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2025-2026 Off Season Thread - The Rehappening

Deckie007 said:
The thing with Vancouver, is the stuff outside Vancouver (the Island, Whistler, Squamish, plus some of my favourite drives I've ever done on the Island and the Sea to Sky) make the city itself just "Pretty Good". If we include that, then it's top tier easily.
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I found that with Phoenix. The city is such a dull, concrete shithole, but places outside of city limits are spectacular (Although NHl team is gone now).
Vancouver is definitely like that.
 
Why "O" Why would any Maple Leaf fan want rat boy on our team? He's been a dagger in our heart time and time again. He is nothing but bad mojo and would just be another anchor around the Leafs neck. Find someone younger without the baggage. I mean really?
 
Deckie007 said:
Way too late, but ranking the NHL Cities I've been to:

Top Tier
Denver
Tampa
Boston
Chicago

Pretty Good
Columbus
Pittsburgh
Minneapolis
Vancouver
Seattle

The burbs are nice?
Detroit

Oh no
Ottawa
Buffalo
Newark

I've been to Montreal and Miami, but not enough time spent to rate.
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Of the NHL cities I've been to, Buffalo is pretty bad. Detroit is probably worse, but I remember being in Buffalo and feeling myself getting physically depressed at the sight of it. But both cities are shitholes, even if the surrounding suburbs are quite nice.

New York is New York. Boston is Boston. Philly is Philly. DC is DC. If you can afford to live well, as NHL players can, they're all world class in their own way. Same with the San Francisco Bay area. I also quite like Seattle. It's like Vancouver only with better nightlife and more choice in sports teams.

Vegas, aside from The Strip, is basically a shithole in the middle of a desert.

I've been ti Hartford many times and as a city it's not big but it's in New England. It's mostly white, mostly affluent, and many guys who played for the Whalers, like Gordie Howe, loved living there and it's a hub of elite prep school hockey. During the 35 years my aunt lived there, she could go to on day trips to Red Sox games in Boston or the Metropolitan Opera in NYC. I'd sooner see the Whalers there than the Canes in a Redneckistan North Carolina full of FlyGuy's.

In Canada, I've never been to Winnipeg but I have been to Regina and Saskatoon so I would imagine it's like them: a shithole. I also saw the Nordiques play at Le Colisee. Great fan base but I dont see many players wanting to be there. Aside from the touristy part of town, Quebec City is just a Francophone Winnipeg, miles from anywhere.

Vancouver has it's charms and if you can afford it, you can live extremely well there. Ottawa is probably the only place in Ontario Id consider moving to, mostly because it's only a 90 minute drive from Montreal and close to the Rideau Valley.

Edmonton and Calgary are mid. Like a Canadian version of Minneapolis, St. Louis, or Columbus. They neither please nor offend. They are the lowest taxed jurisdiction in the country so there's that.

I cant be impartial to Montreal or Toronto. If you like big city life and the media fishbowl, great. But there are other, better big cities with lower taxes, nicer weather, and no media fishbowls in the US.
 
GeneralT001 said:
Why "O" Why would any Maple Leaf fan want rat boy on our team? He's been a dagger in our heart time and time again. He is nothing but bad mojo and would just be another anchor around the Leafs neck. Find someone younger without the baggage. I mean really?
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Agreed. This reminds me.of when the Habs got Doug Gilmour. Same vibe.
 
Leafin' said:
Talking about Tanev. Or Jeannot.

Tired of wasting cap and draft picks on shit 4th line non difference makers.

The Laughton deal should be a fireable offense. You pay a 1st for a player like Konecny, not a scrub like Laughton.
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Imagine we had been patient the last bunch of seasons and didn't fire all of our mid round picks down a hole for shitty #6-7 defenders at the deadline and had landed Marchment for fucking nothing yesterday?

Every off season there are GM's up against the cap who send good players out the door for very fucking little in return because cap space is an asset.
 
MindzEye said:
Imagine we had been patient the last bunch of seasons and didn't fire all of our mid round picks down a hole for shitty #6-7 defenders at the deadline and had landed Marchment for fucking nothing yesterday?

Every off season there are GM's up against the cap who send good players out the door for very fucking little in return because cap space is an asset.
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Its possible Leafs matched this but Nill wanted to do right by Marchment and send him to no tax state.

Also possible they have no picks to trade
 
Leafin' said:
Talking about Tanev. Or Jeannot.

Tired of wasting cap and draft picks on shit 4th line non difference makers.

The Laughton deal should be a fireable offense. You pay a 1st for a player like Konecny, not a scrub like Laughton.
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It's killing us spending assets on useless grinders that do nothing in the playoffs.
Brandon Tanev fills 0 need on the Leafs.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
Of the NHL cities I've been to, Buffalo is pretty bad. Detroit is probably worse, but I remember being in Buffalo and feeling myself getting physically depressed at the sight of it. But both cities are shitholes, even if the surrounding suburbs are quite nice.

New York is New York. Boston is Boston. Philly is Philly. DC is DC. If you can afford to live well, as NHL players can, they're all world class in their own way. Same with the San Francisco Bay area. I also quite like Seattle. It's like Vancouver only with better nightlife and more choice in sports teams.

Vegas, aside from The Strip, is basically a shithole in the middle of a desert.

I've been ti Hartford many times and as a city it's not big but it's in New England. It's mostly white, mostly affluent, and many guys who played for the Whalers, like Gordie Howe, loved living there and it's a hub of elite prep school hockey. During the 35 years my aunt lived there, she could go to on day trips to Red Sox games in Boston or the Metropolitan Opera in NYC. I'd sooner see the Whalers there than the Canes in a Redneckistan North Carolina full of FlyGuy's.

In Canada, I've never been to Winnipeg but I have been to Regina and Saskatoon so I would imagine it's like them: a shithole. I also saw the Nordiques play at Le Colisee. Great fan base but I dont see many players wanting to be there. Aside from the touristy part of town, Quebec City is just a Francophone Winnipeg, miles from anywhere.

Vancouver has it's charms and if you can afford it, you can live extremely well there. Ottawa is probably the only place in Ontario Id consider moving to, mostly because it's only a 90 minute drive from Montreal and close to the Rideau Valley.

Edmonton and Calgary are mid. Like a Canadian version of Minneapolis, St. Louis, or Columbus. They neither please nor offend. They are the lowest taxed jurisdiction in the country so there's that.

I cant be impartial to Montreal or Toronto. If you like big city life and the media fishbowl, great. But there are other, better big cities with lower taxes, nicer weather, and no media fishbowls in the US.
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I agree about Hartford. very underrated city and Howard Stern's favourite place he worked aside from New York.

Nashville is fantastic and I hate country music.
 
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