I’m so ready for the nerd revolution in Toronto

Really does feel like MLSE is using the insiders to soft launch Mehta, POHO is still a big ? But seems like Gillis has the inside track

Why play this young intriguing RHD prospect that’s had a real good run with the Marlies when you can simply play Phillippe Myers every night? Sorry William Villeneuve, this game is simply too important for Craig Berube to consider playing you

Day 4 of asking MLSE to hire Gillis and Mehta, evidently I don’t have the patience for the long and thorough search I asked for

Leafs officially eliminated from playoff contention for the first time since the 2015-16 season Necessary evil to cut out the cancer that has infested the organization

Being reported Armstrong is not a consideration for the Leafs why is Keith Pelley actually being smart wtf Reportedly wants to mimic the Hurricanes data driven approach just on a bigger scale behind the scenes I might be able to fully love every aspect of my hockey team again

@linecomposition.bsky.social can you do me a favour and tell the Habs to stay away from TJ Hughes please? I call dibs

There’s just way too much smoke around Gillis at this point Feels like one of those situations where there’s 10 candidates but one of them is friends with the hiring manager Gillis seems to have a leg up, and Mehta has been mentioned by every insider too Gillis POHO, Mehta GM, GET. IT. DONE.

The St. Louis Blues are currently 4 points out of a playoff spot They are also 4 points up on the 31st place Blackhawks The final two weeks of the season are about to be pure unfiltered (albeit disgustingly ugly) chaos

Sunny Mehta has already been name dropped in like 5 articles and the Mike Gillis stuff does seem to have some traction I do want the Leafs to have an exhaustive search but at least the guys that seem to be the favourites for GM/POHO are actually… good?

Ok so Pelley is open to a rookie GM, but if it’s a rookie GM the president will have to have experience to help guide that GM Gillis as POHO and Mehta as GM makes way too much sense

Pelley admitting that Leafs brass and management didn’t see the rise of the Sabres and Habs coming…. Why are you admitting you don’t pay attention to your rivals

Man Keith Pelley sure isn’t saying a whole lot other than “structure” and “alignment” in very vague terms, but him saying the emphasis for the next candidate being data centric is note worthy (Sunny Mehta)

Will say Kent Hughes has got to be really sad that Tre is fired and he can’t fleece him with whatever trade they tried working at the deadline this summer

With Nill and Armstrong both off the board the Leafs should really be taking a good hard look at Sunny Mehta as a GM candidate. AGM in Florida and runs their analytics department Pair him with Woodcroft as HC, and let’s get back to actually driving play and controlling possession again

Btw the Ducks reek of the Sens from last year. Talented team with some exciting young pieces, but they are going to get a rude awakening the second they run into a team with actual playoff experience They better pray they win the division and play Utah in R1

Alright that was a fantastic game Leafs came out for blood, refs got in the way, they didn’t care, and they complete the comeback and sweep the season series vs the Ducks Good shit boys

I will say, for as much as Paros/the league instructed the officials to be very strict on the Leafs for trying to start shenanigans tonight, it hasn’t stopped the Leafs from going for blood every single whistle Good on them, the hockey isn’t important tonight, collecting a blood debt is

Not a coincidence that everything the Leafs have done tonight is being penalized immediately and to the extreme (kicking Pezzetta out because a ref told him he’s not allowed to fight Gudas) It’s all because Paros is in the building Not the refs fault, they got their orders from the league

I haven’t seen the refs so aggressively wrestle players since an official literally shoved Michael Bunting off the ice That linesman was absolutely wrangling Pezzetta while he was trying to get something going, then the give him an abuse of official for the ref trying to tackle him

Cowan might be my favourite player on this team rn Tackled Mintyukov for having the gall to touch William Nylander The Cowboy rides into action again

Leafs have 13 penalty minutes 9 minutes into this game 9 of those coming off fighting, and roughing calls That’s what we like to see

Alright cool Domi kicks Gudas’s ass off the opening faceoff I would hope that there’s more passion to this game than just that tho otherwise it will feel like just checking a box

