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Major improvement. Close to 25% since Savard is gone.
Only 25 games have been played so that’s still considered a small sample size for improvement or success especially when you consider the Leafs have lost 13 out of those 25 games so it hasn’t won them enough games. And again, Savard was always a garbage hire. From day one, he was never the right guy for the job. So being better than total dog shit isn’t an accomplishment, it’s addition by subtraction.
First off I never said amazing, I just didn’t shit on him without him getting a chance like some other incel twatwaffle. However since you asked so politely I believe that:
When Savard was fired late December the PP was about 13% and Leafs were dead last in NHL
I think recently it is close to 19% and the Leafs are close to 19%. Not shabby considering the whole they have had to dig themselves out of, and how shit it was while Nylander was out
And again, the only reason for the slight improvement is because Savard was so useless at his job that him being fired would automatically cause an improvement. The PP is done by committee, not by Sullivan alone. Firing Savard was addition by subtraction. But the PP is still weak considering the weapons it has just like I predicted it would under Savard. Nylander not giving a fuck has more to do with the failure of this team than his injury.
You could have saved me the time reading and just said “everyone is wrong when they do not agree with me, and if they do they are retards”.
Tell me again how amazing Steve Sullivan is as a PP coach you absolute fucking retard.
Keith Pelley is completely and totally unqualified to be running the hockey side of MLSE. He has no experience whatsoever in hockey other than being in corporate “media”. He has mild experience in running the Argos in a two bit league. The only thing Pelley knows how to do is lie through the media. He has no idea what’s wrong with this team, who needs to be fired and what needs to be done to fix it. MLSE will continue to profit and he will not improve one thing of substance on the ice.
Treliving must be fired first and foremost.
The potential solution:
President: Ron Francis
GM: Rob Blake
Assistant GM: Brandon Pridham
Director of Amateur Scouting: Mike Futa
Head Coach: Steve Sullivan so you can tank until 2029 then hire Rod Brind’Amour.Grossly overpay Ron Francis to leave his post in Seattle to be the President of Hockey Ops. Looking at what Carolina is today, they’ve built a great team from the ground up and while they haven’t won a Cup, bring a level of competitiveness that the Leafs haven’t had in decades. One day, when Rod the Bod leaves Carolina (contract ends in 2029), that connection to Ron Francis could come in handy.
Rob Blake was always a good competitor and winner on the ice. He’s from Simcoe so he understands the average Leafs fan more than the bullshit corporate greed. He has experience working for the LA Kings and has seen what a tough, defensive Cup winning team looks like as Assistant GM of a Cup winner. He ran their AHL farm team so he clearly understands how the farm system works.
Mike Futa (born in 1967) is seemingly working in the sports media today waiting in the Toronto market for an opportunity. Futa has a connection to both Carolina and the LA Kings. Futa made some great draft picks to help build the last LA Cup winning teams. He could be the Director of Amateur Scouting that the Leafs have desperately needed for decades.
This franchise would look so much different and much better with Ron Francis as President, Rob Blake as GM, Futa as Director of Amateur Scouting and Rod Brind’Amour as head coach. You give those guys the opportunity to start over, trade everybody out, acquire 10-12 first round picks, tank in 2028 + 2029 for a pair of lottery picks (McDavid is also a UFA in 2029) and then build it from the ground up and from the net out.
OK, it’s time to get the Tank out of mothballs and start losing. Time to get near the bottom and get a top end draft pick. It’s obvious that the bed has been stripped and the shitty sheets are in the wash. Anyone that wants this team to succeed must get on the tank and get some prospects into the cupboard. The Leafs missed the wave, the change in hockey. Teams that acquired young talent are now riding the wave to the top. Watching the Habs, Sens, Wings and others, it’s not the veterans that get the job done, it’s youth with mobile defensemen that win in today’s NHL. The Leafs started to build a team to beat Florida. The problem with that, Florida too is on the decline. Both teams could miss the playoffs. The answer is asset management and rebuild your draft capital. It’s time for Rielly, Domi, McMann, OEL and Stolarz to move on and draft picks coming back. The only untouchables include Matthews, Nylander, Woll and Hildiby. Now is not the time to be a buyer. Get the assets, fire the GM and Coach, start with a new Coaching staff and use the acquired Cap Space to get into free agency and rebuild. My friends, you can argue back and forth and disagree, but the retool must start this week, and not the end of the season.
The Leafs are 9 points out of a lottery pick position and 8 points out of the playoffs. It’s as hard to tank that bad as it would be to make the playoffs. The teams below the Leafs know what time it is. They’re all about to get a lot worse and tank hard. The Leafs need all the teams below them to go on a winning streak when they all want to lose as hard as possible. It’s not going to happen. The Leafs will go .500 down the stretch and be pretty much exactly where they are now. They’re still better off winning every game they can to hurt the Bruins draft position. Trying to tank at this point only gives the Leafs better odds at giving the Bruins the 6th overall pick which is the worst case scenario.
