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KingExLeafs

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Forum: Armchair-GM4 hours ago
Forum: Armchair-GM7 hours ago
Thread: Marner And Keefe For Sullivan And Karlsson
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>RipNasty</b></div><div>Rielly is great, get control of your emotions. He didn't have a good series especially on the power play but no one did. Fire Keefe.

Marner could be traded but I wouldn't unless it's something I feel is fair value. What you have proposed is crap value. You're mad at him and so you irrationally lower his value to appease your feelings. Just let it go. He's a 100 point Selke finalist. He's an elite player.

Get a coach in here who has proven he can get a team to score in the playoffs and then see how it goes. This is a good team, being out coached all the time needs to stop.</div></div>

Rielly has been far from great. Him and Lyubushkin produced the same amount of points in the series. Stop making excuses for mediocre players.

And Marner is not a Selke level player. The last play of the season proved it. He's an 8 million dollar per year player who conned the Leafs brass into taking 3 million more. Good on him for hustling the Leafs. I don't have any hate for the guy. He has accomplished a lot in his career. But he's not worthy of an extension. Trading him for peanuts is the best solution at this point.
Forum: Armchair-GM8 hours ago
Forum: Armchair-GM9 hours ago
Thread: Marner And Keefe For Sullivan And Karlsson
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>RipNasty</b></div><div>Karlsson is old, his best days are behind him. He's half the player Marner is. I know you are seeing red and logic is gone but take a deep breath an think about it.

Who has scored under Keefe in the playoffs? No one. Apart from 1 round. His system does not work in the playoffs. Hyman under Keefe, doesn't score. Bertuzzi? Nothing. Domi? Same thing. No one does anything with Keefe as the coach. Fire him and then see what happens. Because losing a Marner trade (by a truly dreadful margin in this case) for the sake of making a change to appease fans who can't regulate their emotions....well that's just pure stupidity.

Fire Keefe, I would also like to see Shanahan and Treliving fired. Fire the whole front office and coaching staff</div></div>

We obviously agree on the coach. Every Leafs fan is done with this guy. But we have to be honest and admit the PP underperforming is also a personnel issue. Marner and Rielly were awful. If the Leafs had a 15% PP they would've beaten Boston easily. Getting a new coach is mandatory but so is getting a PP QB.
Forum: Armchair-GM10 hours ago
Thread: Trading Marner And JT In The Same Deal Half Retained
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>mokumboi</b></div><div>So you plan to offload Ehlers and Schmidt for late round picks? 🤔 I'm super confused, man. I don't understand what you're aiming for. But if you feel like dumping thise two players cheap, do give the Blues a call first. Please and thank you.</div></div>

The return would be cap space and a couple of picks. That's not cheap. In today's tight cap league, and with the Leafs still so top heavy with Matthews and Nylander on the books, getting cap space is paramount. Ehlers and Schmidt are not worth their current contracts. Ehlers has had only one full season in his last six years. He can't be relied upon. And Schmidt isn't a top 4 defenceman at this point in his career.