#david kämpf

[stealth-deacon]

Thanks for the Offseason content

Pt 1

[thepassionthatunitesusall]

HOLY SHIT KÄMPF

[misshoneyimhome]

You know what? David Kampf generally flies under my 🥴 radar but every so often, I see some footage of him and I'm like - hi there... 😏

Remember his instagram reel? The one with his bare abs going for a swim this summer. 'Cause I do.

Oh I definitely remember babe 😍

To me he’s not the most eye catching guy, but he’s got those moments (like showing off them abs 😏) and boom! We’re all reminded he’s there 😍 no complaints from my side 🌺🥰

[dancingonmyown]

Tor vs Buf | 19.11.22

[leafsleclerc]

if the leafs get swept its bc they did it in solidarity of me failing out of my masters

[extraliga-related]

TEAM CZECHIA 🇨🇿 @ WORLDS 2024

GOAL

Lukáš Dostál [Anaheim Ducks, NHL]

Petr Mrázek [Chicago Blackhawks, NHL]

Karel Vejmelka [Arizona Coyotes, NHL]

DEFENSE

Radko Gudas A [Anaheim Ducks, NHL]

Libor Hájek [Dynamo Pardubice, Extraliga]

Michal Kempný [Sparta Praha, Extraliga]

Jakub Krejčík [Sparta Praha, Extraliga]

Tomáš Kundrátek [Oceláři Třinec, Extraliga]

Jan Rutta [San Jose Sharks, NHL]

David Špaček [Iowa Wild, NHL]

OFFENSE

Ondřej Beránek [HC Karlovy Vary, Extraliga]

Roman Červenka C [SC Rapperswil-Jona, NL]

Jakub Flek [Kometa Brno, Extraliga]

Ondřej Kaše [HC Litvínov, Extraliga]

David Kämpf [Toronto Maple Leafs, NHL]

Jáchym Kondelík [HC České Budějovice, Extraliga]

Dominik Kubalík [Ottawa Senators, NHL]

Ondřej Palát A [New Jersey Devils, NHL]

Matěj Stránský [HC Davos, NL]

Lukáš Sedlák [Dynamo Pardubice, Extraliga]

David Tomášek [Färjestad BK, SHL]

Daniel Voženílek [Oceláři Třinec, Extraliga]

[eastoncowan]

full leafs zodiac list for those curious:

Taurus

- Timothy Liljegren

- Mitch Marner

- William Nylander

Gemini

- Bobby McMann

- TJ Brodie

Cancer

- Joseph Woll

Leo

- Noah Gregor

- Dennis Hildeby

- John Klingberg

Virgo

- Nick Robertson

- Simon Benoit

- Conor Timmins

- Auston Matthews

- John Tavares

Libra

- Matthew Knies

- Jake McCabe

- Calle Järnkrok

- Mark Giordano

Capricorn

- David Kämpf

- Martin Jones

Aquarius

- Ryan Reaves

Pisces

- Pontus Holmberg

- William Lagesson

- Max Domi

- Tyler Bertuzzi

- Morgan Rielly

- Jake Muzzin

and no Aries, Scorpio, or Sagittarius

so, we have:

3 fire signs (all Leo)

10 earth signs

7 air signs

7 water signs

[frasermints]

david kämpf looks like the no bitches meme

[3416]

Mitch Marner and Auston Matthews: Two very different personalities leading the Maple Leafs

By Jonas Siegel | Feb 6, 2023 | The Athletic

Matt Martin played alongside Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner during their first two seasons in the NHL.

What he quickly came to realize about the two talented players at the forefront of the Maple Leafs: “They’re two very different personalities,” Martin said in an interview last spring.

“When people would ask me about the two of them, I’m like, ‘Mitchy’s your fun-loving, always happy, always wanting to be around, always a smile on his smile, just loves to play the game, loves to be a part of it, loves to be with the guys.’

“And Matthews,” he added, “is just power-hungry. And I don’t mean that in a bad way. Like, if he scores a goal, he smells blood and he’s coming for three or four. That’s just kinda who he is. He’s just got a completely different demeanour than Mitchy. And I think those two personalities really play well off each other, especially when you think about where Matthews is the elite goalscorer and Mitchy is the elite playmaker. So you have the fun-loving personality playmaker and the elite goalscorer who kinda has that eat-your-heart-out mentality.”

