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RIP Cliff Fletcher. Hopefully the mentality of “draft schmaft” within the Leafs organization dies with him.
Boston is catchable, as is Ottawa. Retooling is the only option, considering that they don’t have their own first rounders for the next 2 years. You’re just strengthening your opposition (Boston + Philadelphia) in the East by giving them top 10 first round picks.
The Leafs defense was decimated through injuries last year and should be better this year. Addition through subtraction is also a must, to get back into a playoff spot. Rielly must be moved and a UFA defenseman should be injected into this lineup. Adding a top draft pick like McKenna should help the offense and a healthy Matthews could push the Leafs into a playoff spot. Trying to pry a player like Mason McTavish from the Ducks is doable, if they’re willing to take someone like Easton Cowan as an even trade. Having someone like McTavish would solidify the 2nd line center position. The Ducks might bite on such a deal, due to salary cap constraints. Cowan is on a ELC and would be cheaper for them.
No, they really aren’t. If the Leafs blow up the team, the draft picks Boston and Philadelphia get will be high but the Leafs will still benefit from having way more future assets in their coffers. Those retarded Treliving trades can’t be undone, they can only be mitigated. So if Boston drafts 5th overall but the Leafs have twelve 1st round picks in two years, the Bruins will have high odds of adding a single strong prospect while the Leafs will have an entirely new team of guys all under 25. Advantage is still for the Leafs. The alternative is you walk Matthews to free agency and you get a 3rd liner (or nothing at all) for his rights. The Leafs have made this mistake before and they must avoid making it again.
Boston plays a certain style of hockey that is reliable and consistent. Ottawa is younger than the Leafs and play with way more desire to control the puck and the game. The Leafs would beat them in the playoffs (because it’s the Sens) but they won’t catch them in the regular season. The excuse of “injuries” on the blueline is a bullshit excuse. Tanev is always one hit away from being retired. McCabe is older. OEL is older. High minutes in hard minutes mean they’re all susceptible to injuries. Rielly is trash. Carlo is a pylon. Injuries aren’t the excuse. This unit of guys are not suited for the roles the Leafs put them in or the style the team plays. On other teams, in lower roles, they’d be a playoff asset. But for the Leafs to be trotting out these dinosaurs on the top pair is just disaster waiting to happen all over again.
McKenna is tiny. Whether he actually can even physically play in the NHL right away is still a question mark. Given that the likes of Matthews and Marner barely scored 60 points as teenage rookies, McKenna doesn’t move the needle that much considering he’s not as good as they were at that age. McTavish is a 40 point, minus player and it would still cost more than Cowan to acquire him. Again, not a viable re-tool move because he doesn’t get you into the playoffs either. Just another lateral move. There’s no way Anaheim would make that trade anyway.
There is no viable re-tool. It’s a blue and white pipe dream. It exists in the minds of retards.
The failed Knies trade confirms that Treliving is a total retard. Like far, far worse than anybody could have imagined when he was first hired. Beyond JFJ levels of retard. It also tells us that the Leafs have some very high value assets. If a team, at the deadline was willing to trade basically three (or four) 1st round picks worth of value for Knies based on his potential, just imagine the return for proven players like Matthews and Nylander could get with 50% retained. If the Leafs blow this team up, they could accumulate the largest amount of draft capital we’ve ever seen in a rebuild.
BIG DEAL PUSSIES!
Everything Mitchel touches turns to GOLD!!
Didn’t even mean to block a shot last game, puck hit him while jumping, flips a puck blindly up ice Hail Mary style (Torts tactics all night) – bounces into a partial breakaway, another point BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Cope Cucks.
That’s how hard the cope is now that even when a player is trusted to be on the ice with 5 seconds left and blocks a shot, the only retarded answer they have left is “he didn’t mean to block it”. Imagine having one brain cell left and using maximum capacity on being that retarded.
Must be why Marner finished 4th in Selke voting while not a single Leafs player got a single vote; he must have done it by accident.
Marner had two assists, both of them primary and perfectly valid. If not for a blown no-goal call (Bettman wants a longer series) Vegas would be up 2-0.
Larkin would cost too much for the Leafs to acquire. Unless it’s for someone like Rielly, then it’s not worth it.
Larkin hates missing the playoffs so he isn’t coming to Toronto. He’s already willing to ditch his hometown team for playoff hockey so the Leafs aren’t even a consideration.
yeah that’s fine but he will go where his trade protection will alow him to go.
And he is so shit that his options are limited to very few teams. He wouldn’t block a trade to a team if they promise ice time.
That Montreal offer for Knies
The other prospect better be named Reinbacher or Hage, not EngstronZharovsky, ? and 2 1st
Should hire Treliving just to fire him again for that retarded bullshit. Saved by 1 minute.
But would Gallagher want to play in Toronto is the question.
He does have some trade protection after all.He had 7 goals in 77 games for 6.5 million. His contract is so bad and he’s so bad he won’t have too many options. The Leafs can offer him ice time to rebuild his value and continue his career after this contract ends. They could also make him a deadline rental to a playoff team to give him a chance to play in the playoffs and get more draft capital.
Gallagher on the block. If a 1st round pick comes with him, Leafs should be on it.
Could do the same with Adin Hill. I’m sure there’s a bunch of bad contracts out there that could come with draft capital attached.
Who do the Leafs beat out for a playoff spot? I think they are easily the worst team in the Atlantic next year.
It is time to sell Matthews and Nylander for whatever you can get that is young, particularly defensemen, and start over. Re-tooling is a joke.
Teams do bounce up and down pretty often, look at Buffalo last year but the Leafs hopes and dreams of a re-tool are indeed a joke.
100% correct.
There could be misdirection at work here. Get everyone sniffing over there, while your making your move over here. It maybe someone off the board.
The Leafs have interviewed at least 15 people because they’re looking for anybody that can buy into this re-tool bullshit.
Clearly, there is no misdirection except for how this franchise is being run.
Former Avs GM Chris MacFarland joined the Nashville Predators on Tuesday as President and GM.
Like who saw this coming????
Definitely not Pelley, he was too busy hiring inexperience and failure.
Leafs talking to Patrick Roy and Peter Laviolette to be coach of the Leafs both perfect choices to plunge the Leafs into pissing off the players and plunging the team into a rebuild.
Marner with another beautiful assist and a game saving shot block at the end of the game. The goalies didn’t have their best game but wildly entertaining game.
Soon the playoffs will be over. This playoffs have been very underwhelming. The Habs series’ seem to be the best, because they had lots of overtime and a pair of 7 game series. So really, the best hockey was played in the Atlantic division. In the last few years, I’ve called the Atlantic the division of Hell. It takes a lot to get out of the division. The Habs rode a hot goalie and took out two contenders and had nothing left, after Carolina had a vacation with Ottawa and Philly as their opponents. The West was the weaker of the two conferences so I’m not sure how to handicap this final.
Carolina has played at such a high level all year that yes, they got lower seed teams but they took care of business. They didn’t choke. They made playoff teams look like they didn’t even belong in the playoffs. Carolina would have beat Buffalo no differently than they beat Montreal or anybody else in the East. Everybody wants to pretend like the West was weak but the reality is, Colorado was the top seed and got SWEPT. They beat Minnesota and Minnesota beat Dallas. Anaheim and Utah were not bad teams and Vegas beat them both. These are two untraditional markets fighting for the Cup but the teams are two great teams and it’s going to be a great Final to watch.
