You're asking for a GM to do something that hardly any GMs have ever done. You don't just fire your coach on day 1.
Cant we just try to spread out the double digit millionaires and let them earn their pay with lesser players? Why does a 11+ milly player need another 11+ player to be effective? marner would be a lot more valuable playing with the likes of Domi, Minten Knies as he has proven to make those around him better. Matthews doesnt need him to be who he is.
If the bottom 2 lines are only going to get 10 min or less then good luck. Very difficult to feel part of it and be in a groove when you only play that much. Play those guys more and lets see what we really got. This team as much as Tre doesnt want to acknowledge it is still all about the core 4 and not the greater good of the team as he says it is.
I forgot to add that part but yes its on Keefe to figure it out and think outside his boxed in brain.
Which players like him? The ones who get tons of ice time, not held accountable? how does Domi or Reaves or any of the new guys feel about Keefe. We got a glimpse of what Oreilly thought and it wasnt very positive. I fear Keefe is in that place where he only knows one way to coach these guys and thats pretty much give the top guys as much ice time as possible and hope it works out and well we know how that turns out.
Then I d rather we just go full tilt offense and force teams to trade with us. Again, as in the last several yrs...what is this teams identity? Whats the purpose of each player? The 3rd and 4th line look like they have no idea what they are supposed to be achieving. This is on Keefe imo.
100% he’s been outclassed every year in the playoffs. I said it earlier but it feels very similar to babcock getting canned. Shanny should have let Dubas fire Babcock in the summer when he wanted to. Shanny should have cleaned house once he decided Dubas was no longer going to be GM.
I think if Kane wants to come here, we wouldn't need to get rid of Kampf. I'd also play Kane and Domi together... they already have chemistry. Make them the third line
Yea that was a little weird....I was surprised to see the panthers just continue to manhandle us like last yr and just assumed Reaves or Domi or anyone would take a shot at one of their guys....and it didnt happen...no big hit...nothing though Mccabe had a couple nice hits. Where was the freight train Reaves we saw from game 1 and 2?
Kampf is definitely going to be Treliving's Kerfoot.
I mean you say this like they aren't paid to win us games. You whine when our depth can't score when we give skilled guys a chance down there. You whine even more when they bring a new element to the bottom 6 and try something new and it hasn't gone crazy with goals in their 1st 4 games playing on a new team. We don't even have our set lineup playing yet because Minten most likely made the team for cap reasons even though he had a good camp. We can give all this credit to our top 6 because you look at their xGF% numbers and all that crap but it's still the same thing with them. Play Chicago who is a lottery projected team and was also playing a goalie who has won 2 NHL games in his career and that top line of Matthews and Marner gets shut out. Play a Florida team missing 3 key players and a garbage goalie in Bobrovsky like some on here say and they get shut out again except Marner scoring that PP goal later in the game.
Once again, it all comes down to the core 4 and how they go is how the leafs go which so far has not been a recipe for playoff success. None of our guys are gut check lay it all on the line kind of players though Matthews is bringing more of that this yr so far. Everything relies on the core 4 forwards which imo is too much to ask or expect. Watching Vegas last couple games and last yr shows me just how far we are from truly competing for the big prize and how far from a TEAM we are. That is a team to emulate even if it means hurting some millionaire feelings while doing it. Problem is that I dont think the leafs brass see any concern or reason to change things up.
But I keep reading in here that we cant trade 34 as he is top 2 player in the league and then we cant trade Nylander he is too good, then we cant trade a 100 pt player in Marner....so at what point do we shift gears from paying 4 forwards 50% of the cap?
Honest question....what do you think Boucher would do differently if he were coach? Does he have a style he leans towards?
O’Reilly is just a cry baby because he was 5th in the pecking order.
