with his first career playoff goal, phil di giuseppe ($775,000) ties:
auston matthews ($11,640,250)
mitch marner ($10,903,000)
john tavares ($11,000,000)
in playoff goals this season
Spezza illegal retaliation for knee-on-knee: 6 games ✅
Kadri illegal retaliation for knee-on-knee: Out for playoffs ✅
Xhekaj illegal retaliation for knee-on-knee: C’est bon. C’est hockey. 👨🏻🦯👨🏻🦯👨🏻🦯
if you’re getting paid $11 million, you have to show why in the playoffs
- Nylander scored both goals to send the Leafs to Game 7
- Matthews put the team on his back to win Game 2
- Marner
- Tavares drove the play that won Game 5
they’re paid the big bucks for a reason, folks.
Expect the Toronto Maple Leafs to name Auston Matthews captain on Wednesday. This is part of the evolution of Matthews as a leader and current Maple Leafs captain John Tavares fully supports the change. Tavares has been heavily involved in the process with GM Brad Treliving.
brad treliving highlights:
- celebrated when EDM picked draisaitl over bennett
- wouldn’t move valimaki for stone
- whiffed on eichel
- lost gaudreau and tkachuk
- signed kadri + huberdeau, fired within a year
- signed injured reaves + klingberg
future boston pizza inheritor?
not to be that guy but whenever you see a tweet like this from Joe Bowen remember that he just hates import goalies because his son David played behind NHLer and former
#1
goalie prospect Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen in Sudbury for a year
The CHL needs to end the policy of bringing goalkeepers into Canada taking away chances for Canadian kids to play. Sitting on the bench watching an import is
No way to develop
@DobberHockey
@ARHockeyStats
@pondwhistle
@TMapleLeafsMuse
@samirraza09
sorry i definitely misspoke on the magnitude of the discount
privately, this data generally goes for, at the very least, over 50k and upwards of 100k
so yes this certainly would be the deal of the century. hard to picture a new company undercutting the market that much
virgin mitch marner:
- showboats, dekes himself out with the game on the line
- holds out and threatens to sign with CBJ
- no goals in 8 games
chad noah gregor
- just rips it the good ol’ fashioned way
- “no don’t worry brad i’ll take the PTO and sign later”
- scored in reg
best season since 2011 after a decade of pure misery and failure, fought through an injury to your star goalie AND your backup while your star player goes MIA to reach Game 7 of the 2nd round, only for your top scorer to get a BLOOD CLOT the night before
Canucks Hockey™️
jokes aside, while money doesn’t buy you 50 goals, we do need to talk about how expensive it is to play hockey at a decent level
10-20k per YEAR for AAA, 2-5k for AA/A, and even $750 just to play house league is ridiculous, not to mention equipment + training costs these days
i don’t condone jokes about addiction but if you think that making fun of a millionaire who is alive and well vs making fun of a teenager who died of cancer are morally equivalent then you have a room temperature IQ
this is the ugliest 50-goal season ever. the next generation will be using this to defend mcdavid’s legacy if he goes cupless. or they’ll be using it to say bedard played against plumbers
at risk of parroting what’s likely a silly conspiracy, if Samsonov’s arbitration is what caused his drastic dip in confidence, then the Treliving-led
front office has produced:
- An unplayable goaltender
- An unplayable defenseman (Klingberg)
- An unplayable forward (Reaves)
Here's a rare footage of a male of 'homo goalie' in his natural habitat.
These species love snow and pucks. They're known for their calm behavior and tenderness.
We are very lucky to be able to see these magnificent creatures in a wild.
Fraser Minten today:
• Bad penalty in the 3rd🔥
• 0 goals😮💨
• 0 assists🥶
• Fans every shot😍
• Playing on the first line but somehow the only one pulling that line down🥹
• Stealing TOI from Celebrini🤩
• Leafs top prospect😩
• ∞ turnovers🥵
Oh captain, my captain ❤️
i see canucks fans are finally getting what they asked for: toronto-level media coverage (having the season of a lifetime and the media is talking about your star player leaving)
Dhaliwal on Pettersson negotiations:
Canucks aren't getting any indication from Pettersson that he wants to be here long-term. There's frustration there. I have no intel he wants out.
Up until now I always thought EP would re-sign but I'm not so sure now.
@DonnieandDhali
framing a leave of absence for a sexual assault case as “mental health” is gross and frankly embarrassing from the calgary flames, especially considering what oliver kylington just went through
completely unacceptable
Four NHLers – Carter Hart, Michael McLeod, Dillon Dube & Cal Foote – have been directed to surrender to London police to be charged with sexual assault in connection with an alleged incident that occurred during a 2018 Hockey Canada event.
