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Leafs=Elite cup contender. Accept it. I think a lot of people thought the same thing about St Louis not long ago, even San Jose back in the day. Even Ottawa has made it farther than Toronto in the playoffs in the last decade. They did it without a salary cap-devouring crop of centers. The differenc...

No one is questioning if Laughs will be good, they will be. No one is questioning if they will make the playoffs, they will. BUT - the team with the same D and the same goaltending is expecting a different result comes the playoffs. IMO every SC champion had a goalie that won some unwinable games, ...

No one is questioning if Laughs will be good, they will be. No one is questioning if they will make the playoffs, they will. BUT - the team with the same D and the same goaltending is expecting a different result comes the playoffs. IMO every SC champion had a goalie that won some unwinable games, ...

This era’s Maple Leafs = WCE-era Canucks, with a much lesser blueline. Enjoy the regular season entertainment; the blueline and goal-line will only bring you post-season tears - especially when they have to face the likes of Tampa and Boston on the regular. It’s like Lucy with a football and Charlie...

People bitch and moan about the FA contracts of this summer, but given the space Benning had (and still largely has) and where this team is at in its rebuild, it’s no big deal. Benning is not at a point where he has to ask anybody to take ‘team discounts’ and squeeze contracts under the cap to conte...

This season for Hutton and Stetcher definitely. Probably Granlund as well. For the rest, I’d say next season will be point where they have to prove they’re going to be part of the team moving forward. At that point, management will have a better idea what they have on the farm who can replace them. ...

They must have thrown him into Room 101 for a good while. His posts reek of Victory Gin in anticipation of the bullet to the back of the head.

Cheap shit theatrics. at best :look: Without knowing her role I don’t see this comment as having any merit. Get over it old white man, times they are a changing. I would be happy if she was truly given an opportunity to do such a job. She may well add value in such a capacity. With the current cult...

It doesn’t surprise me that McCammon was the one responsible. He was one of the ones I was referring to above. That’s what happens when you have non-hockey types (including owners) meddling into things.

I frankly don’t have the time right now, but would love to see the results of a comparison between the teams under corporate ownership (ie-Rogers, Comcast, MSG, etc) and private ownership in terms of team success since the cap came in. More than numbers of Cups, what the comparison is with winning ...

I frankly don’t have the time right now, but would love to see the results of a comparison between the teams under corporate ownership (ie-Rogers, Comcast, MSG, etc) and private ownership in terms of team success since the cap came in. More than numbers of Cups, what the comparison is with winning s...

Yeah, I’m not getting good vibes from the Aquabros either - Frankie in particular. The difference is that Ballard was a cheapskate dinosaur. Frankie and his crew aren’t afraid to dig into their deep pockets and are open to new ideas (although more like distracted squirrels than anything else). Frank...

I say we’ll pull a Philly and win the lottery with the shittiest odds we’ve had since the lottery format and draft Hughes the Younger.

Without Hughes we're basically the same team this year as last. An elite skating defenseman can make or break a team usually...and its going to be another "break" scenario unfortunately. Yeah, its not like the Canucks are adding two former top 6 draft picks into their lineup this year or anything.....

I’ve seen elsewhere that Linden was pushed out as a result of Benning and Weisbrod siding with whatever position the owners had (not sure which side of the play-kids-get-picks/sign-vets-compete-for-playoffs they are really on anymore). I don’t put too much stock in that narrative, but if true I woul...