Recent content by CarltonTheBear

Probably more often now that they're potentially signing ground-breaking NIL deals.

Rogle finished 4th in the regular season and then lost to the 1st place team in the finals, so pretty significant step up from Linkoping. Hopefully Klobar still gets an opportunity to play significant minutes. They had a 20-year old lead their team in scoring this past season though so it's like...

I'd love to take a swing on the highest offensive upside or best skating defenceman possible, which from that list Axel Elofsson fits the bill. Aside from that Xavier Villeneuve would be a bit of a dream pick, but he would need to slide hard to make it to our 2nd rounder (his rankings are all...

Yeah and that's a big reason why I still lean toward Woodcroft at the end of the day: experience coaching McDavid and Draisaitl, and as an assistant coach Thornton and Marleau.

Goldberg was one of the people involved with the alleged-but-then-thrown-out tampering accusations Chayka had to deal with right away, so I'm sure people will freak out if that does happen. Not like GMs hiring people they had a previous working relationship with isn't super common (there's like...

Would the Leafs have any interest in adding another bald Swede to the front office? If you subscribe to the notion that a lot of what went wrong in Vancouver was ultimately Rutherford's fault then Allvin could be a pretty solid pick-up in an AGM position.

I think Woodcroft would still be the best fit for the Leafs specifically right now (and also potentially long-term) for the reasons I brought up the other day, but it's tough to not recognize that Carle is by far the brightest coaching "prospect" that the league has seen in a very long time. I...

Looking at the scouts I also just noticed that Thommie Bergman is no longer listed on the Leafs management page. Using the archived pages he was removed sometime last offseason. He is currently 78-years old so I'm sure if he's no longer a scout it's simply from a much deserved retirement, but...

It might be time to finally let Mike Penny go.

Yeah that's the thing, other than guaranteed money even a long-term contract would be meaningless. Everyone knows how cut throat the league can be with coaches. Carle is presumably very well compensated and comfortable in Denver. He's got 3 young kids, he's only 36 years old. I wouldn't be...

The Canucks picked Foote over Malhotra last year largely because Hughes loved Foote and they wanted to do everything they could to convince him to stay. Now they're firing Foote probably because other teams (Leafs) are circling around Malhotra and they want to promote him to head coach.

Yeah I just don't see Carle happening. Chicago went after him hard just last year and despite that seemingly being a perfect fit with Bedard & co. he still turned them down.

Game 1: Vegas at Colorado -- 8 p.m. ET, Wednesday, May 20 (ESPN, SN, CBC, TVAS) Game 2: Vegas at Colorado -- 8 p.m. ET, Friday, May 22 (ESPN, SN, CBC, TVAS) Game 3: Colorado at Vegas -- 8 p.m. ET, Sunday, May 24 (ESPN, SN, CBC, TVAS) Game 4: Colorado at Vegas -- 9 p.m. ET, Tuesday, May 26 (ESPN...

Game 1: Montreal at Carolina -- 8 p.m. ET, Thursday, May 21 (TNT, HBO Max, truTV, SN, CBC, TVAS) Game 2: Montreal at Carolina -- 7 p.m. ET, Saturday, May 23 (TNT, HBO Max, truTV, SN, CBC, TVAS) Game 3: Carolina at Montreal -- 8 p.m. ET, Monday, May 25 (TNT, HBO Max, truTV, SN, CBC, TVAS) Game 4...

2 assistant GMs down, 3 remain: Hayley Wickenheiser (Player Development), Darryl Metcalf (Hockey Research & Development), Ryan Hardy (Minor League Ops & GM, Toronto Marlies). Metcalf's an odd one, the Leafs should have the best and biggest analytics team in the league and even when Dubas was in...