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Forum: Armchair-GM17 févr. 2020 à 23 h 7
Sujet: Retreat with lilmore patience required
Too many chefs spoil the... In the Leafs case to many superstar egos ruins the room!

I expect this team to play complete 60 min-games from now on, and I believe they will still make the playoffs; but, I also would understand with this much turnover, it will take a lot of coaching to get them all on the same page.

Yes!
Losing Matthew is a losing a superstar, but in turn, if you look at all my trades as a whole (viewing the lines I created)... I did balance the defence, and the offence is better too, meaning more spread out (cap-wise) aswell.

This team is one I would put complete faith in to win next... as a team. Not only that, we can restock (four 1st-round, a 2&3rd round pick coming back), therefore our development system to sustain winning!

For anyone who challenges me regarding whether or not Arizona would complete this trade, I say this. NO WAY Arizona, don't take this deal... Matthews will sell seats and season tickets holders pay the bills and more! He will win hardware too.
Forum: Toronto Maple Leafs16 févr. 2020 à 21 h 39
Sujet: Approach to Trade Deadline?
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Leaf_fan_74</b></div><div>And now?</div></div>

Three weeks since I started this thread, Honestly, my feeling of how to approach this years trade deadline has not changed. Here are a couple of questions I consider as I try to answer this question if I were hypothetically the GM of this team.

Are they playing well?
Will making the playoffs be an accomplishment? What does it mean not to make them like Tampa a few years back didn't?
If they make the playoffs, do they have a chance to win it all?
What is the cost to improve, and do we have the resources to spend?
What is the opportunity cost of each: buying or selling?

Each of us will have our answers to these questions. No doubt!

I have been a Leafs fan long enough to go from the naive-optimist "we'll-get'em-next-year" fan to a highly bitter skeptic waiting for the hockey gods to crush our hopes again just one more time. Funny, if you are the former and don't believe it will happen to you... go and check out Steve Dangle's old LFR's in comparison to the ones he is posting these days. Let me save you some time, what you will see is he who was once known for his Ra-Ra super optimistic love for this team, converted a too and sheer lack of desire to watch games of an organization he literally makes a living off. I understand what he feels twice over being a decade older and having seen this show before.

Fact is a locker room full of SuperStar egos, does not a great team make!

Sell all UFA's and furthermore if we don't want to continue like this we must consider trading one of the 11mil salaries in the offseason.

Final Question... What's more important, team hardware, or an individual of the team getting hardware?
Forum: Trade Machine Proposals13 févr. 2020 à 10 h 44
Forum: Toronto Maple Leafs11 févr. 2020 à 21 h 47
Sujet: This team is an embarassment
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Leaf_fan_74</b></div><div>I agree, Dubis trade-wise appears to be even (good to bad ratio) using a narrowed optics lens; but, when you step back and look at the big picture we have taken many major steps back. Since he took the reins from Lou...

Good getting Muzzin, based on a personal bias AND Bad, because Muzzin only complicates the defensive situation and fixed nothing.
****Jack Campbell is a good add
****Clifford would be great if we made the playoffs... growing doubtful these days
**** Signing Tavares
Bad,
****in the number of picks he keeps tossing away
****Barrie is a bust
****Cece
****Timing of coach change
****Letting back-up goaltending become a problem in the first place

Well that's not very even, is it? Maybe we should give him credit for our great player's accomplishments, but hey he inherited most of those players didn't he?

Can't argue that! no matter how Badly you want too! and that is on Shanahan.

How long before we start discussing the elephant in the Leafs Nation... Maybe Dubis isn't ready to be a GM in the NHL?</div></div>

Best Coach and GM ever!
Forum: Toronto Maple Leafs9 févr. 2020 à 16 h 41
Sujet: This team is an embarassment
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Leaf_fan_74</b></div><div>I agree, Dubis trade-wise appears to be even (good to bad ratio) using a narrowed optics lens; but, when you step back and look at the big picture we have taken many major steps back. Since he took the reins from Lou...

Good getting Muzzin, based on a personal bias AND Bad, because Muzzin only complicates the defensive situation and fixed nothing.
****Jack Campbell is a good add
****Clifford would be great if we made the playoffs... growing doubtful these days
**** Signing Tavares
Bad,
****in the number of picks he keeps tossing away
****Barrie is a bust
****Cece
****Timing of coach change
****Letting back-up goaltending become a problem in the first place

Well that's not very even, is it? Maybe we should give him credit for our great player's accomplishments, but hey he inherited most of those players didn't he?

Can't argue that! no matter how Badly you want too! and that is on Shanahan.

How long before we start discussing the elephant in the Leafs Nation... Maybe Dubis isn't ready to be a GM in the NHL?</div></div>

So that you all know, I like I would bet all of you really wanted Dubis to be the answer, and yes this is coming from an extreme disappointment. There is no excuse!
Forum: Toronto Maple Leafs9 févr. 2020 à 16 h 37
Sujet: This team is an embarassment
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>oneX</b></div><div>This is the realization that Babcock should have been fired after the playoff series loss and not in the middle of the season.

Keefe will play catchup with the players for the rest of the season because he didn't get the off-season to prepare for the season and playoffs.

If there's people to be mad at for this, it clearly falls on Shanny and Dubas but more on Shanny...just because Babcock was a Shanny hire.</div></div>

I agree, Dubis trade-wise appears to be even (good to bad ratio) using a narrowed optics lens; but, when you step back and look at the big picture we have taken many major steps back. Since he took the reins from Lou...

Good getting Muzzin, based on a personal bias AND Bad, because Muzzin only complicates the defensive situation and fixed nothing.
****Jack Campbell is a good add
****Clifford would be great if we made the playoffs... growing doubtful these days
**** Signing Tavares
Bad,
****in the number of picks he keeps tossing away
****Barrie is a bust
****Cece
****Timing of coach change
****Letting back-up goaltending become a problem in the first place

Well that's not very even, is it? Maybe we should give him credit for our great player's accomplishments, but hey he inherited most of those players didn't he?

Can't argue that! no matter how Badly you want too! and that is on Shanahan.

How long before we start discussing the elephant in the Leafs Nation... Maybe Dubis isn't ready to be a GM in the NHL?
Forum: Toronto Maple Leafs9 févr. 2020 à 3 h 6
Sujet: This team is an embarassment
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>leaflet</b></div><div>Keefe is learning on the job, but I disagree with some of your points.

2) Any coach (except Babcock) would play Matthews 20 minutes +. And ironically perhaps, Matthews has become our best defensive forward this year, so I don't mind seeing him more.

3) What character players?? There aren't so many on the team. We have Muzzin, and he was on the ice most of the time tonight.

I don't like his tendency to experiment during important games (e.g. Holl as the starter in overtime, playing 7D for no reason in a game we can't afford to lose, and so on), and the defensive game is still much of a work in progress. But let's give him the benefit of the doubt until the end of the season.</div></div>

It don't matter how you slice it, he isn't good enough and the 112 point pace people are quoting was from 3 games ago... Losing 2 of those. Dubis better act fast because the heat is rising.