Sam

[breadloaf 🛤️ @taxspendlib]

If you think the bike lanes cause congestion on Bloor, you are a moron:

Bloor 2015:
- two lanes of car traffic
- two parking lanes

Bloor 2024:
- two lanes of car traffic
- one parking lane
- two bike lanes

[Sam @grapes_55]

@nylanderthews Rielly-Tanev or Rielly-OEL will feed families next year

[Sam @grapes_55]

@anotherglassbox It’s just like the bike lane fiasco - ford couldn’t even come up with *concepts* of a plan and it bit him in the ass both times

[Sam @grapes_55]

@PrabSarkaria Maybe advance the expansion of those skin tight suit jackets you wear, jackass

[Bruce Arthur @bruce_arthur]

What if an elephant learned how to drop step? What if a giraffe grew arms and had good hands? What if an ostrich learned to fly and won the dunk contest?

[Sam @grapes_55]

@nylanderthews Reeves, klingberg, tanev, pacioretty, it’s like he never read an injury report

[Sam @grapes_55]

@PhilPerkinsCP24 @dvilzadvkate >city is less safe than it used to be
>wants children to have the experiences he did as a kid
> crime rates notably higher when he was a kid

Many such cases

[Sam @grapes_55]

@willynylly I think he's just showing a hypothetical starting lineup without the UFAs?

[Sam @grapes_55]

@NylanderForHart Toronto says no?! Wright for basically a 1st in 2 years and a cap dump is an easy yes

[Sam @grapes_55]

@tddt_5115 I feel like the upside isn’t very high with the guys they acquired, wouldn’t have minded taking a bet on a younger/less known commodity and filling that hole later if it doesn’t work

[Sam @grapes_55]

@kevoisthegoat Disgusting how underrated he was, the first 2 years with Rielly they were a perfect fit

[Sam @grapes_55]

@JFreshHockey Looks like one of those future lineups from fans where they pencil in their team’s top 5-7 prospects with no other changes lol

[Sam @grapes_55]

@briancrd This is basically what it comes down to lol

people doubted Sullivan to pit/cassidy to bos/maurice to fla too, hopefully this works out the same way

[dom 📈 @domluszczyszyn]

no more simon benoit

[Sam @grapes_55]

@AGretz I’d rather do high AAV and less years with the rising cap

[Sam @grapes_55]

@LeafsRundown People are so down on maccelli cause Bérubé sewered him to start the year it’s so weird

Just sign him for a year or 2 at 4m and you have a youngish 2-way winger for your middle six 🤷‍♂️

[Sam @grapes_55]

@politicstcan He was an assistant under babs in Toronto, they have a relationship

[Sam @grapes_55]

If I was a red wings fan I’d hate his guts but GMs shouldn’t give out NMCs if they don’t want to deal with them

With the rising cap moving forward it makes more sense to pay a higher AAV to forego trade protection (too bad GMs won’t do this)

[Sam @grapes_55]

You people are a bunch of babies

If the red wings didn’t suck ass for a decade Larkin probably wouldn’t have asked out!

Yzerman can make larkin sit and wait until he expands his list or one of his teams matches the asking price

It’s not that hard

[Jonny Lazarus @JLazzy23]

Here’s my issue with it:

Hypothetically, if Zach Werenski walked into the CBJ front office tomorrow and demanded a trade to Florida because he only wanted to reunite with Seth Jones and chase a Stanley Cup, would everyone be celebrating it as “player empowerment”?

He has a full NMC. He has leverage.

He hasn’t made the playoffs since the bubble.

So what’s stopping him from doing it?

At some point, this stops being player empowerment and starts looking a lot more like a transfer portal, where contracts don’t matter and the competitive balance takes a back seat to the leagues top players handpicking their next destination.

[Sam @grapes_55]

@JFreshHockey Larkin is screwing the wings but Yzerman still has the agency to negotiate with Larkin (give us more teams or you sit)

The GM also had 7 years to build a better team around Larkin 🤷‍♂️ it’s a brutal situation but there are things that could’ve/can be done to avoid this