Matthews and Marner are both 25 and often linked as the Leafs’ two best players — both All Stars in 2023 (Matthews was unable to attend because of injury.) But as Martin and other current and former teammates have observed, they couldn’t be more different as people.

The ‘bubbly’ one

Chatty, energetic, and a social butterfly who wants to be involved in everything. That’s Marner.

“He thinks it’s crazy we’re not going for lunch today,” Morgan Rielly said. “I can’t (do lunch today). He thinks that’s bananas.”

Marner is outgoing that way.

After he took his splashy All-Star weekend skates for a spin at practice last week, Marner excitedly showed them off to teammates. “Mark-o!” he yelled across the dressing room to veteran Mark Giordano. “Come see these things.”

Moments later, Marner pulled David Kämpf in to have a look.

“He wants to know what everybody is doing,” Rielly said. “He wants to make jokes about everybody, have everybody make jokes about him, and be very involved.”

James van Riemsdyk, another former teammate, put it this way: “Mitch is a bubbly person in general and I don’t think a lot of people would describe Auston that way, from the outside looking in.”

“(Mitch) is almost like your little brother drinking sodas, eating candies,” van Riemsdyk said.

“Mitch is just very energetic,” Rielly added. “It doesn’t matter if it’s a trainer or a coach or a player, if they’re wearing a bad pair of shoes he’s gonna say something. He feels the need to poke and prod and be involved in the conversation and be involved in the joke.”

Marner leads with his energy. He’s one of the loudest voices in the Leafs’ dressing room.

“You can always hear him chirping back and forth,” Alex Kerfoot said. “He’s just got that youthful, exuberant personality that kinda draws guys in and makes it fun to be around him. He almost has that attitude of a young kid that would do anything — nothing’s really gonna make his day any worse. He’s feeling good and you can see that with the way that he plays on the ice. He just has so much confidence in himself. He’s always having a good time.”

Marner stands by the door to the Leafs dressing room just before they hit the ice for games, giving each and every teammate a pound and word of encouragement. With many, including Matthews, there are even special handshakes.

That outgoing demeanour tends to make its way onto the ice.

Martin and Marner became close pals during Martin’s brief stint in Toronto. Martin once memorably played alongside both Matthews and Marner for a game or two during the Mike Babcock era. Marner will “talk to you and tell you things” on the bench, Martin said.

“The special thing about him is he tries to use your strengths to his advantage, if that makes sense,” Martin explained. “So, he would say, ‘If I have no play, I’m (putting the puck) in your corner and I’m coming and I’m following you up.’ So I would go in and I would hit somebody and then just tap the puck back to him. So he was using your strengths to the advantage of the line.

“And then he’s not just gonna go out there and try to do it all by himself. He wants to get everybody involved.”

Marner’s playmaking talents, Martin said, were fueled by his hockey smarts. “It’s almost like he’s playing a video game,” Martin said.

The ‘laidback’ one

And while, as Rielly observed it, “Mitch kinda operates up here, just at a high frequency,” Matthews was far more laid-back. “He kinda takes it as it goes, he goes with the flow a little bit more,” Rielly said.

Don’t underestimate that Arizona cool, teammates say.

“He definitely knows how good he is – and we all know how good he is,” Michael Bunting said. “He’s not the type of guy that would go around flaunting it. He has that calm, cool (demeanour) about him.”

“And nothing affects what he does day in and day out,” Kerfoot added. “He just tunes it all out and goes about his business and is extremely focused on being the best possible player that he can be.”

Martin said he was struck by that in Matthews’ very first NHL game, when he made history by scoring four goals.

“Most guys would be jumping around,” Martin said. “And he was just – he expected to do it. It wasn’t surprising to him. He wasn’t going crazy on his celebrations.”

Martin said that game, back on Oct. 12 2016, was “one of the more impressive things” he had ever been a part of. “He just buries four and it just seemed like another day’s work for him. In a lot of ways, we were like, ‘Oh my God,’ and he was just like, ‘What’d I do?’”

