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19 May 2025 18:08:46
Leafs trade Reilly
SanJose 2nd round pick 25
Leafs sigh Bennett
Leafs sign Marchand
Leafs let Marner and Taveras walk or move Tavares to third line Center
Knies Matthews Robertson
McMann Bennett Nylander
Cowan . Tavares Marchand
Lorentz Laughton Pacioretty
1.) 19 May 2025 20:04:45
No to Marchand.
2.) 20 May 2025 01:03:54
Hard pass on Marchand.
3.) 20 May 2025 15:40:49
Love to get rid of Rielly and that u r getting a second rd pic to unload his whole contract without retaining is acceptable to me. But to spend that extra cap space for Bennett and Marchand no thanks. Replace Rielly wit an offer sheet to Dobson.
19 May 2025 01:12:34
Leafs make 2 trades off season
Marner walks freeing up all that money but they better not waste it
Leafs trade REILLY
sharks trade 2 nd round pick 25
Leafs need draft capital and money to change the team bring in 4 or 5 players
Try to give Robertson a bigger role next year as goal scorer get him good fits at Center & wing
I am worried you over pay for Bennett
But Florida have less firepower and they beat leafs 3 out of last 4 games
Matthews
Marner
Nylander
Tacvares
Reilly his mistakes
These guys couldn't get it done.
Knies will be better
Cowan NHL ready he will win memorial cup
This is first time TREVLIVING can change the face of the team but he better get it right
1.) 19 May 2025 11:57:03
Start with firing Shanahan. Marner walks. Must extend Knies. Tavares signs at significant discount. Domi, Kamph, Jarnkok, Robertson, Hakinpaa, patches, all gone .
2.) 19 May 2025 16:18:21
I agree that Reilly needs to go same as Marner, Taveres, Kampf, Jarnkrok and Robertson. I will even throw Matthews name in there as well (If he will entertain a trade) .
We need players who are both physically and mentally tough (Fredrick, Kunin, Jeanotte) .
As much as I would love to have Sam Bennett play for the Leafs I highly doubt they will be able to sign him as he has stated he is done playing in Canada (after playing with the Flames) .
3.) 20 May 2025 15:53:09
Marner, Kampf, jarnkrok, Robertson, Holmberg, Domi, Tavares, Rielly. Let the free agents all walk Lorentz, Hak. Through trades, walks and buyouts get it done.
Resign Knies, offer sheet Dobson to replace Rielly.
Then make smart choices in your free agent signings. Rather have Nelson then at 2yrs younger then Tavares.
17 May 2025 15:52:36
Leafs trade Kampf
SAN Jose 4 th 2025
The leafs have more firepower than Florida when we compare the top two lines
Tavares only has 2 points the last 6 games but Willy Nylander has 6 points in first 3 games and zero points last 3 games. He is due to play well along with Tavares
Toronto has deeper scoring than Florida
I think the Leafs have a better group of defence than Florida
Toronto = Florida in Goaltending
If Toronto gets the best game from
Knies Matthews Marner
Holmberg Tavares Nylander
X factor Pacioretty line
Leafs should win
1.) 18 May 2025 00:19:04
The main player is still Woll. If he is really solid with NO leaky goals against, that is the most important thing imo.
Knies is unknown at the moment as we don't know how bad the injury really is.
2.) 18 May 2025 03:17:41
Winnipeg had too high a hill to climb but still only three goals scored and there seemed to be much more open ice then there is in Toronto series
HELLEBUYCK gives up nasty rebound I never want him when all the chips are on the line $8.5 million Leafs pay less than that to both goalies and there goaltending is as good
Dallas are flawed in defensive zone
When Ceci is a top four defenceman it can’t be good
Edmonton probably beat Dallas
Leafs can win cup if they win tomorrow.
15 May 2025 15:41:22
Leafs trade Jarnknok
SAN Jose 4 th 2025
They could win 2 games in a row but I doubt it against Florida
They can't bring Marner back because if they do it's the exact team again
The truth is I don't even know why this is happening ? What players for Florida are making biggest difference
If it's SAM BENNETT they could sign him
You guys tell me who are the Leafs killers in this series
1.) 15 May 2025 17:43:10
Matthews.
12 May 2025 21:18:22
Leafs trade Matthews
Islanders first round pick 2025 & Noah Dobson
Matthews has never been more than a point a game player in Playoff. Nylander has outperformed him in big way. We can say he has been hurt but in his nhl career with leafs he has only been point per game player twice.
People here complained Marner but his playoff performance has been better.
Let's say Leafs go out in 6 or 7 games the reality is you can't come back with this core. It will be Marner that goes due to his contract expiring.
