Leafs 2024-2025 Season Thread

[mellowjello]

IMHO, if the Leafs have a poor playoff showing this year, both Marner and Tavares are gone for sure!! Probably Shanahan will be gone as well. I think the Leafs have to at least get to the 3rd round of the playoffs, in order for the season to be a success.

Good news is that Tavares' 7yr contract finally expires at the end of this season. So the Leafs can use Tavares' approx $11 million/yr salary against the cap, to get in some more players. Also, the Leafs just might have to let Marner walk, if Marner's contract demands are too greedy. if Marner tanks this season in the playoffs, like he usually does, then it will be easier on the Leaf fans when Treliving decides not to sign Marner to a huge contract extension etc

I still like Marner, believe it or not he is the most productive player point wise than any of the other top guys. I think he gets flack because he doesn't produce at reg season level.
He also brings a lot of other things to the table that don't show up on the score sheet.
Having said that, I agree that if he wants to hold a gun to management's head at contract time, he can go.
I've had enough of players draining every nickel they can at the expense of building a balanced team, especially when they got paid top dollar at RFA
and they've been treated like royalty by management.

 

[roddermac]

I still like Marner, believe it or not he is the most productive player point wise than any of the other top guys. I think he gets flack because he doesn't produce at reg season level.
He also brings a lot of other things to the table that don't show up on the score sheet.
Having said that, I agree that if he wants to hold a gun to management's head at contract time, he can go.
I've had enough of players draining every nickel they can at the expense of building a balanced team, especially when they got paid top dollar at RFA
and they've been treated like royalty by management.

He's the top free agent on the market this off season with a rising cap over the next 2 years. There will be a bidding war for him so let them overpay. I say he ends up a Bruin.

 

[mellowjello]

He's the top free agent on the market this off season with a rising cap over the next 2 years. There will be a bidding war for him so let them overpay. I say he ends up a Bruin.

I don't know if he's a Bruin type of player, unless they're planning to move in a different direction from
the lunch pail style of hockey they've played forever.
Yea, if he tries to drag the Leafs into a long grind negotiation they can all go fuck off.
And then listen to how this is the only place they want to play and that they left money on the table to stay here.
I haven't got the stomach for this shit anymore.

 

[roddermac]

I don't know if he's a Bruin type of player, unless they're planning to move in a different direction from
the lunch pail style of hockey they've played forever.
Yea, if he tries to drag the Leafs into a long grind negotiation they can all go fuck off.
And then listen to how this is the only place they want to play and that they left money on the table to stay here.
I haven't got the stomach for this shit anymore.

He's isn't the Beantown tough guy but neither is Pasta. The one thing the Bruins desperately need is a center to pair with him. They thought Lindholm would be that but he isn't. A play maker like Marner with speed and a natural scorer like Pasternak with speed would be lethal. Zacha would move to the wing. I don't think Treliving would allow it to drag out. He saw what Colorado was able to do with the extra cap space by moving Rantenan.