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They played OK tonight. It’s obvious that they need more offense. Willy might have helped. Not sold om Maccelli. He’s allot like Domi, a turnover machine. Leafs need to address their need for a top 6 winger with a little more jam. The defense looks good with Tanev back. Time to get something done while they still have the ability to make a move into the playoffs. Too bad that Stolarz isn’t available. He would make excellent trade bait.
This is just the beginning of the wake for this season. Soon the corpse will start to rot and the vultures will circle. There needs to be a total tear down here. Use what grade A assets that you have to start a reset. Bring in some advisors like Gary Roberts, etc. Rebuild with total blood and guts players and get rid of the metrosexuals on the team. I watched about 20 minutes of tonight’s game and about the same last night. Football is all that’s left right now. It’s going to be a long winter of discontent.
I haven’t been going to either of the hockey sites, lately. I’ve also started not watching the Leafs. It’s my prerogative to just tune them out. This team didn’t have to go down this route. Biggest mistake is taking the “C” from Tavares and putting it on Matthews. He didn’t need the extra headache. Rielly hasn’t been great for 3 years now. How come they don’t address that elephant in the room? Burube? He wasn’t the coach that they really needed. Spencer Carbery was, but they let him go to Washington. Too many draft picks squandered, poor choices of assistant coaches and a Corporation that made more money than they were entitled to, with exorbitant ticket prices and you see where this stew began. Letting Sportsnet and their washed up broadcasts getting another 12 years of National coverage also hurt the product. TSN had a more hip broadcast and brought in the younger people. As a 68 year old fan, I’m starting to feel that I’ll never live long enough to see them win another Cup. What can they do to turn it around? A silent auction of Austin Matthews, then the domino’s of Rielly and Nylander being moved is the answer. Yes, it will hurt in the short term, but they’ll come back with younger, more hungrier players. Enough treading water, clean house and do a reset on the fly. For now, they’re in purgatory until they reset this sinking ship.
Once the Leafs goaltending situation gets back to healthy, they should be able to deal Stolarz for a 1st+. The Leafs need to get some draft capital back and trading Stolarz makes sense, knowing that Woll and Hildeby are solid, younger goaltenders. They should also look to acquire Dumba off of the waiver wire and move a defenseman later, once the D Core is back to full strength.
This team really is garbage. They have no chemistry or fight. Usually, when you have injuries, the team pulls together and fights harder. The saying about reevaluating at U.S. Thanksgiving has come and gone. Now we get to wait and get totally embarrassed with no first rounders for two years and not much on the farm. They aren’t even exciting to watch. They’re wretched to watch and very unwatchable. I’ll tune out again tomorrow night as I know they’ll get wrecked in Pittsburgh.
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!
