Who knew? Small balls make male swimmers more hydrodynamic.

I hope Domi recovers quickly and this doesn’t hinder any attempts to trade him to a division rival.

There’s playoff Freddie!

So Jordan Staal is the guy you’re going with here? NHL PR doing a recap of the Leafs struggles: “Oliver Ekman-Larsson and the Leafs had a challenging 2025/26 season.”

Contenders for William Nylander heroes:

At this point I don’t care at all about the politics of the Leafs, I just want them to make moves to improve the team to a contender. These media’s focus on this every time is so high school. Talk about McKenna! Or how to acquire players! Say something of substance! Be capable of talking tactics??

The thing that I like about Chayka, if I have to pick one thing, is that he's willing to cheat to win.

Ok so - since nobody else seems curious enough to actually bother doing a serious comparison of Chayka's *total* draft record vs the rest of the NHL for the 4 years from 2016 through 2019, I have gone ahead and done some quick "big picture" analysis.

How long before the lazy Wendy’s jokes feel tired? Only accepting negative amounts of time as reasonable responses.

It's telling that Chayka is getting grilled like this while Quenneville and Bowman were served up softballs to talk about charity work they did or whatever.

The Chayka hire lines up almost exactly with what Pelley said he wanted, someone focused on evidence-based decision making. He also said he’s not interested in getting in the weeds. He looked at a process he didn’t like and aligned it with his vision.

If Dubas was “Glasses” what are people gonna call Chayka? It has to be low concept, and reductive, easy enough for anti-analytics folk to understand but not really indicative of what he does. Spreadsheet? Carpal Tunnel? Glasses 2.0?

So Avalanche-Lightning final?

Ideal situation: Leafs lose. Nylander hits 30 goals and 80 pts on the season.

Shootouts are boring. Put a defensive skater on the ice starting at the opposite blue line for more breakaway vibes and eliminate the boring-ass, slow, heavy stick-handling, dodecuple-deke shot attempts.

Nylander is one of three regulars outscoring the other team in his 5v5 minutes. Positive relative to teammates in goal, shot attempt, xG differential. He is 15th in the league in even strength points while missing 20% of the season. Top 10 in 5v5 pts/60. Is this really a "certainly" statement

Parros is getting a lot of shit for defending his Gudas suspension decision, but he basically said that he’s adhering to the standard set by owners. The game is as dangerous as those cunts want it to be. Though, he deserves criticism for insisting his team is consistent in applying the standard.

Nylander banks it off some pylon’s stick. 2-1 Leafs. Way to go Bill!

NHL’s thin suspension for Radko Gudas unlikely to keep league’s stars safe www.nytimes.com/athletic/711...

I’m super angry that (checks notes) Nylander, Cowan, Carlo, or Rielly didn’t go after Gudas after his assault on Matthews’ knee. Unbelievable.

Someone needs to tell Willy the tank is on. Take the lead from your captain, man

If you suck at the dump and chase why do you keep doing the dump and chase? Leafs clearly suck without possession, so why give it up so easily?

Yes Maccelli. Pump that trade value!

I miss the high flying Leafs team that used to trade dangerous chances. This slow lumbering “defensive minded“ team that only gives up dangerous chances sucks.

Oh Nate…

NHL refs + dirtbags in the lineup = pointless after whistle scrums

Not to beat a dead horse but Celebrini’s Olympic performance just sounds like more proof that Bedard should have been there to meeeee

Tom Wilson fighting at the Olympics is just showing what a clown show the Canada US game is going to be if it occurs

Binnington making sure he keeps to his “NHL calibre” numbers at the Olympics even if he’s not facing an NHL calibre team

Do I ever hate these drone cameras in game. Use them during replays, and I’m good. But the disorientating fishbowl view adds no value.

Put him on a plane back to Florida. I feel dirty rooting for a team he’s on.

Did that go off Spooner or the Swiss defender?

hockey prospects guys: McKenna really brings out the Patrick Kane comparisons McKenna: www.thescore.com/nhl/news/347...

Leafs win

Nick Kypreos should be given a platform to do a weekly show just on Leafs trade proposals. It’s a strong enough idea that it could anchor a revived Thursday night Must See TV on NBC, propping up a new generation of Suddenly Susans and The Single Guys.

Has Keith Pelley announced a press conference yet? Like WTF does that guy do? Look at marketing and financial forecasts all day to inform team building decisions? “Rage engagement is up. No such thing as bad press. Cha-ching!”

The best thing I can say about Carlo is that most nights you don’t notice him. Was that worth Minten and a first and fourth?

I predict one mediocre shot on this power play

Brain transplant didn’t take. Can we have an actual new coach now?

Did Mark Stone just win a gold medal on that one?

I’m going start calling jumping for the breakaway as soon as a player gets a whiff of a turnover “pulling a Willy.” E.g., ever since Nylander went down Laughton seems to be stepping up and pulling lots of Willys.

Scott Laughton is really working hard to earn my love

Welcome back Stoli

Nylander Stan for life 🫡

Boo Treliving not Marner… or boo them both or boo neither. I’m done caring.

Ugly 5v5 penalty kill there from the Leafs

I hate watching Morgan Rielly play hockey. Seems like a great guy in post game interviews though.

Nylander’s having a big game

Where are the Max Domi haters now?