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It helps them before 2028 if they return picks for 2026 and/or 2027 for one example. Rebuild is going to take years because they have to develop most of them after they're picked. Filling up the prospect pipeline with lesser prospects helps as they take longer to develop. Some of them may be...

I'd be doing something like that. There's no lipstick for this pig in terms of flipping it into a Cup winner with a trade or two or a coaching change. In a sell off, you're taking bids from teams around the league. Sell to the highest bidder. Half of the returns are picks so you do not need to...

Practically, I doubt it. Matthews decline seems to have started. Nylander, who turns 30 in May, still has some time before decline because he's stayed bruise free but that window probably isn't that long. He's starting to miss games. Wheels are often one of the first things to go. Replenish the...

It currently 'calculates' that if they lose in regulation tonight, they would need to play .707 hockey the rest of the way to get the 98 points projected as needed for the last wild card berth. Not impossible but it is getting increasingly grim/unlikely. I suspect Treliving has one hail Mary...

To catch Boston for the 2nd wild card, they would have to play (roughly).683 hockey the rest of the way. They're in trouble.

In terms of making the playoffs, anything could still happen. They're 5 pts out of a wildcard spot but only 2 pts ahead of 2nd last place in the conference. Regardless, I don't see a Cup winner. Prevailing question right now is "do they have the DNA to make the playoffs?" Treliving has to hope...

During Marner's time in Toronto, he led the team in scoring, PP scoring & SH scoring in the regular season and in the playoffs. He was 1st in +/- among forwards in the playoffs. If he led the team in scoring during the playoffs and forwards in +/-, I don't get why he is the one tagged as THE...

It might be because he's fairly north-south and not a great playmaker. He scores more in the dirty areas and we don't see as much of that in OT. But I have wondered that for some time. I'd just like to see it ... because he could get a breakaway

Like the boy who cried wolf, you tune it out. That's what I'm talking about.

Next 5 games are against competitive opponents at home, then 4 road games and the break for the Olympics. Then 6 games to the deadline. They're just outside of a wildcard spot Some warts have crept back into their game after the great 10 game run Nylander is out They have their work cut out for...

I'm probably forgetting a season but I don't recall a season with so many teams not entirely out of it at this point

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Usually, that would be the case. This season, I wonder. Treliving is tight on prospect/picks and under pressure with the team on the bubble. He may only have a couple of shots left with Matthews. The league is very bunched up - a lot of teams still within striking distance. A better goalie could...

Re-injury recovery often takes longer than the original down time. If they remain close to a wild card spot, they should make sure he's fully recovered if they can. I think he's playing the best hockey of his career.

I had to do something so my post was short. But I was going to add that they will have to make a decision on which of Woll, Stolarz and Hildeby to keep next fall because they will not clear waivers. I strongly suspect that decision will come before this year's trade deadline if they remain...

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Agreed All the other Leafs skaters in OT (not Cowan or Matthews) played less than a minute of OT. Matthews was on for 1:56 of the 2:44 OT. So at the end of those nearly 2 minutes, ending 23:35 mins for the game, he'd be gassed.

Kypreos bugs me too sometimes. In the last year or so, he seems pressured to stir stuff up - like manufacture controversy. The chatter on Marner helped drive him out of town. They're still friends. Nothing wrong with Matthews not wanting to talk about it.

They have had their share of upheaval with injuries. They lost Pietrangelo to permanent LTIR before the start of the season. Their top 3 remaining dmen have missed about 1/4 of the season. In the top 6, Eichel, Stone and Karlsson all missed a bunch of games. Karlsson is still out and that is a...