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The Fantastically Beautiful Joyously Superfun 22-23 Season Celebration Thread

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leafman101 said:
They play to their competition. Its why they get beat by shitty teams, but beat good teams. Its why they can play a tight 7 game series against one of the best teams ever, or of this generation like Boston and also play a tight 7 game series against teams like Columbus and Montreal.

It makes no sense. I don't even know what a possible reason for it could be. Leadership? Come on. Caoching? They have had 2 coaches (although Keefe and Babs are very similar) with the same results. Analytics? Then what about Tampa/Colorado/Carolina.

There is no legitimate reason other than a black cloud of misfortune hangs over the franchise.
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The was theorized by some here maybe a week ago. I think they were on to something... I was in your boat for a long time but as the sample size increases it might be time to start trying to figure out why. What is different about their offensive game compared to other teams? I think in that Amazon series there were some hints... They are tracking it. They noticed they were dead last in rebound/tip goals, for example and Keefe was hammering that all season long. Over-passing, reluctance to take point shots and drive the net (which I agree with generally but perhaps Leafs take that too far?), refusal to shoot, too much perimeter play,etc?

I don't know.. It's probably the one stat that drastically differs between them and the rest of the elite teams and I do think the Leafs were on to it but I'm not sure they tried to address it by adding Yarncock and stuff.
 
The Marner stuff is nuts. Why is Marner sucking a rift between him and the coach, but not Matthews? Every player in the league has slumps, but Marner is "uncomfortable."

As others pointed out recently, look at how the TO media treated Phil as a Leaf compared to now.

Its all nonsense.
 
speaking of "leafy", i would bet an insane amount of money on whatever team we traded marner to if he was moved.

i could probably just retire early.
 
He seems to love the spotlight when things are going well but pouts when things are not going his way.

Always playing second fiddle to Matthews eats away at Papa as well I bet
 
I never found out which day actually counted as Day 1 for counting off the 24 day minimum LTIR stay from the start of the season.

There might be a chance Lilly can play next game. Though he can definitely play the game after that.
 
Problem regarding Marner is that there's always only going to be a handful of players in the league worth trading him for. We can look at the Calgary Tkachuk trade as guidance here. Even that was probably a mistake trade that only works if you're going balls deep to win now, in the next 2-3 years (which with a 30+ yr old "star" goalie, and signing Kadri, they are). For us though, it's basically an elite C/W in their early to mid prime or a young stud defender. Pretty short list.

Trading him just to trade him would be the height of stupidity. Trading him for a similar quality but different type of player at a lower cap hit isn't the worst idea ever, but it's a hell of a needle to thread.
 
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