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You should go out and buy a Proline ticket. Book it! Leafs victory in regulation. Heaven forbid that you get to move up a round in the draft, while getting closer to the Draft lottery.
Deadsville around here. Imagine, once the summer arrives, they could shut it down for lack of interest. All I can add is lose! Lose in regulation. Give Los Angeles the points, so they can make the playoffs and allow us to get a 2nd instead of a 3rd. This game needs to go in the column of tank for success. Anyone who wants to see the Leafs win tonight will be degrading the future. The Leafs have no future with a gutless, old team with few leaders and no prospects that are worthy of excitement in the system. This team looks like Hiroshima after the bomb. I’d sit every veteran the rest of the way.
It amazes me how some of these players work hard for the big contract, then they get domesticated. They get married, have children and get too comfortable. The fire is on low, inside their gut and they worry about getting the kids off to school and end up doing the honey do list. The more I look at the trajectory of this team, the more it screams rebuild. The Leafs have 2 elite players, but neither will be useful when the team is in playoff contention. It’s imperative, that the Leafs use these two players to get younger, faster and more hungry. The ping pong effect about hiring the Hunter’s seems to be something worth exploring. If the Leafs are going into rebuild, shouldn’t they hire a Coach and General Manager that knows Junior Hockey? Unless they lose their last 6 games, they’re going to give up a top 10 first. It’s important that they get a first this year and start rebuilding their farm system. If the rebuild is to come, maybe they should consider moving both Stolarz and Woll, then rely on their goaltending strength in the AHL going forward. Hildeby is a keeper and so is the young Russian Akhtyamov. Time to start getting their ducks in a row and move forward.
The Leafs will hire the DEI candidate every time. Time to go to sleep, this one’s in the loss column. Watched the Sens/Sabres game earlier. That was a good game. Leafs are nothing but cannon fodder right now.
Jets beat Rangers in a shootout! Perfect! 3 point game…..the Tank is real! More of this and more regulation losses for the Leafs.
Looking at the Leafs schedule, they’ve played more than every other team. Many of their remaining games are on the road against teams close to them, in the overall standings. Lose a few key games, and they’re there! I just don’t want a Glory Run when it means nothing. I see a lot of love for Maccelli. Where was his production when the team could have used it? It doesn’t mean much during garbage time. Hopefully, they don’t qualify him because he’s just a filler on the wing. I wouldn’t mind the Leafs resigning Laughton, at the end of the season. First, let LA make the playoffs and turn the third into to a second, then just wait for them to lose in round 1. No thanks to McMann. He’ll be the next David Clarkson for the team that signs him.
I hope the Leafs don’t go on another Glory Run and kill an opportunity for a top 5 pick. You have to know that the Leafs will get down to 5th from the bottom and someone above them wins the draft lottery and pushes them to 6th. Boston gets to pick and they get a player that plays in their top 6 for 15 to 20 years. Sound familiar? They should just tie the can to Treliving and get their new Management team together and allows them to look at this piece of sh!t roster.
What else is new? Can’t win, can’t tank properly. It will playout like this: With the 6th pick in the 2026 Entry Draft, the Boston Bruins will select: Sad but true. You can almost take this to the bank. Yes, they played well tonight, but I think that the Sabres took them lightly. So let’s hope that they make it to Minnesota and lose outright and get this tank show moving. They just need to get to the bottom 4 and should get the 5th pick, since someone else will win the draft lottery.
I see your point of view, but having his brother running the team and being paid big money might entice him. The ultimate hockey market and starting from almost scratch might entice them. They’ve won a number of Memorial Cups, but they don’t have a Stanley Cup ring. Let’s see if they have the stones to take on this Hindenburg.
We can argue with one another until eternity arrives. The big takeaway has to do with trying to win a Cup and overpaying for retread talent. We gave Treliving a chance to make the moves that Dubas couldn’t and he squandered too much of our farm system and draft capital. It was Dubas that made the mess by overpaying players on their future production and when they failed to deliver, the team was boxed in with overvalued contracts. I don’t like the idea of having a total rebuild but we may have no choice. Tavares isn’t getting any younger. Rielly is burnt toast and needs to be sent to another team or Robidas Island. Our only true assets are in goal. Our defense is old, but can still defend when healthy, but our forwards are the drag on this team. Matthews and Nylander are only a couple of years away from their 30’s and the team must cash out on them. If the deals can be done for younger talent and draft picks, they have to trade them. Yes, it will hurt, but doing a 15 year rebuild like Buffalo will be devastating. I won’t live long enough to see them win one more Cup. I keep hounding on bringing in the Hunter’s, but we’ve tried other routes and it’s been dismal. At least the Hunter’s never played in Toronto and their success in Junior Hockey, with the Knights, should be a breath of fresh air. I’d love to see McKenna as a Leaf, because he’s talented and has leadership skills that do not exist on today’s Leafs. We’re stuck with Tavares and Knies is the only bonafide young player that we have right now. Cowan is good, but is he a top line forward? I say no, but he could be a good second line winger. After that, Danford is the only NHL calibre player we have in the system. It’s a sinkhole right now with this team. Nylander and Matthews being traded will be the only salvation that this team can hope for, if they make the right trades. Mark Hunter….you’re on the clock is what we should hear at this year’s draft.
The biggest issue is the odds of winning the lottery for the Leafs are very small; between 6-10%. Even the worst team in the NHL, Vancouver, is 75% more likely to draft 2nd or 3rd than 1st.
The second issue with that idea is that Keaton Verhoeff probably won’t drop further than 3rd. I don’t think there are many, if any, teams out there that would give up a 1st round pick in 2027 just to move up from 3rd to 1st. Especially because, if a terrible team is a lottery team this year, the 2027 1st round pick is probably going to be another lottery pick and they won’t want to give that up. Neither McKenna nor Stenberg are good enough to justify that type of trade up value.
Maybe you could convince Boston to accept a deal where they keep the top 5 pick this year but have to give you the 22nd overall pick this year and the 2027 1st round pick. But would you want two late 1st round picks for a 1st overall pick? Probably not.
Like I’ve said many times before, the problems this team has can’t be fixed with just one lottery pick or one prospect anymore. The foundation of this team is clearly not going to change enough to make this team a winner or even a contender. Their window has closed. They need a full tear down and rebuild.
The Leafs have individually talented players but collectively are a terrible team with no 1st round picks. This has turned into the Phil Kessel era all over again.
An interesting concept. I’d say no, if it’s a top 2 pick, but 3 to 5, that might work. We still have to give Philly a 1st in the next draft, but that pick could also be protected, if the Leafs are at the bottom next year. Having the ability to grab an extra first in exchange for a top 3 -5 pick is something worth exploring. Getting out of this box of no 1st’s of our own for two years will keep the Leafs at the bottom for a much longer time. Boston’s 1st, this year, would probably fall around #20. It would get you a decent prospect. We may end up losing next years unprotected pick and that might be a bigger tragedy. It also pushes Philly’s pick another year down the road. So keep a top 2 pick, trade 3-5 if Boston wants to give up #20. Yes, I’d do that. By then, the Leafs will have a new management team in place with something to work with.
I don’t get the love for this team last night. They hurt themselves in every way possible. We need them to lose, not win. We need to see some grit and toughness, but they shit all over the ice after Matthews got taken out. It took a rookie to go to war with Anaheim, yet the so-called toughness never materialized cowering on the bench. I’m so tired of retreads and trading away futures. This team needs a total tear down. Matthews being traded will allow them to replenish their draft picks and start rolling again. Enough of the dumbness in the front office. How about a bit of the Clash…..London Calling. Let’s see if the Hunter’s pick up.
