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I dunno, the one thing I keep coming back to in my head is that regular season success seems to lead to postseason success for basically every other team except for the Leafs for some reason. This was a team that set a couple of franchise records for regular season success, and I think in...

It boggles my mind that they gave Marner an incredibly team friendly deal and gave him every opportunity he could want with the team, despite the fact his side negotiated through the media, threatened about offer sheets, threatened to play overseas, refused to negotiate in-season this past year...

I mean, James Mirtle reported on the Leaf Report Podcasg around the time of the Rantanen proposed trade that the Leafs had offered Marner a big contract and were frustrated that he wasn’t signed yet.

Any chance you know his stats in games 5-7 of a series?

I don’t read anything in that quote that says the GM is “kicking around trading Marner”, it’s about as generic a quote from a GM as you can get.

I feel like people need to temper expectations on Cowan - putting up these numbers in a D+2 season on a great team doesn’t mean a ton to me tbh. He might be a late bloomer or maybe there’s context to his younger production, but I’ve seen a lot about his production from fans as if it means he’ll...

I felt like I was taking crazy pills at points this season with the talk of how great their defensive play was. The Leafs in 2021-22 had the 8th best PK and the next season the 12th best. But based on this season you’d think their PK had been terrible for years and years. Keefe never got 1/10...

Gotta say I would have preferred the trade Edmonton made for Walman over the one the Leafs made for Carlo.

I personally do not want more big, slow defensemen who cannot move the puck up ice effectively against a strong forecheck.

I’d also add that Marner’s regular seasons are a significant part of the reason we even get to have these complaints about the playoffs, compared to somewhere like Buffalo as an extreme example. Maybe the Leafs just got unlucky drafting two superstars who are exceptions to the playoff rule for...

Yet I thought (with the exception of last season) that generally the 2022-2023 iterations of the Leafs were strong defensively they just never got the credit for it that the underlying numbers suggested.

But almost all the top playoff teams are also great possession teams. Part of why Florida beat the Leafs is they had the puck the vast majority of the time and anytime the Leafs had it all they could do was ice it or dump it out to centre.

Seemed like he was set up to fail. Edit: Though after looking into it more, his most common linemate in Philly seems to have been Travis Konecny so that makes me slightly less impressed with him putting up low end 3rd liner points at 5v5.

The caveat with those points being he did that with over 1:00 of PP time a game and anywhere from 2-5 more minutes played per game. Which he’s unlikely to get in Toronto.

Small players like Matthew Knies? Or is Jake Muzzin one of those? Reality is that Dubas was never all about any one type of player. He brought in and traded both types of players throughout his tenure.

Haven’t posted here in awhile but my concerns about this team all season was their 5v5 play and their inability to consistently control play, something that by and large was not an issue in previous seasons. I was concerned that once they got into the playoffs, vs better opponents, that they...

*tiptoes in* 🫣

Hold me...

I imagine they must be fairly confident in signing him.

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