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Lines at Leafs morning skate
Robertson – Haymes – Jarnkrok
Lettieri – Quillan – Cowan
Barbolini – Shaw – A.Nylander
Pezzetta – Pare – BoydBenoit – Mermis
Thrun – Myers
Webber – Benning95% of Marlies roster.
Hildeby starts
ReimerThis group is going to Detroit tonight
I’m going to address this once in this forum. This is a place to talk about hockey, about the Leafs and the upcoming season. If you want to talk about politics, if you want to talk about some of the issues of the day,
….you are free to do so…. just not here. We want to talk about sports, and ONLY SPORTS. If someone continues to bring up politics, they will be blocked from posting on the forums. We want to keep things civil here, and if you can’t do that, go someplace else.Better later than never.
Thank you!GO LEAFS GO !!!!!!!
YEEEEEESSSS
Marner could have been a hero had he signed for reasonable amount (my gawd Kaprisov deal is horrible), quit whining and truly showed up in the playoffs.
But he did neither.
How good and physical the leafs will be remains to be seen…only the results in April will matter. But for 9 years it wasnt working with this core. Things had to change. They did.
Some need to move on, let it go. This isnt marner’s dads leafs anymore…..marner ran away.Question is, with how old and injury prone the leafs seem to be….can the full team survive the full season? Can matthews be the matthews of 3 years ago?
The 3rd line does look great though.I will say it quickly, Marner has talent, I know this, but he’s a whiner and I won’t miss him at all on the leafs. There’s my opinion, the end.
What I do think will be the shock for leaf fans this year is getting used to having a bottom six that actually is good again for the first time in over a couple f’n decades. They haven’t had this since before the rebuild and it’s why I think some leaf fans are still panicking about this type of restructuring. They either don’t remember how this is the more effective way to build a team or they aren’t old enough to have ever seen it, at least not on the leafs.
^This.
He is a great player, but will not going to miss him no matter what.
Go Leafs!!!
And go Jays!!!I don’t know the answer to this question, we should wait and see what happens.
He is not in easy situation there and up to very difficult decisions.I think the answer is they have run out of prospects and draft picks to make a difference. They also don’t have cap space to sign free agents or make trades necessary to improve the team.
I think the Oilers only hope is if one of their goalie prospects comes in and stands on his head. But for this year, they’re going back to Skinner, Pickard and now Ingram, for a 3 headed monster of giant question marks in net.
Teams have won the Cup with great players like McDavid and terrible goalies, but they still require a higher level of defense. The Oilers don’t have it or the resources to change it quickly. That’s why a landing spot like Vegas, that has everything but is missing something like McDavid, makes the most sense.
I makes sense to me, but the question is what makes sense for Conor, we
have no way to know what he is going to do.Can McDavid afford to put his Cup winning fate in the same organization for the rest of his career?
I don’t know the answer to this question, we should wait and see what happens.
He is not in easy situation there and up to very difficult decisions.Might not be possible in Edmonton given the way their team is built with no D and no goalie. He has to do everything by himself in Edmonton. The only reason they got close is because he’s the best player in the world. If he joins Vegas, next time in the Final, he gets a lot more help and gets the job done.
Yes, I agree, but still thinking he stays in Edmonton.
Sure, more chance to win with Vegas or Florida, no doubt about it.
He was not lucky to sign contract with the team, who unlikely can win the Cup, but so many
other players been in the same situation.Unholy_Goalie wrote:
He wants to win a Cup. He will leave Edmonton if it means winning a Cup and it looks like he might have to if they can’t do it this yearHe wants to win it in Edmonton and they were not so far from getting it done for 2 years in a row.
Unholy_Goalie wrote:
Or Vegas and have everything.
Vegas makes more sense for him, but I don’t believe he is going to leave Edmonton in any future.
I don’t understand how Minnesota can have competitive team by paying such enormous contract to one player, who is not
even the best player in the World.Unholy_Goalie wrote:
They set a record for most games played in a 3 year span.
They could become tired. Complacent. Injured. Bob is 37. If the Leafs made the right choices, they could take advantage of all those factors.Yes, they had the golden opportunity in game three and chance to win the series, but they blown it.
Well if Florida could play better, so could the Leafs. It goes both ways. The Leafs won the first two games because they played confident and executed on the PP.
This team is taking a huge step back and won’t have what it takes to take steps forward. UFAs won’t save them. They never have before, they probably never will.I remember the first two games, Bob let in all pucks were directed to net.
The Leafs could play better in game 5 and 7, but I doubt result would be different.
The next year the gap between these two team will be get even bigger, I agree with this.
For Leafs it is not enough to get better, but they need Florida become worse, which may not happen to my sorry.Well players are paid game by game so it’s not a full difference like that, Leaf players only get paid 43 games in Ontario for instance and they aren’t high income earners anywhere else. Also, a notable difference for players on the leafs is they get a notable additional income for marketing which we get zero info about.
There are multiple factors why players may take less money and no state tax is the only one of them.
