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Maple Leafs Training Camp 2024-25 Thread

Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
Congrats to Simon Benoit on giving birth to a baby!

Or am I misinterpreting that?
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This is correct. In a show of support, his wife will be by his side.
 
https://x.com/markhmasters/status/1836773130259316742
https://x.com/nickbarden/status/1836804327173726472

Who will lead Group 3?!
 
https://twitter.com/markhmasters/status/1836794070540145113

https://twitter.com/sunhornby/status/1836797928377090094

https://x.com/nickbarden/status/1836791278488457409
 
Bullfrog said:
Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
Congrats to Simon Benoit on giving birth to a baby!

Or am I misinterpreting that?
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This is correct. In a show of support, his wife will be by his side.
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That's really good of her to do that.
 
https://twitter.com/markhmasters/status/1836830031802237291
https://x.com/tsn_sports/status/1836837687581687844
 
CarltonTheBear said:
herman said:
https://twitter.com/markhmasters/status/1836830031802237291
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Game 2 of the season is against the Devils.
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What question would you ask Keefe as a member of the media after Nylander @ 2C torches your new team for 3 goals and 2 assists?
 
herman said:
https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/william-nylander-at-centre/

They're going to try

LW-Matthews-Marner
Domi-Nylander-RW
LW-Tavares-Jarnkrok
Kampf

And it's probably going to be a bit of a poop show on that second line unless they score on every single shot they take. and knowing how Domi shoots (when he shoots), that's not happening. For someone with a relatively wicked shot, he unsurprisingly uses it somewhat stupidly. I can see the allure of the rush game and the give-and-go in both players, but this is magnifying strengths at the expense of magnifying their weaknesses. Maybe they see it as resistance training for Nylander to focus on defensive details to have to babysit Domi, with the reward being a crazy seam pass once in awhile.

LW-Matthews-Domi puts a bit more defensive burden on Matthews, but the downstream effect is:
LW-Nylander-Marner
LW-Tavares-Jarnkrok
Kampf

which I think should scare most opposing teams. Nylander and Marner have pretty similar outputs but play complementary styles and cover each others weaknesses. The only reason they haven't spent much time together without the other two centres is because they're both also very good at complementing the centres.

Nylander really only has to do it until Minten is ready.
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If Domi is on the wing, playing him with Matthews appears to elevate his value enormously, at no apparent cost to Matthews production, but pushing Marner and Nylander down to other lines whose productivity can be enhanced.  Overall the team gain seems high.

On the other hand Nylander-Domi seems like defensive trainwreck no one could outscore.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
herman said:
What question would you ask Keefe as a member of the media after Nylander @ 2C torches your new team for 3 goals and 2 assists?
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I'd probably lead with "Do you like apples?".
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Whose number does Good Will Nylander show him?

I'm going to go with Madison Beer's.
 
Leafs Down Under said:
Does anyone else get the sense Willy finds Mitch annoying?
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https://x.com/tictactomar/status/1583226566779494401
https://x.com/itsmitchmarney/status/1585371200049778689

Marner likes to adopt paternal figures and Nylander likes to adopt siblings. They?ve found a reasonable balance in their cousin-coded relationship.
 
I'm going to petition that we lower the temperature on the burn Marner at the stake narratives.  Every time someone makes a face or Marner says something in a press conference that isn't 100% what we want to hear.

He's a Leaf right now.  He's easily one of the best in franchise history.  He's either gone within the next 9 months or comes back.  Enjoy him while he's here
 
L K said:
I'm going to petition that we lower the temperature on the burn Marner at the stake narratives.  Every time someone makes a face or Marner says something in a press conference that isn't 100% what we want to hear.

He's a Leaf right now.  He's easily one of the best in franchise history.  He's either gone within the next 9 months or comes back.  Enjoy him while he's here
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Leafs fans always need a whipping boy. 
 
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