Recent content by herman

See if we can get the rights to Barrett Hayton as well for the middle-6 C and puck moving RD in one transaction.

The playoff performing thing seemed to be from Wes Clark. They really valued the back half push from Knies and Cowan (and their subsequent playoffs) and worried a bit less about the aggregate point totals/pace if it was easily explained.

Don’t be like that person on Twitter that was using onhockey and screencasting to the living room tv for her family to watch the Marlies

For the past three seasons, the Leafs front office and draft/dev team made special note to key in on making sure their picks were players who ramped up in tournament/playoff opportunities and could handle market/fan/internal pressure with some very targeted dev exercises.

Sounds like someone was just using Toronto’s interest for a little bit more oomph on the contract.

It just keeps on coming Hyman and Babcock meet again, while Zach’s brother just formally hired Mike Jr.

Lol

Berube is right there!

Peter LAviolette? Edit: Yup

Round 2 interviews are down to a shortlist of single digits (~5 per EF, LeBrun) I'm thinking there's probably a Round 3 of the top 2 shortly after this. If the previous GM hire was anything to go by, they might take a forked approach: the best (experienced) traditional vs the best outside the...

Ah, the guys from the US Olympics group chat.

It's a common refrain that the Leafs did not have enough depth in the playoff runs, because all their top dollars were clustered on 1.5 lines. Two coaches kept doing it! Not to absolve the GMs, but it's not the whole story to just say that unqualified. It is known that Marner would throw...