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I just got banned for asking if the banning was continuing and pointing out that it got pretty stupid before the playoffs started…
I guess I hurt someone’s feelings.
Marner is walking. The Leafs no longer have any say in the matter.
The mistakes with the management of this core have been ongoing for nine years.
Marner walking July 1 is not the “mistake” – it’s the cherry on top of an ongoing decade long organizational failure. -Fifty
Best post I have read in a while.
I figure Shanahan is gone, Treliving and Berube are safe.
Marner is gone. He has no supporters left here. The crowd booed him any time he touched the puck at the end of the game. Trade him at the draft for whatever paltry picks you can fetch from an interested team, or participate in a sign & trade for him to get his 8th year. Let him go somewhere else and vanish when the going gets tough.
Tavares played well enough to return, but not well enough to warrant even $7m on his next deal. Even losing Marner and JT makes you wonder if the addition of toughness would really alter this group very much.
Rielly had moments when the physicality wasn’t that amped up, but once Florida started to forecheck, he wilted and reverted to missing pucks, losing battles and not physically engaging on the boards where it was required. In the end he contributed little and cost more. I’d try and move him. Buying him out would be just too long (10 years).
I wouldn’t trade Matthews at his lowest value and I’m expecting he was playing hurt all season; while he was almost a P/G in the playoffs he was not himself and was too infrequently not an asset.
I don’t know what happened to Willy either. He just vanished and didn’t engage way too often. It was enigma-Willy – playing when he felt like it.
On the plus side there were bright spots other than the D and G – Obviously Knies, but the lesser sung guys like Lorentz, Laughton, Pacioretty and at times Holmberg were all pretty good. Kampf, Jarnkrok and Robertson might be done as Leafs.
An honest assessment? They made it further than they have under Matthews – not far enough obviously – but there’s progress there. They need toughness in the forwards and from the forwards. Still too many guys who are easily pushed around and cowed. It’s disappointing and their ability to not compete at critical times was probably more obvious this year than any other year. And this under a coach who preaches competitiveness more than the last one. I would imagine they need to figure out where that rot is and weed it out.-Monkeypunk
This pretty much sums it up.
Friedman kept saying that Berube would have a big sau in what happens in the off-season. I certainly hope so. He knows better than any of us what is actually wrong with this group and I doubt it is as simple as just let Marner walk for the privilege of overpaying for some new magic beans in FA.
I slept normal.
Fortunately i was not invested in this team this year. Didnt even watch game 5 or 7, watched a bit of game 6.With Matthews as captain, marner as an A, i simply dont expect much from this team.
They’ve traded away 1st rounders like crazy, one for a 3rd line center.
Team is screwed for a while. Imo -FakeI slept great!
I haven’t felt this core would ever win for many years now.
Yup, it’s going to be a while. A rebuild can’t even start for another 5 years or so. The team has zero chance as long as Matthews is there.Why do people say to get rid of Matthews? I bet you’d take McKinnon on your team though right? The guy has gotten out of the second round ONCE in his career and that was when he won a cup.
He also made the playoffs once in his first 4 years. Has been to the second round more than Matthews though. Regardless the point is, you don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. Keep the top centerman. -Aaron
Have you ever watched Mackinnon play compared to how Matthews plays? Matthews is every bit as lazy, frightened and useless as Marner. When the going gets tough, not one of them (MMTNR) rises to the occasion.
Edit: was supposed to be a reply to Post Toastee. Not sure what I did wrong. -Pags66
You have to manually copy and paste the post you want to quote and enclose the copied stuff using the B-QUOTE tag. You also need to add a name if you want to see who you are quoting.
So I’m banned from HB until august 15th for asking Ek what kind of lease the new Leafs test writer writes.
Like that what he had in the blog.
ha ha -Dmnted
I was going to note that the grammar in the second submission was really poor. I could not come up with even a semi-nice way to point that out. I knew damn well it would earn me a ban.
1993.
First round against the Detroit Red Wings. Series tied 3-3 going into Game 7.
And it goes to OT. -PDO
Told this story on HB before…
Friend and I were driving home from Tampa. We were just outside of Atlanta, when we were searching for a radio station and got a “skip” signal for the Leaf game, about a minute later Borschevsky scored, and about 30 seconds after that, the signal was lost 🙂
