Does Toronto make it past the second round within the next two seasons?
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I’d bet against it this year as I don’t think they really improved and goaltending is still a big question mark.
Can’t really predict the year after that until we see the moves they make and whether they can fill some holes.
I didn’t vote.
Can’t really predict the year after that until we see the moves they make and whether they can fill some holes.
I didn’t vote.
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It all revolves around their top players and if they can actually start stepping up. They've continued to crumble and basically be invisible every year once the post season starts. They are paid like it. Time to start playing like it when it matters.
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I would say yes. At some point their top guys will probably step up. Even by accident they should be able to win a couple series one year
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No. The team is flawed at a fundamental level. Many knew this in 2018, everyone knew this in 2021. The Leafs are not a hockey team. They are a boy band that functions to sell merchandise and create the next generation of season ticket holders, and making the playoffs. Actually winning the Stanley Cup is way down on the list. Right now the plan is to continue to sell tickets to yuppies so they can brag to their yuppy peers and post on Instagram. The final destination is retiring the jerseys of Matthews, Marner, Nylander, and Rielly having played zero games of consequence and permanently scarring the Leafs franchise forever in so that the current regime can self-aggrandizingly claim they built a dynasty. Sadly, the dynasty only exists in the minds of the people that run the team and in minds of the "hardest market in the league".
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No they’re gonna get smoked in round one and then blow it up
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I don't think we will this year and then it's hard to say what we will be after this season, could be some actual substantial change.
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If Matthews and Marner continue to play at a high level, the leafs will be contending. Ultimately, it comes down to them to push through the playoffs (and Nylander since he just got paid all the money).
This season, nope. But the following season is more of a question mark if Marner and Tavares are replaced and the team is rebalanced, there's a chance they may finally break through then, but not this year imo.
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Haven’t people been saying that they will blow it up for the last five years now. And yet every year they just change the support players. Why would this year be any different?
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I dunno. I felt they made a strong statement by giving it to someone who has been apart of the early playoff exits even longer than Tavares.
True but I lol’ed at the boy band comment.
There’s something about this core that screams “I’d rather shop for hats and fur coats than win a championship”. Every year I keep thinking they’re going to break through but they keep proving me wrong, and I’m starting to wonder if it’s just attitude. Anyway now that I’ve said that, watch them waltz into the final against Edmonton (like I predicted last year).
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Because I’m a hater and that’s what I want to see happen
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I mean, that's the problem. They haven't been playing at a high enough level in the playoffs. That's the whole point. You have McDavid who just these past playoffs came within a handful of points of Matthews and Marner's career total in the playoffs. And he did it in one. They need to be way, way better.
They will get to a conference finals in the near future but I don’t see them going any further unfortunately.
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if its a betting thing, it depends on the odds. If its only a +500 no way I take that bet but if its like +2000 then for sure I take that bet
Based on what?
The Leafs have shown absolutely nothing to suggest they are going to be in the final 4 in the "near future"
