The Maple Leafs were busy Sunday afternoon as they made a number of moves, the biggest being the acquisition of defenceman Mark Giordano. TSN Director of Scouting Craig Button breaks down the deal and explains why his addition makes Toronto a better team.
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I honestly don't see it.
Unless Gios game elevates a lot from coming to play in playoffs for hometown team with his old partner Brodie.
His play has fallen off to the point that I don't really see him as significant improvement over anyone on current blueline. Is he that much better than even Sandin or Liljegrin? Not really, he's got experience and leadership. I'm trying to be fair I just don't see how much better this makes us.
Especially if Muzzin back for playoffs.
If this is all Leafs do, it's a failed deadline.
Dubas still on the clock, do something to significantly improve team.
Yes lol
craig button is a tool
Giordano will get hurt
Excellent add, love gio, biggest beauty in the league. Time to add a new leafs legend jersey to my collection which includes leech, Francis, lindros, Thornton, marleau, & Spezza.
Book your tee time gio
Best captain in Kraken history.
GOOD JOB DUBAS FOR DUMPING MRAZEK.
Good trade. Somehow managed to get another player and got Seattle to retain salary. Not sure what Francis is doing but sure.
Gio and Brodie reunited
Even before this, winning a round and more isn't that crazy as much as most people make it sound.. no pressure and you think whoever is gonna play us will be thinking it's an automatic series win? Bring on the lightning please, better yet.. the bruins, either way I'm not gonna be surprised going on a spring run and I think everyone should be careful and enjoy having this great team we get to watch with the potential of winning the cup any year in the near future.. let's enjoy the ride as hard as it is at times! Winning a cup in a season like this is what you want, not a season like last year, wouldn't of felt right only having played 8 or 9 or so teams all year, lets go boys! And can we please for FS get a new goal song and maybe andy frost back for the playoffs please and whoever does the goal horn, like what are you doing? Lay on the thing!!!!! Enough with these 1 second long beeps of the horn, let er go bud! Get the place fired up or find someone who can like whoever was in charge in the early 2000's
Go Leafs Go!
That's a stiff price to pay for a rental 39 year old defenseman, and a 1st round exit. Nice to see TML make more long-term mistakes.
You have to be in it to win it .they are defiantly in it with a great Dman like GIO he knows what to do with puck .
Toronto flames
Good luck Gio….you might see Calgary in the final
I am the flip cup world champion
I say lets watch the show
KushLyve
Solid -21
Craig Button is a Flames affectionado.
Gio has lost a step. He has a hard time keeping up with the young fast players. Good luck with that.
William Nylander for Roman Jossi would have been more welcomed.
Great move – I hear he plays goalie and can help the Core 4 actually perform in the playoffs!!!
Big add
Obviously he will make the leafs better but they won't be good enough to get put of the first round
Better in the sense of moving beyond the first round, no lol
No. No he will not.
It will make them better….at choking another year away.
Lol leafs thinking they gonna win a cup year in, year out. Ain't happen since color tv and won't happen anytime soon.
If anyone wants actual hockey news check out The Hockey Guy. TSN is a joke
Flames 🔥🍁 Leafs Stanley Cup final.
I root for Leafs for Steve Dangle's sake LOL but not sure they will make it. Love Gio though so I'm wishing them good luck.
A 38 year old who is 6 feet is not the answer! I would be excited if the trade was 8 years ago however once again the media is trying to protect the LEAFS MANAGEMENT. I guess afraid to lose your hockey passes? Dubas should be fire and Shannan too if they get bounced in the first round. They need a big strong fast DF and winger to play with the 2nd line. Maple Leafs are too soft and playoff hockey will show this up. Dubas has put a team together for the European size ring not the American size ring where playoff hockey is hard hitting and little room to move, unlike the regular season.
This move may get the Leafs out of the first round.
Makes no difference, he's planning his retirement party easier to do at home then on the road. The first round of exits awaits the Leafs.
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It’s easy for some people to shitcan Dubas just to be negative but, let’s be real, he did very well on this one.
Credit where it’s due.
This move has made the team BETTER without giving prized assets!.
Well done.
The Raptors had a solid foundation centred around guts and sacrifice on defence. Defence wins championships. Yes, Leafs added a good one but the foundation is weak. This won’t make Nylander grow a pair or help Kerfoot finish a check and will do nothing to wear down opposing teams defenses to capitalize on that skill late in games. Dubas build a winner? we can’t even make it out of the first round and the closest we got was a team built by Mark Hunter and Lou Lam. Dubas has slowly distanced himself from that appeared success stifling the salary cap and being top heavy so we can’t add a 25 year old potential MVP but an old near retiring one.
FORE! ⛳️ 🏌️
Glad to see so many Leafs fans are optimistic.. 5-6 yrs ago..OK, same type of D we already have. I hope 🤞 I’m wrong.. I don’t see the any major impact here
The oNly way the Leafs can get better and progress is when Dubas and Shannahan are FIRED!
another first-round exit for the laughs what a shame
not enough to make it through round 1. again.
All they need is D and they get a declining old man and a centre and give up Dermott who’s probably gonna shine in Vancouver because every decent player the Leafs have thrown away in the last 3 years is killing it on their new team.
The Leafs are a joke. The only reason a moron like Keefe has the coaching job is because a moron like Dubas brought him along from the Soo.
Stick a fork in them. They’re already done.
He can play with Brodie again..
Mark Giordano is almost 40 yrs. and the Dubass is a toxic incompetent GM for once again squandering the future for an irrelevant rental. Leafs get knocked out once again in first round.
My friend is MAD
They still won't make it past the first round. Oh well better luck next year as always. Without a cup contending goalie there not going anywhere. So sad 😞
Hometown boy or not, his addition doesn’t make them any better; that is a scenario that often backfires. Just wait until the hot offense goes cold really fast in the postseason: that’s when the Leafs always turns to compost.
That's right toe the company line..The co-owners want U to believe and keep the ratings up so the advertising revenue comes
in..Comments from other sports media after the trade deadline.."The ice is getting thin in Hogtown." And the defenseman is projected to be a minus 6 with the Leafs..Remember they still got two road trips to the Sunshine state..lol..lol..lol..
Will he make them better? Well no sh*t! There, done. now you don’t have to spend half an hour talking non sense.
Hope he can play nets as well
Its hard to believe that TSN gives so much attention to a team that hasnt won a cup in 70 years and a playoff rohnd in 30 years. No wonder they lost the NHL rights to SN.
No he will not, just like all other signing every year he will not win you all the cups in history, he is old and over the hill and his best days are waaay behind him, the maplelaughs are a joke of franchise where old players go to die and get one last huge payday that they don't even have to play for. I bet you a trillion dollars his plus/minus is going downwards very vert fast…