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Around the League 2019-2026 Edition

Preston said:

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I don't remember Bonnie being anything but a lovely person who loved watching her son play.

The father and son duo though? Stay in that vapid fuck hole of a city and leave us out of your bullshit pls. No amount of cranky Internet posts are going to change the narrative on Mitch's time in Toronto. He failed because he failed, that's it
 
and yeah, people outside this market were screaming the core 4 could never work and one or more needed to be traded for eons.

to come back now with "oh Leaf fans, now look at Marner, look how stupid you are" is the height of dishonesty.
 
Really as the cap went up we just needed to be aggressive in adding more and more skill every time it became available.

Instead we caved to the moar leaderbeans bozos.
 
How bad is the Avs collapse?

If I would have told you that the Habs would go deeper into the playoffs in March you would have called me nuts. Even if I am nuts.

What a collapse.
 
Habsy said:
How bad is the Avs collapse?

If I would have told you that the Habs would go deeper into the playoffs in March you would have called me nuts. Even if I am nuts.

What a collapse.
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Pretty bad but not as epic as the '23 Bruins. The salt mining after that one, as a Bruins hater, was spectacular.
 
hockeylover said:
Really as the cap went up we just needed to be aggressive in adding more and more skill every time it became available.

Instead we caved to the moar leaderbeans bozos.
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We also went all in too quickly imo. I've said my piece on signing Tavares, so I'll leave that where it is, but the idea of signing Marleau and then having to give up a 1st to get out of our cap crunch was dumb. There appears to have been zero thought given to just how long of a fucking window we had to organically grow a winner when we had these guys all together at 20-21 yrs old and already very good. Then the dumb ass Foligno trade. Having either of Seth Jarvis or Dylan Holloway around the last few seasons would have been pretty nice when we've had a chronic lack of skill in our support group.
 
MindzEye said:
We also went all in too quickly imo. I've said my piece on signing Tavares, so I'll leave that where it is, but the idea of signing Marleau and then having to give up a 1st to get out of our cap crunch was dumb. There appears to have been zero thought given to just how long of a fucking window we had to organically grow a winner when we had these guys all together at 20-21 yrs old and already very good. Then the dumb ass Foligno trade. Having either of Seth Jarvis or Dylan Holloway around the last few seasons would have been pretty nice when we've had a chronic lack of skill in our support group.
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Yeah I think that’s all fair.

Also just wayyyyy too many picks spent on a bunch of junk players every year vs quality.
 
Feyd said:
Also surrounding the impressionable young core, your future as a franchise, with career losers. I’m sure Marleau and Jumbo are great guys and a lot of fun to be around. But career losers through and through.
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I’m still convinced that the #1 lesson Marleau and Thornton taught those guys was to squeeze the team for every possible dollar.
 
LeafGm said:
I’m still convinced that the #1 lesson Marleau and Thornton taught those guys was to squeeze the team for every possible dollar.
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Yep. Not to mention Patches telling Mitch what a great place Vegas is and probably giving him real estate tips. Like seriously, fuck off. Mistake after mistake. I hope this new regime locks that shit down, I feel like Mats will be a very positive influence when it comes to stuff like this.
 
Feyd said:
Yep. Not to mention Patches telling Mitch what a great place Vegas is and probably giving him real estate tips. Like seriously, fuck off. Mistake after mistake. I hope this new regime locks that shit down, I feel like Mats will be a very positive influence when it comes to stuff like this.
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Reaves was also saying the same shit to Mitch. Probably got into his ear about it even more once he started to get pissed off about his shitty ass getting regularly healthy scratched.

Brilliant signing by Treliving.
 
MindzEye said:
We also went all in too quickly imo. I've said my piece on signing Tavares, so I'll leave that where it is, but the idea of signing Marleau and then having to give up a 1st to get out of our cap crunch was dumb. There appears to have been zero thought given to just how long of a fucking window we had to organically grow a winner when we had these guys all together at 20-21 yrs old and already very good. Then the dumb ass Foligno trade. Having either of Seth Jarvis or Dylan Holloway around the last few seasons would have been pretty nice when we've had a chronic lack of skill in our support group.
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In hindsight, it would have been immensely more beneficial in the long run if we had kept all those first round picks and got eliminated in the first round instead of trading them and getting eliminated in the first round.
 
thehabhater said:
In hindsight, it would have been immensely more beneficial in the long run if we had kept all those first round picks and got eliminated in the first round instead of trading them and getting eliminated in the first round.
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Also known as "patience".

We had fucking none, and then pretended to have some but never really did. If you think about the Raptors side of the ledger, we won a title specifically because of patience. Kept players that the media thought were flawed and we should move on from, didn't rush our team building and built through the draft instead of firing tradeable assets out the door in an attempt to rush the process and knew when and what kind of players to go all in on when it was time to take a swing. Too much patience bit him in the ass in the end, but not until after he made himself a legend.

Learn from Masai.
 
MindzEye said:
Also known as "patience".

We had fucking none, and then pretended to have some but never really did. If you think about the Raptors side of the ledger, we won a title specifically because of patience. Kept players that the media thought were flawed and we should move on from, didn't rush our team building and built through the draft instead of firing tradeable assets out the door in an attempt to rush the process and knew when and what kind of players to go all in on when it was time to take a swing. Too much patience bit him in the ass in the end, but not until after he made himself a legend.

Learn from Masai.
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Ironically I'm sure the Raptors success in '19 was somewhat of a catalyst for the Leafs to "win now"
 
Feyd said:
Ironically I'm sure the Raptors success in '19 was somewhat of a catalyst for the Leafs to "win now"
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I hope not. The youngest member of our playoff rotation was 24. We had one playoff starter under the age of 27.

The entire focus when Auston, Mitch, & Willy were 21-20 should have been what the team and organization was going to look like when they were 25-27 and not trying to rush playoff success on them.
 
Oilers apparently leaning Laviolette over Berube, which is probably smart, i think of all the retread grey beard coaches Laviolette is the least likely to be an arsonist who takes McDavid's smile and buries it in a frigid Alberta lake.
 
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