Clark

So Scott Laughton numbers

I think it broke Marner

So like three days after the season ends instead of immediately?

Berglund

They have to give up 2 of the next 3 firsts.

The pick is top 10 protected.

Berube and Treliving should have been fired a month ago before the Olympic break, but at this point the Leafs’ goal should be to grind as hard as they can to mitigate the draft pick they hand to Boston this summer.

Then bring in a new GM and coach to mini-tank for a high 2027 pick.

And a lot of the reason they play joyless hockey is because of the coach that he picked.

I think the Marner situation was kind of out of his hands because Shanahan decided on this insane approach.

His signings have ranged from fine to disaster, and trading scarce assets for nominal upgrades on Kampf and McCabe was inexcusable.

The team is older and slower and they play joyless hockey

He only judges people the way he would judge himself.

Which I guess means he has no standards?

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Kid’s team got Hellebuyck’ed in U11 house league.

Outshot the other team 29-7. Lost 2-1

Also how about fuck what Matt Yglesias wants

There was like a week or so in 2019 I think

That Kloke piece said if he played in more than 16 of the teams last 20 games he was ineligible.

The Seattle game at the start of the road trip was his 17th and he hasn’t played since.

Handed an absolute gift to do a hard reset on the franchise leading up to the deadline without having to worry about managing the grind of the regular season schedule, and everybody fucked off to the beach. What a joke of a franchise.

Not firing Berube (and Tre for that matter) as soon as the Olympic break started and using the month of February to get people in place to set your new franchise direction is inexcusable.

I’ll listen to arguments about playing a regular shift in the NHL and earning more time vs. playing in the NHL.

But to not send him down so he could keep playing over the break, but then also playing him one game to ensure he wasn’t eligible to do so and then scratch him is malpractice.

Just to crunch some numbers on this.

Of the Leafs last 20 games before the break, Cowan played in all of the first 16, mostly playing around 10-11 minutes.

He played 9:44 in Seattle then didn’t play the rest of the road trip.

9:44 of NHL time in a month instead of 8 games in the AHL. Awful.

That was a fun brief window when this team was managed competently.

The answer will be “I’m not sure. Let me look into that.”

Reality is likely in between where his actual play by the numbers isn’t a flattering picture but also this stupid organization loves to pigeonhole a player projection and then get super mad when the guy turns out to be something different.

That’s just Tkachuk’s pre-game nap routine

If they admit they failed, people who have only worked in hockey in their life could be briefly inconvenienced by not having a job for 6-12 months until another team hires them, and nobody wants that.

How do these people function?

The only fundamental difference is Trump’s not gonna invite Canada’s team if they win, so people have plausible deniability that Canadian players wouldn’t be doing the same thing.

Tage and the Sabres are meant for each other, because neither of them seem to be able to figure things out after January 6th

They’re trying to PR their way to a Seymour Skinner “I was only there so I could ask for directions for how to leave” answer and that strategy is just not working.

Enough of this half pregnant shit. Own your opinions or fuck off.

Either own that you have the self-awareness of a fly and accept that people are furious at you, and stop pretending you don’t know why.

OR

Accept that life exists outside of your hockey bubble and act accordingly.

Seravelli