In this video, I go over the Toronto Maple Leafs signing Oliver Ekman-Larsson and explain why this is actually a good and underrated signing. I use advanced metrics, salary cap data and contextual information to break it all down.
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btw your videos are the best by far. So many people just screaming at the screen for views (*cough steve dangle cough" . Very few like you who break things down.
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At this point any defensive improvement is good.
Hi Steven, perhaps a topic for future could be your analysis of the tax advantages for US/FLA teams vs CDN markets. Cheers
If there's something about OEL that I question it's this. Which version of OEL are we getting. The one that ended his tenure with the Vancouver Canucks when he regressed pretty badly or the bounce back season that he just had with the Florida Panthers. That's pretty much it. I'm happy he's a Maple Leaf but with any player. There's bound to be risk involved. Hope it pans out.
its been awesome to get your insight back on here, bud. hope youve been keeping well!
OEL is not going to make the Leafs better! Another bad signing by the Leafs to regret. He used to be a good offensive defence a but always a horrible defensive defenceman. Lazy and out of position
Yeah ive never had a problem with OEL as a player. It was just his contract value vs his actual value that had me.
3.5 million is only about 4 percentnof the cap, and if he is on the second line, or even the third line but getting pp and pk time to up his average minutes, then he isbperfectly fine.
Top Quality job!
Glad for your insight, hope you come up with more content soon
As a fan I will wait and watch him play before commenting on OEL. Treliving is a fan’s general manager. It may take time to build up the team. Hockey is hard. Nice to see you back
Great vid. Like your level headed approach. Not a cheerleader, not a pessimist.
Excellent journalism sir
Leafs had no choice but to spend a whole lot of bad back-end bucks to woo some "older" but still capable defensemen because Kyle Dubas was a complete duface.
The geniuses are clearly clueless with regards to the playoff run he just had with the Panthers. Keep reattempting to pass grade 8 you twits!
Steeeeeeeeeeve
The amount of people still complaining is hilarious😂😂 it seems it doesn’t matter what the leafs do, leaf fans will still piss and moan. This is the best back end we’ve had in a long time. If anybody thinks getting rid of marner for Pennie’s on the dollar or just let him walk is a fucking idiot. I’d rather pay him an extra mil over losing him. It’s just unfortunate the leafs have so many casual fans who don’t know there ass from there elbow when it comes to hockey
You do a great job on these videos and i appreciate you making them!
Anyone to replace useless Reilly is OK
I still want the forward group to be changed. It's weak on the left side, and center depth can be constructed better assuming Domi plays on the wing. I really hope they are still working on trading Marner and they just want to keep it hush-hush because that cap money can do wonders for these problems. We're so strong on the right side that losing Marner and slotting Domi with Matthews would barely be noticeable, and the potential benefits elsewhere in the forward group would be huge.
I love the D-core and goalie tandem, though. This is definitely good enough to go deep in the playoffs.
Right now, without major forward changes, I'm praying Cowan is ready for the NHL because that would help a lot on the left side.
It IS good to have you back!
He also played top pair for the Panthers in the first months of the season when Montour and Ekblad were recovering from surgeries.