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I disagree. McKenna is exactly what they need. Leadership skills and a player that would be a spiritual leader. It’s more than just offense. There needs to be accountability and someone that’ll lead, not follow. By year 3, he’ll be a top 10 player in the league. I’m taking that all day long. Sure, Leafs need defense, but that can be acquired in a trade. Get the guy with intangibles. 1st overall picks are a rarity. Use it wisely. Unless someone comes in and offers a 3rd pick overall and a top 10th overall, you don’t make a lesser deal.
McKenna is closer to Nylander than he is to a “spiritual leader”. He couldn’t even lead Canada to WJC gold. McKenna is all and only offense. He’s not tall, he’s not heavy, he doesn’t play defense and he’s a winger so there’s no strength up the middle of the ice either. McKenna is not an intangibles type of player nor is he a generational talent like McDavid.
How much luck have the Leafs had in acquiring defense in trades the last 10 years? Oh right, it cost them top prospects and 1st round picks and they still absolutely suck defensively.
The Leafs can’t tank for another 2 years. They’re better off trading down, getting Keaton Verhoeff and adding more assets to the farm system. Keaton Verhoeff can develop the next 2 or 3 years so he’s protected from the garbage that is this current team until they have a 1st they can tank for again after they trade Matthews and Nylander.
Don’t think anybody is going to give up a lot to trade up but the Leafs should do their best to trade down. McKenna doesn’t fix this team. He’s the absolute wrong player for this team whether they rebuild or not.
So Mckenna is the wrong player but Marner isnt?
Ok
LOLMcKenna has ZERO defensive game. Marner is an elite two-way winger. You’re a total libtard. Get a fucking clue.
Don’t think anybody is going to give up a lot to trade up but the Leafs should do their best to trade down. McKenna doesn’t fix this team. He’s the absolute wrong player for this team whether they rebuild or not. He’s as useful to the Leafs right now as Alexis Lafreniere has been to the Rangers.
Stenberg is the better pick over McKenna too. Sundin might prefer the two-way Swede. Keaton Verhoeff fits the best but again, trading down is difficult with a retard GM and less than usual desire for the top pick.
Don’t think anybody is going to give up a lot to trade up but the Leafs should do their best to trade down. McKenna doesn’t fix this team. He’s the absolute wrong player for this team whether they rebuild or not.
Pelley: Retard
Chayka: Horrible track record
Sundin: Zero experience
Berube: Worst coach in terms of analytics
Matthews: Doesn’t even know if he wants to return to this team next year much less long term
Nylander: Will not endure a rebuild
Rielly: One of the worst defensively, signed long term
Farm System: Empty
1st round pick for 2027 and 2028: Belongs to Boston and PhiladelphiaBut hey, a small, one-way winger is added to the mix. Whoopy.
We might as well say that Pelly is calling the shots. He’s the real GM and President of Hockey Operations. Sundin is the face, to make it look legit. Chayka is the yes man that will do as he’s told and take it in the ass, when the failures begin to happen. It’s all about revenue. Why isn’t Berube gone? Because they want to save that $4M chump change. I bet that Domi hangs around because daddy is buddies with big Matts. More Rielly, more of the same losers on lines 3 and 4. Maccelli will do a cameo, showing up in garbage time to pad his stats. I don’t see them doing much because again, it’s about revenue and not competition. Do you remember the slogan? The Passion That Unites Us All? Just slogans, not action. I long for the days of an owner like Steve Stavros who actually was passionate about the team. Now it’s corporate bullshit….wall to Woll. Fuck them all!
p.s. I’m guessing that the Bruins will be happy campers after tonight. The tradition continues…the Leafs rebuild the Bruins….going on 40 years. Rask, Hamilton, Minten, Seguin and the 6th pick in the draft this year.
The Delusion That Blinds Them All.
The Leafs should have a 15 year block on any transactions with Boston.
thats cool. but I dont want the Leafs GM making quick reactionary moves. Id also prefer he keep his real intentions quiet. showing your hand doesnt help.
you cleary take a lot a face value and like to react (over react), which is your brand. But most of whats said doesnt matter, I dont care. its the actions not the media snippets
His real intentions are to run it back, retool and not rebuild. His hand has already been shown through Pelley and his fabrication of a search for the best person to build a Cup winner.
And your brand is that of a homer. The actions will include seeing Rielly back again as the #1 D and Berube behind the bench which will make this team as bad as it was last year.
I just hope Boston will not be picking 6th overall come June.
Maybe 7th or 8th but most likely not!.https://www.tankathon.com/nhl/pick_odds
Leafs have 8.5% at 1st, 8.6% chance at 2nd, 0.3% chance at 3rd, 0% chance at 4th, 24.5% chance at 5th, 44% chance at 6th and 14.2% chance at 7th.
58% chance Boston drafts 6th or 7th.
its about time he finally started to show in the playoffs.
to bad he could do that here in Toronto.He had more career playoff points than everybody else on the team, including Matthews, Nylander and Tavares but oddly none of them get labeled as playoff busts. He showed up in Toronto. The rest of his team rarely did. Toronto was the problem.
comments about Berube and Rielly a few hours after they are introduced is not something I give a shit about, what else is he supposed to say at this point.
Nobody is going to toss the coach and longest serving player directly under the bus 5 mins after a press conf.anyway, it was mostly Pelley who made that awkward and uncomfortable. Chayka speaks well and did say a lot of the right things after. but none of it matters if they made bad moves.
its great he recognizes there is a problem with the leafs D and moving the puck up ice. thats a problem, but also the coach/system/style does not fit or work with this team. they got dummied all season, I hope thats addressed.He’s supposed to say he will evaluate everybody at every position and then fire Rielly and Berube into the Sun the next day.
Chayka can’t be taken seriously if one second he is identifying clear and obvious problems with the defense and then the next second endorsing the two biggest sources of failure of the defense.
