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easy money Hiller knows how the Leafs work.

Fair question. I'm referring primarily to PK time. Starting 2023-now, the top 3 forwards in 4v5 ice time for the Leafs: Marner (301), Kampf (297), Matthews (191) They have 4 SHG between the three of them in this time span btw. What is the point of spending their valuable offensive creation...

Which leads me to my conclusion that these stars were cultivated in an environment/playstyle that fostered the type of play that doesn't break through. Their top two stars at the time were overplayed during the regular season (seemingly for vanity, in my opinion) and they defaulted to safe and...

McDrai going off on the PP covers a lot of ills. Leafs special teams in the playoffs are a special type of disaster.

Pour one out for the David Kampf Christmas Skate 2023 2022

I would say it's a combination of the Atlantic division hurdle, and the playstyle that regular season success was built on. The Leafs have a similar make up, but those other teams on the list are up-tempo and play through obstacles, rather than play around them. Toronto also arguably has one of...

Kind of like when Sundin went down in that playoff run and Gary Roberts and Alyn McCauley went off. Just need Knies/McMann to go a bit unhinged, and Scott Laughton, when he returns, to start driving a fast checking/energy line to set the tone.

Did Berube say this? x4 to whatever he says it is.

with Stolarz on the shelf: Marlies in net

Dubas pursued a path to winning that was trying to get ahead of the curve of the NHL's evolution (faster, puck skilled game). His transactions all made sense within that lens. Some of the cheaping out on D and G were related to leaning lots of cap into the top two lines' puck skilled forwards...

Another vote for the road trip bonding solution

I think with Matthews out, we'll see Berube make better use of these coaching levers that Keefe and last year's Berube really shied away from. I like Matthews and how he can control the game when he's on, but I don't like how he and that other guy basically forced out Babcock (albeit deserved)...

My amateur assessment is that most of the bad stuff is player level decision-making stuff that compounds into run-of-play issues as they accumulate. The DZ scheme might be gumming up the works a bit and making it too easy to make bad decisions. Why are the forwards so disconnected from the...

MotM: OEL HM: Hildeby

Because of that Tavares turnover 4-on-4

Carlo Colaiacovo suffered from an acute case of boneitis

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Domi got a decent lick in