Martin described Matthews as something like a shark when it came to goal-scoring.

“There was moments in games where he scores a goal and it ends a slump – and a slump for him is like three games or two games, not like my kind of slump – and then you just see this switch goes off,” Martin said. “And then the next shift he’s coming and he gets another big scoring chance, and then it just seems like he’s coming and coming and coming and coming. It’s like as soon as that opportunity presents itself and he starts to feel it, it’s like, good luck stopping him.”

Matthews stepped into the NHL at 19, but seemed a lot older than that from Martin’s standpoint.

“He had leadership qualities the first day he stepped in that locker room,” Martin said. “As a fourth line guy and somebody that plays a completely different game from him, he just always appreciated what I think everybody brought to the table.”

Matthews was first to celebrate a teammate for blocking a shot, for instance. He made it known just how much he appreciated the job of each individual.

Zach Aston-Reese made note recently of Matthews’ encouragement that way.

“When one of your best players, or in this case, the best player on the team, is recognizing the things that other guys bring to the table, that’s the type of stuff that just brings a team closer and closer together.

“It’s maturity. Some guys, it takes a while for them to grow into their skin, to be comfortable being vocal and talking to some veteran players.”

Matthews and Marner both share a fondness for their dogs — Felix for Matthews, Zeus for Marner. Both enjoy hip-hop (Marner also has a fondness for country) and along with Bunting, devoured the Netflix show “You” last summer.

“They have a lot in common obviously with their games,” Rielly said. “They’re both extremely talented. They both like certain things. But ultimately, their personalities are a little bit different.”

[masoncarr2244]

David Kämpf - Toronto Maple Leafs at. Boston Bruins 04/20/24/

[goalhofer]

2024-25 Toronto Maple Leafs roster

Wingers

#11 Max Domi (Toronto, Ontario)

#16 Mitch Marner (Markham, Ontario) A

#19 Calle Järnkrok (Gävle Stad, Sweden)

#23 Matthew Knies (Phoenix, Arizona)

#46 Alex Steeves (Manchester, New Hampshire)**

#67 Max Pacioretty (New Canaan, Connecticut)*

#75 Ryan Reaves (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

#88 William Nylander-Altelius (Södertälje, Sweden)

#89 Nick Robertson (Detroit, Michigan)

Centers

#18 Steven Lorentz (Waterloo, Ontario)*

#24 Connor Dewar (Dauphin, Manitoba)

#29 Pontus Holmberg (Västerås, Sweden)

#34 Auston Matthews (Scottsdale, Arizona) C

#64 David Kämpf (Jirkov, Czech Republic)

#74 Bobby McMann (Wainwright, Alberta)

#91 John Tavares (Mississauga, Ontario) A

Defensemen

#2 Simon Benoit (Laval, Quebec)

#8 Chris Tanev (Toronto, Ontario)*

#22 Jake McCabe (Eau Claire, Wisconsin)

#25 Conor Timmins (St. Catherines, Ontario)

#28 Jani Hakanpää (Kirkunummi, Finland)*

#36 Dakota Mermis (Alton, Illinois)*

#44 Morgan Rielly (Vancouver, British Columbia) A

#51 Phil Myers (Dieppe, New Brunswick)*

#95 Oliver Ekman-Larsson (Karlskrona Stad, Sweden)*

Goalies

#41 Anthony Stolarz (Jackson Township, New Jersey)*

#60 Joe Woll (Dardenne Prairie, Missouri)

[stereax]

How is Toronto doing over there?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Okay let me explain what Toronto is doing... actually no I can't, what they're doing defies all reason. Or it makes perfect sense, but only if you're on the same cocktail of black tar heroin and crystal meth as Brad Treliving. Here we go!

This is the Leafs' page on CapFriendly. They are currently almost 9 million dollars over the cap. This is the offseason, so nobody really cares right now - teeeechnically you can't go over 10% above the cap during the offseason but nobody's really watching. So why are they over 8.8 million dollars over?

Let's review why.

This is the Leafs' forward core. (There's a league minimum deal for Dylan Gambrell too.)

