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Dropped by the ‘buzz today to see what was up. Got myself a 3 month ban for referring to the Leafs thread as a “ghost town”. Kinda ironic, I must say!
Dropped by the ‘buzz today to see what was up. Got myself a 3 month ban for referring to the Leafs thread as a “ghost town”. Kinda ironic, I must say!
😂😂 sad.
Dropped by the ‘buzz today to see what was up. Got myself a 3 month ban for referring to the Leafs thread as a “ghost town”. Kinda ironic, I must say!
I’ve just decided to not go back there. Let it wither and die. Stupidity killed it and there’s no going back.
I’ve just decided to not go back there. Let it wither and die. Stupidity killed it and there’s no going back.
I’ve been banned for many things on the hockey buzz and the facetube over the decades🤦♂️
This last ban from my hb fam was just for posting my iconic phrase which got hb the traffic on the main page and keep them going:
FIRST
any habs rumours!?!
nuff said
having said all of this, I’m here on a reverse bridge deal; meaning I’m not a little bitch so i don’t get butthurt about bans and insults on the interwebs because I’m always right👊🏿what a fucking joke🤦♂️
edit: nice alliteration 👍🏿
Wrong. This is why you I’ve zero credibility with your page after page of arguing just to argue – You have no clue what you watch. Sure you have a load of opinions but they are never actually smart hockey takes cause you’ve never played and don’t get it. You regurgitate things others post on line.
Tue actual play you spoke about from Mitchy… The Panthers dman made a poor pass to his partner (puck was a tick ahead and rolled off toe – puck went off boards right to Marner who turned with it and shoveled a 2ft pass (through nobody or anything…like any player can do). Matthews went in and scored.
Marner ‘stole’ the puck and made a ‘great’ pass. More uneducated (hockey wise) bullshit from this clown. -BigIQof23
Congrats, you played junior C hockey and all you got for your trouble was CTE.
Marner Boeser Ehlers JT Duchene Nelson
Bennett Giroux Marchand Palmieri Drouin
Suter Granlund Benn Kuzmenko Smith Donato Roslovic Mangiapane Gourde Kane Frederic Jeannot Kuraly Armia Brown Raddysh Beauvillier Saad Skinner Cousins Bjugstad Gaudette Tanev Eller KuninLots of good options
Pack your 💩 #16There’s actually a long list of horrible options. Marner is by far the best of all the options and if your goal is to win a Cup, they must resign Marner.
Let’s go one by one through what would be top-six forwards and give you the reasons why the majority on this list are either garbage, not better or won’t sign with the Leafs.
For starters, Boeser is horrid. -25 player who deserves his -25. He was a 50 point player last year, only made the playoffs twice in his career. This guy is like a less athletic, Value Village Kessel.
Ehlers, not leaving Winnipeg, soft as baby shit, not a playoff performer, not a 100 point, Selke nominee, PKer. Most of his playoff runs ended with 0 goals. This guy is Value Village Nylander.
Tavares. Is. Garbage. 7 years of his prime, he can’t skate, he can’t defend and he didn’t score in 6 out of 7 games against the Panthers. This guy was the definition of bad DNA. Show him the door.
Duchene. Value Village Tavares. Horrid defensively, can’t score 5v5. Basically a PP weapon who can’t play in any other situation. Cheap but ineffective.
Nelson, very good size, good player but probably not leaving Colorado, has no reason to play in Toronto (from Minnesota) unless you massively overpay him. And he’s 33. Not going to be a “prime years” contract. Usually a 50 point player most of his career. 0 playoff goals in 7 games for Colorado this year. ZERO.
Bennett and Marchand are not leaving better weather, better taxes, better team, proven winner and less pressure to deal with the BS that is Toronto. They’d both be complete idiots to sign with the Leafs. Also, didn’t Leafs fans hate them 10 minutes ago? You really want to overpay these guys into their mid to late 30s after they got that much mileage? That’s like buying a Mercedes at a used car lot with 200K KM on it. Looks great, sounds great but get ready to pay the double what it’s worth just for an oil change.
Giroux, not leaving Ottawa, hasn’t been a 100 point player in 7 years. Basically another 50 point guy on the wrong side of 37. Hasn’t been a playoff performer since 2012.
Palmieri, off the market. Also, 34 anyway…
Drouin has 1 playoff goal in his last 20 playoff games and he had the benefit of playing with MacKinnon. If he knows what’s good for him, he’ll stay in Colorado and continue being a passenger over there.
Suter, is better than Malgin, I’ll give him that but still, 2 playoff goals in 13 career playoff games? Don’t see this guy moving the needle that much
Granlund, good player but 32, why would he leave all his Finnish buddies in Dallas after going so deep this year?
Benn is washed, from BC, no reason to come to the Leafs. Probably just stays in Dallas for 1 year, 1 million dollar deals.
Kuzmenko, one year wonder, completely unreliable.
Donato, from Boston, why would he don’t see why he wouldn’t go back to Chicago / Boston unless you overpaid him. 0 playoff goals in 19 playoff games.
Roslovic, from Ohio, don’t see why he’d leave Carolina or come to Toronto unless you overpaid him. 3 career playoff goals in 45 games. Already have enough Jarnkroks and Kampfs. Don’t need another.
Mangiapane, 5’10”, 14 goals, 28 points. This guy can’t replace Marner except if it’s in a police line-up for the height and weight. If he takes a super cheap contract, he’s worth a shot but probably not a legit top-six threat in the playoffs as his career playoff numbers are unimpressive. 7 playoff goals, 14 points in 37 games.
