I just finally got a notification/ view you did something.
Would you consider a subscriber meet up in the toronto area?
Subscribed! Love the break down and analysis, great job and thank you! Go Leafs!
I am 63 and have watched most of the Leafs games all my life and i think the Leafs d now is one of the best d core i can remember.
If all the d are healthy why not try Liligram and or Riley on forward ?
The problem with this Leafs team is most of the cap is spent on a core 4 who all every year way underperform in the very physical playoffs.
He's only 32, great signing!
OEL is a sneaky good signing for what was the leafs biggest pitfall during this seasons playoffs – special teams, especially power play. 4-5% is among the lowest, if not the lowest, since leafs playoff stats have been recorded in the 70s.. By almost all metrics, OEL has a track record as a more consistently effective power play quarter back than Rielly.
Career Regular Season games:
OEL – 982 games. Rielly – 791 games.
Career Regular Season Power Play goals: OEL – 59 goals. Rielly – 14 goals.
Career Regular Season Power Play Points:
OEL – 186 points. Rielly – 159 Points.
Career Regular Season shooting %:
OEL – 6.8%. Rielly – 4.6%.
Career playoff games:
OEL – 49 games (24 of these games coming this years playoff run playing PP2 behind Montour and 4th/5th D role) Rielly – 57 games.
Career playoff Power Play goals:
OEL – 1 goal. Rielly – 2 goals.
Career playoff Power Play Points:
OEL – 9 points. Rielly – 9 points.
OEL practically outdoing Rielly’s power play performance by all metrics even with Rielly playing essentially ALL his power play minutes behind the leagues best goal scorer since prime Ovi (in other words, his PP stats are inflated). OEL should definitely be pushing for PP1 role over Rielly based on these facts alone.
Leaf FA was a bust. They don’t really add what they needed to do. Moving Marner is key
Missed These!! 🙂 Welcome back ❤️❤️❤️
I never make comments on videos but I am glad you are back. I think you are my favourite source for leafs videos.
Steve great video
It's better than the Klingburg signing last year!
Leafs need another mean dude on the point that plays like Schenn did when we picked him up at trade deadline, since Hawk n pua might not be able to with his knee injury.
I thought Bryan McCabe was a LHD. RHD were Komisarek, Franson, Holzer, Carrick, Corrado, Jeff Finger, Schenn, Kubina,. For me it's probably Svehla in 2002 or Yushkevich in 2001 but even they weren't allstars, they were warriors
I realize Treliving face-planted on his 1st two UFA signings last July in Klingberg & Reaves. I still don't get why he thought they were worthwhile 'gambles'. In the cases of Tanev & OEL I am confident the pro-souting dept. was on this & despite some age related risk, I think they will be valuable adds to a team that's made the post-season 8 yrs in a row. Good signings.