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[Fox] Brendan Shanahan was asked if he still believes the core of the Maple Leafs can win. His long answer did not include the word “yes.”



[Fox] Brendan Shanahan was asked if he still believes the core of the Maple Leafs can win.

His long answer did not include the word “yes.”

by bornagain19

22 Comments

  1. SeatPaste7

    Everyone seems to be expecting Shanahan to be executed on live television. If they’re actually breaking things up…I mean….isn’t that what we’ve been BEGGING for all this time?

  2. theguyishere16

    His answer sounded a hell of a lot more like “were seeing what else is out there” imo

  3. ConnectOccasion7033

    That press conference was absolutely nonsense. Didn’t answer any difficult questions and said the Core 5 expenditure is irrelevant. 

    Sounded like Sammy is gone, and they will look at trading a big earner, but that’s all.

  4. Aware-Original8825

    Without saying it, he pretty much said no.

  5. mikesully374826

    Sounded to me like they plan on exploring trades of a member of the core, but keep in mind this is not the first summer they will explore trades for a member of the core.

    After the 2021 season they explored trades and didn’t find any they liked, unless the Karlsson deal that was blocked *was* a trade that Dubas liked that involved a member of the core.

  6. TactileOstrich

    Making a big move like that would make bringing Shanahan back excusable. After all, isn’t that part of the reason we’d want someone else brought in? Presuming he’s changed his tune on the philosophy of how the team is built for playoffs.

  7. NewTdotleafs

    He just bs’d his way around the question, and had the audacity to bring up patience. Are you fucking kidding me? 6 of 8 years wasted in the Matthews era (First two years i count as development and not actual playoff contenders). 1 series win. Year after year of embarrassing losses such as the Zamboni driver, 3-2 series lead chokes, multiple game 7 losses to Boston (THIS YEAR THEY DIDN’T EVEN HAVE BERGERON, KREJCI OR CHARA, WE LOST TO THE BOSTON “COYLE 1C” BRUINS) We’re talking about patience?!

  8. hymensmasher99

    The only positive coming out of shanahan. Hope he follows through on some major change

  9. steelcitylights

    he could’ve easily just said yes, and the fact that he mentioned the trade deadline as the time to do things seems to allude to the core contracts that are expiring at that time.

  10. Accomplished_Low148

    The irony of this whole thing was that Shanny and Treliving effectively said what Dubas hinted at last year, that change was needed.

    Beyond wasting a year by not winning in the playoffs, a year was wasted to reach the same conclusion that was reached by Dubas last year.

    I’m not trying to make this a pro-Dubas post, just showing that waiting a year and changing the GM to do something that should’ve been done last year is terrible mismanagement

  11. Accomplished_Low148

    I was a little surprised by how passive Keith Pelley is and how much he seems to like what’s already in place with Shannahan and Treliving.

    Beyond his pre drafted bullshit of ensuring unity within the entire organization his message was effectively I’m just gonna let these guys do their thing because they seem to know what to do lol

  12. Drew_You_To_91

    The difference in The tone of voice between Brad and Shanny spoke volumes to me for some reason. Brad sounded like a guy who was fired up to see what he can do to make this team better and shanny sounded like a guy who was defeated and out of ideas.

  13. northdancer

    How does Shanahan keep his job. Please make it make sense

  14. 10thousand34

    I believe Matthews will win us a cup, but it won’t include Mitch Marner

  15. His follow up to what’s different this time was nothing though .. so take it all with a grain of salt

  16. Cptleaf93

    Took him a whole year to figure out what we’ve been saying since the Montreal loss

  17. OldPollution7225

    Shanny loves to invoke the Red Wings every chance he gets. He should know that he was the final piece of what for years was an unsolvable puzzle. The only true “core” of that Red Wings team was Steve Yzerman; the players surrounding him were radically different from 87 when they first made the playoffs to 97 when they won the Cup. Matthews should be the only untouchable player on this team.

  18. _caponius

    Don’t understand how Marner got that NMC. You’d think at least Dubas could’ve stood his ground in some part of that deal.

  19. Fuckin change it, it’s been almost a decade of the same shit were not gonna win anything but regular season games with these gutless overplayed losers.

  20. dynozombie

    Funny how he fired someone for coming to that conclusion a year ago

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