HOLY SHIITTTT KYPER FROM DOWNTOWN TRELIVING IS GONE HALLELUJAH

Reports that the Leafs might fire Tre as soon as tomorrow Good. You need to hire a president first, so get that process going so that when you fire Berube end of season you can properly hire a POHO, who hires the GM, who hires the coach Bring back cohesion to my organization please

I was already out on this whole Doug Armstrong to the Leafs thing before, but the report that he would only leave STL if he was both President of Hockey Ops AND GM somewhere else? Fuck. No. As just POHO it would be a safe, fine, mediocre hire. As GM too? Piss off

The Lions have had a fairly quiet free agency as is the norm for them, and as a result a lot of people are getting antsy with where this roster stands. So… let’s talk about it! New video on the channel breaking down free agency live now, enjoy! #Onepride youtu.be/tFVajik2M8Y?...

Uhhh… Vegas? We good? Not sure hiring Torts to replace Cassidy with like 2 weeks before you go off to play Edmonton in R1 is the play

Leafs are entering a very dangerous area where they are 5th last by points % so that places them into 1 of 2 danger zones 1: someone behind wins the lottery, Boston gets 6th pick 2: Leafs get 5th pick, lose next two unprotected firsts and don’t get one of the elite prospects out of it

Alright guess we’ve firmly shifted to trying to win a few more games so the Boston pick is closer to 10-12 than it is to 6th

Can’t fault the Leafs too much, there’s levels to this shit. The rangers are simply too elite in the art of tanking

Alright the tank is cooked it’s up to the lottery now

8D chess by the Bruins throwing that game to the Leafs knowing that’ll help prevent the Leafs from keeping their pick

Btw that should be a multi game suspension for Zadorov that’s a horrible hit

Easton Cowan might be an idiot, or brave as hell, I can’t decide, but him dropping the gloves to go after Zadorov after that hit on Tavares rules straight up

Matthew Knies gotta be the only leaf ever that actually elevates his play in TD Garden

Leafs Rangers tomorrow night is going to be a legendary tank bowl game

That CJ article about the Carlo trade is hilarious Brad Tre still didn’t figure out the Flames would never trade with him, then got surprised when they backed out at the 11th hour and had to panic and pay a premium for Carlo

I know Berube is only here as a tank commander at this point but dude come on he’s openly shitting on Cowan for just saying that the sequence that led to the first Ottawa goal was deflating Berube saying that it’s a cop out, the team is making excuses, he hates his players

Tim Stutzle try not to dive and whine challenge Seriously have not watched an Ottawa game where he didn’t go down easy at least once and complain about it Joel Embiid of the NHL

You know what I love? When it gets reported that the Leafs aren’t even going to bother negotiating, qualifying, or even trading pending RFA Matias Maccelli, who is going to finish around 15G and 40P in 70 games, but they still play him on PP1 over Cowan Make up your mind do you like him or not

Honestly the Leafs don’t even need Gavin McKenna, we have offensive POWERHOUSE Bo Groulx

The Minnesota Wild are going to get their shit rocked so hard by the Stars in round 1 Mid ahh team getting dunked on by Bo Groulx

Can you believe the Leafs just had Bo Groulx chilling with the Marlies and lighting it up and it took like 60 games for them to consider calling him up lmao

Matthews out for the year as a result of that knee on knee hit by Gudas, which was a blatant (and successful) attempt to injure. For someone with Gudas’ history, that should be a 7-10 game suspension minimum Knowing the way Paros operates, 5k fine

Dreger and CJ on overdrive: “there’s a healthy realization from both Keith Pelley and the higher ups that a lot of this is on the players.” Ah yes “it’s not my fault, it’s on the players that I signed, traded for, and kept!” Blow up the entire organization and start from scratch

Easton Cowan getting an instigator for forcing LaCombe to fight him is the perfect demonstration of how far off the rails this game has gone I love it

EASTON COWAN FIGHT ALERT?!?!?

Did Brandon Carlo seriously just loft a perfect 190 foot saucer pass from below his own goal line to the Ducks blue line to setup a SHG…. WHERE did that come from

Pezzetta and Domi might jump into the Ducks bench at this rate