What’s next for Toronto? After being eliminated in the First Round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, NHL Tonight discusses the upcoming offseason.
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It’s the culture. Too many players of the same kind. This team needs a Mathew Tkchuk
Leafs lost game 7 in OT
Swayman held Boston in the games they won that could have gone either way.
Does Toronto need changes, yes I believe at Coaching, Defense and Goaltending. Marner is the obvious choice, and a decent return could be a breath of fresh air.
Swayman did the same to Florida last night
I know I'm in a minority but I would leave the core four/five alone. Replace Keefe with Berube or Brind'Amour, sign Brett Pesce and find a steady backup for Woll.
You simply do not get rid of elite players, which are so hard to find, Tavares can be renegotiated after next year for substantially less, or you can move him. Leaf's have very good prospects that can be brought up.
The Leafs' took the Bruins to 7 games and overtime, and they just beat the Panthers 5 – 1, everyone in L:eaf's Nation is very emotional now, lets simmer down and not over react and destroy what's here.
Tavares isn’t going anywhere and Leafs don’t want to shop him. They will resign him @ $3-$5M at the end of the year for 3 more years I bet. He has small kids, he doesn’t want to uproot them and he will take a team friendly deal to stay. His contact isn’t the problem this year or next as there is limited cap savings if have to eat any of the contract and certainly not going to buy him out. Doesn’t make any sense.
Has Treliving won stanley with any team?
If you want to change culture then you need to get a goalie, couple of strong defensemen, and replace Marner, Tavares, and All the coaches and Shanny.
why would they eat any $? bad assumption
Would he go buy some Islanders pajamas??
Sam bein' nice cuz' he's on the American network,,,,,,c'mon Sam just say it,,,,Shanny should be fired along with the whole coaching staff. Marner's gotta go and other guys with term on their deals to let people know the party's over. Try to sign Montour and Pesce. Loose Liljigren,,,Robertson,,,Jarnkrok,,,Kampf. Bring in big bodies. Hire Berube to coach. Develop a new identity on your 3rd and 4th lines. ETC ETC ETC
Outlook: Grim.
The only solution is Mitch Marner for Pierre Luc Dubois.
Keefe should stay. Trade Reilly, Marner & Tavares….spend some money and bring on Crosby & couple big physical guys.
If Don Cherry survived the poppy outburst, he would accuse Shanahan & Treviling of advocating slavery by having the players play soft.
The coach isn’t the problem, Matthew’s always hurt can’t score much in playoffs makes league highest money soon, Marner soft never shoots or likes to get hit, Taveres is slow and playoffs are fast paced. Nylander is ok but for 11.5 million no thanks
Could it be ANY CLEARER As to just how COMPLETELY INCOMPETENT ‘DUMBASS’ was for GIVING MONEY AWAY to players who hadn’t won a single thing ? I was pissed when they chose him over Lamorello, pissed when they didn’t let Nylander sit and really PISSED when Marner held out for just that little bit extra. Believe me when I say this ‘group’s’ focus is NOT A LONG RUN IN the postseason. What a COLLOSSAL CLUSTERFU…K ! But wait, it looks like Shanahan will be back, cuz he’s speaking this coming Friday so WHAT WILL CHANGE ?
"Simon Benoit is a 6/7 defenseman"…. Did this guy watch the playoffs? Benoit and McCabe were solid.
How smart are the agents? Marner gets out, taveres can go, Matthews is short term and nylander is long term: ALL AFTER fleecing the leafs because they are ALWAYS desperate 😂 Mark Hunter is close to another Memorial Cup; just saying…
Keep Mathew’s and nylander as the core offense. That’s it. Trade Tavares, Marner, Samsonov. Fire Keefe and Shanahan. Can we PLEASE find a GOOD goaltender? They will never win if they do not have top 10 goalie in the league.
1959, lets leave it at that lol
Where do they go from here? Not to the Stanley cup finals, that's forsure.
Nylander SUCKS!! Do these people watch the games?? Both Marner and Nylander need to go, Both do not compete hard enough for the salaries they get. Even if you lose both trades they are both massive liabilities when the games matter.
Benoit a 6 or 7 guy! LOL , can't believe he said that with a straight face.
The Leafs should not retain on Marner LOL. There are plenty of young teams that need help making the playoffs with cap space to pay him in full and sign him next year.
I can easily see many 3-ways deals that make sense.
1. Leafs trade Marner to a team that is finished rebuilding that still needs to make the playoffs and still has plenty of cap space.
2. That team then trades picks and late prospects to another team entering a rebuild.
3. That team then sends useful defensemen and cup-caliber pieces back to Toronto.
Matthews is a bust. Less than 0.5 goals over 8 years of playoffs. 1 goal in last 10 playoff games, bailed over the sniffles when others play with punctured lungs, punctured sternums, dislocated shoulders, torn ACL'S and your boy jumped ship. He's highest paid player, this is all on his failed butt.
Brendan Shanahan has for 10 seasons been Leafs' President. Whether Keith Pelley, CEO of Leafs' ownership group Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE), agrees with me that Shanny must go, so that the AM34-Marner-Nylander-Rielly-Tavares quintet has a chance of being split up (given how ineffective so many members of that quintet were during the recent Leafs-Bruins playoff series), still remains TBD.
You people need to learn that no team is gonna trade for any of those team breaking/cap destroying contracts for players who refuse to play in the playoffs. 🤷 😂
Lol almost all those goals were the goalie out of position.