who gives a crap, Leafs Sucks. overpaid bums don't win cup
Matthew Tkachuk atleast can go deep in the playoffs
Leafs '22/'23 Thread
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Matthew Tkachuk atleast can go deep in the playoffs
I really think the Leafs should trade Marner. Marner has always been an awful playoff performer. They should also trade Nylander, as well. IMHO, break up the, "core four," once and for all!!
Let's talk about the goaltending. In the Matthews era and we could even include the 7 game series when Reimer was in net, at no time did the Leafs have the better goaltending other than this year's round 1 against TB when Vasilevsky was terrible for the most part.
The one and only time the Leafs had the better goaltending was the one and only time they won the series.
In every series they lost Leafs goaltending was either clearly inferior or definitely not better.
The one and only time the Leafs had the better goaltending was the one and only time they won the series.
In every series they lost Leafs goaltending was either clearly inferior or definitely not better.
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I think you could say that about any team in any playoffs.
I think the Leafs tandem next year will have to be Woll and Murray. UFA Samsonov did well to raise his value this year and should get a good contract offer from someone, one that the Leafs would have difficulty matching. Even if he came back he is not assured the number 1 position. Unfortunately, they are stuck with Murray due to his contract.
Yes you could but that's precisely my point. If Leafs had the better goaltending they would have won some of those but they didn't.
We're talking about Holtby (in his prime), Rask, Korpisalo (who was fantasic in 2020 playoffs), Price, Bobrovsky, and Vasilevsky.
Dubas banked on Murray being that guy this year so I can see Murray Woll being the tandem next year.
I don't think Samsonov is the guy regardless. I think Woll is better than Samsonov but he's young and inexperienced.
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Right on!!! If we go back even further, ironically Murray was once that guy.
The Leafs will probably try and get rid of Murray. Similar to how they got rid of Mrazek, last year. Murray will probably be injured all of next year, anyway!!
I also hear the Marlies cleaned house as well, head coach and his two assistants have been let go.
In fairness, there aren't a lot of players who make that kind of money. For example here are the players that currently make $10 million or over per season
Connor McDavid $12,500,000
Artemi Panarin $11,642,857
Auston Matthews $11,640,250
John Tavares $11,000,000
Mitchell Marner $10,903,000
Aleksander Barkov $10,000,000
In 2023-24 Nathan MacKinnon will become the new highest paid player in the league with an AAV of $12,600,000. He was making $6,300,000 per season when they won the Cup.
Tampa Bay has 3 players that make $9,500,000 per season - Nikita Kucherov, Brayden Point and Andrei Vasilevskiy. Two others make $8,500,000 - Steven Stamkos and Mikhail Sergachev. That's $45,500,000 tied up in 5 players.
Sounds like they had every intention to bring back Dubas but Dubas tried to pull a negotiating ploy the core 4 used on him by asking for more money and it was only then that Shanny told him to take a hike.
There is two potential scenarios here, that are both quite plausible. (#2 was where my mind went too as I was hearing the presser, but I can see #1 as just as likely)
1) Dubas overplayed his hand (your perspective) - As you mentioned, and as I saw in a tweet fiom Seravelli, Dubas overplayed his hand using the press conference as a bargaining chip.
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2) Dubas showed weakness in the presser and Shanahan didn't like it. Dubas' presser was not a bargaining chip, just a made who was being honest, tired out and needed time to think. Shanahan was concerned about that weakness moving forward, and whether Dubas came back a few days later as committed became irrelevant.
