for me, the legacy of the Treliving era is that a large portion of Leafs fans got exactly what they wanted after Dubas. They got their GM, their coach, their players and here we are

Not to relitigate, but just an absolutely insane sequence of events where Dubas was ready to move off “we can and we will” and trade Marner, Shanahan said no, Dubas played an “it’s me or him” card, the Leafs chose Shanny, and then all three of them were gone within 15 months.

One player starts the game owning two full monopolies and gets to spend the game talking about what a “self-made success” they are

Bruce Cassidy available, eh?

But tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward. Upward, not forward. And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.

Literally every answer is “oh yeah we knew that obvious catastrophe was going to happen but that’s okay because we’re the greatest”, and nobody in the media has taken the time to say “What the FUCK are you talking about?” out loud.

Not to make excuses but it’s kinda worth a mention that anytime a Maple Leaf goes looking for retribution for bullshit like that Gudas hit, they get rocked with the largest suspension the league has handed out in years.

Professional sports is supposed to be a billion dollar industry that people have decided needs to be treated like grassroots recreational sports, and grassroots recreational sports get treated like professional sports and a billion dollar industry was created to feed that delusion.

I’m not saying that he wouldn’t have solved all the problems of the last two years but I do just wanna walk around for a day in the world where the Leafs chose Kyle Dubas over Brendan Shanahan

Berube and Treliving should have been fired a month ago before the Olympic break, but at this point the Leafs’ goal should be to grind as hard as they can to mitigate the draft pick they hand to Boston this summer. Then bring in a new GM and coach to mini-tank for a high 2027 pick.

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Kid’s team got Hellebuyck’ed in U11 house league. Outshot the other team 29-7. Lost 2-1

Not firing Berube (and Tre for that matter) as soon as the Olympic break started and using the month of February to get people in place to set your new franchise direction is inexcusable.

Just to crunch some numbers on this. Of the Leafs last 20 games before the break, Cowan played in all of the first 16, mostly playing around 10-11 minutes. He played 9:44 in Seattle then didn’t play the rest of the road trip. 9:44 of NHL time in a month instead of 8 games in the AHL. Awful.

Tage and the Sabres are meant for each other, because neither of them seem to be able to figure things out after January 6th

Enough of this half pregnant shit. Own your opinions or fuck off. Either own that you have the self-awareness of a fly and accept that people are furious at you, and stop pretending you don’t know why. OR Accept that life exists outside of your hockey bubble and act accordingly.

Aww we’re just a widdle baby athuwete! Evuwething is so powiticah! Get your head outta your ass.

Resurrecting my stance last year during the 4 Nations on hockey players and politics.

A lot of USA players are gonna to try and weasel out of this WH decision claiming it’s not political but all it basically proves is they’re okay being used as propaganda, and they’re situationally chickenshit.

We also have learned over the last five years that nobody in hockey media other than Rick Westhead and Katie Strang are gonna do a fucking thing to hold anyone accountable for their actions, so I’m not expecting hockey culture to undergo a reckoning anytime soon.

Who turns harder on their player for attending Trump’s little tea party? Leafs fans on Matthews Sens fans on Brady Wild fans on Quinn Hughes

Yeah, hockey is predominantly white. Yeah, hockey is predominantly a sport for upper middle class families. But I think it’s underreported the bubble in which hockey exists in. Hockey isn’t wired into the school system the way most North American sport are.

Far beyond time to put it to bed but “count the rings” culture needs to die, because basically everyone in that game that gets lauded as a “winner” ranged from meh to absolutely awful.

A lot of Canadians got the “Maple Leafs fan” experience today. Put everything on the shoulders of your top five players, have your depth be completely unfit for the moment and disappear, Sam Bennett does his best to fuck you over, lose a winnable game on some bullshit.

It’s low on the list of “reasons Canada needs to overhaul its approach to hockey” but “get commentators that talk about the game knowledgeably and not just in platitudes that glorify 3rd liners” is on Page 1.

All in all Jon Cooper had a pretty shit tournament.

Binnington just sliding like 15 feet out of his net when he has no idea where the puck went

OT picks Celebrini and Tage

Twice. We missed out on this tournament twice and for what?

Sorry not sorry, hockey is better when contact is minimal and requires the puck carrier to have the puck.

Now bummed that Sid didn’t Charlie Conway it by acting as an additional coach on the bench

Sorry, Ovechkin blowing up Jagr in 2010, a Canadian threw a hit so you don’t exist anymore

Both of those clips of the teams reading the lineup were one step above the sounds a troupe of apes make when they’re excited.

few times ive been around that track so its not just gonna happen just like that cuz i cant block haula's back hand no i cant block haulas back hand

You might think to yourself. “Boy, he makes a lot of posts about how much he hates Sam Bennett and the Panthers” Me:

Quick! Somebody deploy the “prevent Sam Bennett from the consequences of his actions” signal!

Yes, Sam Bennett being a shit bird might cost Canada the Olympics like everyone with four brain cells could have predicted, but on the other hand he might actually face consequences if someone throws a bagel at him and Nate MacKinnon tears him to pieces in a gluten rage.

Once again, ice has fucked over normal Americans.

I think the Leafs best course of action is to fire Berube and see what a new coach can get out of these guys the remainder of the year playing an actual modern hockey system. Don’t add. Trade some pending free agents to recover some picks.

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The end of this version of the Leafs should be the exact same as the end of the Nonis era where it’s very clear they’re all so fucking incompetent that none of them work in the NHL again. I bet the NHL gave Shanahan a do-shit-all role just so he wouldn’t start talking about his DoPS days

MAGAmind

Megamind is looking ROUGH these days

Other than “MLSE is being cheap as fuck not wanting to pay for it”, what is the operating reason to not fire Tre and Berube this week and give somebody new the Olympic break to figure out the path forward?

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This baby taught John Cena how to do the STF

S - Peralta, Holt A - Rosa, Amy, Pimento B - Terry, Scully C - Kevin, Gina D - Boyle, Cheddar, Hitchcock F - Doug Judy

Every action invites the question why the USA (and Israel for that matter) invites the question why they haven’t been barred from international competition the same way Russia has. I feel like that’s more likely to result in Russia’s sanctions being rescinded because it’s all run by cowards

“You didn’t give me what I want when I was a good boy (citation needed) so now I’m going to take what I want by being a bad boy” is toddler level reasoning. Congratulations America. You gave a kindergartener control of a nuclear arsenal.