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I really wish you would stop using that word.
Absolutely not happening. Perfectly good word. No need to become a woke bitch over words. Don’t see you crying about anybody saying idiot or moron and yet they’re just as “offensive” as retard because they were also used in classifying the mentally challenged.
Yeah they are missing so many picks, the only real way to “rebuild” even is to trade Matthews and Nylander in their prime when the cap is about to go up and they can be afforded. I just don’t see any hope that they can re-tool and compete now or rebuild with so few young assets now or in the near future.
They have nothing at all on defense. It needs a complete overhaul.
Yup, the “rebuild” works better if you have picks after you trade all your best players. But tanking with no picks is worthless. And the Leafs would need at least 3 straight years of lottery picks plus a huge haul for Matthews and Nylander (another 4-5 1st round picks) to rebuild this team correctly.
They’re fucked. They have no clear path to a retool or a rebuild and it seems pretty obvious they are hellbent on running this shit team back until Pelley gets fired.