{"id":1002,"date":"2009-07-27T22:29:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T02:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2009-07-27T22:29:55","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T02:29:55","slug":"anton-stralman-traded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2009\/07\/27\/anton-stralman-traded\/","title":{"rendered":"Anton Stralman Traded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Stralman is NOT a Hall of Famer in waiting.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/stralan01.html\" target=\"_blank\">Anton Stralman<\/a> is not now, nor will he ever be, Bobby Orr.<\/p>\n<p>Realistically, Stralman has failed to crack the Leafs lineup over the last two years under either Coach Wilson or Paul Maurice.\u00a0 The Leafs&#8217; defence has been paper thin in this time period.\u00a0 Stralman is not old at 23, but it&#8217;s fair to say that his failure to impress when given an opportunity suggests that losing him is no big deal.<\/p>\n<p>Remember too, Leafs fans, that your blueline is stacked and set for a number of years.\u00a0 Stralman didn&#8217;t figure realistically in Burke&#8217;s plans;\u00a0 better that he gets converted into an asset for the future rather than burying him in the minors to waste away and bugger off next year for no return whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>Wayne Primeau?\u00a0 It&#8217;s all about shuffling around salaries and such.\u00a0 Burke gave Calgary a bit of soothing cap relief and basically got a 2nd rounder out of the deal.\u00a0 Whether Primeau plays centre on the first line or sells beer in section 504, it matters not.<\/p>\n<p>Decent deal for both teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anton Stralman is not now, nor will he ever be, Bobby Orr.<\/p>\n<p>Realistically, Stralman has failed to crack the Leafs lineup over the last two years under either Coach Wilson or Paul Maurice. The Leafs&#8217; defence has been paper thin in this time period. Stralman is not old at 23, but it&#8217;s fair to say [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,50,11],"tags":[819,1178,1153,1156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}