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I’ve liberated myself from this team for now. Not watching any of the games and not watching their advertisers. If they gave me free tickets, I’d sell them and plan a nice weekend getaway. This team is putrid and going nowhere. They haven’t had a heart and soul player on this roster since the days of Roberts, Tucker, Corson and Mogilney. It’s sad to say, but the last 23 years have been dismal. Sure, we’ve seen some great personal milestones for some of the elite players, but none of them have been able to elevate their game in the playoffs. Coach’s come, coach’s go. GM’s come, GM’s go and the song remains the same. Ticket prices up, broadcast revenues up, great for the shareholders. The fans just spinning their wheels and getting older. I won’t live long enough to see them do a rebuild and actually win the Stanley Cup. My fading memory will be watching them win the Cup as a 9 year old boy in glorious black and white. As I’ve said before, the last Cup victory was closer to the inception of the team, in 1917, than today. That’s the disgrace that we all must wear around our necks as Leafs fans. Might as well be cement cinder blocks.
Watching this team and it’s abundantly clear that they have no plan, no leadership and wasted opportunities this last decade. You can’t say that it’s because Marner left, it’s really because they never built the team properly. Instead of building from the goal outward, they’ve squandered a Generational player and have damaged themselves beyond repair. Did they ever go out and address the stud defenseman that could play 30 minutes a game and put up 60 points a year, this last decade? They had the core 4, but all forwards. Their goaltending isn’t bad, it’s probably better than average. It doesn’t show in the stats, but it does in regards to shots on goal and shots on net. Where’s all of this toughness that they proclaimed they’ve added? Sounds like bust city to me. The coaching isn’t up to scratch and the GM has squandered the future. Florida knew when and how to trade, but this organization never did. The young teams have overtaken the Leafs in the standings and the ship is starting to flounder. Is it time to step back and retool? Do you auction off Matthews and hope to recoup young, exciting players and draft picks in return? How about moving Stolarz to a team that needs a good goaltender, for at least a 1st rounder if not more. Rielly has needed to be moved for the last two years, so is now the time? Should Cowan be playing full time, to get used to the pro game and taking the next step? They usually say, wait until American Thanksgiving, but can we wait much longer? Leafs management had better find a solution quickly, or this debacle is going to cut deep. They’re starting to see empty, unsold seats at Scotiabank Arena. Who really is interested in an uninspiring team, with no balls and bad habits? They were able to hide their problems, while the Jays went on their World Series run. Now the spotlight is burning on them. Put up or shut up, as the saying goes. I for one will tune them out, until they either turn it around, or start moving bodies. It pains me to do this, but it’s necessary for them to get the message with low viewership. Time’s a ticking!
This Leafs team is just boring and uninspiring to watch. There seems to be a drop off of talent on this squad. Since the Matthews era, the team has never been able to sign a stud top defenseman. Doing it by committee hasn’t worked and all that’s happened is the star players are getting older. If this trend continues, they’ll be the next Bruins, dropping out of the playoffs and having to retool. If this team want’s to contend, it’s time that they decide who is the #1 in net and go out and trade the other. Prospects, or a top end defenseman should be the only asking price. No more cutting corners. Either get it done, or gut the team.
Patience. A lot of injuries and new players learning the system. It takes time. The rest of the Atlantic is also starting slow. Once November rolls around, then teams start showing who they really are. Woll will be back soon as will Tanev. Once the team gets healthy, they’ll start making up those points lost.
Latest article from the guy who runs the other site…
“Will Canadiens’ Lane Hutson Be Better Than Canucks’ Luke Hughes?”
#facepalm
I think Hutson will have a slower year, than last. The League now has a book on him. He’s not a big player and every team will target him by throwing the puck into the corner and taking the body. He’ll be a Cole Caufield of the defense. Talented but can disappear when the big bodies come after them. Montreal really needs to get some bigger forwards to help out their smaller skilled players.
Looks like we can call this date Black Monday. Leafs lose in the last minute. Jays get destroyed at home in the ALCS. the Bills are down 2 touchdowns in the 3rd quarter and don’t appear to be ready to play in this game. Should just go to bed and wake up thinking it was all a bad dream.
