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Although if they were to make it, they'd have to be playing at like a 110-point pace or whatever. They'd be pulling a Florida c. 2023 or whatever.

Matthews as trade fodder? That seems fanciful. Maybe it's something that gets broached this off-season if there's no plan to get this going in the right direction and he's not intending to re-sign (that's about the timeline when he and the management started discussing his future before the last...

Well, everyone is entitled to his own opinion

Yeah, ICE, for all its evil intent, is way less efficient at actually doing the evil.

That's been the pattern, right? They were too slow to move off the last coach, the star winger who wasn't going to re-sign, the GM who couldn't build a defense, the president who let them down this path. They're always a season too slow.

Yeah, or at least planning for that eventuality. You don't have to be president deals to know that that indicates you're dealing with someone you can't trust to have leverage over you. As to new bit EF reported, if Matthews worked out a framework for staying and was clear, direct, and honest...

I generally don’t like Friedman, because he fills a lot of airtime and column space saying a lot of nothing (this could happen or not happen), but this is pretty detailed reporting. Key section to my eye is here: This is when a competently managed team would’ve traded the player, or used its...

Shoulda moved off of that mix before Treliving even got here. Who blames like Andropov for the USSR’s fall? Or Biden for the USA’s?

Yeah, but what can you do about that? Politics isn’t moral education, so seems to me the best you can do is picking some deserving villains to serve up to that 10-20%.

It's hard for me to imagine how this stops. I saw today that Trump's approval rating is in the low 30s and so, yeah, midterms, again -- we've been doing that for a couples decades now -- but it sure is starting to feel like the increasingly extreme and dangerous behavior, domestically and...

Nah. To Shanahan, wherever he is.

Well, I hope on reflection, from the year 2026, we can all agree the the transition to an economic order that created the conditions for right-wing populism to thrive probably should've been more of a scandal than it was...

Does really look like they're doing great powers spheres of influence. It is depressing.

So they should try to get Hamilton, right? Reports are Devils are selling cheap to get out from under the cap hit.

Just quoting this bit because it resonates with a thing Mirtke, Siegel, and others have been pointing out lately: the Leafs have been slow to move off coaches versus, say, Edmonton, who blew through 2-3 times as many coaches. We really should’ve been doing more of that, rather than this commit...

Classic Freidge!

Yeah, this is what I think. Shut Matthews and Tanev down to see if they can resolve their injuries, aim for that top 5 pick, collect some long needed late firsts and prospects by trading out a lot of secondary pieces. I think some of the really well run teams we envy have had a down year here or...

Competent management can go a long way. I think they’ve been skittish where they should’ve been patient (picks and prospects after they got Matthews and decided every year was “the year”), and waaay too slow where they needed to act decisively (jettisoning Keefe and trading one of 3 stars before...

And what sorta defensemen are available in the top 5? I wish they’d shut things down for the balance of this season and try to retool. If Boston can do it, why not the Leafs?

Second best defenseman in the world… does make one wonder what the second best center or second best right winger could’ve netted the Leafs (back when the players in question were, at least arguably, that)