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Tavares is a beauty, first class all the way.

He also had the highest 5v5 on-ice SH% in the entire league. Something tells me that won’t be sustainable.

Sure but Florida could only add Marchand because they were way over the cap. Short of the Leafs doing that there’s no way they can compete with that on a third line. Florida’s 4th line all made under $900k. Leafs can make better bets there.

I mean it kind of depends on whether they can improve their play controlling vs last season. They won a ton of 1-goal games last season and it’s possible a bunch of those games flip the other way next season with some worse luck.

He has to after praising Berube and Treliving all season for their moves and saying how great this team was.

For reminder, here’s the murderers row of goalies signed as UFA that summer: Mrazek (3 x $3.8m) Frederik Andersen (2 x $4.5m) Brian Elliott (1 x $900K) Antti Raanta (2 x $4m) Jaroslav Halak (1 x $1.5m) Braden Holtby (1 x $2m) Martin Jones (1 x $2m) Laurent Brossoit (2 x $2.33m) James Reimer (2...

Yeah I mean he’s a 21 year old who’s been passed over in the draft (twice?) and plays on a powerhouse team. I don’t think it’s anything worth worrying about.

I took that to mean that they feel he’s taken too much of the blame from the fans/media and doesn’t want to deal with that in Toronto anymore.

It blows my mind that these Oilers rosters have made two straight Finals.

Here’s what Mirtle wrote at the time: Jarmo Kekalainen gave a quote at the time: “$3.8 million for a first-round pick? No thank you.” I think the reality is Marleau would only go to one place - San Jose. Any team trading for him would have to buy him out and eat that cap space and the actual...

I did provide a counterpoint. You don’t agree with it and that’s fine. None of us had a crystal ball to know how it would ultimately play out. I’m comfortable in the knowledge they bet on 3 of the most talented players they’ve ever had. I can’t say moving one of them would have lead to better...

If you take the three seasons prior to this last one as an example, when together at 5v5 the Leafs had 61% of the goals with those two on the ice together in over 2000 minutes. To me that is elite, elite production, probably among the tops in the league for comparable minutes. I could buy a...

Do you have any evidence to back up that they looked more dangerous apart than together?

After seeing Edmonton in the final with Jack Campbell, Cody Ceci and Darnell Nurse taking up over $17 million in cap space, I don’t take it seriously that they couldn’t have won with this cap allocation, the players just needed to be stars in the playoffs and they weren’t.

I mean they had 11 different goal scorers in that series. They lost because, among other things, Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner and Zach Hyman combined for 2 goals total. Leafs actually outscored Montreal by 4 goals in that series (lol). It’s hard for me to buy that a team lost because of lack...

Having concerns is not the same thing as knowing it can’t or won’t work. Like I’ve previously said, in almost every other teams case, their regular season success is a predictor of some sort of playoff success, whether that is multiple round wins or whether it’s the Cup. Sustained regular season...

To add some more context to this, he also had the lowest offensive zone start % of his career.

Well we’re looking at it with hindsight now as not working, but they put up seasons of 115 and 111 points in that time. I know I fully expected the stars to eventually get them over the hump.

I don’t know, did any other teams sign four highly paid players like the Leafs did between July 1, 2018 and Sept 13, 2019 -aka the last one being signed 6 months before the league shut down due to the pandemic. You could not have it happen any worse for the Leafs. All of these contracts would...

At the time I think it was Mirtle said the Leafs and Rodrigues couldn’t agree on a number so presumably he was looking for more from the Leafs, otherwise they would have had him signed had it been for that amount.