"Believe it or not, it's still possible to win despite having a 100-point, Selke finalist winger on your team."

True words,....but
"Believe it or not, it's still possible not to win despite having a 100- point, Selke winger on your team."

Leaf fans and media.

Can't win with a player like Kessel on your team.

wrong.

Can't win with Bozak as your 3rd line center.

wrong.

Can't win with Kadri on your team.

wrong.

Can't win with Marner on your team.

And the next Stanley Cup winner is Marner's new team.

Move on to the next scapegoat.

Repeat.

The Leafs really need a culture change this starts with axing Keefe and Shanahan and stripping Tavares of the C

He's not that type of winger in the playoffs. He just isn't. He's afraid of the physicality. He can't seem to elevate his game. He doesn't make nice plays. He doesn't go to the middle of the ice. He lacks composure (remember him putting the puck over the glass multiple times in the Montreal series??)

Time to move on. Leafs can make better use of the 12 million he's going to demand on his next contract come July.

That just isn’t true. 12 million can be easily wasted on 3 average players, too.

Acquiring talent like Marner is the hardest part. Besides, it’s not like the rest of the team hasn’t continuously collapsed as well. I’m genuinely confused why everyone wants to single Marner out. Like, our team this year was borderline ass. I have no idea how we pushed Boston to 7 given that our bluline looked like this:

Rielly-Lynushkin
Benoit-McCabe
Edmundson-Liljegren

Like that’s abysmal. Not to mention our bottom-6 was probably the worst it’s been in 5 years too. This is just such a bad year to be “the year to blow it all up” for so many reasons. One of them being that you can’t even trade them even if you wanted to hahahaha.

utah declines