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2025-2026 Off Season Thread - The Rehappening

MindzEye said:
Depends on what you think of Hagel tbh. Scored 90 points this year. Signed an extension until 2032 for 6.5 millie....even with the uplift because no state tax, that's still about 7 million flat. At the time I was definitely ripping on Tampa for making their deal, but all Hagel has done since is establish himself as a legit top line winger.
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He has that dog in him too
 
Hagel is great. We all laughed at them and they plucked a star and signed him for cheap. It doesn’t always work out this way though because what was that insane Jannot deal or whatever his name was?
 
MindzEye said:
Depends on what you think of Hagel tbh. Scored 90 points this year. Signed an extension until 2032 for 6.5 millie....even with the uplift because no state tax, that's still about 7 million flat. At the time I was definitely ripping on Tampa for making their deal, but all Hagel has done since is establish himself as a legit top line winger.
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Not saying he wouldn't have developed well with us, but he got an invite from Kucherov to train with him this past off-season.

Even 65-75pt Hagel would've been great, but I'm not 100% sure he hits the level he did with Tampa with us.
 
$6.5m for two more years at age 34 while coming off a bad year isn't doable.

Retention for half of that might be a good gamble, since he does generally show up for the playoffs. But what do you trade for that? Or do they basically have to give us something to take him?
 
Hagel is good, but thats still a lot. Tampa didn't have to give up a Knies prospect.

But its more that Walsh says Dubas told him he has to get Shanny to sign off on every move, and obviously, sometimes he didn't sign off.
 
I mean I'd have no complaints if Matthews continued to shred his 5 on 5 minutes from a possession perspective, scored at the same rate, but was at least dominant on the pp. But that just never happens.

As many know here, I've never bought the pp coach bit. That seems to be the excuse every year, but with a powerplay, talent should always shine through. It's where you improvise and become deceptive and unpredictable, which is not a systems thing. Systems, by nature, are structured. What the players do within that structure is what defines how good a pp is. And the leafs guys tend to shy away from what makes their pp so good every single spring.
 
Our PP is so flat/stagnant. They need to move to a more dynamic powerplay where we move our feet skate around and change up the angels/coverage. We get stuck to the outside so often and is very predictable.
 
The PP is the same problem as 5v5. Its the same players that are so overwhelmed by their past failures they can't play hockey anymore. If anything the PP struggles just magnifies that more. Thats where its still easy for elite players to score in the playoffs.
 
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