The Leafs must get to the next round.the Leafs were awful and Wollplayed excellent. To moe paper the panthers don't have the talent the Leafs have.
It will be sad and costly if Leafs sign and overpay Bennett and then let Marner walk.
I think that's the big switch next year but only pay Bennett 7 or 8 million max
1.) 13 May 2025 17:11:11
Mitch hasn't been good either.
2.) 14 May 2025 00:44:34
It has been reported that Bennett has no interest in signing with a Canadian team?
If Islanders would agree, I would make this trade, should Leafs lose to the Panthers in the 2nd round.
Dobson hopefully turns into that top pairing defenseman teams covet.
Leafs select Misa with the 1st overall pick to eventually replace Matthews as Leafs #1 center.
If Matthews and Marner depart, Leafs should probably not resign Tavares as the rebuild has begun.
Possible targets are Donato (29), and Pius Suter (28) as 2nd and 3rd line centers along with Nick Ehlers as a fit at 2nd line LW.
Just spitballing!
Knies - Misa - Nylander
Ehlers - Donato -
McMann - Suter - Connor Brown
Lorentz - Laughton - Brazeau
Holmberg
Reilly - Carlo
McCabe - Tanev
OEL - Dobson
Benoit - Dante Fabbro.
3.) 14 May 2025 08:52:21
Hot take leafs should clear of Bennett he’s not a good centre and the stuff he gets away with that make him so effective on the panthers he wouldn’t get away with playing for the leafs just my opinion leafs stars need to step up on the score sheet it’s that simple.
4.) 14 May 2025 19:07:05
Honestly goat, it's a pretty good hot take, we had someone similar k. Bunting, and the league came down hard on him in Toronto.
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04 May 2025 09:47:06
Dallas trade Rantanen
Leafs trade Marner
This could end up being bad for Marner if he was trying to put a gun to the Leafs head. The chances of Leafs beating Florida in this next series may be lower than the Panthers to win this next series.
If the Panthers win the Leafs are going to be forced to make a huge change to the roster and that would mean moving on from Marner.
If Florida win I'm sure the Leafs let Marner walk and with his money they sign two other players in his place the players they would sign number 1 would be Sam Bennett and the other would be Matt Duchene
Those two players would cost Toronto $12 million combined . With Duchene Who is 34 years old and had 82 points in regular season there is some risk as he only had 3 points in the 2025 first round series vs Colorado.
We should also remember when Sam Bennett left Calgary he almost had no value as he only put up 36,26,26,27,12 and 12 points in the 6 years in Calgary the first four seasons he didn't miss many games the last two seasons he only played 52 and 38 games .
So there is tremendous risk with both these players and every year Marner will put up 100 points . Also many of the goals that Bennett scores are garbage goals knocking in pucks just outside of the goal crease. The element that Bennett does bring is he is very physical with Duchene you would add extra year or two to knock down his cap hit .
I would offer Bennett 8 years @ $7 million and Duchene 5 years @ $5 million. It would almost be a guarantee that these two players together would outscore Marner but the physical play of Bennett would change the make up of the Leafs where as Duchene would be the better point producer of the two. Both of these players natural position is Center ice.
So if Florida take down the Leafs Marner is gone and for certain the first player they target is Bennett and Duchene would give Leafs a shorter term player who offers Leafs more cap flexibility
03 May 2025 01:58:58
Goal2.0
The problem for Robertson is the rising cap will make players like him obsolete these two players needs a fresh start STEEVES & ROBERTSON.
When the cap hits $113 million the Leafs will benefit more than most but it's essential they sign Tavares to a team friendly deal and sign MARNER and KNIES to 8 year deals
This would have all top 6 forwards signed to long term deals except MATTHEWS
MARNER $14 million x 8 years
MATTHEWS $13.25million
NYLANDER $11.5 million
KNIES $9 million x 8 years
TAVARES $6 million 5 years
These contracts look great in 3 years and in new cap world you just have to deal with Matthews
1.) 03 May 2025 11:43:07
Nah marner has shown why he isn’t a 14 million dollar player in the last three games he was a non factor pretty invisible now he can still change that narrative but I’m gonna say I still think it’s more likely he walks and hot take I think it’s best for both parties.
