05 Mar 2023 00:35:37
Goaltending unfortunately may be the Leafs undoing, along with Nylander& Matthews not resigning. A 1st rd exit means new management.
Trade
Matthews
Marner
Nylander
Reilly
Tavares
Brodie, Liljegren & Woll
Leafs acquire six 1st rd picks 3 -8
3rd Michkov RW
4th Carlsson C / LW
5th Benson LW / RW ( shoots left )
6th Crystall LW
7th Smith C
8th Sale RW
Bring Michkov over for 2024 / 2025 season, will have to pay his KHL club a kings randsom.
Leafs top 6 in 2024 / 2025
Benson Carlsson Michkov
Crystall Smith Sale
McCabe, Timmins & Jarncrock still under contract for 2024 / 2025. Play all the prospects give 100 + games, a decent sample size too help guage their development. Not that everyone is a Kucherov but one wonders, would Kuch have had a second season as a Leaf. Kucherov only had 18 pts in 52 games season 1, so a Robertson with 7 pts in 31 games unspectacular thus far, but still a little early to write him off despite injury woes.
Knies
Robertson
Steeves
Minten
Liljegren( resign )
McMann
Hirvonen
Holmberg
Niemela
Voit
Akhtyamov
Peksa
Kressler
Mietten
Tverberg
Abruzzese
Villeneuve
Leafs would have high draft picks in 2024 & 2025
1st rd top 5 pick in 2024
1st rd top 10 pick in 2025
Draft defenseman with the 1st rd picks in 2024 & 2025, attempt to draft the best dman in each respective draft. Draft goalies & dmen with 2nd, 3rd , 4th rd picks in 2024 & 2025.
Goal is make somewhat of a playoff run in 2025 / 2026
Sign Hedman as a UFA in 2025
Sign McDavid & Makar as a UFA in 2026.
2026 / 2027 roster
Benson McDavid Michkov
Crystall Carlsson Sale
Robertson Smith Voit
Knies Minten Hirvonen
Makar Liljegren
Hedman Niemela
3rd pairing dman drafted in 2024 & 2025
7th dmen drafted in 2024 or 2025
Akhtyamov
or goalies drafted in 2024 or 2025
By 2026 / 2027 team is an elite team, & one of the favourites to win a Stanley Cup in the 4th year of a rebuild.
05 Mar 2023 02:25:15
If they don't make it out of the 1st round again, I might be on board.
05 Mar 2023 03:13:03
After tonight in Van what I see is more a leadership/ Heart issue. I imo see the Bruins as ta unstoppable force. After I read a article about the dressing room and how they are so united and focused I believe that Boston is headed where they clearly belong to Lord Stanley. I am not a Bruins fan but they are seemingly unstoppable this year. They wouldn’t lose to Vancouver they wouldn’t give up not 1 but 2 shorties idk boys but this Leaf team jus doesn’t have what it takes from what I’ve watched. I’ve been a Leaf fan for 30yrs and this was the best chance they’ve had. The opportunity has been blown, and as much as I dislike him, Dubas has done a admirable job this yr with the additions made but it’s not enough. Sorry for the long rant guys but what I’m getting at is I’m on board with Kennedy for ONCE lol. Good prob man think that’s inevitably what will happen. This team will once again break our hearts. Don’t know about a first round exit but we’re not going far. ?.
05 Mar 2023 03:25:44
@Henry I've mentioned that a few times.
Different players have spoken about a poor dressing room after leaving the team, but we all just thought it was disgruntled players.
Babs spoke about issues with effort and he was fired. Keefe is now having the same issues. Maybe it is just something with the core.
05 Mar 2023 03:59:42
@LL Agreed, I’m not sure who it is or why it hasn’t been addressed but it will ultimately be the team’s undoing. Marner is so good, Nylander has actually really impressed me with his maturity and play this yr and fingers crossed Matthews is saving his best for April but something is suspicious with the core and it’ll become evident come summer, guess we’ll have to wait unfortunately but change is definitely on the horizon buddy. Enjoy the rest of what’s left of your Saturday night guys.
06 Mar 2023 13:52:43
What former players spoke of a bad dressing room? Anyone recent?
06 Mar 2023 18:23:58
@Loxley Kapanen, Ozhiganov, and Zaitsev come to mind.
07 Mar 2023 11:44:17
@LL. In all fairness that was a while ago. Around the same time Matthews didn't want Hyman on his wing. I think they have all matured since then.
07 Mar 2023 13:36:36
@LL. well other than maybe Kapanen i would take what the other 2 may have said with a grain of salt. i mean neither one have had a stellar career, Zaitsev never regained his form from that first year. as for Kapanen he was placed and claimed on waivers. if he could not play well enough on a team with Crosby. has me questioning the type of player he is. So many trades i see people wanting to bring him back and i am always like. "why". he was ok when he was hear but nothing special.