115 points in regular season means nothing when you cant win when it counts
You know expectations are pretty low when there are people who are proud of the team because they played hard in Game 7. I mean it’s Game 7, showing up should be the absolute minimum.
Connor McDavid is earning $13 M annually I believe while Jack Eichel comes in at No. 2 at $12 M. Auston Matthews’s next contract, depending on the salary cap in two years time, would eclipse both of them.
Fans here said both Matthews and Marner played a great Game 7, however the end result is what counts.
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Five seasons beforehand, they also missed the playoffs a few times and lost in the first round as well. Took them 12 years from the stamkos pick to hoisting a cup.
I don't know why I bother but there was playoff success - something the Leafs no absolutely nothing about
You left out the seasons before where they posted 24 and 34 win seasons finishing last and 12th in the conference.
Maybe I was wrong about you being a better poster, lots of nonsense in here, who cares about 2004? Why are we hanging the past failures or comparing past success of other teams? Not everything is linear. Since 08 when they drafter stamkos they have had lots of great players in and out, what do you mean?
It is truly a disgrace and Shanny let’s him keep his job after so much humiliation and failure and to make matters worse Leafs ownership let’s Shanny keep his job……..all three of them should be gone.
It's time to start trusting our kids in my opinion. Which in turn will free up lots of cap. Move Holl, move Kerfoot, move Mrazek. Bring back Engvall who is a homegrown product through drafting. Mikheyev will price himself out, so unfortunately goodbye after he finally came along for us. Let Kase walk, too much injury history there. Bring back Clifford and Spezza on league minimum deals....with the understanding that the 3 vets will be moving in and out of the lineup throught the year (Clifford, Simmonds, Spezza). Give Robertson his shot. Give Anderson his shot (he's been a workhorse down on the Marlies), Give Douglas some looks and callups this year(don't make the same mistake we made with Marchment). Bring back Gio. Bring back Lyubushkin. Go after Vinnie Trocheck to play C and shift JT to the wing.
Those posters never truly played competitive hockey. How can you truly understand the value of intangibles if you never faced them in a highly competitive game and they don’t show up in the stats?
I agree the only problems I have with Robertson/Anderson/Liljegren/Sandin is the smaller bodies not so much in the regular season but when it comes to the playoffs when other teams are going to be hitting a lot more etc. If you look at the Tampa series they outplayed us on the boards and on the dump ins because we didn't really have enough bigger physical guys to win the board battles. With the defense it's the same issue all small un physical players who are going to get over powered when it comes to battles or in front of the net. Rielly/Liljegren/Giordano/Brodie/Sandin all play the same type of game/style... puck moving, mostly offensive d-men, we don't need that many puck moving/offensive d-men we need more bigger/stronger and more physical d-men who are going to win battles and not get pushed around and overpowered in front of the net.
