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The Official 2026 Off-Season Thread: Revenge of the Nerds

LeafGm said:
Domi is another very good test for Chayka—and for Mats too.

It seems pretty clear Domi would like to stay here, and he has a long history and/or a close personal relationship with both Mats and Chayka.

But he is obviously not a fit here. So do they pull the trigger and move him? And I know Chayka has traded Domi before. But giving him a ticket out of one of the least desirable teams to play for in the NHL is different than dumping Max from his hometown team.

Will be interesting to see.
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Tbh with our capspace the priority has to be adding two good mobile dman and one good heavy usage center, not so much on subtracting.

If we somehow manage to have the opportunity to add all 3 then capspace might become an issue and so yeah you can’t let the domi/joshua/carlo contracts get in the way.

But if there’s no absolute urgency to move them then i could see it making more sense to try and move them at the deadline for a better return.

But yeah it would be pretty great if we could just flush them asap.
 
zeke said:
funny enough, ignoring contracts completely, i feel like there's actually more of a place on this team for Joshua than Domi.

Yes, it's as a 4th line winger, but probably a decent one.

Domi tho - we don't want him at C, and we don't want him playing the wing ahead of any of Nylander McKenna Knies Cowan Robertson Maccelli....so the fit is tough. Then again, we don't have any other candidate at all for 3C at the moment.
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Joshua does bring an element we lack. I kinda like him, but am not passionate about keeping him. I do think he could be better than expected under a different coach and system.

Domi is brutal and nobody is going to change anything going on in that ultra thick skull. He’s also not going anywhere for the next two years thanks to Sundin and Tie being buds. He probably has more job security than anyone on the roster, which really sucks. So we need to get rid of his softer twin Maccelli instead.
 
Joshua is perfectly cromulent 4th line depth. That’s not the issue.

The issue has always been that 4th line depth players shouldn’t be signed for multiple years at a $3.25M cap hit.

But yeah, no rush or need to be doing any full salary-dump style trades where we’re attaching assets to get rid of these guys. Not with all the cap space we have.
 
The best thing about this news is that we exited the brief era of unwatchable Leafs hockey. Never, ever, in any prior season that I can remember since childhood, was the team more boring and frustrating to watch. Never. And with several offensive horses in the lineup. Brutal period to live through, and hopefully the new guy will get us back to being an exciting fast tempo team.

And the next guy better not be a dog faced ex player who was a useless bum his whole career and incites violence against my tv screen.
 
Yup. The combination of Treliving's obsession with long d that can't skate or move the puck and Berube's north-south "dig in" system was the absolute worst product I have ever seen from a professional sports team. It's a lot to undo entirely in just one summer, but as long as we show some progress this year I'm happy.
 
Preston said:
Yup. The combination of Treliving's obsession with long d that can't skate or move the puck and Berube's north-south "dig in" system was the absolute worst product I have ever seen from a professional sports team. It's a lot to undo entirely in just one summer, but as long as we show some progress this year I'm happy.
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I don't think it will be all that hard to undo that system. They already have a lot of pieces up front that will happily revert back to the speed-possession game. The X factor will be the changes on D.
 
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