Just to add, JT only came here because we had Matthews, Marner Reilly and Nylander, his greatest sales pitch was the players he was ”gifted” as you say. Dubas literally came into a dream job most GM’s would die for.
can we say it's dying up when there was never a flow ?
How do the defensive numbers break down for tavares nylander and whomever when compared.
We did have a top prospect pool when he took the gig, this year it will be near the bottom.
Funny how Shanny and Dubie don't say much anymore , lol .
I think what gets most people upset is that we have a lack of bigger physical players that we developed. We have a guy that we were patient with until we weren't anymore. We keep talking about how great it would be if The Giraffe had some more punch to his game because he is a bigger guy. We had a guy who could have been at least a 4th liner and we traded him for Dennis Friggen Malgin. It's just crazy to me that you would give up on one of the few players of that type that we had. I think this season was an anomaly and there is almost no chance he gets almost a PPG ever again, so I wouldn't sign him...but we could have had a good 4th liner for next to nothing that we cultured and developed for free and we gave him away.
Good question.
Stockholm Syndrome.
We gave Abruzzese 10 games or so. Did he do anything that screams NHL player to you? He didn't for me...but he still got the chance and it was more than 4 games. We have a lot of similar players to Abbruzzese and yet we gave him some serious rope. We needed a player like Mason and gave him a very brief look. This is what irks me.
Oh I am sure the bad save % has nothing to do with a slow as molasses Center and a winger who is not known for his defensive acumen. It was the goalies fault...always was...always will be.
I didn't think much of Marchment when we had him and still don't think much of him now but you nailed it by asking why we traded him for Malgin . We're tits deep in small players but he keeps adding more every chance he gets , it's truly remarkable how obsessed he is with undersized players .
18M for +3 goal differential over 3 seasons isn't sound cap management IMO. I expanded the numbers year over year. Over the same time frame the Leafs have outscored opponents 344-277 with a .911 SV% with Nylander and Tavares not on the ice. I would venture to say that they have an effect on the goaltenders SV%.
if you've followed Johnny's career you'd know nothing is ever ever his fault
Interesting thank you and definitely backs up what we watched this year
How is this thread toxic exactly? We’re simply discussing the mismanagement of the team and expressing our frustration as fans like any fan base would.
They have a 3 year sample of Leafs goalies putting up a 0.03 worse SV% with them on the ice. That's 30 goals every 1000 shots. That's 1 goal/game at 33 SA/GP or 0.75 goals/game at 25 SA/GP.
Good question. We tried getting rid of our top 10 goaltender, but shockingly that didn't help.