Matthews and Nylander are not untouchable. In fact, they should be the absolute top of the list for players that need to be traded. Not for some stupid elbows up reason but because they are the fastest route to rebuild this team. They need to be moved out just like everybody else. This core and this era is over. This team absolutely sucks because the core sucks as a group. That’s not to say they don’t hold value but they need to be blown apart. Just like how Kessel couldn’t do shit in Toronto but won a Cup in Pittsburgh, Matthews and Nylander can win somewhere else, but they can’t win together here.
Yah I don’t argue with many on here, but you do with pretty much everybody.
You don’t argue because you have your hivemind that you agree with. I “argue” with the hivemind and I’m usually the correct one and you’re the wrong one.
Too stupid to realize you have almost single handedly ruined two sites, yet constantly calling people retards for their opinions.
If I call you a retard, it’s because you are acting like one. Like now, I’ll call you a retard for the claim that I “single handedly ruined two sites” when the reality is that this format is dying. This site absolutely sucks and the previous site killed itself because it’s run by a retard that didn’t realize what few users he had left really wanted. But yeah, I totally did that all by myself. All me. You absolute fucking retard.
I have never before witnessed anyone as disrespectful of others as you constantly are.
You have to be respectful to receive my respect. If I’m disrespectful of you it’s because you’ve been a world class asswipe. You get what you deserve.
So tired of keyboard warriors like you who if ever got out of their mom’s basement and treated people like this in person would live a very painful life. But keep being a dick, and moving the goalposts.
Blah blah blah, you’re a bitch. Keep being wrong and pretending to be the victim. It’s typical among your type.
On a more serious note been meaning to ask for a while. If you hate them so much why:
– don’t you move from Canada
– do you still cheer for the Leafs?Leaving Canada is very high on the priority list but not easily done as this communist shit hole doesn’t let you leave easily. Canada actually has exit taxes they force you to pay. But that’s an entire story you’re not entitled to know about. Just know that this refugee camp of a country has hit the iceberg and it’s going down.
I want the Leafs to win a Stanley Cup. I “cheer” for what is best for the team to achieve that goal. You, on the other hand, would watch 18 monkeys shit themselves as long as they wore a Leafs jersey. And that’s pretty much what the game vs. Ottawa looked like.
Yeah I am ok with a difference of opinion.
Absolute bullshit. The only thing you have a bigger problem accepting than a difference opinion is accepting reality.
They will need some trading partners to move players.
It doesn’t sound like teams are lining up for a few Leafs players availableThere are plenty of trading partners. Desperate contenders and pretenders always overpay.
To Montreal: Roy for a 1st round pick. Another Frenchman for playoff depth.
To Detroit: OEL for a 1st round pick. Swedes love Detroit, plus they need another experienced point producer on the blueline. Carlo could also go to Detroit for a 1st.
To Buffalo or Minnesota: Roy and/or Laughton for a 1st round pick. Both are the worst two teams in the NHL at FOs. Both want to make a playoff push.
To Edmonton: McMann for a 1st round pick. Hometown kid, plays with speed, they need the added scoring depth when McDavid gets swarmed.
To Utah: Stolarz for Vanacek and a 2nd round pick. Or to Carolina for Kochetkov and a 2nd round pick. Both teams need a viable back-up, 1A.
To Dallas: Robertson and Carlo for Lundkvist and 1st round pick. Dallas needs another RHD for depth and depth scoring.That’s legit potential for four or five 1st round picks, a 2nd round pick and a young RHD.
Then at the next draft, you trade Matthews. After that, Nylander, Rielly and Tavares will all want out after Matthews is moved. That’s another four 1st round picks and two top prospects for Matthews and Nylander. Tavares might get you a 1st round pick. Rielly is just a straight up dump.
The problem is the king retard Pelley doesn’t want to sell or rebuild. He thinks they can still make the playoffs. And Treliving, being the idiot that he is, won’t make good deals with this abomination of a season being proof of what kind of dumbass deals he made in the past 18 months.
This team is fucked from the top down, just like the country.
Literally, at this point, why not just put Morgan on the fucking wing?!? Worst contract imaginable, and he isn’t going anywhere.
Legit, I move Matthews. He’s probably walking after the media inexplicably turned on him, simply for being a proud American. He’d get a haul. Willy isn’t waiving. JT is not going anywhere. You gotta do something to change the culture on this team.
If Matthews is traded, all the rats flee the sinking ship including Nylander and Tavares. Everyone will waive because nobody wants to play on a losing team in the twilight of their career.
And the Leafs would get a giant haul of draft picks and prospects to ignite the rebuild.
Problem is you have to fire Treliving to get the job done properly and it looks like Pelley is also a retard who might impede a proper rebuild.
DeBoer will get a lot more out of this team offensively but he’s the most Leafy coach out there. He’s the guy that goes to the Finals and loses. Every. Single. Time. Either the Conference Finals or the Cup Finals. On Team Canada? Silver. He is the master runner up coach.
He’s perfect for what the idiots in the board room wants though.