05 Feb 2025 20:34:41
Columbus TRADE Kent Johnson
Toronto TRADE KNIES
I think KNIES & JOHNSON were the 2 best players in the 2021 draft
If I'm Brad Treliving I wouldn't do this trade and I wouldn't do the trade either
I'm just curious do you guys have Knies as the best player in the 2021. draft
Knies was drafted 57 th overall what a pick the leafs made
1.) 05 Feb 2025 21:49:56
Knies was a steal for sure. What about Hughes, Guenther, Power for example? Beniers and McTavish have been quite good. Can't look past the fact that Knies gets to play with Matthews and/ or Marner a lot. A lot of other guys on the draft board don't have that kind of talent around them.
2.) 05 Feb 2025 22:09:32
You definitely have a weird way of giving players a shout out. Knies has become what this team has lacked for years. But what about McBobby? Guy has sighed a 1.35M X 2 contract and is on pace to almost hit 30 goals. What a steal this guy is. I don’t even think Bobby knew he’d take off like this. Made Tre look smart but I think he got lucky. This guy keeps up this pace or close to and the salary cap going up, he is gonna be in the neighborhood of a 5-7M dollar player per year. Enjoy this while we can at 1.35M another reason why Marner can walk is so we can keep guys like Bobby!
3.) 06 Feb 2025 03:04:06
@Clarky He's really flying under the radar for sure. He also hasn't had the benefit of an entire season with Mathews and Marner. He was in fact demoted at times, and even left off the team out of camp. Mcmann definitely has heart as well.
4.) 06 Feb 2025 13:36:11
McMann keeps working at his game and keeps getting a little bit better as the season goes along. Too bad Dubas and Keefe didn't give him a real chance earlier.
19 Dec 2024 01:26:26
Leafs trade REEVES
DALLAS 7 TH ROUND PIC
ROBERTSON is settling in now that he has a better center man and.Bobby McMann
All of us in our lives have been under pressure and we haven't performed our best and that was Nic Robertson
But he knows where and who he is playing with it makes him more at ease
I still think he can put up 20 goals plus he has that shot that only Matthews can shoot better
Once 3 lines are going Leafs are hard to beat.
1.) 20 Dec 2024 00:15:17
It’s two games I’d still think Robertson is moved.
2.) 20 Dec 2024 12:16:22
He's a 20g scorer now? Why not 50?
3.) 20 Dec 2024 13:11:11
The winds of change are obviously blowing hard again on Mackin Island as Robertson has rebounded to a 20+ goal scorer after previously being banished to the trade winds. He was being blown off the island, but now needs to be re-signed.
The weathermac is back! lol.
19 May 2025 14:59:40
He is regressing I move him I try Marner. He has been hurt by something that happened but when was last time a top 5 player in scoring the last 5 to 7 seasons walked away but this is where his family and players friends are.
Moving
Reilly
Jarnknok
Kampf
Low balling Tavares
Solves this
Marner has to understand Leafs don’t care what they pay him but it interferes with icing a team if he just wants top dollar
Your 28 sign 8 years and we overcompensate you ur next contract
Egos get in was from Marner end
Oh your the greatest but others have to be paid to get best roster
Florida high end guys didn’t make what leafs core made
Matthews
Marner
Nylander
Tavares
Reilly.
19 May 2025 02:04:33
Leafs outscored 10. 2. Final 2 home games
Matthews hurt I’m sure surgury soon something is wrong.
19 May 2025 02:02:28
Marner made mistake early this season they were trying to extend him and he wouldn’t sigh
Now season ends and it’s time to hate Marner off the team
Leafs cap opportunity is massive
Marner opens up $11 million
Really opens up $7.5 million
Taverns will take $5 million over longer term
Knies is going to cost $7 or $8 million
Robertson $1 million
McMann $1 million
Cowen $1million maybe het gets 50 points season. 1
So Leafs just need to find heavy players
Bennett
Marchand
Holmberg $1 million
Add a strong defensive defence to replace Reilly.
19 May 2025 01:03:55
What to do off season
Something has to change LEAFS WERE dominated 3 0. It’s over
It’s Morgan Reilly or Marner that needs to go this mix can’t get it done
They have 3 -panthers on there team
Stolarz
Lorenz
Larson
What do you guys do REILLY got caught first goal
None of this is on WOLL point blank chances
But the face of this team is going to change
Domi stays Cowan is coming in Cowan can produce some of Marner points. I just don’t know how they have any plans to bring Marner back.
18 May 2025 03:17:41
Winnipeg had too high a hill to climb but still only three goals scored and there seemed to be much more open ice then there is in Toronto series
HELLEBUYCK gives up nasty rebound I never want him when all the chips are on the line $8.5 million Leafs pay less than that to both goalies and there goaltending is as good
Dallas are flawed in defensive zone
When Ceci is a top four defenceman it can’t be good
Edmonton probably beat Dallas
Leafs can win cup if they win tomorrow.
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