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Complete garbage if true, but I think its just clickbait bs.
Go with Scott White…at least he comes from a winning organization.
Wrong again Cole Tomas Allen. It’s reported by Elliotte Friedman. Not clickbait unfortunately.
Dallas hasn’t been a winner since 1999. Dallas has somewhat been the Leafs of the West in recent years.
Still better than Chayka, I can give you that but overall, the Leafs need to build a strong, structured team of executives and managers that are legit winners.
Friedman, predicting a combination of Sundin and Chayka to run the Maple Leafs depending on Sundin’s decision.
I can feel some pain coming to Leafs Nation.
Complete garbage if true, but I think its just clickbait bs.
Go with Scott White…at least he comes from a winning organization.
I’ve pretty much resigned myself that I will not see them win another Stanley Cup in my life. I saw them win when I was 9 years old. For all of the years watching them, maybe they need to punt the know it alls, and get someone, like myself, that’s lived through the minefield that’s being a Leafs fan for 60 years. I could do a better job, using their resources to build a team that could win. I’ve known for decades that they haven’t had a leader, that can drag them into the fight and be the spiritual leader to get them to the next level. You can look at the last 10 years. Before that, the Phaneuf/Kessel years. No blood and guts. The last incarnation of this was the Pat Burns era. Tucker, Domi, Corson, Roberts…..all players that would put their team on their backs and will them to win. We’ve seen none of that for 25 years. Sometimes, You need to move elite talent to get those assets and build around them. Not the other way around. Analytics may be a useful tool, but it doesn’t read the intangibles that are required to win. The Leafs had 3 elite talented scorers and what did they get out of it? Playoff dystopia. You win with a combination of talent and brawn. You need fighters, checkers and straight out leaders. Leafs have not had that in 25 years. I’m tired of the rich man’s game. Tear this garbage team down and start at the top and work downwards.
The more I look into Chayka’s only run as GM, the worse it looks. If this guy is left unchecked, it could be a total disaster for the Leafs. Similar but worse than Dubas.
Chayka was hired in May of 2016 by the Coyotes at 26.
***2016 draft: Keller 7th overall and Chychrun 16th overall. Technically, he was the GM when they drafted in 2016 but who knows how much input he had on that draft.
2017 draft: Pierre-Olivier Joseph 23rd overall. 225 games, 46 points. He passed on Poehling, Oettinger, Frost, Jokiharju, Tolvanen, Hague and Boqvist. Not a huge bust but a bust.
2018 draft: Barett Hayton 5th overall. 358 games, 65 goals, 155 points. Also drafted Bahl in the 2nd round. He passed on Quinn Hughes, Bouchard, Dobson. Another bust draft.
2019 draft: Victor Soderstrom 11th overall. 61 games, 1 goal, 12 points. Passed on Boldy, Spencer Knight, Caufield, Newhook, Krebs, Harley and McMichael. Huge bust.
-He also drafted Maccelli in the 4th round. He has played 295 games with 51 goals and 169 points. A small victory figuratively and literally.
2020 draft: Did not have a 1st, 2nd or 3rd round pick. Combined games played of all the players drafted: 2.Absolutely nothing about Chayka gives me any kind of confidence he is what the Leafs need from a drafting perspective. Worse than Dubas in drafting.
His list of trades are here: https://www.nhltradetracker.com/user/trade_list_by_GM/John_Chayka/291/1
Some notable trades he made:
Acquired Taylor Hall for a 1st round pick, Nick Merkley, Nate Schnarr and a 3rd round pick. Terrible trade. A 35 game rental. 1st round pick became Dawson Mercer. Merkley was a bust but at the time was a former 1st round pick with same value and he blew it on a rental. Typical Leafs behavior.
Acquired Kessel and Birks for Galchenyuk and P.O. Joseph. Not a great trade considering Joseph was their 1st round pick just 2 years prior and Kessel was finished.
Acquired Nick Schmaltz for Dylan Strome and Brendan Perlini. Not a terrible trade but Strome has outperformed Schmaltz overall despite taking a few years to reach that potential. Again, showing more and more examples of his willingness to trade his 1st round picks / top prospects.
Re-acquired Galchenyuk for Max Domi. Bust trade considering Domi scored 28 goals and 77 points immediately and is still in the NHL. Galchenyuk lasted 1 year in Arizona.
Acquired Kruger for Martinook. Not a good trade. Kruger never played a game in Arizona.
Acquired Kuemper for Wedgewood and Rieder. That’s probably a push.
Acquired Richard Panik and Laurent Dauphin for Anthony Duclair and Clendening. That’s a small loss.
Re-acquired Wedgewood for a 5th round pick.
Acquired Derek Stepan and Antti Raanta for DeAngelo and a 1st round pick (7th overall). Mittelstadt, Rasmussen, Tippett, Vilardi, Necas, Suzuki…very bad pick to trade away.
Re-acquired DeAngelo for a 2nd round pick. It’s pretty strange how many times he brings back a guy he traded not long before.
Again, I don’t mind the advanced stats stuff but it needs results and this guy has very, very bad results. Arizona was so bad, for so long, they had to relocate to Utah. And their current success seems to have almost nothing to do with most of what Chayka did as GM. In fact, he made so many bad picks and trades, one could argue the team would have already been where it is today many years ago if it wasn’t for his destructive run as GM.
Leafs are about to make a very big fuck up with this guy. Hopefully it falls apart and doesn’t happen. This is Stellick x JFJ to the exponent Dubas levels of stupidity.
This is the gravity that is called The Toronto Maple Leafs.
players come and go.That’s not gravity because the best guys are ejected out of orbit. It seems the wrong players go more often than not to the determent of the franchise. A cycle that seems to have repeated itself since Sittler.
Friedman, predicting a combination of Sundin and Chayka to run the Maple Leafs depending on Sundin’s decision.
I can feel some pain coming to Leafs Nation.
Sundin is totally unqualified to be the President. It’s literally a PR move to keep the pajama retard rangers happy. Since he retired, he’s basically been out of hockey which is about 17 years now. Not that he doesn’t understand hockey but his executive experience is literally zero. And his winning resume on the ice is only for Olympic hockey, not for Stanley Cups.
Chayka is a pure numbers guy, which is fine but without a legit great hockey mind around him, spreadsheets won’t win Cups by itself.
The Leafs have near unlimited resources to hire better people. These hires are as lackluster as Pelley himself. It will end poorly.
Nice to see I have created an alt to have full on retard conversations with myself on here LMFAO.
That type of idea is reserved for retards such as yourself. As a surprise to absolutely nobody, you do yourself what you accuse others of doing.
You are wrong again retard.
But if taking other people’s posts and changing them to say what you think of yourself helps you get through the day then have at it I guess.
I understand it’s probably lonely down in mommy’s basement all alone being the incel cuckservative retard that you are.
The only thing that is surprising here is your complete lack of self awareness – Mommy probably should have put down the bottle when she was preggo or the pipe….or both.
Friedman, predicting a combination of Sundin and Chayka to run the Maple Leafs depending on Sundin’s decision.
I can feel some pain coming to Leafs Nation.
Hyman has 5 goals in 7 elimination games. Good thing the Leafs got rid of that guy.
This is the gravity that is called The Toronto Maple Leafs.
players come and go.
