James O'Brien 📎

Maple Leafs Contributor @EditorInLeaf. Available for more. Formerly: @YahooSportsNHL, NBC, and Rotoworld NHL. Mr. @ProfDiPaolo. Not a Canucks fan, specifically.

[James O'Brien 📎 @cyclelikesedins]

I'm contributing to @EditorinLeaf's Toronto Maple Leafs coverage! Check the next tweet for my first post since iirc this app is weird about links (cool time to live in):

[James O'Brien 📎 @cyclelikesedins]

Pretty decent chance you should always extend a core guy early, not later. Even if it was never gonna be THAT cheap

[William Leblanc @xwleblancx]

Leo Carlsson would’ve signed under 10M for 8 years last summer.

Disasterclass by Verbeek

[James O'Brien 📎 @cyclelikesedins]

@domluszczyszyn Too bad he didn't poach him a few days earlier ...

[dom 📈 @domluszczyszyn]

Now that some dust has settled…

Average team Net Rating per division
Atlantic: +9.3
Metro: +8.1
Central: +2.1

Pacific: -19.5

[James O'Brien 📎 @cyclelikesedins]

Just diabolical stuff from the Flyers. Very entertaining

[dom 📈 @domluszczyszyn]

The $18 million question: Should the Ducks match the Flyers' offer sheet to Leo Carlsson?

A look at where the Flyers stand with Carlsson, how closely he can live up to that money, and whether the compensation is worth taking.
https://t.co/gxtLKC2xnK

[James O'Brien 📎 @cyclelikesedins]

Anyone feeling nostalgic?

[Elliotte Friedman @FriedgeHNIC]

The Flyers have done a 5 x$18M offer sheet for Leo Carlsson

[Pharlooming @pharlooming]

Images that precede unfortunate events

[James O'Brien 📎 @cyclelikesedins]

Seeing Jesse Puljujarvi on a top free agents list

[James O'Brien 📎 @cyclelikesedins]

It's always fun to remember that Ken Holland is a Hall of Famer

[James O'Brien 📎 @cyclelikesedins]

@MattD_SC @lessthanpleased It's been odd observing Copeland as someone without a drop of Edge nostalgia

[Adam Vingan @AdamVingan]

Shea Weber’s *14-YEAR* contract, signed by the Predators as the result of an offer sheet from the Flyers in July 2012, has OFFICIALLY EXPIRED.

[James O'Brien 📎 @cyclelikesedins]

This might be the oddest of all of these situations

[Professor Joe Butcher 🇵🇸 @Nixon_Robocop]

Tough way for Nathan Gerbe to find out they’re not retiring his number.

[Travis Yost @travisyost]

He should call Kyle Davidson he might get 6x6.

[James O'Brien 📎 @cyclelikesedins]

@JonathanWillis Was not expecting the Oilers to be such a winner today

[Nick @NickZararis]

Trocheck trying to get spaghetti and meatballs in Salt Lake City

[James O'Brien 📎 @cyclelikesedins]

Days like these make me wonder if Grier is one of those GMs who alternates between listening to the nerds and then "winning" some for the 200 hockey men. Either way, rough stuff

[James O'Brien 📎 @cyclelikesedins]

Not even squeezing a sweetener/retention from the Oilers for Nurse is rough too.

[James O'Brien 📎 @cyclelikesedins]

Every time it feels like this league is getting smarter beyond a few front offices, we get a severe correction

[Chris Johnston @reporterchris]

Jacob Trouba signs a four-year deal with $SJSharks carrying an $8.25M AAV.

[James O'Brien 📎 @cyclelikesedins]

https://t.co/EQLgXF1yXV

[Thomas Drance @ThomasDrance]

The Sharks offseason going from the draft to July 1.

[James O'Brien 📎 @cyclelikesedins]

@DiaIUpModem Exactly how you stay putrid imho

[McNeil @REFLOG18]

That level in Super Mario 3 where the sun is trying to kill you is just every day now.