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Forum: Armchair-GM27 févr. 2020 à 14 h 0
Sujet: The Leafs Need To Shake Up The Core
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>PleaseBanMeForMyOwnGood</b></div><div>I love how so many idiots on here keep saying the Leafs need to shake up their core because they can't win. Yeah lets just ignore that the two guys you are trading are 23 and under. The Leafs are still a super young team, they need adversity to grow and become winners. You and people like you treat these kids like they are all 30 year old vets who are going to be on the decline. They are not. You are being silly.</div></div>

look at this team though. They have looked disinterested, disgruntled and they're flat out terrible defensively and play with no consistency.
It can be argued they're already flaming out, they're on the fringe of a playoff spot now and the cap issues will get worse and worse each year.
How have teams like Calgary, Florida, Nashville, Philadelphia done by not changing their core? Now that two of them have they're looking much better, as for Calgary and Nashville they've got issues.
St. Louis was getting nowhere before they added O'Reilly or before guys like Parayko became major pieces.
The Penguins won Cups with defence and by surrounding their star centers with versatile players, of which most were very good defensively.
The Kings won with defence, goaltending and hard working defensive forwards. Kopitar Muzzin Doughty Brown Pearson etc are all defensive players who also excelled physically.
The Hawks won with great defence and two way forwards (Saad, Toews, Shaw, etc) as well as Patrick Kane.
The Capitals won because they played fantastic defensively. Ovi was a two way forward in the playoffs.
NONE of the Leafs' forwards outside of Zach Hyman fit the criteria for the type of support Matthews/Tavares need. One is not enough. The defence is super suspect, Jake Muzzin is the only one who can eat minutes and that's an issue. Ceci sucks, Rielly is soft and very weak defensively, same deal for Barrie. If you won Cups like that then I think San Jose would have three or four right now. They had Vlasic and Pavelski and that was about it for good defensive forwards.
You can't win when you have too many soft skill guys like Johnsson Kapanen Marner and Nylander on your wings and then Rielly and Barrie in the top 4. It just doesn't work. Caps don't win without defensive Ovi or guys like Wilson Kempny or Niskanen. Hawks don't win without guys like Saad Toews Keith Seabrook or Hjalamarsson. Pens had Crosby (who's defensive game is unmatched by anyone on the Leafs' roster and almost everyone in the league) but also without guys like Dumoulin Daley Rust or Kunitz.
Forum: Armchair-GM16 mars 2019 à 23 h 26