Around the League 2019-2024 Edition

[leafman101]

boston's got a skilled rookie 6;5" dman that's already better than any D we've produced in decades.

nice.

Picked right before Roni Hirvonen.

 

[zeke]

Picked right before Roni Hirvonen.

 

[zeke]

GOOOOOAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

ALALALA GOOOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLLASSSSOOOOOOO

 

[Preston]

Zeke is going full randy marsh right now

#leafsareactuallygood

 

[zeke]

FLA: 36.0 xgf%

 

[MindzEye]

The Fluggernaut

 

[zeke]

View: https://x.com/MoneyPuckdotcom/status/1787661906968256525

 

[LeafOfFaith]

The what have ya done for me lately principle.

All it took was two periods to become the favorites.

 

[zeke]

pastrnak breakway.

ekblad slashes the gloves.

no call.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Yearly tradition of tortured Leafs fans watching their opponent thrive next round and wondering forever whether we'd have done the same.

 

[zeke]

BRAZEAU WITH THE HIGHLIGHT REEL

 

[zeke]

ekblad is so damn slow

 

[Preston]

Brazeau might be a McMann esque late bloomer. I kind of liked him. A Kyle Dubas product.

 

[Preston]

And big time Barb Underhill student. Leafs invested a lot of energy in developing this player. Dubas said if he isn't an NHLer, it would be a huge failure.

 

[zeke]

lifeless panthers can't even move out there.

 

[MindzEye]

And big time Barb Underhill student. Leafs invested a lot of energy in developing this player. Dubas said if he isn't an NHLer, it would be a huge failure.

Wasn't he in our org for like, 14 metric seconds?

 

[zeke]

boom

 

[Preston]

Wasn't he in our org for like, 14 metric seconds?

How the Leafs acquired Justin Brazeau, a big kid from a small town with huge plans

As Brazeau's junior career came to its conclusion, the calls from the Leafs went from sporadic to almost daily.

theathletic.com

Though the other team offered slightly more money on a two-year AHL contract, Brazeau and Walters ultimately settled on the Leafs in part because of the initiative of their general manager. Dubas was the only general manager of an NHL team that reached out personally.

The second team of interest tabled a development plan that included a skating coach — who Brazeau would have had to pay for himself and work with a certain number of times a month — that was four hours away from the team’s trainers.

When Dubas explained the Leafs’ plan, he detailed a one-stop shop that included player development consultant Darryl Belfry, skills development coach Mike Ellis, skating consultant Barb Underhill and director of athlete performance Rich Roten

“I said ‘Look guys, Toronto is going to be heavily, heavily invested in providing you an opportunity.’ And the closing statement which closed us was Dubas said ‘John, if this guy doesn’t play a game for the Toronto Maple Leafs then we’ve failed.’ So to me it was like ‘How could you go wrong?’” Walters said.

 

[MindzEye]

And the closing statement which closed us was Dubas said ‘John, if this guy doesn’t play a game for the Toronto Maple Leafs then we’ve failed.’

lol, well fuck.

 

[zeke]

Woll .964, 2-0
Swayman .955, 5-2
Ullmark .912, 0-1
Vasilevskiy .897, 1-4
Samsonov .896, 1-4
Bobrovsky .890, 4-2