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Yeah, but what can you do about that? Politics isn’t moral education, so seems to me the best you can do is picking some deserving villains to serve up to that 10-20%.

It's hard for me to imagine how this stops. I saw today that Trump's approval rating is in the low 30s and so, yeah, midterms, again -- we've been doing that for a couples decades now -- but it sure is starting to feel like the increasingly extreme and dangerous behavior, domestically and...

Nah. To Shanahan, wherever he is.

Well, I hope on reflection, from the year 2026, we can all agree the the transition to an economic order that created the conditions for right-wing populism to thrive probably should've been more of a scandal than it was...

Does really look like they're doing great powers spheres of influence. It is depressing.

So they should try to get Hamilton, right? Reports are Devils are selling cheap to get out from under the cap hit.

Just quoting this bit because it resonates with a thing Mirtke, Siegel, and others have been pointing out lately: the Leafs have been slow to move off coaches versus, say, Edmonton, who blew through 2-3 times as many coaches. We really should’ve been doing more of that, rather than this commit...

Classic Freidge!

Yeah, this is what I think. Shut Matthews and Tanev down to see if they can resolve their injuries, aim for that top 5 pick, collect some long needed late firsts and prospects by trading out a lot of secondary pieces. I think some of the really well run teams we envy have had a down year here or...

Competent management can go a long way. I think they’ve been skittish where they should’ve been patient (picks and prospects after they got Matthews and decided every year was “the year”), and waaay too slow where they needed to act decisively (jettisoning Keefe and trading one of 3 stars before...

And what sorta defensemen are available in the top 5? I wish they’d shut things down for the balance of this season and try to retool. If Boston can do it, why not the Leafs?

Second best defenseman in the world… does make one wonder what the second best center or second best right winger could’ve netted the Leafs (back when the players in question were, at least arguably, that)

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...