This is the Leafs' forward core with a $5.5m deal to Bertuzzi, $3m deal to Domi, and $1.35m deal to Reaves. And you'd think "oh, they're trying to get tougher, okay" and they really don't, because Bertuzzi and Domi aren't punchers and Reavo is getting old. Bertuzzi is a more expensive Bunting sidegrade on a one-year deal seeking term in next year's free agent market. Domi is a center whose defensive numbers are in the shitter, also hoping for a better deal next year when the cap jumps up. Reaves is honestly just happy someone signed his ass for three whole years. He's 36. This is his second 35+ contract. Massive red flag.

What you're also going to notice is that Matthews, Marner, and Tavares take the lion's share of the cash - over $33m between the three of them. Nylander adds another $7m to the pot, making each of the Core Four average around $10m. Oh, and Nylander is angling for a pay raise when he hits UFA next year. :) And Matthews hits UFA next year too, good luck icing a 12-forward roster that doesn't have two lines' worth of rookies if you keep both! :)

Compare this to, say, the Devils, who have their cap situation under control. How the Devils work is they rely on everyone taking a discount for the benefit of the team (or just signing them to "overpays" before they get good and make the contracts worth it, like Jack Hughes). In the same $40m as the Core Four, the Devils have Timo Meier, Jack Hughes, Jesper Bratt, Nico Hischier, Tyler Toffoli, and Erik Haula. An entire top six. And I'm not even counting Dawson Mercer because he's still on his ELC and that would just be unfair.

There's a saying that "you can't win a Cup with a $10m player". Jack Eichel proved us wrong. However, the idea of that saying applies - if you have too many top guys who are all demanding too much money, your boat is going to capsize because you're not going to be able to get the rest of the team signed. (Unless you're the fucking Rangers and get everyone on league minimum contracts because you're the fucking Rangers and you run a retirement home in New York, but I DIGRESS.)

The main issue with the Core Four, and the idea of the Core Four, is that they're eating up basically half the cap by themselves. And if you look back on it, you can go "Kyle Dubas was a moron", but you've got to remember: Dubas inked those deals thinking the cap wouldn't go flat due to covid. With the cap due to jump next offseason, you're looking at a LOT of 1-year deals because most free agents think they can get more money when there's more money to throw around. Bertuzzi and Domi are no exceptions.

Oh, also, Brad Treliving signed a 4C (David Kämpf) to a $2.5m contract with 4 years of term. You don't sign fourth liners for that money or term, as a general rule, unless they do something for your team that is literally irreplacable. Kämpf is good but he's nowhere near the great that justifies that.

Bertuzzi: Fair value for him, but you had Bunting who just signed for $1m less with short term to the Canes. Possible upgrade but too early to tell, probably a sidegrade.

Domi: Really should learn how to play wing. Inconsistent. A bit of an overpay for a third line center who can't play D at all.

Reaves: Punchy McFourthLine. That's it.

The Leafs' defense doesn't have anything too glaringly awful, on the other hand - except that newly inked $4.15m contract to a John Klingberg who can barely play defense on a good day. When you already had three at least passable RDs on the roster (don't know how good Liljegren or Timmins are). I get the idea of an RD upgrade, but man, that was not it.

Klingberg: We're really in the "outscore your opponents" phase of the meltdown now, aren't we? He is worse than Erik Karlsson at defense. Erik Karlsson, Fourth Forward, is a better defenseman. Good God what I would give to see Klingberg and Rielly on a D-pair together. Threat to score... at both ends of the ice.

So the Leafs are over the cap, but a few shenaniga- Wait, what is that? An unsigned RFA goalie?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA YEEEEEP. THEY QUALIFIED SAMSONOV AND HAVE $-8.8 MILLION IN CAP SPACE WITH WHICH TO GIVE HIM A CONTRACT. Better pray he doesn't get offersheeted because you won't be able to sign a big deal for him. Good Lord.

And now here's your injured reserve.

Note that Muzzin's $5.625m is already coming off the books and there's noooo way they can take him off IR (see the top). They still need to shed $3.2m just to fit under cap. With Sammy needing a contract and being arbitration eligible? Oh boy.

