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2023-24 Toronto Maple Leafs General Discussion

If Lily and McCabe are both hurt the Leafs would have to send Holmberg down and play with a roster short a forward and with the teams #8 and #9 defenceman in the line-up tomorrow. So yeah hopefully one or both of them are good to go.
 
Marner can pretend to PK all the time.

Jarnkrok ? Tavares ? Nylander // All the Ozone starts
Knies ? Matthews ? Bertuzzi  // All the other Ozone starts and all the forechecking
Domi ? K?mpf ? Marner // the Dzone starts
Gregor ? Holmberg ? Unmentionable
 
Timmins will be eligible to come off LTIR starting at this Saturday's game. But since there hasn't been any word on him resuming skating yet feels safe to say he'll be out for additional time.
 
Succinct analysis, as always
https://x.com/frankcorrado22/status/1719032205467361523
(warning: audio loud)
 
https://x.com/apetrielli/status/1719058535906967998
https://x.com/theoakleafs/status/1717001343401861547
At some point, we have to start asking why William Nylander isn?t playing more and also why he isn?t playing more with their best center at five-on-five.
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Well?
 
herman said:
https://twitter.com/apetrielli/status/1719058535906967998
https://twitter.com/theoakleafs/status/1717001343401861547
At some point, we have to start asking why William Nylander isn?t playing more and also why he isn?t playing more with their best center at five-on-five.
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Well?
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I'm not sure if this is where you're going, but Tavares is indeed 2 points ahead of Matthews in EVP this season.

You could argue that maybe they move Marner to Tavares' wing to get Marner going.
 
I know why Keefe is reluctant to swap them: Matthews-Marner are reliable in the DZ and this year?s roster is bereft of his usual safety blankets. Kampf starting with Reaves really put the DZ draw burden solely on Matthews. More time defending means fewer reps getting their OZ engine revved up.

The top line struggle has been papered over by the Tavares line rejuvenation. They?re letting Nylander carry the mail, rather than much of the last few seasons where Tavares got it in his head to try out his refined skating mechanics and trucked pucks into 1v3s for like 5 turnovers a night.

Bertuzzi should probably just stick with Tavares. They play at the same speed (clunky, but puck strong), and prefer to make plays out of chaos. Nylander doesn?t care what his linemates do offensively because he can either solo or just play off whatever they do.

Stylistically, Knies is the best LW match for Matthews and Marner, but it?s a bit early to foist those additional responsibilities on him (I think he gets there by December).
 
https://x.com/jonkeennlsports/status/1719059494972645695
The Leafs are good eggs

Is Tavares that much smaller?
 
I never understood why the tradition is to make rookies pay.  Let the guys making insane dough pick it up.
 
I think Knies absolutely has the potential to be a solid penalty killing option at some point, but maybe it's a little early in his career to be throwing him into those minutes. He's been on the ice for 4 goals in just over 8 minutes of PK time. That's a GA/60 of 28.46, which is more than any other player in the league who has played 8+ PK minutes. There's probably some noise/small sample stuff at work there, I highly doubt he continues to get scored on at that rate. But there has been times where his inexperienced has shown on the PK for sure.

I get trying him in those minutes because of his potential and the lack of other options, but with Holmberg in the line-up now he should be able to handle those secondary PK minutes and if not I'm pretty unsure what the point of Pontus Holmberg is.

Knies should also be getting PP2 time over Jarnkrok, it's actually kinda baffling that hasn't been happening this season.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
I think Knies absolutely has the potential to be a solid penalty killing option at some point, but maybe it's a little early in his career to be throwing him into those minutes. He's been on the ice for 4 goals in just over 8 minutes of PK time. That's a GA/60 of 28.46, which is more than any other player in the league who has played 8+ PK minutes. There's probably some noise/small sample stuff at work there, I highly doubt he continues to get scored on at that rate. But there has been times where his inexperienced has shown on the PK for sure.

I get trying him in those minutes because of his potential and the lack of other options, but with Holmberg in the line-up now he should be able to handle those secondary PK minutes and if not I'm pretty unsure what the point of Pontus Holmberg is.

Knies should also be getting PP2 time over Jarnkrok, it's actually kinda baffling that hasn't been happening this season.
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Yes to all of this.

I think he hasn't gotten PP2 yet because a) learning PK, and b) he occupies a similar niche to Bertuzzi, who they are trying to get going. Jarnkrok has a sick shot (if he gets the time), is one of the puck carriers on that unit (alongside Domi), and adds the right handedness they would otherwise only have Liljegren for. Knies would only account for the shooting threat.
 
Not that it's going to happen, but is there any creative way to get rid of Reaves?
 
Arn said:
Not that it's going to happen, but is there any creative way to get rid of Reaves?
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Well you could easily waive him and get dinged with only a $200k cap hit. Replacing him with a Gambrell or McMann or Robertson or Steeves would then still you give enough cap space to keep Timmins as the 21st roster player once he's healthy. A trade option is probably non-existent right now. I'm sure there's teams out there that would have some interest in Reaves but that 3rd year on the contract likely scares everyone off unless you're dealing him for a different bad contract.

I'm incredibly doubtful that Treliving admits defeat on this move at any point in the first year of the contract though.
 
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