Too early in the year to make determinations. Talk to me on U.S. Thanksgiving and I’ll have a better idea on what and where this team is going.
Nice victory today. Can they keep it going? It’s imperative that they win Game 2, putting the Yankees in a position to win out to win the series. They should have saved some of those runs for tomorrow. Hopefully, the pitching stays strong. The Yankees are error prone, so lets see if that rears it’s ugly head going forward. I think the winner of this series goes to the World Series.
Less than a week until the regular season. Hockey Hot Stove, home of the Leafs Nation. Ek’s latest version of the Buzz is a dud.
Fuck Apple TV and MLB for screwing the rank and file fans of the Jays. Nobody wants to pay for a subscription to see one game that meant so much in the standings. MLB should have cut Apple TV from games in September. The fans pay for the Sportsnet service and expect to have games down the stretch available to them. I know that they would never see this post, but let it be a lesson to the NHL to not take advantage of the Canadian Hockey fans going down the stretch. I have Prime because I have an Amazon account, but I certainly don’t want to see games over there, especially down the stretch. It’s enough that we have to subscribe to Hockey Night in Canada, TSN and Sportsnet to see the Leafs play during the regular season. The fragmentation of regional sports channels is getting out of hand. See the Buffalo Bills who’ll play on 6 or 7 networks for a 17 Game schedule. Ludicrous!
I think, that Stolarz could be overplaying his hand. He had a good year, last year, but what about all of the years of being a backup goaltender, with a spotty record of having stretches on the injured reserve? He isn’t young, by any means. Maybe the Leafs should take his hot season and peddle him off to Edmonton, or another Western Conference team and take back some draft capital that the sorely need. Jack Campbell had a good year with the Leafs then disappeared. Getting assets is a much smarter way of rebuilding your prospect pool. There will be many backup NHL caliber types available, when teams submit their final roster. Woll is solid and the Leafs team is general is also solid. Maybe not as flashy, but good enough to be a top 3 team in the Atlantic. Time to focus and get a return for a change.
Was nice to see the Leafs B squad beat the Sens A squad. I’m sure the reverse will happen in Toronto and every Sens troll will be yapping about it like they won the cup. Lol
Oh I’ll happily say it was nice to see but it was also due to to some damn lucky moments lol
Win that way, lose that way, and watch the trolls explode.
It’s just AHL caliber hockey. It means nothing, but a way to make extra money for the teams. It’s gotten to the point that preseason is just boring to watch and the regular season, with the exception of a few divisional tilts are also meh. Playoffs is where it’s at.
Ken Dryden has died.
R.I.P.
Always sad to see someone go the way he did, at least he was at home.
R.I.P. Ken Dryden
Ken Dryden had the stones to at least deal with the Maple Leaf Gardens sex scandal case. He made sure that the perverts coercing the teenagers with free hockey tickets, then sexually assaulting them, came to light. For that, he has my utmost respect.
this whole post if quite something to read, I dont know how anyone can believe that donkey will do anything good for 99% of the people. tariffs just another way to rob people and shift all the money to the rich pockets.
The proof is in the pudding. Under Biden, my portfolio only grew 3% and was eaten up by inflation. Under Trump, I’m up over 10% in the first 8 months of the Trump Administration. During his first administration, I saw returns over 10% for most of his 4 years. There was low inflation and the Biden years ate most of that up, due to inflation, hence the need to work 3 more years to try and get it back, after adjustment for inflation.
On the Trump plan to restart the economy, it’s necessary to impose tariffs to balance the trade imbalance. The U.S. has been running trade deficits for decades and it needs to stop. When you hit $37T in debt, run up from administrations going back in the late ’60’s, something needs to be done. In Canada, we have tariffs inside our own borders between provinces. You can’t even legally go into Quebec to buy alcohol without breaking the law. Our supply side management, in other words quotas, has made it expensive to buy food and commodities. There needs to be a scrapping of the quota system, to bring prices down. Canada needs to address their debt, before shelling out more money to Ukraine, or other nations that launder money for war and corruption.