So what's going to happen here?

Firstly, Muzzin has to stay on Robidas Island. He comes back, you're fucked capwise.

Murray needs to go. You can't buy him out because that would put $2m on the cap next season as penalty - $2m that you need to resign Nylander and Matthews. Either you Robidas Island him (break his kneecaps permanently) or you trade him as a cap dump. You can't get value on him because he's already retained salary and with an M-NTC that limits where he can go. So you need to ship Murray out with a sweetener for our good friend Future Considerations or a seventh-rounder. The sweetener in question? Probably a first-round pick. Maybe a third if the team in question needs a netminder. Toronto is fresh out of second-round picks. Sweet.

Even with Murray out, you have $1.4m in cap space, and with Robertson probably drawing into the lineup because he's cheap and hopefully fixed by now, so only $700k to spare for Sammy's contract. You better believe Ilya Fucking Samsonov is not going to take a league minimum contract... especially when he's valued at around $5m.

You can ship out Jarnkrok and/or Timmins (as per the internet, the most likely to be dealt). Even with both gone, you only have $3.9m in cap space, which means Sammy would either need to take a team friendly or get dealt, leaving Woll and Literally Nobody to take the net for Toronto. And even if Sammy takes a $3.5m deal, you have next to no cap space and no 13F/7D.

Did I mention Samsonov can arbitrate? Because Samsonov can choose to arbitrate for a higher salary. For another Devils comparable, the reason we didn't qualify Bastian or McLeod was because they could choose to arbitrate if we did, with the arbitrator awarding a higher salary than Fitz would be comfortable paying. Arbitrator says $5m, Treliving can't pay it, Sammy walks. Great work, Brad.

The other speculation is that these moves are setting up for a Nylander trade, breaking up the Core Four. Don't know who the hell wants Nylander at almost $7m of cap hit - maybe the Senators if they manage to ditch DeBrincat? The Leafs would probably have to retain significant salary. Also don't know who the hell the Leafs would replace Nylander with. I doubt this happens, honestly, especially because Nylander's 10-team no-trade clause can kick the Leafs further in the ass. But who the fuck knows anymore?

So to recap: The Leafs just shopped for a bunch of guys with no defense at all that's going to make them have to get rid of Murray and has made resigning Samsonov tough. They need to let go of some of their depth (Jarnkrok and Timmins most likely) to make it work at all, and that's assuming Sammy does them a favor and signs for cheap. That's not even including the possibility of an offersheet to Samsonov - which, if you're a GM with goaltending issues and cap to spare (Chicago comes to mind), you should seriously consider dropping a $6m offersheet to Samsonov and watching the chaos erupt. If Kyle Davidson is reading this right now, do this and I promise I will stop bringing up the Kyle Beach scandal every time I hear about the Hawks and let your franchise turn over a new leaf. (Or Leaf, as it were.)

@excuseme-jimin @storybook-strange you guys also expressed interest in this :)

[thenhlteaissuperhot]

Are there any stereotypes for hockey players in Czechia? Like how nhl players only date blonde, are usually conservative and kinda dumb

What are they in Czechia?

Speaking from my personal experience of having a brother who is an ice hockey player, also experiencing having a few of them in my class back in high school, and right now working for my uni's hockey team so encountering them fairly often on a weekly basis, they are not actually that different from the ones in America.

They still wear their caps backward like d*ckheads, grow their hair out, wear the same sort of clothing everywhere they go, looking like a bunch of minions, which you could recognize from miles away, post cringe photos on Snapchat, have the same bios on Instagram, the majority of them are dumb af, either naturally or because they skip school to devote their time and energy to hockey and hockey only, most of them usually have pretty well off parents that tolerate anything their kids do, the society overall puts them on a golden pedestal cause ice hockey is just as much of a national sport here as it is in Canada, all the girls here go through their "I want an ice hockey player so bad" era...

