bustaheims
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Tigger said:
What is a core's name?
The Shanaplan - Building the Leafs Toward Stanley Cup Contention
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What is a core's name?
bustaheims
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TBLeafer said:
All of one 8th seeded team has won the Cup since the league introduced conference based playoff seeds, and all of 2 have made the Final.
Holy jump the gun.
I'm all for hoping things go better for the Leafs sooner than I expect them to. I'm optimistic that Leafs management has begun a significant course correction that will (again, I'm hoping) see them become a contender several years from now.
Given the amount of damage that's been done to the team by Nonis, Burke, Fletcher 2.0 all the way back to JFJ I can see why patience runs thin. But building a Cup contending team? It's not going to happen overnight.
There are finally some prospects with elite potential entering the Leafs system. That's a great start, but that's all it is.
I'm all for hoping things go better for the Leafs sooner than I expect them to. I'm optimistic that Leafs management has begun a significant course correction that will (again, I'm hoping) see them become a contender several years from now.
Given the amount of damage that's been done to the team by Nonis, Burke, Fletcher 2.0 all the way back to JFJ I can see why patience runs thin. But building a Cup contending team? It's not going to happen overnight.
There are finally some prospects with elite potential entering the Leafs system. That's a great start, but that's all it is.
Highlander
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I was just PLANting something outside, had serrated edges, nothing like a willow.
hockeyfan1
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herman said:
I like it better as the "Shanaplan". ☺
Heroic Shrimp
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I guess this belongs here...:
How Shanahan?s ?Shanaplan? is fixing the Maple Leafs
Brendan Shanahan wants to make one thing clear: He?s not celebrating the season that was.
No backslapping. No big pronouncements. Not really much of anything from the Toronto Maple Leafs president, who insists he hopes to remain a man behind the scenes as much as possible, allowing his high-profile hires to do the talking.
But two years after Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment made a controversial bet on Shanahan ? who had never worked for an NHL team in any capacity ? what he will say is that he feels the Leafs are ahead of where he expected them to be.
He has a top coach in Mike Babcock, with a Stanley Cup and Olympic-gold pedigree. He has an experienced general manager in his 73-year-old mentor Lou Lamoriello, working on transactions. He has an up-and-coming executive in Kyle Dubas, managing the minor leagues (where the Toronto Marlies finished at the top of the standings), a renowned bird dog in director of player personnel in Mark Hunter and a cap guru in Brandon Pridham.
After the weekend, Shanahan also has 18-year-old wunderkind Auston Matthews, the projected star centre the Leafs selected first overall at the entry draft in Buffalo.
It?s a start.
(more in article)
How Shanahan?s ?Shanaplan? is fixing the Maple Leafs
Brendan Shanahan wants to make one thing clear: He?s not celebrating the season that was.
No backslapping. No big pronouncements. Not really much of anything from the Toronto Maple Leafs president, who insists he hopes to remain a man behind the scenes as much as possible, allowing his high-profile hires to do the talking.
But two years after Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment made a controversial bet on Shanahan ? who had never worked for an NHL team in any capacity ? what he will say is that he feels the Leafs are ahead of where he expected them to be.
He has a top coach in Mike Babcock, with a Stanley Cup and Olympic-gold pedigree. He has an experienced general manager in his 73-year-old mentor Lou Lamoriello, working on transactions. He has an up-and-coming executive in Kyle Dubas, managing the minor leagues (where the Toronto Marlies finished at the top of the standings), a renowned bird dog in director of player personnel in Mark Hunter and a cap guru in Brandon Pridham.
After the weekend, Shanahan also has 18-year-old wunderkind Auston Matthews, the projected star centre the Leafs selected first overall at the entry draft in Buffalo.
It?s a start.
(more in article)