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[Fready]

Its nice to see Kulemin back from injury and scoring at the worlds. He has 2 points in 2 games with a plus 2 rating. If Kulemin comes back next year and rediscovers his scoring touch, it would go a long way to fixing this team.

[Poyetas]

Its nice to see Kulemin back from injury and scoring at the worlds. He has 2 points in 2 games with a plus 2 rating. If Kulemin comes back next year and rediscovers his scoring touch, it would go a long way to fixing this team.

Totally agree, let's just hope he resigns....

[Tibz2011]

Is he an RFA?

[Seer]

Its nice to see Kulemin back from injury and scoring at the worlds. He has 2 points in 2 games with a plus 2 rating. If Kulemin comes back next year and rediscovers his scoring touch, it would go a long way to fixing this team.

Great to see one of my favorite Leafs get his mojo back! I still have high hopes for him, next season..

[Seer]

Is he an RFA?

Yep..

[youngbud]

Kullimen is one guy who I fully expect to rebound next year. I would not be surprised if he is one of our most improved players next year. He already is pretty solid in his two way game, and he can dig in the corners (dirty areas) and he can score, he just needs to stay healthy and confident.

Carlyle's style is very well suited to maximizing Kullimen's talent from what I can see. I do hope he resigns, and I have a feeling he will bounce back nicely. Also look for: Frattin, Ashton, Kadri, Holzer....to possibly crack the big lineup. We will see what happens in camp.

[XamDam]

I hope he does come back to the leafs as he is an awesome player to have and i have no doubt he will put the past behind him.

[AlexanderTheGreatJr]

Ya and he also had like what 7 goals last year while playing 2nd line minutes most of the year.
Let see how he does in training camp and pre-season and if lucky Carlyle will give him a chance in the first quarter of next season.
Otherwise, i'd like the Leafs to give Kadri, Frattin, D'Amigo a chance on the 2nd line with Grabovski.

[Poyetas]

Ya and he also had like what 7 goals last year while playing 2nd line minutes most of the year.
Let see how he does in training camp and pre-season and if lucky Carlyle will give him a chance in the first quarter of next season.
Otherwise, i'd like the Leafs to give Kadri, Frattin, D'Amigo a chance on the 2nd line with Grabovski.

Training camp means squat....Kulemin was one of the few plus players on the team...

[J-BOLD]

Even if Kulemin isn't offensive, he's still valuable to this team.


But he isn't from Ontario. So trade him.

[jockdent]

My sun doesn't rise and set with Kulemin.

I'm fine with keeping him; and I'm fine with trading him( providing we get decent return for him, of course).

The point is, he's a decent player; but not a core player.

[H-B-C-Y-G]

Agreed with JD. But if they can get him scoring 15-20 on the 3rd line from year to year, I think he's a keeper.

[Kadrix43]

i think he looked real slow this year, and his hands werent good at all.. Not sure why, but hopefully he gets back to what he was before. I think D'amigo Kadri Frattin Holzer could all make it next year, as well as Ashton or even a guy like Ross or Biggs, you never know... Abbotts a guy who is very good in the NCAA lets see how he does in the NHL, if he does well then we have a top six playmaker on our hands.

[Boneshaker]

People have to also remember two things about Kulemin
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One, the horrible plane crash in Russia this past fall really shook him up as he had quite a few friends on that KHL team, and he did't look quite the same for awhile afterwards. Two, how many posts did he also hit. Somewhere I read something along the line of over 40+ posts hit this year, if even half of those go in, he's a 25-30 goal scorer again, and Grabovski's numbers get a boost probably to in the assist department. It was just alot of bad luck too....Frattin had the same problem in the first 2 months of the season as well.

But it is great to see him rounding back into the form he had last year, when he was one of the better 2-way wingers in the league I thought!

[Fready]

I realy think Burke has a chance to sign him at a steal. This team has very few players making what they diserve or less. It would be a nice change to have someone earn there money.

[Poyetas]

I realy think Burke has a chance to sign him at a steal. This team has very few players making what they diserve or less. It would be a nice change to have someone earn there money.

LOL! That's true...i'm just worried about our cap situation...

[joeysideshow]

I think that Kulemin will have a bounce back year next year and net at least 20goals. Also, I agree with Fready that we will be able to resign him at a very reasonable price. I love the way this guy plays the game and wish him the best of luck!

[Euronuck]

People have to also remember two things about Kulemin
.
One, the horrible plane crash in Russia this past fall really shook him up as he had quite a few friends on that KHL team, and he did't look quite the same for awhile afterwards. Two, how many posts did he also hit. Somewhere I read something along the line of over 40+ posts hit this year, if even half of those go in, he's a 25-30 goal scorer again, and Grabovski's numbers get a boost probably to in the assist department. It was just alot of bad luck too....Frattin had the same problem in the first 2 months of the season as well.

But it is great to see him rounding back into the form he had last year, when he was one of the better 2-way wingers in the league I thought!

That is what I've been saying. Also I think the most he had one night was something like 4 posts hahahah man I remember that game and was like Kulemin can get a break and I think the commentators even said something to the same effect.

[AlexanderTheGreatJr]

Training camp means squat....Kulemin was one of the few plus players on the team...

Training camp means squat?
Then tell me why do players train and workout in the off season, where as some people like you don't?

[youngbud]

Kullimen will be fine next year.