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50ish cuts from this list? https://www.nhl.com/mapleleafs/team/management I’m guessing it will mostly be from the Ops side, and some old AGMs like Ryan Hardy. Shanahan’s executive assistant will certainly be let go or re-roled. Some amateur scouting staff will naturally be out after the draft...

Admin knows what’s up (Just the guys under contract)

Time to get worse players!

That might be true! I also recall a lot of warm up shots with no screens, no rebounds, no change of lanes; regardless of shot location, those just serve to give goalies confidence. How many series did we lose because we got goalied? I took a look at NST’s heat maps for that Montreal series and...

This circles back to my original point, I think. Aggregate numbers at the end of the series will show the Leafs were 'right there' controlling play and putting up lots of shots. Why did they have all those shots? They had the puck a lot (around the perimeter) against a packed slot defense. Carey...

The other factor might be, in the recent stretch, the Leafs have encountered absolute wagons in the Florida teams and prime Boston, and did themselves little favour with divisional positioning. No such excuse against Columbus and Montreal though, and only a little injury excuse in the latest...

I think you have to dig into the types of regular season success those other contenders had. For the Leafs, I believe it was a playstyle mismatch. Dubas-Keefe Leafs leaned super hard into controlling the puck and manipulating space, which is like preparing for 2030 hockey. Power Play hockey of...

And McDavid to Draisaitl cashes on the late OT power play opportunity to finish the comeback

Game is more fun when you want them both to lose

Ah true. It would only solve their future salary issue. If they dumb it up I guess we’ll see him more in one of the Atlantic teams trying to take the next rebuild step. Or Anaheim/San Jose with their prospect arsenals.

Ice is slippery around the crease :) my only surprise is he didn’t try to break his fall with his elbow into Skinner’s noggin Edit: I still hope the Leafs can sign him

If Dallas says yes to this low ball, Jim Nill should be fired

For some reason, there is chatter that Dallas will look to move on from Jason Robertson (7.75M AAV for this coming season before RFA). I don't know if the Leafs have the trade capital, but I wonder if something like this could work to TOR: Jason Robertson, Matt Dumba, whatever prospect on the...

Ridiculous lack of Steel town puns.

They already told the same story through Kypreos earlier last month but wanted to reach the western demographic.

They have cap room now lol

You can feel the Marner-Ferris spin coming. Drink every time you hear ‘disrespect’. Edit: That was fast. Going to repeat that trading him in 2023 should’ve been done, even for Alex Kerfootian peanuts, just to not have to go through this negotiation cycle ever again. Other Ferris clients...

Another one off the table, but he was not interested in Canada

I think one of the pitfalls of the Dubas-era and the analytics movement in general is the overemphasis on evaluating the large sample data. Yes, you need to see the whole picture for certain types of evaluation to smear out luck effects, but there was an over-reliance on that to pooh-pooh away...