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2025-2026 Off Season Thread - The Rehappening

Tre is doing and saying the right things in this very difficult situation. Credit to him. At least until he botches their remaining cap space. But I sorta have faith that he may not?
 
i'm hopeful.

there was plenty of mids available he could have easily outbid on and they wouldn't have been awful deals.
 
This is the beauty of being conservative. You usually don't have to fret over downside risk, but you don't get the big swings either.

If you fucking cut his nuts off, Tre would never make that draft picks for Kessel trade, or the Cujo signing and trade of Potvin, etc. He only does such things when forced by the player/situation.

He's not going to fuck anything up. But he's not going to land the big fish either. Even steven trelivin.
 
zeke said:

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Will Pezzoli be an X factor for the Leafs?

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Takes some big balls to just not use that much capspace. Hopefully he can stay strong.

Give Robbie and Maccelli lots of ice and get them in the 50pt range and then suddenly you have a couple of attractive young controllable pieces to move out if another team needs to sell off a star player.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
This is the beauty of being conservative. You usually don't have to fret over downside risk, but you don't get the big swings either.

If you fucking cut his nuts off, Tre would never make that draft picks for Kessel trade, or the Cujo signing and trade of Potvin, etc. He only does such things when forced by the player/situation.

He's not going to fuck anything up. But he's not going to land the big fish either. Even steven trelivin.
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But being conservative on July 1st when you have a lot of cap space is probably more risky/aggressive than conservative. He's waiting to land a bigger, more impactful player. He wants to take a swing. It would have been easy and boring and safe to sign mangiapane and call it a day. He's aiming higher.
 
Preston said:
But being conservative on July 1st when you have a lot of cap space is probably more risky/aggressive than conservative. He's waiting to land a bigger, more impactful player. He wants to take a swing. It would have been easy and boring and safe to sign mangiapane and call it a day. He's aiming higher.
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Sure but conservative doesn't mean stupid either. The UFAs available on July 1 were mostly trash. I don't think there was even one that I wanted. I'm mildly interested in Ehlers but for sure not at the number he wants. I think Granlund would've been pretty good but got overpaid. Who else? The Florida guys never made it and the rest were junk. He did the conservative smart thing of standing still. If he got the breadmuncher it would've been the conservative stupid thing to do.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
Sure but conservative doesn't mean stupid either. The UFAs available on July 1 were mostly trash. I don't think there was even one that I wanted. I'm mildly interested in Ehlers but for sure not at the number he wants. I think Granlund would've been pretty good but got overpaid. Who else? The Florida guys never made it and the rest were junk. He did the conservative smart thing of standing still. If he got the breadmuncher it would've been the conservative stupid thing to do.
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It was being conservative for the sake of being aggressive later in the summer. He claims he has ideas on who may be available at some point and decided it was worth holding off on spending on ufa mediocrity. Just have to hope he's targeting the right guys is all.
 
Preston said:
It was being conservative for the sake of being aggressive later in the summer. He claims he has ideas on who may be available at some point and decided it was worth holding off on spending on ufa mediocrity. Just have to hope he's targeting the right guys is all.
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Yeah. Outside of sort of the best short term bargains of UFAs in year one and the tame reasonable signings of UFA D in year two, we really don't know what kind of player he targets when aiming for a hockey trade.
 
zeke said:
Brad should use the capspace on a #1D.
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It's the one actually really big need. Most teams don't have a 1C as good as Auston. Most teams don't have a 1W as good as Willy. Even if you're just ranking the top 4 forwards on all of the playoff teams. Florida's is probably better, but most of that is in playoff gritensity, not pure production. Who else is better? NJ: Hugher, Bratt, Hischier, Meier? Nah. Canes? Nope. Caps? lol nope. Tampa with Kuch-Point-Bagel-Guentzel....if it's busted Auston, okay yeah probably. So yeah, I have a hard time calling the 2nd or 3rd best top of the forward group in the conference a weakness requiring emergency addressing.

Everyone has a #1D better than McCabe or Rielly though. Everyone.
 
My worry is, will 69 Matty show up this year, and how close will Tavares come to 38 again? If both of those don't work out well, we're in trouble. I think Willy will do his thing and get 40 and Knies will improve and move into 35 territory himself, but what the others (Robertson, Maccelli) are going to contribute isn't clear and can't really be relied on. Marner still gave you around 30 goals. Sure, Roy will maybe replace half of that, but it feels like we really need another scorer badly if we want to just equal last year's output.
 
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