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He’ll whine when they block his fourth goal of the game
All jokes aside, the guy is owning the game/series/whatever
Carter Hart giving it all back.
Meanwhile, here’s what Nylander is doing to get ready for next season.
Wow…Marner is havin himself a game, he’s gonna win the Conn Smythe if Vegas wins the Cup.
Nah, Vegas only wins because of every other player except Marner. He’s just a passenger.
Still to play a real team this year.
I wonder when Marner is going to score a hat-trick against a REAL team this year. Carolina must suck or something.
gone in 60 seconds.
if that trade did go down, then you are looking at a rebuild and not a retool.Knies is the stupidest player to trade given his age. But it shows how bad Treliving was and how valuable Matthews and Nylander would be with 50% retained.
Full rebuild!
I wonder if a Nurse for Stolarz deal can be worked out.
You’d need to move Reily out mind you.
Then you go after Andersson 7 x 8.5M ~ 9.5M if he hit free agency.Nurse is getting 9.5 AAV and he’s just as bad as Rielly. And you’re assuming Nurse even wants to waive his NTC to go from a contender to the Leafs.
Again, why does Andersson sign in Toronto for millions under value? Cup Final to the basement for less money? Makes no sense.
It’s funny how almost everyone excoriated the Leafs when they hired Sundin and Chayka. After Pelley stepped into the background, I haven’t really seen any major faux pas by the new Management team. It seams like they’re doing their due diligence in regards to front office moves and how they’re trending towards some of their more senior players. If they do indeed move Rielly for assets, then you have to call it a win. The cap space would make it more viable to take on bad contracts. Let’s see who they do hire for head coach. I’m hoping a young, teaching coach gets hired, and start developing the assets that the do have and will acquire. You can have an accelerated rebuild, if you make a series of good moves and overturn most of your roster. The issue is the two 1st rounders that will come back and haunt the Leafs, if they do get down in the bottom 10 spots.
That’s because the playoffs aren’t over yet. There’s literally nothing for anybody to do. They can’t fuck anything up if they haven’t actually done anything.
The only thing they should be doing is plotting the total tear down and rebuild.
Pretty strange that Chayka flew to the Yukon to meet McKenna but can’t go to Arizona to meet Matthews. You’d think that Matthews would have been front and center the day they hired Chayka.
Hopefully it’s a sign of a rebuild but the Leafs are retards so it probably won’t go the right way.
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.
