You don’t think Keefe catered everything to these guys? This is not a coaching issue with some of these guys. It’s an ability issue.
I've been wondering lately just how much a negative factor this might be. No way for us to know but I think it could be a pretty big negative for the collective psyche of the team.
In other news, Marner finished 17th in Selke voting after finishing 3rd last year. HE got one 1st place vote too, I wonder who that clown was?
They have run back the same core for 6 years. They are the common denominator. They are all about the money and are not willing to play outside their comfort zone. Nylander proved it to me when he was on a 120 point pace and once he signed fell back to an PPG pace. Matty taking more AAV and less term and now rumours Mitch wants $100m for 8 years. I'd move off all of them and start again but we know that will not happen.
He's in full unadulterated denial mode, aka he just doesn't get it.
During the regular season he let the players play their way, which was a mistake, during the playoffs he had them play the “playoff way” which was a bigger mistake. Keefe paid the price the change was made. Strange how players that can’t perform during the playoffs all of a sudden perform under new systems.
Well Edmonton's young Dman is named Evan Bouchard . I'm sure you have heard of him
They can’t play outside their comfort zone, so a coach must tailor the game to their style not some preconceived notion on how a playoff game should be played. I agree if people don’t want a player because he doesn’t fit their way of thinking on how the game should be played, move on. Don’t be shocked when they perform like stars somewhere else.
Some still want to run it back sfter eight years of failure…….
Individually they could be succeed like Kessel did in Pittsburgh. As a group pulling the cart, no chance.
And that is coaching, we need a guy to pull it all together. We may have one, time will tell
We haven’t touched the core in 10 years. 6 with Tavares. I’m amazed at just how long people accept continued failing. This team and core have been given more chances, more opportunities and more resources than any other team in Leafs history.
Well the roster excluding the core has been changed multiple times, only thing left to change us the coach and the core players. I find it confusing how some think it will work this time after all the failure, running it back is stupid, core pieces should have been replaced years ago…….
Some would rather continue the madness than admit this tesm has been a trainwreck come playoffs every year…….
Shanny does not believe it any more. That pretty much tells you all you need to know.
Who cares if they’re successful somewhere else, if they were successful here they wouldn’t be traded…….
Oh well Ibelieve you have to let a person do what he does best. If it’s not what you want then yes by all means part ways.Yeah for sure, making sure that the players are comfortable is job number one.
Roger that, when the number one booster fan of the core loses faith you know it’s ran it’s course, too bad they’re five years late…….
The same is true here.
But they’ve never been given a roster that can win in the playoffs. Year after year at the beginning of the playoffs the TV panelist ask the question, can the Leafs win with that defence?
It’s also been asked can the team with with 4 forwards taking up half the cap?
