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I’d argue they were moreso flat cap casualties, as all or a couple of them would have likely been re-signed had the cap not gone unprecedentedly flat for years on end. The salary cap increased between 2023-24 and 2024-25 by more than it did between the entirety of 2018-19 and 2023-24. No...

Could’ve signed him when the Blackhawks released him. But at that time I think Spezza was the more comparable player for old guy who can still produce.

My job here is done lol It’s honestly amazing how they’ve lost some of these series, it defies logic in some cases. That Montreal one might be the prime example. But it often feels like if there’s luck involved they get the bad luck every time. I honestly don’t know what the answer is and I...

Referring specifically to that Montreal series I don’t think the numbers bear out that they were only taking a lot of perimeter shots. The numbers would show you that they were getting the high danger attempts, they just weren’t going in. I think one of the biggest falsehoods of the previous...

Great, now I’m remembering the OT vs Montreal where they had the first 12 shots or something and then Montreal comes down and scores on a random wrister from distance. Just Leafs things.

I mean I don’t think they’re the only successful team in the league to play a style similar to that, but I think they’ve probably had the least amount of success. But I still think the point stands that it would have been reasonable to expect that a successful regular season team would translate...

I dunno, the one thing I keep coming back to in my head is that regular season success seems to lead to postseason success for basically every other team except for the Leafs for some reason. This was a team that set a couple of franchise records for regular season success, and I think in...

It boggles my mind that they gave Marner an incredibly team friendly deal and gave him every opportunity he could want with the team, despite the fact his side negotiated through the media, threatened about offer sheets, threatened to play overseas, refused to negotiate in-season this past year...

I mean, James Mirtle reported on the Leaf Report Podcasg around the time of the Rantanen proposed trade that the Leafs had offered Marner a big contract and were frustrated that he wasn’t signed yet.

Any chance you know his stats in games 5-7 of a series?

I don’t read anything in that quote that says the GM is “kicking around trading Marner”, it’s about as generic a quote from a GM as you can get.

I feel like people need to temper expectations on Cowan - putting up these numbers in a D+2 season on a great team doesn’t mean a ton to me tbh. He might be a late bloomer or maybe there’s context to his younger production, but I’ve seen a lot about his production from fans as if it means he’ll...

I felt like I was taking crazy pills at points this season with the talk of how great their defensive play was. The Leafs in 2021-22 had the 8th best PK and the next season the 12th best. But based on this season you’d think their PK had been terrible for years and years. Keefe never got 1/10...

Gotta say I would have preferred the trade Edmonton made for Walman over the one the Leafs made for Carlo.

I personally do not want more big, slow defensemen who cannot move the puck up ice effectively against a strong forecheck.

I’d also add that Marner’s regular seasons are a significant part of the reason we even get to have these complaints about the playoffs, compared to somewhere like Buffalo as an extreme example. Maybe the Leafs just got unlucky drafting two superstars who are exceptions to the playoff rule for...

Yet I thought (with the exception of last season) that generally the 2022-2023 iterations of the Leafs were strong defensively they just never got the credit for it that the underlying numbers suggested.

But almost all the top playoff teams are also great possession teams. Part of why Florida beat the Leafs is they had the puck the vast majority of the time and anytime the Leafs had it all they could do was ice it or dump it out to centre.

Seemed like he was set up to fail. Edit: Though after looking into it more, his most common linemate in Philly seems to have been Travis Konecny so that makes me slightly less impressed with him putting up low end 3rd liner points at 5v5.

The caveat with those points being he did that with over 1:00 of PP time a game and anywhere from 2-5 more minutes played per game. Which he’s unlikely to get in Toronto.