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Theozler

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Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 30, 2022 at 10:19 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 18, 2022 at 1:55 a.m.
Thread: LEAFS SIGN KESSEL AND PK SUBBAN TO BRING HOME A CUP
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>TML_Tika</b></div><div>Subban is not a good fit in Montreal........Firstly they previously traded him which ticked him off and secondly the team is in a tank mode.

How can you say the Leafs are a wildcard if they are lucky.......I think you are dialed into the Toronto Media and believing everything they annouce........The Leafs are a true powerhouse team.</div></div>

How tf would I be buying into the Toronto media? I literally do not follow any leafs fans other than Steve dangle. Here’s what I have been saying over and over again. The leafs have no depth and a 5 man team isn’t winning a cup. Their poor bottom 6 got actively exploited when playing top 5 teams. They were sub 500 against the 4 division winners and the bolts. They went 9-10. That’s over 200 points lower than their regular season percentage. Being a deep team is how you win a cup. You may be better on the top end but as long as the other teams top lines produce the same, the bottom 6 is what claps your cheeks. There is a reason why a team with a player over the caphit of 10m hasn’t won a cup yet, because one player can’t single handedly carry a team to victory. Having three of those players means you are taking away from getting better players on the bottom end. Not to mention how much worse the goal tending got. You may say “the Avs won with mediocre goaltending” or “the canes won the Jennings after bringing in two new goalies”: my rebuttals- both teams have top 5 defenses. The leafs are far from it. Some of the leafs middle pair D men would be either extra D men, or bottom pair. Top pair D men would both be middle pair on those teams. The talent is there at the top but when you have a huge question mark as to who will be your final top 6 forward I see an issue. Carolina has 7/8 top 6 forwards. Colorado had 7/8 as well. 4 top line forwards and 5 top 6 forwards isn’t what wins cups, it’s what leads to disappointment. And the leafs getting worse this offseason, I honestly think they are lucky to get a wild card spot with how much better other teams got. Tampa and Florida obviously go 1-2. Ottawa Detroit and Boston all have cases for being better teams than Toronto right now, honest to god. I see it falling out TB,FLA,OTT,TOR,DET,BOS,BUF,MTL. And that’s being generous too as every team other than Buffalo and montreal has better goaltending. If the leafs kept campbell I see them being that third team, but they didn’t and they got worse. They also lost soup man too who was easily the best forward outside of of the top 5. Now you have to shake kerfoots contract to stay cap compliant. That’s the top 2 forwards from last year outside of the top 5 leaving. Kase leaving as well means that by PPG, the 6th, 7th and 8th best forwards on the leafs will all be gone. That’s atrocious. Essentially losing your entire third line which was already a team that wasn’t that deep. The defense didn’t get better, neither did the offense or goaltending. And the forward corps will be a whole lot worse. Every other team in the Atlantic got better other than Boston and Florida. Florida still clears Toronto easily. Ottawa and Detroit both getting that much better this off-season means there is a very strong case for Toronto missing the playoffs all together. So as an outsider, who does not even follow the Toronto media, who forms their own views based on moves, Toronto got much worse and is a wild card team at best. You may disagree as you are a leafs fan, but this is my opinion. If you are right I will eat my words but till then my view is this and unless the leafs make serious changes to be deeper, I will not be changing my viewpoint. Thank you.
Forum: Armchair-GMNov. 26, 2021 at 5:41 a.m.