Two-time Stanley Cup champion Kris Versteeg joins JD Bunkis to discuss what the Leafs lack, locker-room accountability, taking pride in your role, coaching shortcomings, and how to quantify effort.
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Shanahan MUST be fired since every single decision over the last many years was either made by him or approved/disproved by him! Next it must be Keefe, then Marner!
Shanahan: we believe in this core; we will win with this core, year end debrief..
I watch the leafs my whole life I can confidently say the leafs will win game 5 and 6 to force a game 7 but I donโt know if they will win game 7 I hope this year is different and they come out on top
Marchand has more points than top 4 combined
Yep, when you're struggling and all over the place, you have to get back to remembering who you are. Start from the basics. Keep it simple. Do the Leafs know who they are?
Dubas screwed this team over for the long run when he signed Tavares and negotiated the big 3s first set of contracts.
He went for JT because he was the big name, when he bith didn't fit the timeline or needs of the team.
He tried to revolutionalize team contract structures givibg the stars what they wanted, because he thought he was so smart he could find a bunch of cheap gems that would allow him the build a deep team around the stars. But like every GM his signings, trades and overall decision making were hit and miss.
He did the same thing in Pitt – signed Karlsson when they needed to get younger and already have Letang, and the team never jelled. Crazy how he has so many apologists who defend him at every turn, when he inherited a team with a great group of young talent and barely improved the team over 7 years.
A well-coached team…that's it, whimper home after game 5, clean out your lockers. Start to refresh this group from the top down. Keefe has been outcoached every year in the playoffs. Toronto Maple Leafs should NEVER be a "first-time coach" position.
Matthews as captain? Mistake.
Many time you lose but played well and just lost to a better team, but over last 8 years too many times THAT didn't seem the case
Leaf fans have to boycott stop buying game tickets & merchandise just stop!, and i bet management will fix the Maple leafs!
I'm not sure WHO thought this series would be or go any different .. I've been a leafs fan since birth . This team isn't built for the playoffs . They are playing a team they don't match up well and CANT BEAT . Soooooooo why is this shocking ? Why is this like an OMG moment ???? Just lost that ANYONE thought we were gonna win this series .
You guys need to stop flogging a dead horse.Youre not happy with this team? then stop paying to watch them.stop watching them
we did it in edmonton when the oilers were really sucking.they are overpaid babies who dont feel any responsibility to the city,fans and owners.their toast.maybe next year
Could have used Kris any time, any day on the Leafs ๐
Their identity is the "core four". That is their identity. It is stressed every day. How can all of the players feel important when the core four is constantly talked about as if they are the only thing that matters. Combine that with the so called "leaders of the team" inability to show up to play the majority of every game, you will almost invariably get a version of this. Stop saying core four. It stands for the opppsite of what a team should be.
But nobody talks about how Brendan Shannahan still collects a huge salary for 'the leaf blueprint'? Tavares should give back his next years salary and retire.
Always feel the Maple Leafs as a big corporation more than a family.
Mtl run in 93 and the last one 20-21. Not the best team but there was something special with this group.
More of a collective than 4- 5 "superstar" ..
Anyways games are so tight one play during a game can change everything..
..still wish the leafs to comeback !
The Stanley Cup is by far the most difficult trophy to win out of all the sports hands down. It's grueling on both a physical and mental level. If you're not prepared to lay it all on the line game in and game out you have no hope of winning.
Question??? Do the TML's have any kind of Captain or real Leader? (ie Boston Marchand).
Who had the checking assignment against Marchand in the first 4 games?
3:27 – People were trapped by Boston on paper? Really? People actually thought the Leafs would win? After Boston won all 4 games in the regular season? The games where we also took a bunch of stupid penalties to prove how tough we were? That Boston? I don't know how someone could be watching Hockey all year this year and think the Leafs were somehow a favourite to win this series. That blows my mind.
This is only a surprise to people in Toronto. Guys please. It's been 10 years of the same old crap. Did you really think the Shanaplan was 9 years of crap but IN THE TENTH year they'd EXPLODE? Of course not. There's been zero PROGRESSION.
Leafs should also play Cade Webber, 6' 7". Big defenseman, they got nothing to lose.
The Shanahan era must end. Mitch and Tavares have to be traded. Tealiving to be given a few years to put his own real mark on this team.
MacKinnon waited 9 years before he won the Stanley Cup. Matthews doesn't have the work ethic that MacKinnon has.
idiots