The Motherfucking 2021 Playoffs Thread

[Habsy]

We did the whole leadership/vet/gudpro additions this year.

Ah, but did you sign the right ones?

-every sports reporter ever.

 

[leaffan2005]

The leadership/gud pro people are the only ones playing hockey right now.

 

[zeke]

Yeah I can't wait to not have players like matthews and marner again, like my entire life before them.

 

[Artnes]

despite being trash for 2 years running, he still has more playoff points than 34 and 88.

i think if they bow out tomorrow nobody can be off limits, but you can't go out set on dealing a guy like marner.

and there's no fuggin way i trade him for jack eichel.

that's like trading hiv for full blown aids.

Speaking of Willy he is the current active leader in P/60 5v5 and 2nd to Spezza all situations of the active Leafs roster

 

[leaffan2005]

Yeah I can't wait to not have players like matthews and marner again, like my entire life before them.

Yeah, it's been so great! Think of all the spreadsheet arguments they help you win.

 

[Volcanologist]

Nylander is the only one they can realistically trade if a major deal is to be made.

unfortunately the cap is king in any transaction.

 

[leaffan2005]

Willy has ironically been the only guy who has shown any semblance of balls this series.

Go figure.

 

[zeke]

Yeah, it's been so great! Think of all the spreadsheet arguments they help you win.

Yeah can't wait. It will be so great to be free of the burden.

 

[Habsy]

Willy has ironically been the only guy who has shown any semblance of balls this series.

Go figure.

Campbell has shown balls. I think Brodie has been a pain in the ass too.

 

[MindzEye]

We did the whole leadership/vet/gudpro additions this year.

Which I think has been proven to be fucking dumb.

 

[MindzEye]

The leadership/gud pro people are the only ones playing hockey right now.

Wait...what?

Morgan Rielly & William Nylander have been our best players, and by a lot. Spezza, Kerfoot & Muzzin with honourable mentions.

Thornton has been unplayable, Simmonds barely playable, Nash unplayable, Foligno hurt but entirely uninspiring since he put on a Leaf jersey.

Basically all of our bodies that are here because solely of the leadership, grit, tenacity, blah fucking blah (all the shit that we supposedly lacked from our depth players) have been tremendously meh. Passengers or worse.

We got slow and unskilled for some reason. Our best bodies in this series have been our fastest and/or most skilled outside of M&M.

 

[CH1]

We did the whole leadership/vet/gudpro additions this year.

try again but stay away from guys way past their prime

bottom 6 guys don’t need to be cup chasers who want to go back home

 

[LeafGm]

try again but stay away from guys way past their prime

bottom 6 guys don’t need to be cup chasers who want to go back home

It's perfectly fine to sign those guys and give them a try. In theory, it should be a no-risk scenario with the potential upside being that you end up with a guy like Spezza who contributes far above the level of his NHL minimum salary.

But then it's no longer a no-risk scenario if you don't have the balls to sit them out when they're clearly not helping the team.

 

[leaffan2005]

Wait...what?

Morgan Rielly & William Nylander have been our best players, and by a lot. Spezza, Kerfoot & Muzzin with honourable mentions.

Thornton has been unplayable, Simmonds barely playable, Nash unplayable, Foligno hurt but entirely uninspiring since he put on a Leaf jersey.

Basically all of our bodies that are here because solely of the leadership, grit, tenacity, blah fucking blah (all the shit that we supposedly lacked from our depth players) have been tremendously meh. Passengers or worse.

We got slow and unskilled for some reason. Our best bodies in this series have been our fastest and/or most skilled outside of M&M.

Joe has been trash. Simmonds has been more than serviceable. Guys like Kerfoot and Spezza who I would classify as leadership/glue guys have been excellent. Brodie, Muzzin, Brodie all playing well.

These are the guys performing. And instead of focusing every last breath on pointing out how this series is 100% on Matthews and Marner, we are focusing on an injured Nick Foligno and Joe Thornton, with an ancillary bitchfest over Taylor Hall.

 

[CH1]

It's perfectly fine to sign those guys and give them a try. In theory, it should be a no-risk scenario with the potential upside being that you end up with a guy like Spezza who contributes far above the level of his NHL minimum salary.

But then it's no longer a no-risk scenario if you don't have the balls to sit them out when they're clearly not helping the team.

That’s the thing, guys like Thornton come with strings attached. Call it reverence, respect, or another one of those hockey “codes”, the Leafs brass were always going to give Uncle Joe a way longer leash than his on ice performance dictated.

Imagine his name was Vladimir Ruskipuk... he would have been scratched months ago.

Spezza was a very nice signing but buying the dip on an old dog is an iffy bet.

 

[CH1]

Having said all that, I now fully expect Uncle Joe to pot the game winner in Game 7

 

[Habsy]

Imagine his name was Vladimir Ruskipuk... he would have been scratched months ago.

Ruski puk mornaričkih lovaca MiG-29K/KUB

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[zeke]

Thornton was on a legit tear heading into the playoffs. 8pts in the final 10gms.

 

[zeke]

XgfRel

Engvall +11.0
Marner +6.6
Hyman +6.5
Matthews +4.1
Spezza +4.1
Mikheyev +2.7
Simmonds +0.9
Nylander -0.1
Kerfoot -1.4
Foligno -4.0
Brooks -8.9
Thornton -11.7
Nash -13.2
Galchenyuk -17.3
Tavares -30.7

Rielly +9.3
Brodie +7.2
Dermott +6.5
Bogosian -6.8
Muzzin -8.6
Holl -10.1
Sandin -12.1

 

[MindzEye]

Guys like Kerfoot and Spezza who I would classify as leadership

Hi-fucking-larious that now, today, you classify them as such when they weren't those guys in any other previous opinion that you had about this team.