All this horseshit talk of us being "fundamentally flawed" and wanting desperately to dump Mitch, are so full of shit.
Team is better than the Oilers and look where they are now. Once you're a good competitive team, it's all random bullshit after that. Defense? Cody f***in' Ceci and Darnell Nurse? Give me a break. Goalie - Stuart Skinner/Pickford? f*** Off. This random shit. Marner is a great player who needs to get his shit together come play off time and you assholes want to dump him for anyone willing to take on the money.
We had 1 year where we actually choked against the god damn Habs, other than that we got beat by teams equal (Columbus) or better than us. Before the Matthews/Marner era we were pure garbage and if Leaf management would act like the posters here - we would be headed right back to those times.
Oilers in the finals - go f*** yourself hockey gods
How are they better than the Oilers? Sure they're "deeper".
That means f*** all when the BEST PLAYERS are worse, every year, every time.
Also the team lacks what a Bouchard did this year. Look at the Oilers powerplay in the playoffs. Catalyst of going to the finals for most teams is execution and having the correct players for the man advantage.
Oilers have everything the Leafs don't. Cool, Leafs have some nice depth, but Zach Hyman has 14 goals and Bouchard has 25+ points in a cup run. Im not revisioning Hyman either, the point about him is that he is so useful because their best players are just better than ours. People love to pretend Hyman is just an extra post for bankshots, but even he takes good shots when he has to.
The guys you pay to be gamebreakers have to actually be gamebreakers. Mcdavid did more in a 10 shot win than any of the best plays here have done in anything.
No point shot = no point even aspiring for the cup finals. Klingberg will not be it either, and management is preparing to gamble on that again this year.
We've spent the entire Matthews era waiting for them to dominate the playoffs, making excuses every year as to why they havent. Mcdavid and Draisatl dropped 30 points with a worse roster while getting swept in a conference finals and that was a bad year for them. now they are in a cup finals and going to drop 30+ AGAIN while having an elite point shot and front net guy. PP will be absolutely deadly and the refs will be jobbing them all finals to slow it down for sure.
There's an excuse every year, management is afraid to pull actual triggers or is completely delusional about Marner/Matthews to the point that they finally recognized it and they have 1 year left to do anything with it.
