WingsMJN2965
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After they made the playoffs in 2016-17, continually making the playoffs was definitely the expectation.
Shhhh. He's busy rewriting history.
After they made the playoffs in 2016-17, continually making the playoffs was definitely the expectation.
lolwut?
Shhhh. He's busy rewriting history.
What’s also changed year over year is the expectations from the outside. You guys had a great year last year and made the playoffs. People are really fired up for this season. How comfortable are you with the elevated expectations going into this year?
Shanahan: If you want to be in this business and you want to be successful, you are going to have to, at some point, be ready to deal with higher expectation. That just comes with the territory. There is a lot of optimism in the city, certainly, and we understand that. But we’re staying pretty focused and Mike Babcock and Lou are fantastic, and so are our players, on being focused on the fact that there is a lot of hard work ahead. When you look at the Marlies and what Sheldon Keefe has done for us in getting players ready and what Kyle Dubas has done in getting players ready, it has been a full organizational push to ignore either the negative things being said or the positive things being said about us, and just staying focused on the job.
For what it's worth, the Leafs really don't need to trade Marner unless they're signing Pietrangelo; in which case they'll probably be looking for a $6-8m forward to offset his loss. They don't need or want to go from Marner-to-zero... they realistically need to find a way for their top 4 forwards to make about $2-3m less in order to accommodate Pietrangelo -- which is of course frusturating because $2m is just about how much Marner got overpaid by.
The Leafs have been running with that core for 3 or four years now and haven't won a single playoff series, so how about we don't pretend that it's all because of Corona.
Marner for Ekblad is the only straight up trade I can forsee. More likely he ends up somewhere like LA for futures.
He didn't get an even strength point vs CBJ.
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The organization did not expect to make the playoffs in 16-17. They did not expect to be contenders in 17-18. The fact that an insane Toronto media market and fan base had those expectations means zilch. The Leafs have underachieved in two seasons and one of those was an asinine COVID cup where nearly 50% of the teams underachieved.
Fanbases are just jealous of what the Leafs have locked up over the next year and are trying to rationalize why they won't succeed. As a Penguins fan I heard how we would never win anything with Crosby and Malkin and Letang being paid 7+ mil each over and over again.
Back to back cups. You never "lose" by paying your best players you biggest salaries. You figure a Wings fan would know that....
Good to see you're already walking back your comment.
Marner for Seabrook
Done deal. shake my hand. DO IT. 3...2..1.. DO IT. SAY YES. DO IT NOW
Fair point, but in my personal opinion trading a 23 year old for the cap space to sign a 30 year old UFA is a terrible idea, so I'm hoping that's not the plan. The only way I trade one of our young top forwards is if a similar aged player is coming back.
That's not the type of player you dump for cap space. You trade him only to improve your team.
You imbecile, WHAT WOULD CHICAGO DO WITH A 13 YEAR OLD MARNER!?I'd so do this trade only if it was 2010 again.