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GDT #7: 14/5/22 - Must Win

Preston said:
This scares me btw. Muzzin is a huge huge loss. But I think you do it.
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This year's Muzzin isn't that huge a loss though, and there's a non zero chance that he's going to be less and less of a loss moving forward. I'm good with sending Muzzin out, and spending to go get our next Muzzin and doing this:

Rielly-Lilly
Next Muzzin-Brodie
Gio-Sandin
Holl

But I think that huge loss is already occurring, we just have the choice to be proactive about dealing with it or wait to Robidas him in summer 2023.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
Was Holl dressed for game 7? Because if the answer to that is "yes" then your D needs a yuge friggin' upgrade.
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If Holl is your 3rd pairing RHD, you're fine. Tampa has fucking Bogosian on their right side. We've seen both of them play on the same team and Holl is significantly better.
 
MindzEye said:
This year's Muzzin isn't that huge a loss though, and there's a non zero chance that he's going to be less and less of a loss moving forward. I'm good with sending Muzzin out, and spending to go get our next Muzzin and doing this:

Rielly-Lilly
Next Muzzin-Brodie
Gio-Sandin
Holl

But I think that huge loss is already occurring, we just have the choice to be proactive about dealing with it or wait to Robidas him in summer 2023.
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I don't think you can take his dollars and just throw them at another D. It's unnecessary. You're using it for F.

At some point we have to walk away with the lesson from these losses that the core 4 needs a fifth. Plain and simple. It's honestly the most obvious thing in the world now.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
D doesn't need an upgrade. It needs a downgrade in terms of trading some money out to reinvest it in F because we have the luxury of Lilly and Sandin.

Nylander for Tkachuk or Svechnikov or someone like them would be probably just what the doctor ordered if we're looking for personnel upgrades through hockey trades. Would miss him though.
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why would those teams make that trade?
 
Preston said:
LOF simply has Crosby/Prime Ovy/Marchand expectations. Matthews had a very good series. Excellent even. But he has not yet built up that playoff resume like the other 3. We are all waiting for that heroic series clinching performance from him. It'll happen. But I get the criticism and I understand why he would want more. He wasn't alone but he simply didn't create much today.
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Ovy didn’t have those series either until late in his career.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
Matty is the undisputed best player on the team, the best goal scorer in the league, the one that literally wins us games on his own.

I don't think it's superhero expectations. I'm looking for him to do what he did in the regular season what, like 20 times maybe, just once in a game 6 or 7 in the playoffs.
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He sat for a handful of games end of season for an undisclosed injury which almost cost him the Rocket and his 60. I’d wager he didn’t play like the world beater hair on fire player because he’s playing through something. Many are this time of year but when it’s your best player, it’s harder to put the team on his back I’d wager.
 
Vasilevskiey absolutely robbed him right before the second Paul goal too. And he set up Mitch in the first and he hit the post. Easily could've been a 3 point night.

They had their chances. Thats what makes it the most frustrating.

If the big guns didn't show up its another disappointment. But they did. And they easily could have won. But didn't. Cause they're the Leafs.
 
MindzEye said:
He gave up the series defining muffin against the Habs imo and didn't give up one of those here against the Lightning, so okay. Short series numbers can be liars. But I don't think he was particularly good against the Lightning. Felt like for every save we got that we absolutely needed, a much easier to stop chance found it's way through him.
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Thought he was talking about Matthews?
 
We can talk about issues and moves to solve issues but that 0-9 in series clinching games since 2018 is so damn ugly. I've never seen anything like it.
The yearly summer "Tweaks" aren't working.
 
The way the organization was so afraid to upset Muzzin and kissed his ass worries me. Gio should have been playing more minutes than him in day 1. They didn't want to LTIR him the rest of the year like every other orgabnization would have.
They need to move on from him, but I have serious doubts they'll even try,.
 
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