Are the Hockey News getting ahead of themselves a little bit?

[Coffey]

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[Filthy Dangles]

so dumb

 

[Oscar Acosta]

Just pandering for sales. The days of their newsprint actual decent publication have long been dead.

 

[Hockeyholic]

" it's only a matter of when". Hm....

 

[Mr. Met]

The Seattle NHL team will also win the cup at some point.


Just a matter of when

 

[Slap]

They left it pretty open. It could be another 1000 years but Toronto will win another Cup. Completely agree with this Pulitzer worthy headline.

 

[ffh]

Well we know its not 2019

 

[Chainshot]

Yeah, Mittelstadt isn't even signed. They are way ahead of themselves.


Oh. Wait. Nevermind.

 

[K Fleur]

Well we know its not 2019

The Jets have a really good team now though so that prediction has a decent shot of coming true.

 

[Coffey]

The Jets have a really good team now though so that prediction has a decent shot of coming true.

We will find out next year!

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

i remember back in i think 2000, there were these billboards in vancouver that said "next generation: stevie and mo. get your seasons tickets."

stevie was steve kariya, mo was brendan morrison. obviously the internet has no record of this ever happening.

 

[McDNicks17]

The answer could be never and zero.

Bold prediction by THN.

 

[danielpalfredsson]

They made a cover that they knew would go "viral". No, I am not equating the Leafs winning multiple Stanley Cups to herpes, I am saying that they made a cover they knew people would post on forums and twitter. Free publicity.

 

[Spirit of 67]

It's just THN trolling the Leafs again. Most of their articles I see are anti Leafs and this one is probably akin to a Leafs hater posing as a Leafs fan and saying something stupid to piss off the Leafs haters.

As for the meat of the article, it would be hard to make the case that the Leafs aren't on the path to a Cup. But there is still much work to do. And, of course, no guarantees.

 

[Christ]

Impossible to make a prediction like that. To win a cup a lot has to go right for a team, even for a team with an excellent prospect pool and NHL roster. Look at the Capitals for proof. They have been a very strong team, considered Cup favorites multiple times with excellent goaltending, defense and led by Alexander Ovechkin, one of the best pure goal scorers in history yet despite this they have failed to win the Cup year after year. Yes the Leafs and the Jets have excellent young teams and will be playoff teams for years to come but it is far from certain if either of these teams will win the cup with the cores that they have in place.

 

[Beville]

Pretty sweeping, and stupid, statement that one...

 

[Super Hans]

It's just THN trolling the Leafs again. Most of their articles I see are anti Leafs and this one is probably akin to a Leafs hater posing as a Leafs fan and saying something stupid to piss off the Leafs haters.

As for the meat of the article, it would be hard to make the case that the Leafs aren't on the path to a Cup. But there is still much work to do. And, of course, no guarantees.

At this point, the Leafs could win the Cup, Babcock could say post-game that they're looking forward to going for a second one next year, and Leafs Nation would call him a "Leaf hater".

 

[GoJetsGo55]

We will find out next year!

EDIT: NOT JINXING US!!!!!

 

[Brian McDavid]

The Jets have a really good team now though so that prediction has a decent shot of coming true.

If it can't be the Oilers... I accept this outcome.

 

[CanadianPensFan1]

A little bit?

Maybe they win it some day. Maybe they don't.

But I'll get the field on this one.

 

[Lebowski]

" it's only a matter of when". Hm....

Which could literally be said about any sports franchise.

 

[CanadianPensFan1]

Impossible to make a prediction like that. To win a cup a lot has to go right for a team, even for a team with an excellent prospect pool and NHL roster. Look at the Capitals for proof. They have been a very strong team, considered Cup favorites multiple times with excellent goaltending, defense and led by Alexander Ovechkin, one of the best pure goal scorers in history yet despite this they have failed to win the Cup year after year. Yes the Leafs and the Jets have excellent young teams and will be playoff teams for years to come but it is far from certain if either of these teams will win the cup with the cores that they have in place.

In all sincerity, in a bizarro world, is be curious to see what the caps would do if they didn't face the pens all those times. For whatever reason, the Pens have their number. But if they went out in the first round or didn't make the dance ....

 

[Slap]

It's just THN trolling the Leafs again. Most of their articles I see are anti Leafs and this one is probably akin to a Leafs hater posing as a Leafs fan and saying something stupid to piss off the Leafs haters.

As for the meat of the article, it would be hard to make the case that the Leafs aren't on the path to a Cup. But there is still much work to do. And, of course, no guarantees.

Mats Sundin=Auston Matthews
Doug Gilmour>>any other player on the current roster
Larry Murphy>>>>any current Leafs D in the roster and pipeline.

They combined for zero Toronto cup wins. They are on path for contending, why not leave it at that?

 

[Machinehead]

They're just doing their job, which ultimately, is to profit.

What's going to sell more: "Hey Leafs might be decent for awhile" or "the Leafs are winning the Stanley Cup"? Which grabs more eyeballs?

 

[Super Hans]

A lot of sports publications do this and it turns out true so seldom that no one cares about it. It's for the rare time it is correct and the publisher can pat itself on the back and make Biff Tannen references for a week (see: 2017 Houston Astros).