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https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/maple-leafs-fire-assistant-coach-marc-savard/
Should have never hired this retard.
Yeah, I’m more of the mindset that you take the best player available regardless of your needs, but a 6’4″ 210lbs+ RHD is awfully appealing.
Best “player” means more than who scores the most though. Look at Taylor Hall. He was supposed to be the “best” offensive player from his draft but he has zero Cups and has been traded more than half a dozen times while Seguin and further down the draft, Tarasenko are the guys with Stanley Cups. McKenna might get the hype as the scoring machine but that’s not what the Leafs need. If you draft McKenna, then trade him immediately for players just as young who fit your needs, then sure. But if you draft McKenna and throw him into the NHL on this team, the Leafs still play the same bullshit brand of 5-4 hockey and lose in the playoffs every year.
You either tank, blow up the team, rebuild the foundation and make McKenna the new Nylander or you add pieces to the puzzle you don’t already have. This team, with the current core, would be way better off with a huge power forward LW or a huge top pair RHD than they are with another small, soft, weak, offense first winger.
I’d say both are pretty accurate.
While I respect going out of the box with the draft, I think not considering McKenna as at LEAST a top 3 pick is… let’s call it bold.
If the Leafs blow up the entire team, trade Matthews, Nylander, sure. But he’s small and a winger. He doesn’t fit with what the Leafs actually need. He’s another Taylor Hall. Which is fine, but not what the Leafs actually need. He’s not a RHD and he’s not a center and he’s pretty small. Those aren’t bold selling points.
Remember, Yakupov was #1 once upon a time. These small wingers bust all the time as #1 picks.
Keaton Verhoeff, RHD, 6’4″, 212.
Ethan Belchetz, LW, 6’5″, 230.
Tynan Lawrence, C, 6′, 185.
Chase Reid, RHD, 6’2″, 187.
Is that in order of your preference, or just a list of potential options?
I’d say both are pretty accurate.
Keaton Verhoeff, RHD, 6’4″, 212.
Ethan Belchetz, LW, 6’5″, 230.
Tynan Lawrence, C, 6′, 185.
Chase Reid, RHD, 6’2″, 187.
Who, surprisingly, is starting to not look like a lock for the first overall pick.
I wouldn’t take him, there are other guys ranked in the top 5 who fit what the Leafs need more.
If the Leafs end up firing Berube and hiring DeBoer, they’d be bringing in the ultimate Leafs style playoff choke coach.
The exact coach that went to the Final twice (NJD and SJS), and lost. Then went to the 3rd round, SIX times, and lost all six times, once with SJS, 2 times with VGK and 3 times with DAL.
I’ve said for years that this team is the San Jose Sharks that once upon a time would score a lot of goals, be the regular season champs and then choke in the playoffs, led by the mentors of this core, Marleau and Thornton. And now they’re going to complete the tri-fecta and bring in the coach.
Better than Berube, make the playoffs but lose when it matters and prevents the rebuild for years.
So Leafy.
I already said it is quite possible that they miss the playoffs, I guess they were not playing better hockey 3 games ago? I guess Leafs would not be better with Rantanen? Keep changing the narrative buddy.
It’s a lot more than “possible” they miss they playoffs, it’s becoming a damn near certainty. But some of you slower ones catch up to reality a lot later.
The Leafs would also be better off with MacKinnon, Barkov and McDavid. Doesn’t mean a fucking thing. You think Rantanen would have stayed in Toronto beyond being a rental? He would have ditched this dog shit franchise and city so fucking fast, it would have made your blue and white glasses spin. This idea that Rantanen would have re-signed in Toronto is hilarious. But it’s the perfect retard narrative the media spins to make Marner look like the bad guy in this situation. Rantanen joined the Stars because he’s not a complete idiot. Life in Dallas is much, much better and so is the team. He’d be freezing his balls off playing on a lottery team if he had come to Toronto. And guess what, he’d be costing the Leafs 15+ AAV because that’s what the Leafs would have had to pay to make up for shitty Canadian taxes compared to the 12 AAV he makes in Dallas. Rantanen would have been a rental in Toronto. Nothing more. The Leafs only hope was keeping the home town kid and the franchise, along with it’s media and some of it’s idiot fans ran him out of town. Now, suffer the consequences. Enjoy being dead last in the division and handing the Bruins a 6th-10th pick for your trouble.
Every time I hear the name Rantanen it reminds me that the biggest mistake Toronto has made in the last 2 years is not trade Mitch the Bitch before his NMC came in. He didn’t want to stay in Toronto because he could not handle the pressure, and then he blocked a trade because well he is a spoiled selfish little C who is afraid of his own shadow. Can’t blame him for being afraid though. He would break if he were ever hit hard.
Every time I see you post it reminds me how retarded the average Leafs fan is and how easily they believe total bullshit narratives created by the media to justify the complete idiocy of this franchise.
It also reminds me how just 3 games ago you were trying to justify that this team was actually playing well lately and could still make the playoffs. Pure make BeLeaf.
