TSN: Responsibility for playoff failures
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Stephen
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This market only has Steve Simmons and maybe Rosie DiManno who are critical and aggressive.
Tak7
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Rosie DiManno asked a few pointed questions at locker clean out day, and then once Morgan Rielly's media avail was done, went up to him and asked him to say hi to Tessa and tell her that she's free for coffee / lunch again, whenever they are both free.
Mo smiled and said that he would.
They're all so friendly.
This pales in comparison to what sort of questions Howard Berger used to ask, or Feschuk going behind Reimer's back to his mom to find out James' health situation.
seventieslord
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Tak7
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The Sportsnet Livestream cameras picked up their conversation at the end of Rielly's media avail as he was walking away.
EDIT - You can vaguely make it out here at 25:30
Morgan, no questions, can you just say hi to Tess for me. If she wants to go out for lunch again and show off the baby, she can just call me.
Rielly responded with No Problem.
ULF_55
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Masters:
Craig Berube says splitting Auston Matthews & Mitch Marner up this season didn't do much for the team So, they remain together tonight"These guys have been a combo for a long time & they've had a lot of success. So, I trust them. I believe in them."
ULF_55
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Heck, I enjoyed the early 80's teams more because they were not good but seemed to push themselves.
Vaive scored 50+ 3 times on dog teams.
Does anyone think of him as a hero?
Jimmy Firecracker
Lord of the Knies
Ultimately, the team was doomed when Dubas got rolled in contract negotiations on the Big Three's second contracts. Plenty of other big mistakes like signing Marleau, trading Kadri, losing Hyman, not finding a legitimate starter, etc. But it all comes back to not having any cap maneuverability because you signed three RFAs to ludicrous deals that were both too expensive and not long. It forced a terrible Marleau trade to make cap room, it cost us Hyman, it meant never being able to fully flesh out the defence for years, it meant never being able to afford quality depth players and heading into the playoffs with a patchwork bottom six every time.
There was zero reason to pay Matthews more than Tavares on a shorter deal and as an RFA. No reason to drag Nylander's negotiation to the eleventh hour if you were going to cave anyway, and no reason to give Marner a more than $10 million AAV. Absolutely ridiculous, compounded by a frozen cap. The Leafs could've and honestly should've pivoted off of this financial model, especially after the 2021 debacle, but had those contracts been more reasonable the situation wouldn't have been as untenable as it was.
Those contracts ruined the culture and cost us heart and soul guys that should've been Leafs over the long-haul.
There was zero reason to pay Matthews more than Tavares on a shorter deal and as an RFA. No reason to drag Nylander's negotiation to the eleventh hour if you were going to cave anyway, and no reason to give Marner a more than $10 million AAV. Absolutely ridiculous, compounded by a frozen cap. The Leafs could've and honestly should've pivoted off of this financial model, especially after the 2021 debacle, but had those contracts been more reasonable the situation wouldn't have been as untenable as it was.
Those contracts ruined the culture and cost us heart and soul guys that should've been Leafs over the long-haul.
