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| Adam wrote on Fri, 19 May 2023 11:40 |
| inverno76 wrote on Fri, 19 May 2023 09:52 |
Took me most of the week to get to reading stuff about that last game, but this trading Draisaitl stuff is over the top. You always consider alternative avenues, but what leads anyone to believe that the end of times is coming?
I am not buying it. I am disappointed in our end result. This team had a clear path to the Cup, but we tripped over our own feet. This team is a juggernaut with some glaring holes, but addressable holes. Bookmark this post. We are not losing 97 or 29 anytime soon, and we have a 6-8 year run of being considered a Cup contender.
I am a ray of effin' sunshine, and everyone needs to bask in my UV.
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For the record, I wouldn't trade Draisaitl this year. Despite some serious flaws in team construction, and an architect who's basically all but absentee, this team is a couple of breaks from being in the Final Four again this year. Had we got any goaltending at all, we could have beaten Vegas. It still would have been a tough road - Dallas and Carolina are 100+ point teams and Florida was the President's Trophy winners a year earlier, but we were a couple of games from the "anything can happen" spot.
Draisaitl & McDavid are head and shoulders above their peers, and so they can be game changers.
All that said, there's a reason Toronto is doom & gloom this year. In relation to Auston Matthews, they sit where Calgary did last year with Tkachuk. If he isn't interested in signing an extension this summer, then they face the choice of trading him now for all they can get, or potentially losing him for nothing next summer.
I think winning is a bit of an aphrodesiac between team, player and city - so had the Leafs had a deep run this year, then it's a lot easier to convince Matthews that he should stay and that they're on the edge of greatness. The crappy media and the mouth-breathing fans aren't really that bad after all. Who needs privacy at the grocery store or the restaurant? Adulation is fun too, and so is mocking Simmons and Cox.
However, they lost. In his entire career with the Maple Leafs, they've won a single game in the second round. Is that team just doomed? Maybe he SHOULD find out what the market can bear for his services.
Nylander is in the same boat, so the Leafs have some big decisions while trying to balance a cap a year or two out.
And if you have to move on from those guys, then Marner is gone the next year because why would he stick around to be part of a team that isn't on the rise?
We're a year away from that still. The only thing we have to sell McDavid and Draisaitl is that this is a place where they can win, and win together. It's unlikely any team would be able to take both of them over the next couple of years. If they want to lift the Cup together, it has to be here.
But they have to believe that we can win or none of that sales job lands. Instead they just have bad management, inability to bring in competent goaltending, truly awful media, cold dark winters, and West Edmonton Mall. If they don't believe then there's no extension for #29, and with that a major no-win decision has to be made. And if that decision isn't made perfectly, then the following summer there's no McDavid extension either and another even more devastating decision is upon us.
It's not yet end of days here. There's still hope. However, you'd have to be a fool not to be able to see the storm clouds swirling in our future.
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Toronto is struggling because they are paying 11 mill for a second line center that they didn't need to sign. They already had Matttews and Marner in the fold, 2 superstars. Plus Nylander who's damn good. Signing Tavares because he slept in Leafs jammies was stupid. It was especially stupid when they gave him top dollar. If you want to play for the hometown team, great, then you take less. Not top money to do it.
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