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Then again their 1st rounder in 2020 literally died.

He was hired in April 2015 and left around May 2018. So here are their draft picks in that time that have become NHLers: 2015: Mitch Marner Travis Dermott 2016: Auston Matthews Carl Grundstrom Joseph Woll 2017: Timothy Liljegren Not including him for the 2018 draft because he left before...

Yup - and he very well might be another exception to the rule! Or might be just like Rinne or Lundqvist or Luongo, all great HHOF goalies who declined into their later 30s and either no longer were the full time starters or became just league average.

I gotta say this signing concerns me. There are basically 2 goalies in NHL history (or at least any recent history) who have ever been above average/good at age 38 or older - Belfour and Hasek, and nobody really in like 20 years. So it makes me think - Bobrovsky is great, but there have been...

They have around ~27 million of cap space right now and no one to really even spend most of that on anyway. How much more do they need??

But there’s no guarantee (as we’ve seen right now) that pivoting off one of the star forwards means a better team. It would mean a different team, but not necessarily better. And while they were overpaid relative to their peers, they consistently produced and I’d argue that the Leafs, at least...

This is what it looks like when the SH% regresses.

This is a tough watch.

That’s the one! I haven’t looked into it enough to see if the timelines match up or what.

There was a play a few seasons back where he fell and slammed his back into the boards. I swear he’s never been the same since. I can’t find the clip right now.

Does he think we couldn’t see him screaming at the team about having 1 shot on goal?

Except that the underlying numbers suggest his defensive game has fallen off a cliff this season as well. See here:

Seems to always be an excuse this year.

Jarry has been hot and cold for years now, just as likely he’ll fall off this season as there is that Skinner will pick it up. Pittsburgh also had three young goalies who will need to get some NHL opportunity soon, and Skinner’s deal comes off the books at the end of the season. Feel like it’s...

Hopefully it’ll at least give them some confidence and it will translate into what I think is a more sustainable way of playing/winning.

Really? To me they still got dominated in shots, attempts, scoring chances, etc, even when score adjusted. Pittsburgh’s goalies were brutal. I did not think that game reflected the score. And that’s against what I think is a very meh team. Can’t keep playing like this against better teams.

The team is playing slow but it’s possible they could play faster. Dom at The Athletic had an article recently showing how certain teams increased their team speed year over year with a new coach, so it seems like to some degree it’s a choice.

Look how many picks Tampa has dealt over the past decade and they’re still doing well. Probably the last impact player they’ve drafted is Ross Colton almost a decade ago. It’s not about trading or not trading picks or prospects. And almost every top team does that to try to improve. Lots of the...

He’s 31, has what 6 points in 33 games with the Leafs - trade him if you can get anything for him.

Not sure how anyone can watch this team and still support employing this coaching staff. Or GM.