From
@rwesthead
:
@domluszczyszyn
if you want a real discussion instead of the brad treliving joke you replied to:
your skepticism is probably valid, but publicly blasting an account that is generally well-liked with 4x less followers than you with nothing more than loose thoughts will never go your way
if you think that the leafs’ playoff issues are “grit” and not the fact that their playoffs scoring since 2018 looks like this then you will benefit from a lobotomy IMO
jokes aside with john klingberg, chronic hip issues explain a lot about his play… simply lacks the mobility to be remotely close to NHL level defensively
hope he’s able to recover, seems like a great guy, gained a lot of respect for him here
@Lochness12021
imma need u to think about this within the context of what i posted and explain to me which one of your brain cells thought it was an own
rodion amirov’s story is not about the leafs, but rather about the courage a young man held in the face of death and a kid who had a smile on his face until the end
reading his dad’s comments after his death, though, always being a tear to my eye
okay seriously this means:
A. the coach is saying that the depth is so bad that they’d rather play someone for an hour (likely, a coaching + management issue)
B. they literally just realized the player’s utter garbage mid game (unlikely, happened to me yesterday in beer league)
Marner’s been… good, i think. don’t get me wrong. he looks more poised than at some other points in his playoff career.
just think that if you really believe you’re worth $11m and you’ll hold out and talk to CBJ because you’re that confident, the pressure is on you now
ya any retaliation that illegally targets the head should be heavily penalized, i’m a strong advocate for a fist to the teeth. that’s how we used to settle it, and that’s why these plays are penalized heavily
cody hodgson gets a shot after not playing since the obama administration and it’s heartwarming
akim aliu gets a shot despite playing 4 years more recently than hodgson and there isn’t a single positive reply in the comments…
Hearing Akim Aliu is returning to the ice.
#sjsharks
GM Mike Grier confirmed today he is signing Aliu to an AHL tryout deal for remainder of the season with
@sjbarracuda
. Aliu last played pro in 2020 in Czechia and has battled through years of surgeries and rehab, but his dream
The Los Angeles Lakers are selecting Bronny James with the No. 55 pick in the 2024 NBA draft, sources say. LeBron and Bronny James to become the first ever father-son duo to be in the NBA at the same time.
some pushback already on my marner evaluation but i don’t know if people understand how much $11,000,000 is.
he has the 9th largest cap hit in the league and he fought tooth and nail to get paid that. you don’t pay that much for a good defensive player, you pay that to winners
i don’t think there’s a league-wide conspiracy against toronto (we just stink) but the guy who runs DOPS is clearly salty about how his career ended at the hands of Colton Orr and he sees more of himself in Arber Xhekaj than Nazem Kadri
@domluszczyszyn
if you know all of this then why did you go about it in such a messy manner?
everyone is justifiably confused as to why you randomly accused a well-liked page of a serious infringement, but if you had strong supporting evidence then this wouldn’t have been nearly as disastrous
the matthew knies hate is a little wild
57th ovr. solid NHLer in his rookie season. was one of their most valuable players in the playoffs before he got to 5 regular season games. just looks less confident adjusting to a longer season after ending last szn with a concussion
just saw one of our defensemen maybe shatter his ankle/knee + get concussed bc of a trip and bruins fans are like lmfaooooo stop crying
my team’s gonna play like Kokkonen-Lagesson for a month yeah i’m gonna cry
Like idk what to tell y’all leaf’s fans?? If I was y’all I’d be upset w my team for not being able to score on like half an ahl defense and stop crying over a POSSIBLE missed trip. It’s embarrassing. Get yourselves together.
#5
- Cutter Gauthier
#9
- Matt Savoie
#11
- Conor Geekie
#14
- Rutger McGroarty
All top 15 picks from 2022, moved (or to be moved) within just two years after the draft.
@domluszczyszyn
in the end, it’s not enough to jump in someone’s mentions and be like ‘i think you guys are stealing’
if you added proof of them being dismissive of someone whose work may have been stolen and what makes you think they stole that work, then the reaction would be so different
putting these guys on blast without concrete evidence is an extremely unprofessional look and i’m surprised dom is going that direction here, hard battle to fight
Marner had the chance to show he had it. He doesn’t have it. 5 years after being so confident he deserved to be the 9th highest player in the league that his camp negotiated deals with Columbus, all he’s shown is that he doesn’t have it.