How many jobs are on the line?

[Le Cobra]

Not sure about Trotz coming in, but the whole Lily situation is making me turn on Keefe.

what lily sitch

 

[JKG33]

See if Washington wants a shake up, Nylander for Wilson. Inject some toughness that can play.

Offer Arizona whatever the hell they want for Chychrun, as long as they take Mrazek.

Try to trade for Blackwood or Bernier or Driedger or Gibson

 

[nuck]

Economics say Willie out, Kerf out, Mik out. Also Blackwell, Simmonds and Spezza can be improved on without a big spend. Pay whatever assets needed to deal Mrazik, move Holl because Lily is ready for his spot, add a legit #3c find a #1 goalie.

 

[Lightsol]

Time to start looking forward to next year. What changes can we make to improve the team? Some tough decisions need to be made. I want Nylander to stay but his days are numbered. He has no chemistry with JT and you're not breaking up Marner and MAtthews. Waste to have an 80 pt player on a line with Kampf. Trade him for a defenceman. Let Mikheyev and Lyubushkin walk. Sign Spezza to league min as 13th forward.

Bunting - MAtthews - Marner
Rakell - Tavares - Domi
Robertson- Kampf - Kase
Engvall - Blackwell - Motte
Spezza / Simmonds

Rielly - Pelech
Brodie - Muzzin
Lilijgren - Giordano
Sandin


Campbell
Wedgewood

See that guy in your avatar? If Max signs with us, he's going to be more heavily involved. Do you really want that?

 

[Buds17]

There will be plenty of interest around the league in Trotz to fill a coaching vacancy. This team apparently is quite in need of...something.

 

[Le Cobra]

F the NHL and their stupid playoff brackets

 

[Dave92]

Dubas built a terrible playoff core, that everyone told him wouldn't work and when it didn't work at first he chose to stick with it leading to a string of playoff ineptitude that is historic across all of North American sports.

He has to be fired.

 

[pcruz]

Beg and plead Gio to stay.
Beg Spezza to stay.
Remove Engvall and Kerfoot. Mrazek and Clifford too.
Make a good trade involving Nylander and sell high. His skill level is top notch and if ever he can figure out that you need to try every game, not just once in a while, he'll be a real force in the league.

Acquire a goalie (Campbell's midseason death spiral cost us top spot in the East)


Keep the rest of the core. They were really solid this year and in the playoffs.

 

[Havoc]

Great trades, like Kadri for Barrie, 1st for frickin Foligno. Great GM for sure.

Those are horrible trades yes. If you dig deeper into my post there is a lot there to suggest he's not close to perfect.

 

[colchar]

I'm pretty sure Trotz has said in the past that he doesn't want to coach in Canada

Without proof, I call BS on that.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

what lily sitch

The fact that he sat in the press box for the final 5 games even though he was one of our better d-man this year. He didnt get a chance to bounce back while Lyubushkin continued to play poorly, especially in games 3 and 4

 

[Dave92]

Beg and plead Gio to stay.
Beg Spezza to stay.
Remove Engvall and Kerfoot. Mrazek and Clifford too.
Make a good trade involving Nylander and sell high. His skill level is top notch and if ever he can figure out that you need to try every game, not just once in a while, he'll be a real force in the league.

Acquire a goalie (Campbell's midseason death spiral cost us top spot in the East)


Keep the rest of the core. They were really solid this year and in the playoffs.

You writing a recipe on how to lose a game 7 in 2023?

 

[robertmac43]

Going to have to get creative with the cap situation once again. I don't know if a big shakeup is a play this offseason. That being said something needs to happen. I hope this team can get better from within if some of the young guys can take steps forward and Knies, Robertson, etc can make a leap; the Leafs may be able to find some key improvements without needing to do anything overly drastic.

 

[GQS]

Tampa has 2 cups. Leafs have first round exits.

P.S. Tampa beat Leafs without Point; sick Kucherov and half ass Vasi.

Dubas is a fraud and should be fired. If it was up to me he would never have been hired in the first place

Again tell me what depth players could the Leafs have gotten if they had say the Tavares money freed up that would've for sure won them game 7 against Tampa?

 

[fahad203]

Fastest coach to reach 100 wins

 

[Anthrax442]

man, I'd love to see Gio and Bush back

 

[ToneDog]

I doubt it's Marner I think it's Nylander you don't break up Marner and Matthews, I also don't think Shanny is out

Not sure how you keep the guy who backed Dubas time and time again if you fire Dubas. If 1 goes all 3 should IMO.

 

[OVO16]

Trotz want a management role?

Make Trotz the GM and have Dubas as his assistant if the Leafs wanna save face. Trotz will get Playoff warriors on this team. He'll know who to target

 

[mikeyz]

Back to tank nation!

Better then losing in the 1st round every year

 

[Stamkos4life]

I'll ask again, what will firing Dubas do if you don't have one of the four players traded? There is only so much minor tweaking you can do.

If I made 500k a year (dubas' salary), I'd have the time to change many things.

For starters, I wouldn't run with Campbell and mrazek. Secondly, no team has had any success with even one 10+ mil forward. We have 3.

I believe most gms would have more to show after 4 years.

So will you answer my original question of how many first round loses before you are willing to accept that dubas needs to go? Or are you just going to keep dodging?

 

[ToneDog]

Fastest coach to reach 100 wins

The banner is going to be raised next to northern division champs banner.

 

[colchar]

Fastest coach to reach 100 wins

So?

 

[fahad203]

Trotz want a management role?

Make Trotz the GM and have Dubas as his assistant if the Leafs wanna save face. Trotz will get Playoff warriors on this team. He'll know who to target

Fire Dubas to the fing moon man
What does he have to do get fired around here?

He got the coach he wanted, the goalie he wanted, the D core he wanted. Only 1 D is from Nonis/Burke era Reilly(Lilly from Babcock). Rest are his
Entire bottom 6 not named Engvall are his acquisitions

So?

I don't think you got my sarcasm

 

[colchar]

For starters, I wouldn't run with Campbell and mrazek.

Who would you have gotten, and how? There was nobody available.

 

[I am Canadian]

If I made 500k a year (dubas' salary), I'd have the time to change many things.

For starters, I wouldn't run with Campbell and mrazek. Secondly, no team has had any success with even one 10+ mil forward. We have 3.

I believe most gms would have more to show after 4 years.

So will you answer my original question of how many first round loses before you are willing to accept that dubas needs to go? Or are you just going to keep dodging?

So you would trade Marner or Matthews? Seems like a good idea.

No, I will not agree that Dubas needs to go for the sake of angry fans.

If Dubas was to be fired, the team would need to go in a very different direction. There is no point in firing Dubas if you are not altering the team.

Which of Marner or Matthews are you suggesting should be traded?