2024-25 OOTS: Playoff Edition

[Cousin Strawberry]

Austin dirty Sanchez Matthews is a complete no show. What happened?

He makes EP40 look good

[Strangelove]

Sportsnet panel whining post-game about Leaves fans booing and tossing jerseys on the ice.

[Meds]

I hated to see the team part with Tanev. What a completely asinine move. Beyond dumb.

Yes and no. He was a warrior and a solid defenseman, not a stay home guy as many thought, his offensive acumen was often underappreciated because he didn't usually end up being one of the two touches on the puck before a goal, however he often made good passes and reads. The decision to move on was understandable at the time. He had been oft-injured, and the team was trying to transition towards a new group. The beyond dumb component was not making the decision 3 months earlier and trading him for a draft pick.

Forsling bungle was a moronic move.

Forsling was a 5th round pick who took 8 years to crack a NHL lineup with his 3rd team. The Canucks traded him after he failed to impress in the SHL, and the knock was his mobility and average or below physical game. The return of Clendenning was a head scratcher.

Trading for OEL was a blunderfuck. Like ..... why? A terrible misuse of assets. It's like Mëds loading up his private plane with propane. Not cunning. Current management compounded the problem hiring a coach he hates and coach hates him. Pre-tarded.

No. You're wrong. That trade essentially was OEL + Garland for a 1st round pick, they then paid a 2nd round pick for the Coyotes to take Beagle, Roussel, The Air Thief, and retain 12% of OEL's salary. Anyone would say that grabbing a top-6 winger and a top-4 defenseman for a 1st round pick was a good trade. OEL went off a cliff.....nobody saw that coming.

Stecher- see above. He fuels a lot of rage on this board but it's good to see a local kid punch above his weight.

I'm not sure he moves the needle either way. His stats are pretty clear that he's a placeholder everywhere he plays. Affordable bottom-pairing guy who is quite replaceable. He was cleared to play on April 26. Edmonton, a team with a weak blueline that is missing a key piece, has used him in 1 game this post season. Speaks volumes.

Horsey, ........Tanev, Forsling, Podkolzin and Toffoli were terrible errors.

Why was Toffoli so egregious? He played 10 games here. He was solid in those games, and the subsequent handful in the playoffs, but it's a pretty small sample size to be getting hung up on not re-signing him. You look at his numbers prior to coming to Vancouver and you can see that he was a streaky 50 point winger. It may have been a smart move to bring him back, but it could just as easily have been a lukewarm move as well.

Every team's history is checkered with decisions like these.

[Strangelove]

Austin dirty Sanchez Matthews

[Meds]

The Toronto boo birds are legend. It's a big part of the losing tradition that is often overlooked.

An uptight, hypercritical media and fanbase is central to the whole leaves thing.

Agreed, and man are those boo birds are howling right now!

And schadenfreude is deliciously alive and well here on The Corner.

[Tciso]

The Toronto boo birds are legend. It's a big part of the losing tradition that is often overlooked.

An uptight, hypercritical media and fanbase is central to the whole leaves thing.

Agreed, and man are those boo birds are howling right now!

And schadenfreude is deliciously alive and well here on The Corner.

That's the best schaden I have had in weeks.

[Todd Bersnoozi]

Jack Michaels sounds like Gilbert Godfrey trying to be Scott Ferral. What an idiot.

He reminds me of Jim Ross, the commentator of WWE matches.

[Strangelove]

[rats19]

Coilers moving on

[Meds]

Vegas over the hill now?

[Lancer]

Dunno who I want to cheer for in the WPG-DAL series. Which one has the better chance of beating (hopefully to a pulp) the Coilers.

[Chef Boi RD]

Go Gaglardi!! The Owner we coulda had, shoulda had!

[theman]

Cheer for whoever is best to take out Edmonton.

What the hell happened to Vegas?

[JelloPuddingPop]

Cheer for whoever is best to take out Edmonton.

What the hell happened to Vegas?

As Mëds said - over the "Hill"

[rats19]

Jets::

You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive