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2025-2026 Off Season Thread - The Rehappening

MindzEye said:
I think you're wrong or very close to wrong on both counts mate. but time will tell.
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I kinda buy him doing a 2 year deal with someone ( especially Vegas) and resetting after the massive cap increase, but yeah, if he takes the bag now its 7 x 14 as a floor and he goes more bitch if possible.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
How has a young dream core and new management turned into this, I will never understand.
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Well, the first thing about a "dream" core is that, like any dream, you have to be asleep to believe in it. The fact of the matter is that the core was never that good and that's why the results were poor in games that mattered. Individually, they are all very good players. but they don't fit together. They all have the same qualities and the same shortcomings. Too much and not enough, all at once.

As for new management, all I can say is that "new" is not a synonym for "better" or even "different". It is simply "new", in the sense that the names of the people in charge are different. But if the organizational culture is unchanged then it won't matter who you plug into the GM's chair. I don't see anything from the Shanahan firing that would lead me to believe that there's a radically new mandate for Treleving to implement here. It's pretty much the same approach as it's been since Shanahan was hired. They are going to stay the course, just with a couple of tweaks. They'll let Marner walk, maybe let Tavares walk too, and they'll try to sign some UFA's to replace them. Failing that, the plan is still the Shanaplan, just without Shanny. Just change it to the "Smokey Mountain Spaghetti and Meatball Plan".
 
Wayward DP said:
I mean, look at Hyman or Brown, for starters...
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Brown had a good playoffs this year....but I know we're not lamenting his 2 goals in 19 games last year during Edmonton's run to the finals.

As for Hyman, yeah he flipped a switch when he arrived in Edmonton but he was never afraid to go to the net, the puck just didn't go in for him here. His shot and shot attempt rates in the playoffs are more or less identical. He had a career Leaf playoff shooting percentage of 6.7% here, and 15% in Edmonton. Not a whole lot you can do about that.

Marner though? In his last 2 playoff "runs" with us, he has 28 SOG in 20 games. That's a guy who is afraid to go where the game needs to be played. Morgan Rielly has 35 shots over that same period. The infamous for not shooting the puck Max Domi has 36. This year, Carlo....fucking Carlo had 2 fewer SOG than Mitch.

If he goes somewhere else and magically becomes a playoff performer, that's a huge indictment of his level of give a fuck about winning here.
 
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