With the news of Auston Matthews becoming the Toronto Maple Leafs captain official, Steve Dangle further dives into the legacy of John Tavares and what’s next for the player and his decision to relinquish the captaincy.
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50 Comments
Typical leaf doucheboy
Loser wokeboy
So from one soft player to another soft player that scores more goals. It wont make a dam difference. Stanley cup is the only thing that matters and the leafs aren’t in that conversation so there fore the leafs dont matter
Reading stats off his phone. Amateur
Really!?! A month ago you talked about how this current structure doesn't work. ( Which it doesn't) Now your geared up for this season?
Tavares was never and hasn’t been captain material 😂 stop the cope boys
The structure of the leafs might be different with Berube
But the results will be the same, doesn’t matter who’s the captain.
They have yet to address their core defensive problems
I wonder if Matthews was one of the players O'Reilly thought could never win a cup…
Soory, but when Marchand cheap shotted Liligren and JT sat on the bench like he was waiting for a bus, that was the end for me. Nice guy, nice player, poor captain.
Steve was screaming about how they can’t win with this core and he’s excited for this season? For what? They get 106 pts instead of 102? And you can’t extend Tavares because it’s not about points, he’s a complete liability 5 on 5. Extending him means putting him on the 3rd line as a checker except he’s slow and can’t check and isn’t physical enough. There is no scenario where you bring him back and benefit from it.
Let’s not forget, in HHOF consideration for Tavares, his very successful junior international history.
He was stripped of the captaincy. Just say it, Steve!! Treviing literally said he approached him about it. End of story.
same old leafs the only thing MLSE cares about is protecting it's image it's brand they don't dare trade the new captains best bud now glad to hear mitch and morgan showed up to watch tavares fall on the leafs sword for his teams failures way to go boys
U can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.
If JT can stay on the wing, he could have a big year.
Adam?
Tavares and Matthews are like Biden and Harris. GLG
Steve, where is the kyle Clifford signing video ?!?!?
nice
Johnny T has to do what Spezza & Giordano did and play for league min to help out his team and retire a Leaf
What team would celebrate a run to the conference finals and treat all those players like gods? Leafs fans definitely don't still talk about Gilmour and Wendel Clark like they're immortal 30 plus years later or build statues of anyone that only got to the conference finals like Sundin right?
How many great players and great leaders were never captain?
Ok Tavares leaves a team he was captain of after saying he wasn’t going anywhere (and winning one playoff series in nine years – not all his fault, we sucked but he left for ‘greener pastures’) and then he was the “missing piece” followed by the captain of the leafs for six years and won – let’s see, one playoff series. Dude has helped win two playoff series and what, two round 2 games in 15 years. He may be a hall of famer but he’s the most disappointing captain in league history who hasn’t committed a crime. And yeah, I totally expect him to have another good season, probably make you pay him 4/32 (the stamkos deal) and you can not win with him for a full decade (but at least he won’t be captain for the end of it). But he is a classy guy, so you’ve all that got that going for you. Thank god the dude got unleashed in Toronto – #flagpole
Buddy couldn't resist mentioning the sens
Consequences have been passed down the road for years. This year, there is no one left to pass the buck.
Hit the nail on the head, Steve, unless it's the times you hit your thumb Steve!!
Does anyone else notice Jhon's hand looks purple
Massive level korny, JT was
Johnny boy will have a career year
I wonder if we’ll see a new jt without the pressure and he can focus on hockey
Tavares unofficial consultant to Austin Mathew’s
He cannot do it on his own as of yet
Tavares and Mathew’s are co operating real good
Everything is good here
Tavares stays a Leaf forever
The contract will be much less perhaps $4.5M five years then a front office job 🏒
If they dont trade anyone does make anyone believe that they have a better chance of winning?
People?
At this point I don’t really care. Wake me up when the season starts
Leafs fan taking shots at conference final banners makes me laugh. TML wishes they could make a 3rd round appearance. Tavares does not deserve HHoF, matthews has not displayed much if a leadership capacity. Austin has lots to prove, if they miss the playoffs this year…well let's see
So they're done with off season trades? The forward group is legit worse.
Lmao Marchand, Tavares pavelski, all those guys are going to the hhof, it’s not just NHL numbers.
HHOF ? Check out his hardware on the world stage.
watched the press conference and what a class act of everyone involved… JT is such a class act – and when they raise Lord stanley over their head we will be screaming in joy! Go Leafs GO!!
Thanks for not having some clickbait title BS saying JT was stripped of his captaincy. Needs to be said.
Don't. Give. A. Single. Fuck. Win a cup or fuck off.
Ah yes the man who left during game four of the playoffs with a tummy ache is gonna lead this team to a cup !
Honestly, say what you want about the Islanders going back to back final four, in this market I think if the leafs had made even one conference final with this group this era wouldn't be seen as the failure it is currently seen as, if they made two in a row this team would probably be as beloved as the Gilmour Clark period, and the Tavares signing would be viewed purely positively.
I genuinely think of it more of a distraction, get the fans happy about the new captain and their minds off of the fact they aren’t changing out any of the core 4.
The bigger conspiracy is whether or not Toronto loaned money to Utah to buy the team, no team in Arizona for Auston to leave to
He said Craig and I thought he was talking to me for a second.
Sundin needs a new mustache statue beside him down on legends row. Mats is lonely being the only non Canadian captain
Sundin needs a new mustache statue beside him down on legends row. Mats is lonely being the only non Canadian captain
Tavares is our Gandalf and Matthews is our Aragorn. It's time to take back Middle Earth!
Steve your right. If John wears the A and we win or go for a long run. John is definitely going to be a hall of famer. He ended the islanders series curse in overtime. Then he ended the leafs series curse in overtime. Round one or not. Two huge goals nobody forgets
Literally have never loved Tavares more than now. If he re signs team friendly he goes on my top 10 leafs all time. Team friendly to me is anything below 7m