The Official 2026 Off-Season Thread: Revenge of the Nerds

[leafman101]

Lots of teams capologists aren’t AGMs.

 

[CH1]

Hang the banner!

we plan to when we win it all

 

[PlayerToBeNamedLater]

Canes in 4

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Like if the leafs got the semifinals at any point playing like that I'd be embarrassed. That's nothing to be proud of, I don't care how young and cute the team is. There are other way better reasons to be proud of that group.

The best is, if we'd won against Florida last year with a 9 shot effort in game 7, they would still be talking about how we didn't deserve to advance.

But the Habs are fucking hockey marvels for getting to the third round and playing only one game out of five once they got there.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

hmm sure sounds like none of the leafs talk to mitch anymore.


View: https://x.com/JLazzy23/status/2061525912143749235?s=20

So basically fellow ex-Leafs who he can trash talk with.

Yeah, the fact that Matty wasn't the first name out of his mouth speaks voluuuuuuuumes given what their relationship used to be, and also gives some insight as to the Paul stuff.

Oh yeah, fuck that guy. What a way to ruin yourself. Go win a cup, have fun, but you didn't have to publicly torch the last 10 years of your career to do it. What a fucking moron.

 

[CH1]

The best is, if we'd won against Florida last year with a 9 shot effort in game 7, they would still be talking about how we didn't deserve to advance.

Maybe try winning that game 7 first before seeing if the world demands an apology from you.

 

[MindzEye]

Like if the leafs got the semifinals at any point playing like that I'd be embarrassed. That's nothing to be proud of, I don't care how young and cute the team is. There are other way better reasons to be proud of that group.

The whole thing, imo, is measured in titles and proximity from a title. If the Leafs had made the conference finals and then ran into a championship calibre team that historically mollywhopped the shit out of them, showing them that they're nowhere near that level, I don't think I'd feel better about it all than if they lost to a similar cup calibre team in the 1st or 2nd round in a 7 game series that legitimately could have gone either way.

Honestly, that was the most agonizing thing about that whole era of Leaf hockey, you kept seeing them lay the boots to elite teams for stretches in a series, even in higher pressure games sometimes, and wondered if they finally figured it out.

 

[zeke]

Oh my god


View: https://x.com/wyshynski/status/2061551559868108869?s=20

 

[MindzEye]

If he could stop pitying himself for 10 minutes this would all go away. "Not here to talk about the past, this is the biggest series of my life and I'm locked in". Done. It all stops. Instead he keeps fucking crying.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Fucking guy.

 

[Cal Gal]

Go Canes!

 

[LeafGm]

If he could stop pitying himself for 10 minutes this would all go away. "Not here to talk about the past, this is the biggest series of my life and I'm locked in". Done. It all stops. Instead he keeps fucking crying.

Thing is, if he was actually smart, mature and self-aware enough to do that and wasn’t a thin-skinned uber-insecure bitch that’s totally obsessed with slights both real and imagined against him no matter how big or small, he would still be a Maple Leaf and mostly beloved by the fanbase to this day.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

He could've been one of the most beloved Maple Leafs of all time.

Look at the reception that Mats is getting after 15 years.

He would've been at or near the top of nearly every franchise records lists except goals.

He'd have a fucking statue outside the stadium even if he never ended up winning a cup.

What a fucking donkey.

 

[Artnes]

The quote about players turning on one another is 100% at Willy when he told him to stop crying on the bench.

That got some major rotation on social media and he couldnt handle that

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Willy shits on Marner for filling his diaper. Well deserved, and if it ran him out of town and landed us McKenna, Willy is a fucking hero.

 

[MindzEye]

He could've been one of the most beloved Maple Leafs of all time.

Look at the reception that Mats is getting after 15 years.

He would've been at or near the top of nearly every franchise records lists except goals.

He'd have a fucking statue outside the stadium even if he never ended up winning a cup.

What a fucking donkey.

But would he have been more beloved than Auston?

Because you see, that's the root of his problem here. He need it all to be about him, and when it wasn't, he got sad. I can guarantee very few things in life, but one of the few things I will guaranfuckingtee is that Brian Matthews doesn't have an unhinged burner account where he screams into the twitter void about Auston carrying Mitch Marner.