He *was* the exact type of DMan. I’m not confident he’s that guy anymore, and I’d rather go find a new one in trade or FA than re-sign Klingberg, thereby allowing the front office to check “acquire an offensive defenceman” off their to do list.
SMORKIN_LABBIT
Trying to so see if Klingberg is recovered at basically no money is a no brainer to try. It’s all upside or buried.
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legendary_sponge
There are worse things in this world than giving Klingberg a vet minimum signing for 1 year. Low risk potentially high reward
Kind_History5832
Are we all forgetting how he performed at the beginning of the season?? Liability defensively and poor decision making with the puck??
LtColumbo93
Go ahead and sign anybody you want to a contract that can be fully buried in the AHL, as long as they will actually have the guts to bury it when the time comes.
The Klingberg thing went on for too many games last year before they could finally call him injured. If he’s playing like that again next year you gotta pull the trigger and send him away.
PrailinesNDick
No thanks to performance based. Connor Brown is eating an extra $2.5m cap on Edmonton next year thanks to that.
If they want a league min or PTO? Sure.
MilB21
I mean if the front office is gonna run it back then I guess Klingberg should get another shot too.
lambchopz317
Personally don’t want Klingberg back. We have two right side young defencemen (Lily and Timmins) who are just as good / better defensively and both have had success offensively over the past two years when given opportunity (don’t forget what Lily did with Rielly out and Timmins is ~0.5ppg in 50 games as a Leaf). Klingberg wasn’t impressive last year in his short stint stapled next to McCabe, and we can only imagine it’ll be worse from here out.
ldnk
I don’t want incentive based contracts. Those just mess up your cap the following season. Neither guy should be getting anything more than a PTO at this point
Rowdy_Roddy96
I mean a Benoit / Klingberg 3rd pair could work tbh?
Actual_Cobbler_6334
Roster spots are limited, let’s not waste them on washed players.
oatmealleafer
Sorry but these guys are not worth adding performance based bonuses. League min for each, take it or leave it. They won’t get more elsewhere.
BackTo1975
Come on. League minimum or not, Klingberg for any amount of cash is idiotic. Murray, maybe, but only because the guy is still young and the Leafs’ situation in goal is still wildly uncertain.
mohawk_67
Performance based….
EffectiveOk8648
I hope they both get another chance. The leafs play well with big body goalies. And a healthy klingberg can be a #1 pp quaterback
Skiffy10
did you not forget how much of a train wreck he was defensively for us when he did play? He’s the exact type of dman we need to ignore
Chillin24Seven_
As long as he’s just an extra 7th d on a cheap deal. Cannot use a spot and cap space on a guy I’m 90% sure he won’t finish the season
specialk554
Why does everyone think a guy who can’t play D, who’s old and hasn’t been good in several years and is coming off major surgery, is exactly what we need? We need a great to excellent two way defender without major holes. Klingberg is almost all holes at this point.
Mission-Astronomer42
I mean at league min why not for klingberg.
Now Murray on the other hand I think his injury history unfortunately won’t make me want to bring him back.
Radmadjazz
Are these bot comments? Why does everyone have a gigantic hardon for players that literally did nothing for us this past year getting any piece of this cap space? Has this sub been taken over by bots?
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i thought he was getting LTIRetired?
He *was* the exact type of DMan. I’m not confident he’s that guy anymore, and I’d rather go find a new one in trade or FA than re-sign Klingberg, thereby allowing the front office to check “acquire an offensive defenceman” off their to do list.
Trying to so see if Klingberg is recovered at basically no money is a no brainer to try. It’s all upside or buried.
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There are worse things in this world than giving Klingberg a vet minimum signing for 1 year. Low risk potentially high reward
Are we all forgetting how he performed at the beginning of the season?? Liability defensively and poor decision making with the puck??
Go ahead and sign anybody you want to a contract that can be fully buried in the AHL, as long as they will actually have the guts to bury it when the time comes.
The Klingberg thing went on for too many games last year before they could finally call him injured. If he’s playing like that again next year you gotta pull the trigger and send him away.
No thanks to performance based. Connor Brown is eating an extra $2.5m cap on Edmonton next year thanks to that.
If they want a league min or PTO? Sure.
I mean if the front office is gonna run it back then I guess Klingberg should get another shot too.
Personally don’t want Klingberg back. We have two right side young defencemen (Lily and Timmins) who are just as good / better defensively and both have had success offensively over the past two years when given opportunity (don’t forget what Lily did with Rielly out and Timmins is ~0.5ppg in 50 games as a Leaf). Klingberg wasn’t impressive last year in his short stint stapled next to McCabe, and we can only imagine it’ll be worse from here out.
I don’t want incentive based contracts. Those just mess up your cap the following season. Neither guy should be getting anything more than a PTO at this point
I mean a Benoit / Klingberg 3rd pair could work tbh?
Roster spots are limited, let’s not waste them on washed players.
Sorry but these guys are not worth adding performance based bonuses. League min for each, take it or leave it. They won’t get more elsewhere.
Come on. League minimum or not, Klingberg for any amount of cash is idiotic. Murray, maybe, but only because the guy is still young and the Leafs’ situation in goal is still wildly uncertain.
Performance based….
I hope they both get another chance. The leafs play well with big body goalies. And a healthy klingberg can be a #1 pp quaterback
did you not forget how much of a train wreck he was defensively for us when he did play? He’s the exact type of dman we need to ignore
As long as he’s just an extra 7th d on a cheap deal. Cannot use a spot and cap space on a guy I’m 90% sure he won’t finish the season
Why does everyone think a guy who can’t play D, who’s old and hasn’t been good in several years and is coming off major surgery, is exactly what we need? We need a great to excellent two way defender without major holes. Klingberg is almost all holes at this point.
I mean at league min why not for klingberg.
Now Murray on the other hand I think his injury history unfortunately won’t make me want to bring him back.
Are these bot comments? Why does everyone have a gigantic hardon for players that literally did nothing for us this past year getting any piece of this cap space? Has this sub been taken over by bots?
1*800k for each. Sure. Else fuck off.