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Originally Posted by darthchilli

first things first, this all happened while I was on a plane coming back from hong kong, and i was in shock

and i must say..FINALLY SOME FUCKING DECENT HOCKEY TALK IN THIS THREAD OMG...regardless.

Burke CONTINUES to shape the Leafs into the hard hitting DEFENCE first hockey team he built in Vancouver and Anaheim. Sadly, Celine Dion has to EARN his spot just like Luke Schenn. I understand SUPERSTAR here plays a different game, but he is a big upgrade from Mike Komiserick. Theres going to be COMPETE for ice time amongst the Dmen, The leafs better hope that Phil Kessel can be a one man show. The leafs do have some promising talent coming up in Nazem Kardri.

Its great to see some HOCKEY TRADES go through as it just does not happen. At the same time, very rare for Burke who likes to DUMP picks for instant depth

The Flames have a buncha forwards here, with the excepton of Mayers who have never played in the west, where its more trap and hard hitting hockey. For Stajan and Hagman to be successful, they must buy into the defence first system in the west.

Ian White has better numbers than celine dion, and in the long run, they have JayBo and Giordano who has been great.

Ollie Jokinen isnt going to get traded to ATL, Ollie isnt going to go anywhere. Ollie is terrible. Ilya Kovalchuk will land to a team that will provide INSTANT impact to the organization, and they WILL trade for PROVEN players that have years remaining in their contract. I believe Kovalchuk doesnt have a NTC so ATL can ship him to wherever they please.

It does appear CGY is dumping money to make room for Kovie, but they got nothing to give up anymore.

Isn't Jokinen rumoured to be going to NYR???

As for the Laffs team

Gustavsson/Giguere
Schenn/Celine/Komisarek/Beauchemin that's pretty solid back end IMO.. now only if someone else besides Kessel can score LOL