The only two top-six forwards you listed that make sense are Smith and Kane. And you don’t need to lose Marner to get them.
Smith is a two-way, Cup winner, solid LW who can score some goals in the playoffs. But he’s not a 100 point player. You replace Tavares with Smith, not Marner.
Same goes for Kane at 36-37 years old. 10 years ago, he could replace Marner, but he’s a one-way, injury prone player now. He hasn’t had a good playoff run since 2015. Literally a decade ago since he had a playoff run with more than just 1 or 2 goals. That’s a complimentary player, not a guy who you can expect to replace a 100 point, two-way player 27-35, much less win a Cup with. You sign Kane the same way the Oilers signed Perry; 1 million dollar, 1 year deal to occasionally play on the top line and on the PP. You add Perry to the mix, you don’t replace Draisaitl with him.
Why did you stop there?
All the bottom 6 guys:
Frederic Gourde Armia Bjugstad Tanev
Jeannot Kuraly Eller Kunin +Just roll with…
Knies Matthews Domi
McMann Tavares(5m) NylanderThen…
Laughton stays
Robertson and Holmberg RFA ?
Jarnkrok ?
Trade Kant
Let Lorentz take league minimum 13 FWBjugstad as 4C
Tanev, Frederic, Armia, Jeannot, Kunin- any 2I am ok with signing Kane to a 1 year deal, in order to have money available for 2026 UFA crop
Why did you stop there?
All the bottom 6 guys:
Frederic Gourde Armia Bjugstad Tanev
Jeannot Kuraly Eller Kunin +Just roll with…
Knies Matthews Domi
McMann Tavares(5m) NylanderThen…
Laughton stays
Robertson and Holmberg RFA ?
Jarnkrok ?
Trade Kant
Let Lorentz take league minimum 13 FWBjugstad as 4C
Tanev, Frederic, Armia, Jeannot, Kunin- any 2I am ok with signing Kane to a 1 year deal, in order to have money available for 2026 UFA crop -sir
Because signing a bunch of 4th liners is irrelevant with that piss poor top-six. That team barely makes the playoffs and loses in the 1st round.
Saving money for a 2026 UFA miracle is a long shot. Overpaying for UFAs (Tavares) backfired once before. Doing it again would be silly.
Totally off subject. Just got done doing a fresh install of a new linux operating system (distro). Went smoother than I expected. Switched over from Ubuntu to BunsenLabs. The speed is stunning after years of using heavier OS’es like Windows and Ubuntu. Start up and shut down is instant. No lag for anything. Applications open and close instantly.
No forced updates. No AI or other cloud shit forced on me. No telemetry, tracking, or spying. It’s bliss.
Unless your work forces you to, or you are a l33t-gamer, there’s no reason to stay on Windoze.
This has been a public service FOSS testimonial, we now return you to Leafs hockey talk.
Fuck the Panthers.
Why did you stop there?
All the bottom 6 guys:
Frederic Gourde Armia Bjugstad Tanev
Jeannot Kuraly Eller Kunin +Just roll with…
Knies Matthews Domi
McMann Tavares(5m) NylanderThen…
Laughton stays
Robertson and Holmberg RFA ?
Jarnkrok ?
Trade Kant
Let Lorentz take league minimum 13 FWBjugstad as 4C
Tanev, Frederic, Armia, Jeannot, Kunin- any 2I am ok with signing Kane to a 1 year deal, in order to have money available for 2026 UFA crop
-Mr.SirI did like the trade proposal I saw the other day.
Karlson for Kampf + 2025 2nd rnd pick (FLA) + 3rd rnd pick either 2025 (COL) or 2026 (Leafs).
This would mean Marner is gone.
I’d like the to go after Tanev but he will cost at least 3~4M on a 4 year deal.
kinda expensive for a bottom 6 player.
I’d definitely would bring back Lorentz. 2yrs @ 900K persome fans can never be happy or are always so negative about the Leafs players or players in general.
I did like the trade proposal I saw the other day.
Karlson for Kampf + 2025 2nd rnd pick (FLA) + 3rd rnd pick either 2025 (COL) or 2026 (Leafs).
This would mean Marner is gone.
I’d like the to go after Tanev but he will cost at least 3~4M on a 4 year deal.
kinda expensive for a bottom 6 player.
I’d definitely would bring back Lorentz. 2yrs @ 900K per
~dmntedI am of the opinion that Tanev is a $2m / year guy. 6 years ago, Rutherford got a hard-on for a 14 goal guy who played 14 minutes / night and overpaid him @ $3.5m. He’s a phenomenal worker and he’s tenacious and he’s exactly what any bottom-6 would want – but he had 10 goals and 12 assists in a full season and turns 34 at the end of this year. You’re buying his twilight years and those should be discounted, I would imagine.
Totally off subject. Just got done doing a fresh install of a new linux operating system (distro). Went smoother than I expected. Switched over from Ubuntu to BunsenLabs. The speed is stunning after years of using heavier OS’es like Windows and Ubuntu. Start up and shut down is instant. No lag for anything. Applications open and close instantly.~ PDO
I am linux person, running linux desktop for over than 20 years, currently on 2 Desktops with Archlinux on both.
I like idea of minimal installation, some tiling windows manager and only apps I am using, nothing else.
It is easier for me probably as I am not a gamer.
And yes, go Oilers.
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