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The core gets one more shot with a coach who doesn’t absolutely suck the life out of the game - especially considering they don’t have their own 1st rounder in two of the next three drafts. Blowing it up more just means giving Philly and Boston great picks.

Assuming the cap continues to rise, I think the tax thing will start to become less of an issue. More and more teams won't be able to afford to push their cap close to the ceiling. But, I'm with you. There should be some sort of mechanism to even the playing field tax-wise. I don't know if...

Even if there is, it won’t be enough to change their reality. They’re not making the playoffs and they’re not finishing bottom 5.

Can you fire a coach mid game? It’s beyond time and that was an awful awful period

Retool, not rebuild. Move out as many of the secondary and depth pieces as you can. Change the coach and GM. Keep the core, for now, but rethink the rest. It’s not working as is.

Sell mode activated? Time for a full scale retool.

Without serious lottery luck, the 1st rounder is gone. The odds of them getting into the top 5 pre-lottery are about the same as them making the playoffs. That being said, the next week or so needs to be a rough one in terms of their results to really spur a sell off at the deadline...

I don't think we're getting a new GM before the season ends, at the earliest.

That was very much a “I feel obligated to do this but I don’t really want to” handshake

It grazed him, but he absolutely sold it.

Squeaker

Czechia is a sneaky good team. Don't have the depth some other countries do, but excellent goaltending and enough firepower to keep themselves in games. They're a bit of an under the radar medal threat.

Every playoff team in the East would be leading the Pathetic . . . I mean Pacific division. It's nuts how top-heavy the West is and how balanced the East is.

I think we probably need to come to terms with the fact that, without serious lottery luck, the Leafs aren't getting their pick back this year. Even before these two wins, their odds of getting into the bottom 5 were only slightly higher than their odds of making the playoffs. So, let's rack up...

I'd bring him in in some sort of player development role, but that's probably it.

He's become their 3rd string goalie behind Jarry and Ingram. This is jsut roster management.

I know Rielly was never great defensively, but he’s been so much worse these last two years.

Who isn’t in the market for those things, really? Every team could use more top end talent. It wouldn’t shock me if the Leafs sold some sort term pieces and bought a longer term one or two. Sometimes, the deadline creates opportunities that you need to take advantage of.

I think less Pelley involvement is better than more of it, considering his track record. The team would be well served bringing in someone to takeover some of Shanahan's duties and to act as a buffer between the board/Pelley and the GM.

To be fair, to some degree, this is a league-wide issue. Player for player trades that actually have an impact have become more and more rare. If there's a player with any real value getting moved, it's almost always for prospects/young players/futures. The "hockey trade" is a dying breed, in...