Sportsnet: John Tavares "kept it real"

[A1LeafNation]

Maple Leafs' Tavares hosted players-only getaway: 'We kept it real'

They discussed the collapse.

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[Stephen]

I wonder how many of the important core pieces ended up at the cottage, since many of them aren't Toronto based.

 

[hamzarocks]

I hope this results in them coming together and learning how to start an elimination game on time, in addition to being able to convert the numerous chances they set themselves up for.

Do or die season, really hoping the boys prove worthy of the hype and love they've gotten over the years.

 

[A1LeafNation]

I hope this results in them coming together and learning how to start an elimination game on time, in addition to being able to convert the numerous chances they set themselves up for.

Do or die season, really hoping the boys prove worthy of the hype and love they've gotten over the years.

...or this season will be: When keeping it real goes wrong!

 

[hamzarocks]

...or this season will be: When keeping it real goes wrong!

Hope not, this is the last season I can stomach this core/management/team. If they fail to perform again I think it'll be time for major changes

 

[Mentat]

Major Changes should have been promoted to General Changes a while ago.
I have little to no faith in the current roster to turn things around and make the fanbase proud. I hope they prove me wrong.

 

[nobody]

Major Changes should have been promoted to General Changes a while ago.
I have little to no faith in the current roster to turn things around and make the fanbase proud. I hope they prove me wrong.

I feel like this is the motto of this fanbase. I'm still waiting to be proven wrong and it's been 25 years.

 

[sittler rules!!!]

Hope not, this is the last season I can stomach this core/management/team. If they fail to perform again I think it'll be time for major changes

Already given up on this core. Expect Dubas to fire Keefe by Christmas. Dubey will get dumped season's end, and Shanny shown the door shortly after the playoffs start.

 

[keonsbitterness]

Already given up on this core. Expect Dubas to fire Keefe by Christmas. Dubey will get dumped season's end, and Shanny shown the door shortly after the playoffs start.

I'll bet your life savings none of that happens.

 

[Leafidelity]

Already given up on this core. Expect Dubas to fire Keefe by Christmas. Dubey will get dumped season's end, and Shanny shown the door shortly after the playoffs start.

Incase you were wondering, Daryl Sittler only led the Leafs out of the first round in 3 out of 12 seasons. What a bum.

 

[Ashdown2]

Already given up on this core. Expect Dubas to fire Keefe by Christmas. Dubey will get dumped season's end, and Shanny shown the door shortly after the playoffs start.

ok the same 3 people just go into every thread and bring up dubas and moan and groan like a bunch of crybabies.
i have an idea.. log off and come back in 5 months, clearly your still depressed from 2 months ago.

 

[DarkKnight]

I wonder how many of the important core pieces ended up at the cottage, since many of them aren't Toronto based.

Matthews was in his pyjamas at UFC I think.

 

[SmoggyTwinkles]

I'm gonna go ahead and just be optimistic about the season to come, appreciate that I've got a team to watch that doesn't suck, and hope the can actually be great.

Also, people talking about Shanny being removed? LOL. Maybe Keefe and Dubas is everything goes bad, but I highly doubt Shanny is on any kind of hot seat.

 

[egd27]

Incase you were wondering, Daryl Sittler only led the Leafs out of the first round in 3 out of 12 seasons. What a bum.

3 more times than anyone leading them for the past 12 seasons

 

[Stephen]

I'm gonna go ahead and just be optimistic about the season to come, appreciate that I've got a team to watch that doesn't suck, and hope the can actually be great.

Also, people talking about Shanny being removed? LOL. Maybe Keefe and Dubas is everything goes bad, but I highly doubt Shanny is on any kind of hot seat.

I don't like the results we've seen the past couple of years with their inability to take the next steps, but I think a dramatic regime change isn't what we need right now. We've seen Kyle and Co. go through some growing pains as management staff too, and you'd have to think they've learned something between 2018 and now. It might be a dangerous idea to bring in a new team to perform big mandate changes to a program they're unfamiliar with.

 

[Morbo]

hopefully the pricy guys kept it real about letting down their GM really badly, who has done nothing but push the chips in on them.

 

[SmoggyTwinkles]

I don't like the results we've seen the past couple of years with their inability to take the next steps, but I think a dramatic regime change isn't what we need right now. We've seen Kyle and Co. go through some growing pains as management staff too, and you'd have to think they've learned something between 2018 and now. It might be a dangerous idea to bring in a new team to perform big mandate changes to a program they're unfamiliar with.

Especially considering the cap circumstances the entire league is in because of COVID.

No one saw something like this happening. I can't blame Kyle for cap problems when it looked like/and was predicted that the cap ceiling was going to explode, while the opposite happened.

I'd still take our situation over any of the other Canadian franchises right now.

But yeah, we all want more, but not sure heads need to roll as though someone really screwed up in management.

 

[justashadowof]

Seriously, I thought this team was so divergent from one another that something like that wouldn't have even been possible. So it is positive as far as I'm concerned. Maybe there's some hope that they could perform better in the playoffs.

 

[sittler rules!!!]

I'll bet your life savings none of that happens.

Hope you are right

 

[sittler rules!!!]

Incase you were wondering, Daryl Sittler only led the Leafs out of the first round in 3 out of 12 seasons. What a bum.

 

[sittler rules!!!]

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[sittler rules!!!]

ok the same 3 people just go into every thread and bring up dubas and moan and groan like a bunch of crybabies.
i have an idea.. log off and come back in 5 months, clearly your still depressed from 2 months ago.

 

[sittler rules!!!]

OK

 

[AvroArrow]

Good, but until something changes in the playoffs it's hard to have faith in this team

 

[Pookie]

It’s nice to see them getting together.

BUT, JT has been here for a few seasons now.

If this is the first time this has happened... that’s odd.

If this isn’t the first time this has happened.... it’s nice but probably meaningless.