If you go from sub .900 goaltending to 920+, it means so many points. No doubt they can grab a top 4 spot.
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If you go from sub .900 goaltending to 920+, it means so many points. No doubt they can grab a top 4 spot.
Finnish your Czech
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That might be a bit too high of a prediction, but getting one of the best statistical goalies in the league will surely put the Leafs in a very good position.
TrueBlue86
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what a heck are you talking about? two years ago we were one of the worst 3-4 teams in the league the first half of the season.
Finnish your Czech
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You're right, the only good thing at the start of the 10-11 season was the 4 game winning streak. After that everything went downhill
Longshot
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Was the Cup run part a joke?
The reality for the Leafs is pretty simple. One year ago this was the fifth worst team in the entire NHL.
Management has done very little to improve the roster.
Burke moved out a top four defenceman for a top six forward and he let one of the goalies that played half the games a year ago leave as a free agent.
I'm excited that there is going to be a season, but if you take a rational look at this roster - as it it currently constituted - and I don't see much more than an 11th or 12th place finish in the Eastern Conference.
Thats true. My post was trying to highlight how anything is possible with such a short season though.
About Perry/Getzlaf, wouldn't they be better served re-signing with Anaheim now? They can both get 8 year terms there. An extra year at, say, 8M could be worth the equivalent of 0.5M per year extra from other teams over 7 years
Probably not. Definitely not if Kessel is not in game shape. He's probably been wolfing down Twinkies all summer 
I honestly don't think Anaheim can afford them. (They can afford 1 maybe, but if 1 leaves, so does the other imo).
The fatter Phil gets, the better of a player he becomes. He's an oddity. Calories increase his speed.
Mario Lemeiux was like that too. He lived on cigarrettes and hot dogs.
Mario Lemeiux was like that too. He lived on cigarrettes and hot dogs.
No chance with the current roster. No playoffs. Why do the Leafs have a better chance with a shortened season? Do they become better because they have less games to play? Do their competitors become less effective because there are less games to play. I don't understand the logic here. If you think they can make the playoffs based on a 48 games season.....you must believe they would with a full sked as well.
Since everyone is saying the fact they finished 5th last is proof, I'd like to point out, they were indeed a playoff team through 48 games last season with terrible coaching and goaltending.
I don't get with this parity and half a season how you can say "No Chance". Any team in the East can make it.
I don't think so look at the impact cujo had why couldn't luongo do the same?
Strongly disagree....Everything remains equal. Every other franchise plays the same shortened season. What does how the Leafs performed over 48 games last season got to do with anything? It has zero relevance. One can easily pick a 48 game section of the season where they were a lottery team too. Your logic does not compute.
I distinctly remember feeling we won tons of games early on last year where we were completely dominated. The puck was rolling for us. No way we get this lucky again this year.
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It's simple... a good stretch of games is harder to overcome in the standings then in a reg. 82 game season. No team, no matter how good, is guaranteed to get hot right out the gate thus giving some teams a leg up who might not have one.
Also, consider that the match ups will be entirely different in a shortened season. Simple.
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Every single season you see strong teams struggle out of the gate and weak teams soar out of the gate. 48 games does not allow for the cream to settle out. That doesn't mean it will happen to everyone but you can fully expect a couple teams in each conference to finish higher or lower than they realistically should. Your 2nd last sentence perfectly illustrates what you are about to see. The question is "who will it be"? Keep in mind, for 3/4 of last season the LA Kings had a worse winning % than the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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I think Luongo is only a foregone conclusion, and just a matter of when and not if and how much it will cost the Leafs.
With Luongo the Leafs odds in a shortened season would be much better than they have been in a long time.
Rangers choked.
Thing is, this is half a season. No bad last year blood. In half a season, the Leafs can make noise.
TrueBlue86
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wait, i'm still trying to figure out the 'we always play well the 1st half' thing
both of the two years before last we were in the bottom 3 of the nhl at the half way point
both of the two years before last we were in the bottom 3 of the nhl at the half way point
