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And I don’t think you want OEL in the top 4 or on the right side. OEL = #5 left D. I think OEL’s contract will be regretted in a couple of years if not already …

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We really need the right-handed Benoit so OEL is on his strong side.

which centers with term might be plausible?

Happy to buy this tshirt if you are selling them.

A center that pushes Domi to the wing and a right D that maximizes Reilly’s pairing are also my two biggest Xmas wishes. (Aside from health for Matthews)

My eye-test suggested that this was a really poor defensive game from the Leafs. It seemed to me that Buffalo had a lot of passes to wide-open guys for quick shots at the net. Murray saved a lot of them. I thought his play was mostly better than the numbers. Am I reading that wrong?

Center good - moves Domi to wing. Winger just doesn’t seem like it will move the needle enough to be worth the assets

Nylander’s worst period in a while. A lot of sloppy passing all around. Like everyone’s drunk.

It seems unlikely that Marner-Matthews-Nylander is going to get the most out of all three guys simply because 2/3rds of the game, none of them will be on the ice. So, 2/3rds of the game, you need to transition through the neutral zone without your 3 best transition players. And in the 1/3rd of...

Last one is easy - no.

Biggest thing I learned tonight is you can swear on this site now. Good work! A healthy helping of improper words in the office is supposed to increase camaraderie. I think it can work here too.

i feel like the leafs really wanted Matt Roy instead of OEL in the offseason (and somehow making the money work by ditching Kampf, OEL and maybe even Domi). The Reilly-OEL pairing just hasn’t been working so well. OEL needs to be on the left.

I’m hoping that 3rd line has some pop. Would solve some problems if it does.

Least deserving Leafs win I can remember. (I have a weak memory, but still.)

fun 3rd

That’s a fun one. Big 4 over 3 lines but not how you’d think.

We have a rule that says flipping the puck out of the rink in the d-zone is an automatic penalty, even if by accident. And of course, flipping the puck out of the rink is no where near as consequential as hitting someone in the head. We could make a similar kind of rule for hitting guys in the...

It is reasonble to conjecture that in the long run more forechecking and hitting leads to more injuries but so far this season it is not clear to me that the injury problems are overly related: Probably Not Related: Knies -> he got hit in the head and would have regardless of the style of play...

But it was fun to watch the underdog win. Sad about Knies. Insane there was no penalty. Commentators are idiots.