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Originally Posted by AlMo
Plenty of teams would like a shutdown dman and plenty would want Komisarek, if he were a shutdown dman. Since when do we consider a slow, immobile, dman who lack serious hockey sense a "good" shutdown dman? You can try to pimp your ***** out all you want but your ***** is costing too much coin for the service you are receiving
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You say this.... yet similar defencemen get paid similar amounts of money to what he is paid. Heck, the Islanders offered Komisarek more money than the Leafs.
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Originally Posted by Jester9881
Umm...
Streit
Hamonic
Andy Macdonald
Radek Martinek
He would very much be on our 3rd pairing..... or at least fifth/sixth on our depth chart.
He also would have to approve a trade here. He dissed the Isles after signing in Toronto, so it's doubtful he approves even if we still wanted him.
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Like I said, the gross underrating of Leafs players continues. The Islanders don't know what a top shutdown defenceman looks like, because they've been flooded with bottom-pairing talent the last few years. Komisarek would easily be their 2nd best defenceman, so he would be 2nd on the depth chart, and play on one of the top two pairs.
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Originally Posted by Jester9881
You've got to love it.... Leafs fans acting like used car salesman trying to sell other people their junk. If Komisarek is so great, maybe you should keep him. LMAO
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If Komisarek fit in our system and/or we didn't have younger options, we would.
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Originally Posted by DIONBOZAK
Come on now, only 1 Leaf fan is overrating Komi in this thread.
The majority of us know he just isnt a very good NHL defenceman. If jfried was correct in saying Komisarek is a top 4 dman, then why was he playing as the sixth guy on the Leafs earlier in the year? And why is he STILL on the third pairing after we traded 2 of our top 4 dmen (Kabs, Beauch)?
Lets face it, Komi is a bottom pairing, overpaid dman that is very untradable unless we take on an equally bad contract. Only overpaid by 500k??????? Really jfried?
And how in the H e l l did he deserve a NTC????? Wow Burkie, just....wow
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He's a major misfit on this team. A real hockey fan would observe that Toronto relies on heavy puckmovement from the blueline, and he is the worst puckmover on the team. When Toronto loses it's two best puckmovers in a period of ~2 weeks, that's not going to open up any ice time for the worst puckmover on the team. The way to open up ice time is to lose a guy like Phaneuf/Schenn.
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Originally Posted by grabo84
What, exactly, are we going to spend the money on if we make this trade? I don't get it - there isn't exactly a ton of free agents available, and I'm not exactly excited about the free agent options available. The NYI players coming our way don't interest me much. I don't think Eaton is better at all.
There's way too much of an obsession over whether players are living up to the value of their contracts around here. Komi clearly isn't, but that doesn't mean that they should get rid of him for a cheaper downgrade and a cap dump. I'd much rather see them hang onto him, in hopes that his game rebounds with more responsibility.
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Help up front? puckmoving? goaltending?
Komisarek is/was the reason we couldn't keep Kaberle. He is the reason that we won't be able to overpay key free agents. He's occupying a 3rd pair roster spot that we can fill adequately with Keith Aulie's $700k. His game isn't going to rebound in Toronto (although it hasn't even been that bad, just not playing enough minutes), he needs a change of scenery where he'll get bettter and more opportunity.