I just don’t get it: we’ve been watching this same core 4 shit the bed over and over and over again, to the point where we’re (still) the laughing stock of the league, just a different brand of Maple Laffs.
We move Marner and get a serviceable 3C and our center depth is as good as it has been in years. We land a young playmaker with lots of upside for peanuts. Our D is still very good, our goaltending is still very good… we have cap space, the GM isn’t signing terrible UFA deals, and we’re in really good shape to make a trade for a bonefide top 6 winger especially if we can move out Kampf and Reaves and have all summer to do it.
Some of you just want to be miserable.
And some of you just want to pretend like whatever this team does will always work. Even though it never does.
If the “core 4” was shit, trade Rielly. He’s been here the longest. Tavares was paid the most and did nothing except destroy the cap situation and inflate the cost of everybody else and play the worse defense of any top-six forward. Nylander disappeared after Game 3 but nobody said a peep because his hair is allowed to be dry while he plays. Matthews has been a disappearing act many times, nobody cares because he scored 69 regular season goals (followed by 1 playoff goal) and seems to always have an excuse whether it’s an undisclosed injury or shitting his pants. Better than dropping his pants in public I guess.
There’s piles of shit this team force feeds it’s fans and some people just love shoveling it into their mouths, waiting for the next playoff failure and offseason of excuses. Can’t wait to see who the next scapegoat will be while the old scapegoats win Cups.