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2025-26 Toronto Maple Leafs General Discussion

Was surprised to see that Maccelli is tied for 1st on the team in 5-on-5 points over the past 20 games with 8 (tied with Matthews and Domi). That probably says a lot more about how everyone is struggling to score (and that we miss Nylander whenever he's hurt) but still nice to see him producing more than he first did. Since he got back into the line-up after his 3-week benching he's had 18 points in 29 games, that's a 50-point pace at mostly even strength. He's also had the best xGF% on the team in that span by a pretty considerable margin.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Was surprised to see that Maccelli is tied for 1st on the team in 5-on-5 points over the past 20 games with 8 (tied with Matthews and Domi). That probably says a lot more about how everyone is struggling to score (and that we miss Nylander whenever he's hurt) but still nice to see him producing more than he first did. Since he got back into the line-up after his 3-week benching he's had 18 points in 29 games, that's a 50-point pace at mostly even strength. He's also had the best xGF% on the team in that span by a pretty considerable margin.
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So you're saying the Leafs can trade him? 😃

Maccelli has played better lately. Still don't want him on the team next season.
 
dappleganger said:
This team was never built right. Every GM has gotten it wrong. They were always going to struggle to win in the playoffs with the likes of Holl, Dermott, Lyubushkin, Edmundson, Liljegren, Gustafsson, Benoit, Marincin, Barrie, Zaitsev, Hunwick, Carrick.

Every season at least 1/3 of the D-core in the playoffs were below average players except last year. It was never good enough. Needed 6 competent D, never had it.
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Maybe you forgot but I wonder why you left out the best 2 D men Dubas acquired in Muzzin and Brodie. Both were very good for the Leafs. One year they had Brodie, Muzz, Rielly, Bogosian, Holl, Dermott, with youngsters Sandin, Liljegren. That's a pretty good D core.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Dubois injuring Muzzin was basically the beginning of the end for this group. We probably win 3 Stanley Cups if that doesn't happen (kidding, kinda).
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I honestly feel that the thing that stopped the Leafs from winning at least one cup in the last 60 years was Marion Hossa taking out Bryan Berard's eye. He was a 1st overall d-man, and I think he had the ability to win a Norris. It was one of those deals where I felt the Leafs stole a player from the Islanders because they gave up on him too soon. It was the reverse Leaf in that case.
 
Guilt Trip said:
Maybe you forgot but I wonder why you left out the best 2 D men Dubas acquired in Muzzin and Brodie. Both were very good for the Leafs. One year they had Brodie, Muzz, Rielly, Bogosian, Holl, Dermott, with youngsters Sandin, Liljegren. That's a pretty good D core.
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I was listing all the below average d-man the Leafs utilized in the playoffs over the last 9 years (Not the good D they had). Holl, Dermott, Liljegren were not good, or at least, not good enough.
 
The Devils just waived Maxim Tsyplakov. He's had an absolutely dreadful year this year and has a 2.25M cap hit next year. The free agency options really aren't great and there is probably a non-zero chance that he just goes back to Russia anyway. Maybe worth a gamble...risky though.
 
L K said:
The Devils just waived Maxim Tsyplakov. He's had an absolutely dreadful year this year and has a 2.25M cap hit next year. The free agency options really aren't great and there is probably a non-zero chance that he just goes back to Russia anyway. Maybe worth a gamble...risky though.
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There might be NCAA free agents that would be attracted to burning that first ELC year, so I'd leave some space for them
 
I think the Leafs screwed up deadline day. I don't think there are any dance partners left. I hate that we have such incompetent management.
 
rdowdall said:
I think the Leafs screwed up deadline day. I don't think there are any dance partners left. I hate that we have such incompetent management.
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With retention any team could fit McMann or Laughton. Probably a lot of teams don't see themselves as real contenders. Let's see where this goes.
 
dappleganger said:
With retention any team could fit McMann or Laughton. Probably a lot of teams don't see themselves as real contenders. Let's see where this goes.
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Yeah I think it's early yet. However I also think this front office has shown that they aren't that creative. Let's see if they bother to use retention to get more back. I wonder if they dont tear it down to the studs because they want to try and compete next year.

Also.... How is Berube still coaching this team?
 
It’s actually incredible how much they’ve screwed this up… and how they are seemingly potentially on the verge of being about to screw it even more.

The level of incompetence is staggering.

I mean we all said months ago the GM and coach should be gone. The ONLY possible reason that might possibly have made keeping them make sense was for a sell off. A sell off that put them in a better position for the future.

They could be in a WORSE position.
 
Arn said:
It’s actually incredible how much they’ve screwed this up… and how they are seemingly potentially on the verge of being about to screw it even more.

The level of incompetence is staggering.

I mean we all said months ago the GM and coach should be gone. The ONLY possible reason that might possibly have made keeping them make sense was for a sell off. A sell off that put them in a better position for the future.

They could be in a WORSE position.
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If you take the last 60 years as a whole, this may be the worst run franchise in the history of sports.
 
rdowdall said:
If you take the last 60 years as a whole, this may be the worst run franchise in the history of sports.
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Hard to argue. But what makes it so sad at the minute is it felt like they’d turned a corner for a while.

They just seem to be paralysed now. Afraid to do anything. Afraid to actually acknowledge their situation. That goes back to probably before Marner’s NTC kicked in but has gotten worse especially this season.
 
L K said:
I have no idea why you think they screwed this up. This is literally every single deadline. Deadline day moves don't happen until like noon
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I think the dance partners have dried up, at least for the ones that would take on McMann, Laughton, and OEL. Plus there is still guys like Thomas, Trocheck, and Wright out there. To me, it looks like they overplayed their hand, and what is going to happen is that they fail to move the guys, and then they overpay them because the player has all the leverage at that point, so we just keep trotting the same garbage out next year.
 
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