What % was Dubas messing up the contracts vs offer sheets vs Covid vs Lou not giving out bonuses vs hating Babcock vs other factors?
There are tons of factors that go into contracts, would love to hear an expert like yourself break it down.
Dubas sucks, hes a proven failure at the NHL level for 6 years now
He screwed the Pens up so bad with 3 albatross contracts his first summer in Graved (tanev might be comparable so dont think Im hyping up Treliving either), Jarry, and Erik Karlsson
While leafs nation continues to dickride between a former incompetent GM and a current incompotent GM, the other contending teams will make smart and sound decisions and continue to improve
in 2019 we were far ahead of Dallas, Carolina, NYR, FLA, EDM and now each of those teams is a lot ahead of the leafs
Dubas + Shanny messed everything up with overpayments to the core, bad roster trades (kadri, marchment etc) bad decisions to not sell UFAs (andersen, gardiner, hyman) bad deadline moves eith so many picks bled (Foligno, RoR, Gio, etc) and mostly poor drafting
Treliving has continued piss poor management expect he basically doesnt make any move via trades.
He overpaid Nylander by 2M and gave matthews an insane deal for 4Y term.
His deadline moves for lub and edmunson were fine if we kept one of them but both walked and the D we brought in, I see declining super hard and super quick over next 2 years.
His draft picks might look nice but still a ways to go. Niemela and Hirvonen also looked very promising at one pt and are now second tier guys.
Leafs have beem mismanged for better part of 60 years unfortunately.
The only good periods have been random spots in thr 70s, early to mid 90s, and late 90s to early 00s.
This current run with Shanahan and keeping this unwinnable core is insansity driven by MLSE greed and management failures.
Leafs will continue to fail as long as the big 5 + shanahan are here.
In 4 years time we will be looking at a massive rebuild and be recognized as.the biggest choking core in NHL history