One of these 8 teams will win the Stanley Cup in 2023:
- Carolina Hurricanes
- New Jersey Devils/NYR
- Toronto Maple Leafs
- Vegas Golden Knights
- Edmonton Oilers
- Dallas Stars
- Seattle Kraken
- Florida Panthers
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Elliotte Friedman says Sheldon Keefe was extremely careful about how he treated Marner because of how sensitive Marner is.
If that's the case, I don't know how Marner thinks he will put up with the pressure of another season in Toronto.
I'm so sick of this situation.
I am not accustomed to a Maple Leafs goalie showing up and dominating in a huge pressure situation.
Ilya Samsonov outplaying Andrei Vasilevskiy in a playoff series was not something I ever expected to happen.
Kyle Dubas is an excellent GM. He put together a stacked hockey team.
The fatal error seems to be that he's handed the keys to his Ferrari to a guy who's crashed a couple cars before.
But it's fine because they're friends.
I hope William Nylander scores the Stanley Cup winning goal and it ruins the moment all the boomers have been waiting for since 1967.
The rest of us will celebrate.
For Matthew Tkachuk and 20 games of Claude Giroux and Ben Chiarot, the Florida Panthers traded:
- Jonathan Huberdeau
- MacKenzie Weegar
- Former Top 10 pick (Owen Tippett)
- 1st round pick (23)
- 1st round pick (24)
- 1st round pick (25)
- 3rd round pick (24)
- 2 Prospects
Wow.
If Jason Spezza is planning to stay in Toronto after retirement, MLSE should offer him the world and let him do whatever he wants.
He deserves everything.
As a 17 year old, Nikolai Antropov played in a Division 'D' U18 tournament for Kazakhstan. The tournament included Israel, Bulgaria, Spain, Luxembourg, Belgium, Iceland and The Netherlands.
Antropov had 54 points in 5 games.
Mitch Marner probably woke up this morning wondering why so many people are being mean to him after he scored a goal and tried hard in the third period.
The Maple Leafs can go 82-0 in the regular season and it wouldn't make up for what happened in the Montreal series.
The 2022 playoffs and how they perform is the only thing that matters. It's all meaningless hockey, until then.
Sheldon Keefe can't figure out Jim Montgomery's system. He has the talent on the roster but he can't figure out how to counter Boston's defensive schemes.
Keefe is getting out-coached again. That's the theme of his tenure with the Maple Leafs.
If Kyle Dubas gets Mitch Marner at under $10M a year, Bell and Rogers must relieve Darren Dreger, Gord Miller and Nick Kypreos of their duties.
Sorry, that's the law.
The New York Rangers paying Blake Wheeler less money and term than Toronto is paying Ryan Reaves has me questioning whether Brad Treliving knows what he's doing.
It seems like Nylander may have left money on the table during his last contract, in order to allow Dubas to afford Marner, Matthews and to improve the team. Dubas then went ahead and gave Marner $4M more than Nylander.
Nylander has every right to get paid this time around.
The Maple Leafs have four players on pace for 70+ points, over a full season.
Mitch Marner - 101 points
Auston Matthews - 96 points
John Tavares - 84 points
William Nylander - 70 points
Is that good?
William Nylander and Pierre Engvall at a prospect camp in July of 2014.
Both had just been drafted by the Maple Leafs, in the 2014 NHL draft. Nylander went 8th and Engvall went 188th.
The St. Louis Blues scored 0 goals on 7 shots, after Sheldon Keefe called a timeout with 18 minutes left in the 3rd period.
I'm not saying Sheldon Keefe is a better head coach than Mike Babcock but Sheldon Keefe is a better head coach than Mike Babcock.
It's only been 9 games under Sheldon Keefe but his team's PP and PK efficiency numbers would be 1st in the NHL. Same players and assistant coaches as Mike Babcock.
Maple Leafs PP:
Babcock - 17.7%
Keefe - 35.7%
Maple Leafs PK:
Babcock - 73.1%
Keefe - 90.1%
"As a kid growing up, I was a huge Toronto Maple Leafs fan. Harold Ballard owning the Leafs beat the Toronto Maple Leafs fan out of me."
- Bob McKenzie
If Marc Bergevin walks away from these playoffs with the mentality that his team is just a couple guys away from being a true Stanley Cup contender, he's probably going to set the organization back a decade.
Sheldon Keefe's loyalty to Justin Holl and Alexander Kerfoot are two big reasons why he can't return as the coach of the Maple Leafs.
A team that is trying to win a championship cannot have a guy with such questionable judgement calling the shots.
The Toronto Maple Leafs under Kyle Dubas have better organizational depth of talent than any previous Maple Leafs front office and it is not particularly close.
Maple Leafs prospect Ian Scott with another win last night for Prince Albert. He's now 18-1, with a 1.37 GAA, .951 SV% and 4 Shutouts.
This is getting ridiculous.
The Pittsburgh Penguins trading for Erik Karlsson is fun but Kyle Dubas is doing the same thing in Pittsburgh that he did in Toronto.
Except every member of his core four in Pittsburgh is older than John Tavares.
Ilya Mikheyev has more points than:
Phil Kessel
Jamie Benn
Jonathan Toews
James van Riemsdyk
TJ Oshie
Alex Radulov
Jeff Skinner
Blake Wheeler
Brandon Saad
Charlie Coyle
Paul Stastny
Artturi Lehkonen
Mats Zuccarello
Anders Lee
Joe Pavelski
etc.
Jason Spezza not playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs in his prime is a travesty.
He plays the game like he gives a shit and genuinely cares about the team and that jersey.
I really liked him as a guy. As a goalie, Frederik Andersen was like a car that never broke down except for when you had something important to do like a job interview or a hot date.
Frederik Andersen went 149-74-36 in 5 seasons with
#LeafsForever
. His 149 wins are the 4th-most in franchise history, and the 4th-most in the
#NHL
since the start of 2016-17.
It would be great if the Maple Leafs did the thing tonight and we could enjoy the rest of the weekend.
Please, just get it done.
We can't live like this.
37 year old Jason Spezza is having a more productive season than Taylor Hall, Dylan Larkin, Jamie Benn and Josh Anderson.
Not bad for the league minimum.
Sheldon Keefe's inability to adjust to anything Paul Maurice does is why he's being completely outcoached.
Mitch Marner and Auston Matthews not showing up in a must win game is another story.
Both can be true but if Keefe was able to adjust, this game likely doesn't go to OT.
If NHLers are cleared to compete at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games, this is what a roster for Team Canada could look like. ๐จ๐ฆ
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The Florida Panthers just collapsed worse than the Toronto Maple Leafs ever have but nobody will talk about it because the Florida Panthers could be relocated tomorrow and nobody would really care except for a few hundred people.
The Maple Leafs should do everything possible to acquire Miles Wood from New Jersey.
He's similar to Zach Hyman except he's also one of the fastest skaters in the league.
Ideal replacement.
The Maple Leafs fumbled their first real shot at a Stanley Cup in decades.
Sheldon Keefe's tactics and ability to adjust to the opposition was amateur hour and most of the top players didn't show up.
Maple Leafs prospect Nick Robertson with 3 goals on 10 shots against Mississauga.
16 goals, 25 points in 14 games.
Robertson just turned 18. Had he been born a week later, he would have been a 2020 draft eligible.
He's dominating the OHL.
I remember being 11 and coming home from school to the news that Mats Sundin had been named captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
I will never forget.
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Maple Leafs prospect Nick Robertson has 37 shots on goal in the last 4 games. He's also on a 10 game point streak (18 points).
He's too good for the OHL and he just only turned 18 in September.