The insanity needs to stop this offseason barring a miracle.

Respect to Tree for at least trying to change up the winger situation.

How did he try? Randomly asking a player with a NMC to waive it? Treliving will be "promoted" this summer when the team merges his and Shanahan's roles into one position (no raise) and then he will re-sign Tavares and Marner.
 
I would actually argue that if they don't get past first round to not sign Marner, Tavares and Trade Rielly for a forward. trade Nylander for Dobson. Trade Domi, Kampf and Jarnkrok for anything.
Change the whole core of this team. Keep Matthews for now but if he sucks next season trade his ass too.
Sign Bennett and Boeser in the off season.
Play Cowen, Robertson, Steeves.

Knies Matthews (forward trade)
McMann Bennett Boeser
Cowen Laughton Robertson
Lorentz Quillan Steeves

McCabe Tanev
OEL Dobson
Benoit Carlo

This leaves us cap room to take a run at Mcdavid the following season
 
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I would actually argue that if they don't get past first round to not sign Marner, Tavares and Trade Rielly for a forward. trade Nylander for Dobson. Trade Domi, Kampf and Jarnkrok for anything.
Change the whole core of this team. Keep Matthews for now but if he sucks next season trade his ass too.
Sign Bennett and Boeser in the off season.
Play Cowen, Robertson, Steeves.

Knies Matthews (forward trade)
McMann Bennett Boeser
Cowen Laughton Robertson
Lorentz Quillan Steeves

McCabe Tanev
OEL Dobson
Benoit Carlo

This leaves us cap room to take a run at Mcdavid the following season
Love the idea of dispersing the core but Boeser is just another cream puff.
 
Last night during the 6v5 someone texted me something I found hilarious

"It's a 6 v 5 but we have 4 guys on the perimeter wtf"

It's the perfect encapsulation with the issue of this team. Too much of the same kind of player who want to all do the same thing
 
Tulsky, Carolina’s GM and Harvard grad, indicated that, on average, NHL forwards reach their peak scoring rates around age 24, after which performance steadily declines. Specifically, players tend to maintain approximately 90% of their peak scoring through age 29, but this rate drops to 80% by age 31, 70% by ages 32-33, and 60% by age 35.

So, Marner should maintain 90% of his peak through next year but will already begin to regress in the following seasons.

The same applies to Matthews, Nylander, and Rielly. Tavares, meanwhile, should already be nearing 60% of his peak, which he was in when we signed him.

According to Tulsky’s research, our core has already passed its peak and only won one playoff round while in it.

And now, we’re going to pay three of them even more through their declining years and hope for the best while younger players in their prime will be making half as much?

Good luck. Our cupboard is bare, and in 2-3 years, we’ll be in cap hell.

Patrick Kane won his last cup when he was 25 years old and making 9% of the cap. Toews was 26 and making 9% of the cap when he won his last cup. At the end of their last cup year, both Kane and Toews signed 8 year contracts for 14.7% of the cap. They never came close to a cup again.

Crosby last won the cup in 2015-2016, 2016-2017, Crosby was 28 and 29. He was making 12.18% and 11.9% of the cap.

Marner and Matthews will be 13.6% and 14.2% and will be 29 next year.

Do we really want to go 8 more years with this core at their age when some of the best leaders and most talented NHL players never won a cup past the age of 29 and also never won with their cap % that Marner and Matthews will have?
Hockey teams are built around roles and the Leafs have too many of them unfilled or too many that need an upgrade. It’s like a football team having a great QB, three excellent running backs, but a sub-par OL, and then wondering why they can win with all that talent.
 
Hockey teams are built around roles and the Leafs have too many of them unfilled or too many that need an upgrade. It’s like a football team having a great QB, three excellent running backs, but a sub-par OL, and then wondering why they can win with all that talent.
That is good
That is true
 
Hockey teams are built around roles and the Leafs have too many of them unfilled or too many that need an upgrade. It’s like a football team having a great QB, three excellent running backs, but a sub-par OL, and then wondering why they can win with all that talent.
Great analogy for this team!
 
Tulsky, Carolina’s GM and Harvard grad, indicated that, on average, NHL forwards reach their peak scoring rates around age 24, after which performance steadily declines. Specifically, players tend to maintain approximately 90% of their peak scoring through age 29, but this rate drops to 80% by age 31, 70% by ages 32-33, and 60% by age 35.

So, Marner should maintain 90% of his peak through next year but will already begin to regress in the following seasons.

The same applies to Matthews, Nylander, and Rielly. Tavares, meanwhile, should already be nearing 60% of his peak, which he was in when we signed him.

According to Tulsky’s research, our core has already passed its peak and only won one playoff round while in it.

And now, we’re going to pay three of them even more through their declining years and hope for the best while younger players in their prime will be making half as much?

Good luck. Our cupboard is bare, and in 2-3 years, we’ll be in cap hell.

Patrick Kane won his last cup when he was 25 years old and making 9% of the cap. Toews was 26 and making 9% of the cap when he won his last cup. At the end of their last cup year, both Kane and Toews signed 8 year contracts for 14.7% of the cap. They never came close to a cup again.

Crosby last won the cup in 2015-2016, 2016-2017, Crosby was 28 and 29. He was making 12.18% and 11.9% of the cap.

Marner and Matthews will be 13.6% and 14.2% and will be 29 next year.

Do we really want to go 8 more years with this core at their age when some of the best leaders and most talented NHL players never won a cup past the age of 29 and also never won with their cap % that Marner and Matthews will have?
Mirtle and Bunkis discussed running this core back (10:00) after every playoff failure yesterday. Some will rip the two but they are bang on as far as I am concerned. I man how can you run them back again next year if they cannot get beyond round #2 this season?


Interesting take from Frank Crupi (never heard of him) who thinks Matthews has a serious groin injury.
 
Mirtle and Bunkis discussed running this core back (10:00) after every playoff failure yesterday. Some will rip the two but they are bang on as far as I am concerned. I man how can you run them back again next year if they cannot get beyond round #2 this season?


Interesting take from Frank Crupi (never heard of him) who thinks Matthews has a serious groin injury.
If the Leafs do run it back...then they most definitely are here just to sell jerseys.
 
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