Armchair GM Thread 2025/26

[Guru Tugginmypuddah]

Knies to Rinzel is more of a lateral move that opens up cap space, adds some real juice to the defense corps, and the prospect pipeline. If that’s indeed what CHI will overpay for Knies.

I mean that sounds great, but then the Leafs are left plugging holes in the top 6. I don't know much about Rinzel but sounds like a good swap. I would still tear it down.

Just watching the toilet seats decimate the Sabres. They had a few years of crap but wow what a team and only going to get better.

 

[Bender]

I mean that sounds great, but then the Leafs are left plugging holes in the top 6. I don't know much about Rinzel but sounds like a good swap. I would still tear it down.

Just watching the toilet seats decimate the Sabres. They had a few years of crap but wow what a team and only going to get better.

And that's what management fails to understand. The fans are ok with an unfinished work in progress. We won't stand for directionlessness or nonsensical paths. Give us something to hope and cheer for.

 

[Frank E]

The Leafs were 16th in GF in the league this season, and they were 31st in GA.

So they're going to need help on both sides of the puck.

 

[herman]

The improvement plan is to convert a surplus of scoring/attractive forwards into mobile two-way defensemen at the beginning of their development curves to enable the high end scoring talent (that we already have) to get the puck in offensive opportunities more frequently and catalyze depth scoring.

It is way easier to get complementary forwards than play driving defense. You get way more depth scoring from the bottom six if they are supported by puck moving defense.