Recent content by mr grieves

Does this count?

So uhhh any good defensemen likely to be available with a top 5 pick?

Building patiently for the long term was, I'm pretty sure, what Shanahan said the Shanaplan was back when he got here. I feel like it changed pretty radically after Matthews. Reflecting on it, was weird that the management would be like "gotta be patient, stick to the plan" while frittering away...

Marner and Nylander were both equally trade-able for about a month after Tre was hired. After July 1, Marner had the NMC and Nylander a modified no-trade clause. Had he traded Nylander to one of the teams on his list, the Leafs would probably now have whatever they got for Nylander and Nic Roy...

Except not this time. So...we're in better hands with Treliving? IDK.

Yes, that's the quote and media availability I'm referring to. Lock clean-out interviews of May 2024. Honestly, I don't see a player that's particularly interested in extending with the team, but, even if you do, there's the actions of his camp. Fact is, getting Marner on a new contract wasn't...

Well, there's no running it back without a running partner. Are you "letting someone go" when they walk out on you? So the options here were: (1) let Marner play out his contract and leave in free agency or for a rights trade, or (2) do whatever you need to do to move him out NMC be damned...

I don’t agree that Marner declared he wanted to stay in Toronto. Willy and Matthews did. Marner said he grew up here. And I think Treliving had more insight than we can glean from Marner’s clean out quote, as he’d met with him for year-end meetings and had met with Ferris before that pre-draft...

Everything that you take as evidence that Treliving wanted rid of Marner is what any GM would do when he’s given reason to believe a player isn’t interested in coming back. Your account starts much too late (the better reporters who spend time around the team noted that Marner was "over" playing...

No, it doesn’t make a lot of sense, which is why it didn’t happen that way. “GM DNA”didn’t walk away from the player; the player left the team.

I hope Robertson sticks somewhere and/or the team finds its way to 3 scoring lines. Not much upside in the end of the core 4, though, if I’m being honest, there’s not much to be excited by here and I figure it’ll be a two-year process. Still, I’d try Knies - Matthews - Maccelli = seems to be...

But have you considered that that is the exceptionalism?

Sounds like you know a family of conservatives. Lots of people believe that stuff and always have, and I agree that when everyone's left to their bootstraps it gets increasingly hard for people to believe they can elect a government that can do anything else. But I think Midwestern conservative...

I don't think the motivation is economic, just that the ultimate causes are. You get the culture that your material and political conditions give you. If you are wealthy and powerful and you helped us along into the War on Terror or 08 Crash, you won't suffer any consequences whatsoever, but if...

Nah. I don't think think meeting in the middle and toning down the words will change any of this. That was the Biden fantasy. We here in the states have had Gilded Age levels of wealth inequality and political sclerosis for a while now, but we didn't quite have the political violence. Well, now...