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looks like Rogers is getting rid of people and stations to pay the $$4+ billion to have full control of MLSE.
They could fire the entire staff in the company, they still won’t get back the 4 billion.
They’re most likely going to sell stock to get back what they spent to buyout Tanenbaum so they still own a giant majority but dilute the ownership among small investors.
you do realize Leach who they just hired away from Dallas to run the Leafs draft is also gone.
That’s probably a bad fire especially given the fact his draft record is significantly better than anything Chayka has ever shown.
Chayka is cleaning house……
Which would be better if he himself was a great GM capable of hiring other great people.
Hayley Wickenheiser was a DEI hire so no big loss there.
you do realize Leach who they just hired away from Dallas to run the Leafs draft is also gone.
looks like Rogers is getting rid of people and stations to pay the $$4+ billion to have full control of MLSE.
If I was in charge…………
GM-Matty-Cowboy
MKultra-JT-Nylon
Pauly-Sissy-JR
DJ-Bluey-DueyOEL
🐍 Tanpon(3rd pair needs more 🥊)
Trades neededGo 🍁 Go
💙🏆🏒You really gotta stop using this term mercenaries for players as if this started two weeks ago. Players have been going to the highest bidder since free agency was invented. It’s not new, it’s just how the market works.
Matthews and Nylander @ 50% retain would give the Leafs the biggest boatload of rebuild assets ever seen in Leafs history. If they shit themselves in the first half of this year, trade everybody starting in January and reap the rewards.
Not all players are mercenaries. Some want to win and do leave money on the table. It’s much easier, if they’re in a low tax red state, instead of Communist enclaves in Canada and the U.S. Some players who took less to be competitive, include Sidney Crosby, Nikita Kucherov, and Steven Stamkos. Others took a smaller haircut, like Connor McDavid and David Pasternak. All of these guys were proven commodities. Today’s 22 year old’s don’t have that kind of loyalty. They only want the gravy to start their careers. I fear that all of the hard work that San Jose and Anaheim will go out the window, within 3 years.
On Matthews and Nylander, sure, if you can get a great haul for them. In Matthews case, if he takes another 5 year contract under $15M per season and he regains his 50 goal prowess, then keep him. Nylander is immature for his age and wouldn’t mind seeing him moved for at least 2 first rounders in the top 10 of the draft. That could seal the two Treliving debacles and allow the Leafs to pick off a couple of UFA’s next year. The Colorado pick will be 25th to 32, you can book that.
Chayka is cleaning house……
Which would be better if he himself was a great GM capable of hiring other great people.
Hayley Wickenheiser was a DEI hire so no big loss there.
yup. I was going say something of the sorts but did not.
So Matthews next contract will be 20M over 5 yrs. Well maybe not 20M cap hit but it will be up there now.just because the a coach doesn’t have NHL experience doesn’t mean he’s not qualified to coach in the NHL.
There’s a very big difference between being “qualified” to be a coach on a terrible team and being qualified to coach a successful team. Which coach showed up with zero experience and just won a Cup with a lottery team? A lot of coaches are former players who skip the process but that ends up creating bad coaches with Gretzky as the most obvious examples and Patrick Roy as an example of a guy who could coach in junior but falling flat in the NHL.
Very few coaches fall into that category of just showing up in the NHL and being amazing Cup winning coaches. The majority work their way up the ranks and experience is clearly more valuable than praying a random rookie coach does an elite job with no prior pro experience.
Paul Maurice spent 7 years in the OHL before he got a chance in the NHL. Spent another 20+ years (13 years missing the playoffs) before he won Cups in Florida.
Mike Sullivan spent 7 years coaching in the AHL before he won two Cups back-to-back with Pittsburgh.
Jon Cooper was GM/Head Coach in the NAHL for five years, AHL head coach for 3 years then became head coach of the Lightning.
Rod the Bod is the best coach in the NHL right now and he was an assistant for 7 years before he was a head coach. And then it took him another 8 years to win a Cup.
Werenka, was a stupid hire to be an assistant coach on the bench with his three years at the University of Calgary as experience. He’s literally never coached pro hockey, ever. Going from USports to the NHL is a jump. How is that any improvement over Mike Van Ryn? Or Lalonde who has two Cups as an assistant and coached the only part of the Leafs that was actually successful, their top 10 ranked PK. You can still hire Werenka as an analytics coach and use him like a video coach but to be behind the bench with plenty of other qualified, experienced, winners available is just retarded.
Can you imagine what Bedard and Celebrini are going to command? Over $20M per season on a 4 year deal. They’re now mercenaries who’ll go where the money is. This also means that low tax states have a hugely distinct advantage over the Canadian and Blu States. Now look at Knies, signed long term, only 23 and no trade protection. When a team has more than one of these type of players, making north of $20M on a shorter term contract, it’s going to put them in Cap hell and they’ll come calling on the Leafs and Knies. You can score a franchise changing player, even up for the lower contract of Knies. The other scenario is keeping Knies on the cheap contract, moving a Matthews and add a Superstar, $20M player for that rebuild.
You really gotta stop using this term mercenaries for players as if this started two weeks ago. Players have been going to the highest bidder since free agency was invented. It’s not new, it’s just how the market works.
Matthews and Nylander @ 50% retain would give the Leafs the biggest boatload of rebuild assets ever seen in Leafs history. If they shit themselves in the first half of this year, trade everybody starting in January and reap the rewards.
