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No Excuses No Limits! The mother fucking goddamn season thread

LeafOfFaith said:
What the fuck, I thought it was a day to day thing. Fuck.

And I'd say, damn, if only it happened before the deadline to use the LTIR, but we know either the Leafs wouldn't bother or would make a terrible deal for a bad addition.
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Oh Dumba was such a Leaf if Marner was on LTIR.
 
Volcanologist said:
Treliving absolutely sucks so far but I give him credit for resisting the impulse to fire Cowan/1sts/whatever out the door.
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Sure, it could’ve been worse.

Though it still fucking sucks that Treliving fired the following assets out of a cannon:

2024 3rd round pick
2025 3rd round pick
2025 5th round pick
2026 4th round pick
2026 6th round pick
Dmitry Ovchinnikov
William Lagesson


…in exchange for a couple of bad rental depth defensemen and a 4th line center.
 
LeafGm said:
Sure, it could’ve been worse.

Though it still fucking sucks that Treliving fired the following assets out of a cannon:

2024 3rd round pick
2025 3rd round pick
2025 5th round pick
2026 4th round pick
2026 6th round pick
Dmitry Ovchinnikov
William Lagesson


…in exchange for a couple of bad rental depth defensemen and a 4th line center.
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yeah...and although it's probably mostly because the Leafs "development" has tanked their trade value... I'm glad Robertson and Liljegren weren't turfed
 
Dividing the standings into 8-team quarters.

Vs Top 8: 19gms, 91pt pace, -0.11gdiff, 3gms remaining
Vs 2nd 8: 12gms, 116pt pace, +.92gdiff, 6gms remaining
Vs 3rd 8: 15gms, 120pt pace, +.93gdiff, 5gms remaining
Vs Bot 8: 20gms, 103pt pace, +.35gdiff, 2gms remaining

In the end it's still our play against the bottom teams that stopped us from being elite this year.

Based on our play against the other quartiles, a 130pt+ pace against the bottom 8 should have been a reasonable expectation, which would have meant an extra 7pts minimum at the moment, which would have us with the #1 pts% in hockey.
 
For comparison vs Bot-8:

FLA 17gms, 150pt pace
BOS 19gms, 134pt pace
TOR 20gms, 103pt pace

Vs Top-24:

TOR: 46gms, 107pt pace
BOS: 50gms, 105pt pace
FLA: 51gms, 101pt pace
 
I still think not beating teams clearly way worse than you is a focus/execution thing and eventually has to land at the coaching staff's doorstep.

(PSA: this post is not absolving the players of their personal responsibility nor Treliving, who has sucked on many fronts)
 
I think it could be something about this group stylistically too. Feels like it has been this way for years?
 
Paces

McDavid 33/138 --- MacKinnon 51/140 --- Kucherov 50/142
Panarin 47/114 --- Draisaitl 42/109 --- Pastrnak 49/114
Rantanen 41/109 --- Miller 40/105 --- Nylander 45/108
Kaprizov 47/102 --- Matthews 69/104 --- Marner 32/101
Pettersson 37/95 --- Hughes 34/101 --- Reinhart 58/95

Even Strength

McDavid 23/92 --- MacKinnon 39/89 --- Kucherov 35/88
Panarin 34/69 --- Matthews 51/72 --- Pastrnak 35/75
Hagel 26/67 --- Draisaitl 22/66 --- Marner 23/68
Nylander 30/65 --- Miller 27/63 --- Hyman 42/62
Guentzel 28/62 --- Crosby 30/61 --- Point 31/60
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Yeah if that's the solution they came up with then they're really dumb. They do tend to struggle against teams that sit back and collapse. But a good first pass could be a solution there to gain the neutral zone with speed, not a gudpro grenade chuck.
 
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