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Around The League - 2024-25 Regular Season

CH1 said:
Dubas inherited an amazing core. All he had to worry about is bolstering the bottom lines and find a goalkeeper.

He also benefits from an unlimited budget to hire the best coaches, scouts, advisors, analytics, psychologists, medics, and everything else that can give his team an edge on the margins.

Sure, answering a bunch of questions from a packed house of cynical journalists is annoying, but it doesn't really consume more than 10 hrs out of his year.
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In other words Dumb-ass’s job was to simply make sure the Titanic would sail in warm waters and not go out of its way to find & hit an iceberg
 
Sal_Butera said:
Shanahan screwed up by choosing Dumb-ass over Uncle Lou.
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Because Lou has done so well on the Island?

The comment was made talking amongst friends dude. This is first hand knowledge.

Hughes thinks the Toronto GM position is the hardest in the league due to expections. He had no reason to sugar coat it talking to people he's known since childhood.

According to Kent Hughes, Dubas has the hardest job in the league and he has the perspective of both GM and Agent.
 
Habsy said:
Because Lou has done so well on the Island?

The comment was made talking amongst friends dude. This is first hand knowledge.

Hughes thinks the Toronto GM position is the hardest in the league due to exoectations. He had no reason to sugar coat it talking to people he's known since childhood.

According to Kent Hughes, Dubas has the hardest job in the league and he has the perspective of both GM and Agent.
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I agree Dumb-ass has the hardest job right now due to marketplace expectations for the respective teams - only because Mtl expectations are to finish bottom of the barrel and it’s the honeymoon at present for HuGo

Shana-plan is still the root cause for Leafs present situation.
 
CH1 said:
BTW, I think he's done a pretty good job. Not his fault Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner turn into average players come playoff time.

Also, last year's first round playoff loss came against an elite team, and the margin was super slim.

That was entirely different from similar results vs Habs and Jackets in years prior. Those were pure choke jobs.
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Matthews is not the problem, he is their best player so teams will focus on him and that is on the coach to out coach the other team to allow Matthews space to play his game.. Marner and Nylander are soft in mind and body... one of the two needs to be traded to address the D or Goaltending, I would trade Nylander.. they should never of let go of Hyman .
 
legoalie said:
Matthews is not the problem, he is their best player so teams will focus on him and that is on the coach to out coach the other team to allow Matthews space to play his game.. Marner and Nylander are soft in mind and body... one of the two needs to be traded to address the D or Goaltending, I would trade Nylander.. they should never of let go of Hyman .
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well said...

I don't understand why they never leveraged Nylander and/or Marner for d-men...how many times are they gonna try this recipe ? It's clearly not working...
 
legoalie said:
Matthews is not the problem, he is their best player so teams will focus on him and that is on the coach to out coach the other team to allow Matthews space to play his game.. Marner and Nylander are soft in mind and body... one of the two needs to be traded to address the D or Goaltending, I would trade Nylander.. they should never of let go of Hyman .
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They could never afford Hyman just like others who bolt this summer
 
legoalie said:
Matthews is not the problem, he is their best player so teams will focus on him and that is on the coach to out coach the other team to allow Matthews space to play his game.. Marner and Nylander are soft in mind and body... one of the two needs to be traded to address the D or Goaltending, I would trade Nylander.. they should never of let go of Hyman .
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Team has no spine
 
legoalie said:
Matthews is not the problem, he is their best player so teams will focus on him and that is on the coach to out coach the other team to allow Matthews space to play his game.. Marner and Nylander are soft in mind and body... one of the two needs to be traded to address the D or Goaltending, I would trade Nylander.. they should never of let go of Hyman .
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I am impressed at your ability to have so much wrongness contained in only three lines of text.

Please allow me to assist.

Nylander is a much better hockey player than Hyman. Always has been. I don't think there is any objective measurement that suggests otherwise but of course you are free to present it.

The Leafs D is overall much stronger than the forwards. It makes no sense to trade up to two of our top four forwards to strengthen our D - we already have at least 8 (and likely more) legit NHL defenders.

Letting Hyman go and replacing him with the cheaper, younger, and better Michael Bunting was very shrewd management.

We agree about Matthews at least.
 
Sal_Butera said:
I agree Dumb-ass has the hardest job right now due to marketplace expectations for the respective teams - only because Mtl expectations are to finish bottom of the barrel and it’s the honeymoon at present for HuGo

Shana-plan is still the root cause for Leafs present situation.
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Yeah. The comparison needs to be put into some context. The timeline is completely different. Kent Hughes took over a dumpster fire, so he is enjoying an extended honeymoon while he rebuilds and sells whatever perishable assets he inherited to the highest bidder.

He'll be feeling the heat in a few years.

Dubas' honeymoon ended when they lost to the Habs in the first round.
 
Rolex said:
well said...

I don't understand why they never leveraged Nylander and/or Marner for d-men...how many times are they gonna try this recipe ? It's clearly not working...
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perhaps you should familiarize yourself with the Leafs current d corps, and their performance as individuals and as a team in recent history.

once you did that, you would realize the Leafs have been strong defensively, particularly last season.

and of course, Dubas has already acquired two legit top-four shutdown d-men since he was hired. he rebuilt our top 4. plus those two first round draft picks who are now ready to contribute.
 
Wayward DP said:
I am impressed at your ability to have so much wrongness contained in only three lines of text.

Please allow me to assist.

Nylander is a much better hockey player than Hyman. Always has been. I don't think there is any objective measurement that suggests otherwise but of course you are free to present it.

The Leafs D is overall much stronger than the forwards. It makes no sense to trade up to two of our top four forwards to strengthen our D - we already have at least 8 (and likely more) legit NHL defenders.

Letting Hyman go and replacing him with the cheaper, younger, and better Michael Bunting was very shrewd management.

We agree about Matthews at least.
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what ???? on what video game
 
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