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I do not think the core 4 was grossly overpaid by Dubas. Tavares was a top UFA and probably could have got a little more. Marner & Matthews have been top 10 scorers and good defensively since they came into the league Nylander was a cut below because he was not great defensively and didn't rack...

"The architects of this mess in Toronto are many. And there’s no question many of the failings come back to the fact the roster is poorly constructed. This is an old, slow team that is getting outskated every game, a dramatic transformation from not all that long ago when the Leafs were one of...

They've been playing so poorly, I haven't made it past the 1st period since the break. Doesn't seem to be in me to cheer against them.

Trade deadline is a bidding war. Things can get crazy. I'm no Treliving fan. They obviously won the bid to get his services. I'd been looking at him for a couple of years. He was a good character center who could score some and PK, etc - pretty good player. As I recall at the time, they...

I think a bunch of it has to do with their circumstances I'm not happy with what they've done so don't take it the wrong way. Little cap space. League changes for playoff cap and retention making it even tougher to trade At the start of the season, they had one of the weakest collection of...

Treliving has been supportive and defensive of Berube. He'll sprinkle the blame around some and I don't think that's unfair. Team sport. Team loss. But he's said a few times this season that he has to take responsibility. I think he realizes it is pretty hard to look at it any other way.

Yep. He took a 4th place team in the NHL last year and turned it into a 25th place team (& probably falling) this year. Spent max money and a hunk of what little they had left in assets to get there. Fraser Minten has a better shot at a Cup than the Leafs do. So does Mitch Marner

so that ends that

So I'm not fan of Treliving but On the Laughton deal, like the McMann deal, all he has to do is read the email or listen to the phone calls. Then sell to the highest bidder. What they got for Laughton was probably the highest bid. So I'm not going to clobber him for that. I would have taken...

Hopefully, they can find a GM with the DNA of having won something in his hockey career. I place the most blame for where this team finds itself on Treliving. It wouldn't surprise me if this is his last stop as a GM in this league.

It becomes a 2nd if LA makes the playoffs

I didn't think they'd get 1st but thought they might get a 2nd

There were about ~12 trades after 3pm and before 6pm last year Hopefully, they got more done ...🤞

.250 hockey over the last 19 games might do it They've been playing .167 post Olympics so there is "hope" .. (how sad) Hard for me to watch and cheer against them They've played so poorly, I haven't been able to watch it much so ..

I think it is a fair trade. He's a center, got size, wins draws, decent defensively. Has his name on the Cup. Colorado had seen him plenty. I don't mind Laughton but he won't be around when they contend so they should get what they can for him (a 2nd?). There will be plenty of low end UFAs who...

I think it has been established that Iran would like a nuclear weapon. If they get it, they might try to blow Israel off the face of the earth. They have claimed they would. The other two parties already have nukes. At the moment, the US & Israel are more lethal. It takes at least two to fight...

Yes, two things can be true at the same time. When a coach loses, he certainly carries some responsibility. "identifying quality NHL goaltenders" That seems like a crazy task these days in the NHL. The two seasons with the best save% over a bunch of games during his time here: Campbell &...

I wonder. Robertson has been pseudo trade fodder for a long time. Pro scouts would have seen nearly everything they need to see at this point. Some of the others may be not as well known or haven't been scrutinized as much because they were not shopping them. Robertson's effort has to be obvious...

3 best finishers are on the top line. Maybe they're trying to pad McMann's points to help get more in a trade ... Taking into consideration his lower minutes, McMann is scoring goals at a top 6 pace He's not the greatest distributor of the puck for the other two snipers. He's still learning that.

"Keefe got out coached in the playoffs every year." "As for Dubas, .. he still has one major fatal flaw - identifying quality NHL goaltenders." To me, those claims tend to contradict each other to some extent.