The only difference is that they don't date blondes. If you go to a game and spot their girlfriends or wives watching, most of them are actually brunettes - they switch to the NHL stereotype of blondes only when they make it past the draft and start playing on the other side of the Atlantic to fit the hockey standard, which differs in this aspect. The number of Czech players I have seen dating brunettes or simply dark-haired girls and immediately dumping them for a blonde or making them go blonde after making their NHL debut is ridiculous, however, you can still spot this difference prevailing in the case of some - Tomas Hertl, David Krejci, Tomas Nosek or David Kämpf are all dating dark-haired girls.

[torontoarenas]

Leafs in the Playoffs! 10

i also realized i forgot to do this. mostly because i almost never look at tumblr anymore. (and every time i do could be my last!) but when i looked at my post history and saw that i've done nine of these, i thought, "well, how could i stop there?" after all, ten's such a nice round number.

without further ado, here's the list of every former or current toronto maple leaf under contract to an NHL playoff team in 2023-24:

Boston

James van Riemsdyk (2013 to 2018)

Carolina

Frederik Andersen (2016 to 2021)

Stefan Noesen (2021)

Colorado

{N/A}

Dallas

Mason Marchment (2020)

Edmonton

Connor Brown (2016 to 2019)

Jack Campbell (2020 to 2022) [in the minors]

Sam Carrick (2014 to 2016)

Cody Ceci (2019 to 2020)

Seth Griffith (2016) [in the minors]

Zach Hyman (2016 to 2021)

Greg McKegg (2014 to 2015) [in the minors]

Calvin Pickard (2017)

Florida

{N/A}

Los Angeles

Trevor Moore (2018 to 2020)

David Rittich (2021)

Nashville

Tyson Barrie (2019 to 2020)

Kevin Gravel (2019) [in the minors]

Ryan O'Reilly (2023)

Luke Schenn (2008 to 2012; 2023)

NY Islanders

Pierre Engvall (2019 to 2023)

Matt Martin (2016 to 2018)

NY Rangers

Erik Gustafsson (2023)

Mac Hollowell (2022) [in the minors]

Nic Petan (2019 to 2021) [in the minors]

Jimmy Vesey (2021)

Tampa Bay

{N/A}

Toronto

Nick Abruzzese (2022 to present) [in the minors]

Simon Benoit (2023 to present)

Tyler Bertuzzi (2023 to present)

T. J. Brodie (2021 to present)

Kyle Clifford (2020; 2021 to present) [in the minors]

Connor Dewar (2024 to present)

Max Domi (2023 to present)

Joel Edmundson (2023 to present)

Mark Giordano (2022 to present)

Noah Gregor (2023 to present)

Pontus Holmberg (2022 to present)

Calle Järnkrok (2022 to present)

Martin Jones (2023 to present)

David Kämpf (2021 to present)

John Klingberg (2023 to present) [LTIR]

Matthew Knies (2023 to present)

Maxime Lajoie (2023 to present) [in the minors]

Timothy Liljegren (2020 to present)

Ilya Lyubushkin (2022; 2024 to present)

Mitch Marner (2016 to present)

Auston Matthews (2016 to present)

Jake McCabe (2023 to present)

Bobby McMann (2023 to present)

Fraser Minten (2023 to present) [in junior with Saskatoon Blades]

Matt Murray (2022 to present) [LTIR]

Jake Muzzin (2019 to present) [LTIR]

William Nylander (2016 to present)

Ryan Reaves (2023 to present)

Morgan Rielly (2013 to present)

Marshall Rifai (2024 to present) [in the minors]

Nick Robertson (2020 to present)

Ilya Samsonov (2022 to present)

Alex Steeves (2021 to present) [in the minors]

John Tavares (2018 to present)

Connor Timmins (2022 to present)

Joseph Woll (2021 to present)

Vancouver

Sam Lafferty (2023)

Ilya Mikheyev (2019 to 2022)

Vegas

Michael Amadio (2021)

Byron Froese (2015 to 2016) [in the minors]

Ben Hutton (2021)

Washington

Nicolas Aubé-Kubel (2022)

Rasmus Sandin (2019 to 2023)

Winnipeg

{N/A}

[periodicavocation]

first 🐍 playoff goal ft. bro move by engvall

leafs @ bolts | game 3 | 06.05.22

[anzekopistar]

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