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If management’s serious about making real noise, they need to hold back some cap space heading into the season. Don’t blow it all in July just because it’s there. The smart play is flexibility, keep room for an in-season swing if the right trade opportunity pops up. Every year, some star gets...

NTCs are fine. NMCs? Never again. If the Leafs want to build a future with real flexibility, they need to draw a hard line: no more no-move clauses. Full stop. You can give a guy a limited no-trade to offer some peace of mind, but the team needs the ability to pivot when things go sideways. A...

All due respect Bullfrog but management has been saying this for the last 5-6 years now. "We're really close", no they're not. When your main players clam up during the biggest moments you aren't close. The core 4 had a combined 2 points in the final 4 games of the series. This happens again...

I can't see any way that Marner wants to stay. He's had enough of the market and the criticism.

Vancouver should be an easy sell for Rielly, a hometown guy with a chance to write his redemption arc close to where it all started. You pitch it as a late-career resurgence, a veteran presence on a team that's knocking on the door. They’d eat that narrative up. And let’s be real: if there’s a...

Carolina won't pay what he wants

That’s the other problem, paralysis by fear. Scared to make a mistake on a star player trade, so they do nothing and pray it magically works out. Meanwhile, other teams don’t flinch at no-move clauses, they move guys if it makes the team better. Ruthless? Sure. But it works. Toronto keeps...

The stats for the "core 4" in the final 4 games of the series are truly putrid. 2 combined points in 4 games and minus a lot. Throw in Morgan Rielly as the 5th man and it's even worse.

Interesting to see if Matthews needs surgery. I assume he does given he was a shell of the player we saw last season.

Tavares was signed before Marner’s six-year deal, and ironically, it was playing alongside Tavares that helped drive Marner’s price up. I’m talking specifically about the summer Dubas was fired, I truly believe he was finally ready to make a significant move, and Marner was the obvious choice...

It’s easy to say in theory, but when the pressure’s on, will they actually have a GM with the guts to make the tough calls? Especially in Toronto, where you’ve got friends of ownership pulling strings, media leaks pushing certain narratives, and far too many voices in the room. Too many cooks in...

Really? There's nobody that thinks we should "run it back" again cause talent will eventually come through? There's always a handful, I'm surprised if nobody is campaigning for this again.

Win and all is forgiven

Yup, that was gut wrenching to watch. I'm no Jets fan but taking the human element of the moment I felt terrible for Scheifele

Wait for game 7, not like we haven't seen this before

Unless the Leafs made a deep run to the Conference Finals or better, the writing was on the wall for Shanahan. He knows his time is up. Kept the core together long enough to disappoint even the most hardened of fans and what do they have to show for it? The Shanaplan was a lie.

I'm in the same boat, I can't see myself tuning into the majority of the regular season anymore.

Lol

The season ending presser should be good. Will Pelley finally admit he should have canned Shanahan last year? Or will they confidently say they're running it back again?

Don't worry, there's no chance of that lol