In addition to this, DeBoer was also drafted by the Leafs, 237th overall in the 1988 draft; one of the worst draft years for the Leafs in terms of missed opportunities.
Look at this disaster of a draft by Gord Stellick, a legendary retard of failed Leafs GMs. He was Dubas before Dubas.
Leafs draft Scott Pearson 6th overall, before…Martin Gelinas, Jeremy Roenick, Rod Brind’Amour, Teemu Selanne all going 7th to 10th. Franchise destroying bad pick.
Leafs draft Tie Domi 27th overall. Probably the only good pick in 1988 for the Leafs.
Leafs draft Peter Ing 48th overall. Mark Recchi and Tony Amonte went 67th and 68th.
Leafs draft Ted Crowley 69th overall. Rob Blake went 70th overall.
Leafs draft Len Esau 86th overall. Alexander Mogilny went 89th overall.1989 was just as bad when the Leafs took three 1st round picks at 3rd, 12th and 21st overall and selected Scott Thornton, Rob Pearson and Steve Bancroft with players like Bill Guerin taken 5th, Bobby Holik taken 10th, Olaf Kolzig taken 19th and Adam Foote taken 22nd.
Imagine the 1992/1993 run if the Leafs knew how to draft prior to bringing in Gilmour and Andreychuck…
Clark | Gilmour | Mogilny
Andreychuck | Roenick | Recchi
Osborne | Holik | Foligno
Berg | Zezel | DomiGill | Blake
Ellett | Foote
Macoun | RousePotvin | Kolzig
What a difference two drafts (even one) can make because that’s a Cup winner at worst, a dynasty at best right there.
But anyway, of course DeBoer was traded in 1989 for Paul Lawless (played 13 games for the Leafs) and never played a game for the Leafs or anybody else.
It would become the perfect PR narrative to create of the prodigal hometown son. He’ll tell everybody how all these years he’s been working so that one day he could return to where it all began and bring the Stanley Cup home. They’ll have a picture of him in his Maple Leafs tube socks. Keith Pelley will have a marketing field day. And most retards in this market will buy it hook, line and sinker.
Sell everybody. Draft high, draft often and draft well. Learn from the mistakes of the past.
Yup, they’ll shuffle around a few minor pieces and then come up with a plan in the summer. Biggest piece to move may be OEL, but I hope they keep him.
Berube is done. The team quit on him and he quit on the team. Tre likely not far behind him. Get Deboer behind the bench, not sure who is the GM target.
DeBoer will get a lot more out of this team offensively but he’s the most Leafy coach out there. He’s the guy that goes to the Finals and loses. Every. Single. Time. Either the Conference Finals or the Cup Finals. On Team Canada? Silver. He is the master runner up coach.
He’s perfect for what the idiots in the board room wants though.
The Toronto Star and Damien “sucks” Cox can fuck all the way off. What a bullshit article he wrote, and I 1000% wouldn’t be surprised if that’s another in a long list of things that drives AM34 out of the city. (Coincidentally, I will admit that the fan treatment of Marner is another, although I still 100% think that needed to be done).
Fuck this bullshit that he chose politics over playoffs. The guys just lead his team to Olympic gold for the first time in 40 years, hell yeah he should go to the White House. He didn’t even go to the SOTU, and still played last night. But, bullshit legacy media can’t miss the opportunity to make everything political.
He’s stuck in traditional, corporate, boomer media. The only people who read his slop are elbows up retards. It’s the same retards who watch the CBC. It’s just slop for the boomers because they’re the only people left watching that garbage.
Mad Max is back. Good insurance policy considering Berrios is a wild card, Bieber is already injured, Yesavage is a rookie, Ponce hasn’t played in the MLB in years…so…kind of needed another option if some of the other question marks turn out to be busts.
I think Max is pretty much finished as an elite starter (probably not even average) but what he brings for Yesavage’s development is worth every penny. Max had a lot of things to deal with in his career so if he can impart that wisdom to avoid those speed bumps on Yesavage, it’s a great signing.
Leafs need to win 18 of the remaining games, most of them on the road against stiff competition.
It wasn’t happening before, it’s not happening now.
For what? To play Tampa Bay and get destroyed?
Sell now. Sell hard.
This is where I’m at, 1000%. No politician is in it to improve things. They are ALL in it to enrich/advance themselves. How about we get back to the point where they work for us?
That’s not entirely true. Most politicians, yes, they are there to rape the system. But there is always a lesser of many other evils. This is why parties like Restore Britain are created in the UK and why Trump won two elections. His policies are there to restore the country to what it should be after decades of democrat and war hawk decay.
You will never get back to having the politicians “work for the people” in Chinada because this place is already locked down and compromised by Marxism. Anybody who tries to defy that and pushes back is labeled a fascist. People who hit the streets to protest the draconian lockdowns were shutdown with an unlawful invocation of the Emergencies Act. And none of the people who invoked it were punished. Zero accountability. Instead, regular Canadians were arrested, imprisoned, had their bank accounts frozen and were treated like domestic terrorists because the government runs the media and controls the narrative.
