Let's be real, we're all gonna accept facials from Doob and Keefe if they win a cup. All logic goes out the window when that happens. I'd love to say I won't forgive them for making Schenn a regular or subtracting but not adding to their depth in their final flurry of trades, but win a cup and there's no sense in over-analyzing anything. They can deposit their loads all over me.
It's just that everything feels off now.
Like they had it all set up, and threw a monkey wrench in it just for fun.
I actually don't mind Schenn, I'll be completely honest. I think he's motivated being a Leaf again, and he brings an element of hard hitting and brutishness back there that we always lack. But he should have replaced Holl, not Lilly. That's the part that fucking stings. No issue bringing him in, but replace the right guy dammit.
Happy with ROR and Acciari - of course ROR gets injured though.
Like the McCabe and Lafferty adds, even if I'd have preferred a forward.
It all comes back to going with Holl/Gus now over Lilly, and ZAR over Engvall. Like, they had the right guys to bump out the worse players, and yet somehow the worse players bumped out good ones.
Who knows, maybe ZAR will be tougher in the postseason, Schenn will make people pay to be in front of the net, McCabe will be a nightmare for opposing forwards, and the Leafs will just be "tougher" to beat.
But I will kinda never concede (unless they win the Cup) that more scoring was the way to go, and they just didn't fucking get it after every year of being muffled in elimination games.