Speculation: My Dude. It's early.

[Ianturnedbull]

The Leafs have only played 9 games. 4-4-1 is not terrible.

Berube is still figuring out this team. There's still tinkering going on. Certain players haven't even played yet. The Bottom 6 Defense has not been decided on. Woll is in no way 100%. He only played 3 periods of hockey in preseason.


Many media analysts felt that TOR would take some time with a new coach/new system.

There's a lot of hockey left. TORONTO has to finish strong.

Just be cool.

Judge who they are at game 20 and not game 9.

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[BallardEra]

Maple Leafs’ struggling offence has coach Craig Berube mulling changes to the Core Four

The Maple Leafs finally got a statement game from Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner. Then, overtime happened.

www.thestar.com

 

[Ianturnedbull]

Maple Leafs’ struggling offence has coach Craig Berube mulling changes to the Core Four

The Maple Leafs finally got a statement game from Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner. Then, overtime happened.

www.thestar.com

Pay wall.


Wall pay.

 

[BallardEra]

Ugh. I don't pay for it but sometimes I luck out.

 

[freshwind]

a new coach usually takes at least 30 games to have the guys fully understand his system in my view .... we will have a much better idea come closer to the holidays ...

 

[DarkKnight]

I felt a slowish start was going to happen. And like I say every year, it's freaking October relax, people won't even remember these games in March. We're in the hunt, I like this team on paper, I think the style he wants is winning hockey, particularly in our division.

The over the top takes here aren't reality, chill imo.

 

[Confucius]

It is early but 10% of the season gone already, have to be at least 41 and 32 the rest of the way. So we do have to be better

 

[Larcos_Unal]

Nobody is freaking out cause it's game 9, people are freaking out cause it's 7/8 years of the core being a disappointment. Hayes called it a long time ago:

 

[NVious]

It's 9 years of this, I mean shouldn't they get SOME kind of a bump at some point:

New coaches
New GMs
New captains
New forwards
New D
New goalies
New contracts
New systems

None of it has any effect because the core itself is rotten. I know people hold out hope because of the Caps, but they finished:

4th/1st/2nd/15th/9th/17th/10th/1st/1st/7th (year they won the cup), unlike the Leafs who NEVER dominated the league in 9 years

And they also got rid of Semin/Green/Varlamov which was their previous core.

These dudes just don't have it, I'm not even sure if Matthews could lead a team. I have no doubt all of them would be excellent complimentary pieces (outside of Tavares who is a 3rd/4th liner now), but they just don't have the psychological makeup (Matthews/Marner) or the talent (Nylander/Rielly) to be THE guy and all of them are just not THAT good (outside of Matthews).