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Forum: Armchair-GMMay 19, 2023 at 10:09 a.m.
Thread: actualPlayoffTeam
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Kuzbackov</b></div><div>At least they won something once, what’s the Leafs plan? They’re going to have to lose some trades to shed salary or they’re out of luck. Tavares is getting older and his contract getting worse, how do they improve the team that they’re not going to be able to keep together already?</div></div>

Tavares is the only player they would 'lose a trade' on because of salary and he's not going anywhere due to his NMC. If they trade Nylander they are getting great value for a 40 goal scorer under 7 mill. If they trade Marner they should get great value for a 100 pt selke nominee that's just getting better every year with 2 years left. If they trade Matthews they should get great value for a guy who is money in the bank for at least 40, plus a hart&amp;ted lindsay, 2 rockets, etc. Marner, Matthews, and Nylander all get more than they are getting now on the open market as UFAs.

This team is just what I think would more reasonably happen as a general direction to improve the balance of the team. I would personally hit the reset button and trade at least Matthews and Marner. The goal would be to get very good young players that are more hard nosed and futures, then some guy to make the cap work out for a year or whatever is needed. Nylander could wait until the trade deadline since he only has a M-NTC on July 1...maybe they keep him maybe not. There is a world where Matthews and Marner are gone and they are still a competitive team in the playoffs. Their problem recently has always been balance, even with Tavares/Nylander/maybe O'Reilly they would have enough star power with what they get back from trades + free agency to compete.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 18, 2023 at 10:47 p.m.
Thread: actualPlayoffTeam
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Kuzbackov</b></div><div>Did you just say the Capitals could compete for the Cup with Marner? Yeah that worked so well for the Leafs. Capitals politely decline and keep their pick, time to start looking to the future and absolutely no reason to pay anyone $10M. Look at the Leafs. Having a bunch of Skill Forwards making over $10M is not how winning teams are built.</div></div>

I agree the caps should look to the future, but it seems at least with the moves they have made they are looking to retool and run with Ovechkin again rather than rebuild. This fits...not saying they will win or anything and it would probably need another move or 2 to actually be competitive realistically. I don't see them winning, but I could see them making a move like this.

I would also argue that Marner is a better fit on the Caps than the Leafs anyways, likewise Wilson is a better fit on the Leafs than the Caps. Leafs have small skill forwards in abundance, the caps don't.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 17, 2023 at 11:36 p.m.
Thread: HireMeShanny
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Trevor31lv</b></div><div>Ignoring that sometimes, a goalie just goes insane and beats you, even while having good chances, is a possibility means that you know nothing about hockey, or sports in general. In all sports history, I'm sure there's never been times where 1 side plays extremely well, but a player on the other team just isn't gonna let it happen and wins regardless. Bad faith arguments over and over and over again from you, no wonder you're on a brand new account. Probably got banned for instigating arguments before or something since that's clearly all you want to do. Have a fun time with that, no gonna waste any more time on such a massive troll that has no concept of a reasonable trade.</div></div>

I've never had an account, but keep going back to that bad faith argument. Of course goalies go insane and beat teams, usually those teams aren't the better team anyways though. What's even more insane than that is believing that the CBJ that year were good enough to win a cup.

That year for CBJ, has to be a top 5 disaster year of poor decision making by management up there with the likes of NYI getting Yashin at that price and giving him and DiPietro those contracts they got.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 17, 2023 at 10:48 p.m.
Thread: HireMeShanny
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>squashmaple</b></div><div>What was catastrophic? Be specific since you’re clearly an expert. There isn’t a Jackets fan out there who wishes they’d traded Panarin and Bob at that deadline, finished tenth worst, and continued to be the same boring Jackets of the two decades leading up to that year. We wouldn’t trade the Lightning sweep for anything. Nothing traded away that year has accomplished anything, or have I missed Lassi Thomson becoming a megastar?

You know what’s a catastrophic failure? A Leafs FO who lost in five to a Columbus team with literally the same record as them going into the Bubble playoffs and then didn’t make any meaningful changes, lost to an even worse Montreal team in even more embarrassing fashion the next year, STILL made no meaningful changes, lost again in slightly more respectable way to the Lightning, made no meaningful changes, and now got obliterated by Florida. That’s a slow catastrophe.</div></div>

If you're asking what was catastrophic I don't know what to tell you. They bet on a middling team in a year when everyone good wanted out at the end of their deals, they knew it, didn't trade them for a ransom anyways, gave up even more futures getting an expiring deal, and have stunk ever since. You guys didn't just lose those futures, you also lost everything you could have got for Bob, Panarin, Duc, etc

Leafs have had their issues for sure, but not that bad with this group. Interesting that even worse Habs team made the cup final when the Leafs captain got his head knocked off his body in game 1 and the CBJ didn't.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 17, 2023 at 10:47 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 17, 2023 at 10:37 p.m.
Thread: HireMeShanny
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Trevor31lv</b></div><div>Teams bringing in help at the TDL happens for several teams every year. Guess they're all catastrophic failures then. Surely, in a league where only 1/32 teams wins it all, there can't possibly be any measure of success other than the cup. 96.7% of teams just fail every year.</div></div>

Big cope, I wouldn't say that about most deadline deals at all because most deadline situations are completely different. If you step back and look at that team and their situation objectively, they had no chance before the TDL and didn't do enough to make themselves good enough after to have a chance. When that happened at the time I was completely shocked it was one of the worst deals/overarching team decisions I have seen in my life and it didn't age well either.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 17, 2023 at 10:24 p.m.
Thread: HireMeShanny
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>squashmaple</b></div><div>As we’ve tried to explain to you Leafs fans that doesn’t seem to sink in: Columbus were interested in Marner with an offer sheet as a final piece addition when they still had PLD, Panarin, and Atkinson up front, and Bob in net behind an excellent Jones/Werenski first pair. They have moved on in the five years since then. The team’s needs have shifted because unlike the Leafs who haven’t made any changes when they were warranted, Jarmo is reshaping his team. Trading for Marner now when Laine and Gaudreau are already here is putting lipstick on a pig. A dead pig.

No rebuilding team is giving you multiple high-caliber futures for anyone. Marner isn’t a foundational core piece, he’s a luxury finishing piece. He loves being a Leaf. Keep him. He’s not the problem with your roster.</div></div>

He's not necessarily the problem as much as he's the type of player Toronto does not need as many of as they have now and they need to have a more balanced roster. Plus he just hasn't figured it out well enough in the playoffs.

Wouldn't be the first time an organization stayed in love with a player right or wrong.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 17, 2023 at 10:21 p.m.
Thread: HireMeShanny
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Trevor31lv</b></div><div>Yeah, this is definitely a troll lmao. We can play what if with literally every decision that didn't result in a cup for every team if you wanna go that route.

Calling that Columbus team middling though is just flat out false. They had the best post TDL record in the league and Tuuka literally turned into Jesus to stop them from getting to the ECF. Speaking of which, if you wanna play the stupid namecalling game, this "dumpster fire" has gotten closer to said ECF than Toronto has in the past 2 decades and even beat them in the postseason recently 😂😂😂

It is pretty sad to get so butthurt about someone (rightfully) saying your trade proposal is bad and would never happen though.</div></div>

Now that's a troll and a massive cope. That year was one of the worst mismanagements of any team in recent memory. They would actually be an exciting young solid team right now if they didn't mess that really obvious decision up.