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Seriously. The message they seem to be communicating is that everyone who uses the product is naive, self-important, humourless; and obnoxious as hell.

That was some of the worst puck luck I can remember seeing. The NHL is a frustrating league. Also I'm not totally convinced Matthews isn't still injured. He looks tentative.

Benching Nylander while giving Marleau (and Brown!) an automatic shift was dumb.

Marleau is a below average player and should be separated from Matthews. He is a giveaway machine at this point in his career. Leivo is a better and tougher player than Ennis, Lindholm, and probably Brown, and it was a mistake to get rid of him. On the plus side, Nylander looks a lot better...

The amount of interference run against Marner each game is out of control. What does he have to do to draw a penalty?

Sniped a nice goal in his first game as a Canuck. It still seems strange that we gave away a guy with his size, skill-set and strong possession numbers.

Strange that interference hasn?t been a penalty for the other team the past few seasons.

I like Leivo better than Ennis. He seems to understand the defensive game/positioning better and has used his body effectively, especially this year. That said, I understand the move.

Probably. I get that the theory is that you want to avoid anchoring the negotiations at your max offer too early, since the other side will expect movement to get a deal done. That said, experienced negotiators typically have a pretty good idea of what the number will look like after all the...

So I haven't been following this religiously. Do we think that Nylander's ask came down or Dubas' offer went up? Because this seems like the sort of deal that should have been available 6 months ago.

In what world is sitting out better for both sides than one year at, say, $7 million?

The Leafs are at home, which means they have forgotten they are allowed to skate with the puck under control.

So after one game of trying Kapenen on the power play, Babcock is  replacing him with Hyman. Remarkable.

I hate to say it, but I caught a bit of the Vancouver game and it was refreshing to see a team consistently attempt to leave their own zone and enter the opposing zone with possession, rather than having a set dump and chase (give away) play because "Hyman is an elite puck retriever".  It's...

The Leafs have been pretty brutal since Babcock announced to the league that he was going to start line-matching again. Slow starts, no sustained offence, barely any controlled zone entries, etc. It doesn?t look good on a coach when the team plays better on the road - when the coach has less...

I?ve heard some bad Jim Hughson calls, but that was one of the worst. He is awful.

I wonder if this is going to be another year where the Leafs face a lopsided penalty disparity in the other team?s favour. On a different note, the league seems to have figured out Babcock?s system. Offence/shots/possession have been hard to come by for a lot of games.

He was pretty bad for long stretches last year as well but this is next level bad. He seems to have nothing left in the tank.

Eh. I had recalled looking it up and seeing a CF% well under 50% but it turns out I misremembered and he's right around 50%. You live and you learn. I still think the third line would benefit from a more dynamic player than Brown, but obviously that's not a make or break thing for the team at...

To me, Brown looks like a career AHLer. Consistently terrible possession numbers, stone hands, below average speed and offence. He makes up for his faults slightly by having decent hockey intelligence, but doesn't really seem to have the skillset to match, unfortunately. The rest of the team...