robertmac43
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What is Your Leafs Team of the Decade?
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hamzarocks
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Lupul-Matthews-Kessel
Jvr-Tavares-Marner
Komorov-Kadri-Nylander
Kapanen-Bozak-Hyman
Rielly-Kaberle
Muzzin-Phanuef
Gardiner-Gunnarsson
PP 1
Lupul-Tavares-Matthews
Kessel-Marner
PP2
Jvr-Kadri-Nylander
Rielly-Gardiner
Andersen
Reimer
Jvr-Tavares-Marner
Komorov-Kadri-Nylander
Kapanen-Bozak-Hyman
Rielly-Kaberle
Muzzin-Phanuef
Gardiner-Gunnarsson
PP 1
Lupul-Tavares-Matthews
Kessel-Marner
PP2
Jvr-Kadri-Nylander
Rielly-Gardiner
Andersen
Reimer
Jimmy Firecracker
Fire Sheldon.
Team is built off of everyone’s peak season with the Leafs.
Van Riemsdyk-Tavares-Marner
Lupul-Matthews-Kessel
MacArthur-Kadri-Nylander
Hyman-Bozak-Kulemin
Rielly-Barrie
Muzzin-Phaneuf
Gardiner-Kaberle
Andersen
Reimer
PP1
Matthews-Tavares-Marner
Kessel-Kaberle
PP2
Lupul-Van Riemsdyk-Nylander
Rielly-Barrie
Babcock the coach since he had the most success out of them all this decade. Keefe hopefully will have more success but by then we’ll be in the next decade. It’ll just be Babcock before he alienated everyone, so 2015-2018 Babcock.
Van Riemsdyk-Tavares-Marner
Lupul-Matthews-Kessel
MacArthur-Kadri-Nylander
Hyman-Bozak-Kulemin
Rielly-Barrie
Muzzin-Phaneuf
Gardiner-Kaberle
Andersen
Reimer
PP1
Matthews-Tavares-Marner
Kessel-Kaberle
PP2
Lupul-Van Riemsdyk-Nylander
Rielly-Barrie
Babcock the coach since he had the most success out of them all this decade. Keefe hopefully will have more success but by then we’ll be in the next decade. It’ll just be Babcock before he alienated everyone, so 2015-2018 Babcock.
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Dirty Dan
Saturday Night Lupul
unitedstars87
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Hyman - Matthews - Marner
Soup - Tavares - Engvall
Johnsson - Nylander - Kapenen
Moore - Kerfoot - Spezza
Matt Martin, Timo
Reilly - Barrie
Muzzin - Holl
Dermott - Gunnarson
Andersen
Mchilleney
Soup - Tavares - Engvall
Johnsson - Nylander - Kapenen
Moore - Kerfoot - Spezza
Matt Martin, Timo
Reilly - Barrie
Muzzin - Holl
Dermott - Gunnarson
Andersen
Mchilleney
Nithoniniel
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Van Riemsdyk - Matthews - Marner
Hyman - Kadri - Kessel
Lupul - Tavares - Nylander
McArthur - Bozak - Kulemin
Rielly - Phaneuf
Gardiner - Franson
Gunnarsson - Hainsey
Andersen
Reimer
Babcock
Lines ordered after relative impact, based on length of term and impact, and color coded basically for how satisfied I was putting them in there. Man, the depth disappears pretty quickly. Outside our current top talent, not a great team at all to be honest.
Edit: I'm going to come clean, it's color coded because that's a recent and rather obnoxious obsession for me.
Hyman - Kadri - Kessel
Lupul - Tavares - Nylander
McArthur - Bozak - Kulemin
Rielly - Phaneuf
Gardiner - Franson
Gunnarsson - Hainsey
Andersen
Reimer
Babcock
Lines ordered after relative impact, based on length of term and impact, and color coded basically for how satisfied I was putting them in there. Man, the depth disappears pretty quickly. Outside our current top talent, not a great team at all to be honest.
Edit: I'm going to come clean, it's color coded because that's a recent and rather obnoxious obsession for me.
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JVR-JT-Marner
Nylander-Matthews-Kessel
Blake -Kadri-Soup
Martin-Bozak- Antoropov
Kaberele-Barrie
Rielly-Hainsey (they m
Dermott-Schenn
Andersen
Riemer
Nylander-Matthews-Kessel
Blake -Kadri-Soup
Martin-Bozak- Antoropov
Kaberele-Barrie
Rielly-Hainsey (they m
Dermott-Schenn
Andersen
Riemer
Suntouchable13
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Lupul-Matthews-Marner
JvR-JT-Kessel
MacArthur-Kadri-Kulemin
Koma-Grabo-Soup
Rielly-Gunnarsson
Dion-Gardiner
Muzzin-Liles
Andy
Mac
Ron Wilson (because I disliked him the least, funny guy)
JvR-JT-Kessel
MacArthur-Kadri-Kulemin
Koma-Grabo-Soup
Rielly-Gunnarsson
Dion-Gardiner
Muzzin-Liles
Andy
Mac
Ron Wilson (because I disliked him the least, funny guy)
The defense would be quite a bit better with Muzzin and Barrie instead of Gunnarsson and Franson.
Nithoniniel
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It would, I decided against both since Muzzin has been here for just 60 games and Barrie just haven't been very good here so far.
7even
Offered and lost
That line clapped, pretty much the only good thing from pre-2016. Well that and the time McLaren and Orr beat the Habs to a pulp while laughing in their faces lmao.
67Leafs67
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Criteria for me is at least 100 GP in the blue & white this decade, and based on a mixture of peak & overall contributions. Tried to make line combinations that make a bit of sense, not just loading up the best offensive players onto four lines. That left me with this:
Kadri - Tavares - Marner
Lupul - Matthews - Nylander
van Riemsdyk - Grabovski - Kessel
Kulemin - Komarov - Hyman
Rielly - Gunnarsson
Gardiner - Franson
Phaneuf - Hainsey
Andersen
Reimer
The offense has potential to be terrifying. The first line in a matchup role against top competition would be great, and the third line in a sheltered, soft-scoring role would be deadly. The second line of course would be money as well, that Matthews/Nylander combo has been deadly, and a guy of Lupul's skillset would easily contribute. The fourth line is three guys who are great defensively, PKers, but at their peaks all had 20+ goal ability as well, and can be absolute pests.
Defense is a bit sketchy though. Franson is really the only right handed defender of any merit the Leafs have had (Zaitsev, Schenn, Polak, Komisarek, & Carrick the others). The pairing of him & Gardiner was a great combination, two of the most underrated players on the Leafs in the past decade. The problem is that, Rielly still doesn't have a partner...Gunnarsson as a stay at home, shot suppressing type seems like a better fit than the higher risk Phaneuf, who would still be a monster on a third pairing against weaker competition, with a solid veteran like Hainsey as his partner.
Andersen obviously shores up the goaltending, and Reimer can be a solid backup, as he is proving this year with Carolina, and had some incredible runs with the blue & white.
If we're going by some of my actual favourite line combinations of this decade:
Hyman - Tavares - Marner (2018-2020)
Johnsson - Matthews - Nylander (2018-2020)
Kulemin - Grabovski - MacArthur (2010-2012)
Komarov - Kadri - Brown (2016-2017)
Kaberle - Komisarek (2009-2010)
Gardiner - Franson (2013-2015)
Muzzin - Holl (2019-2020)
Kadri - Tavares - Marner
Lupul - Matthews - Nylander
van Riemsdyk - Grabovski - Kessel
Kulemin - Komarov - Hyman
Rielly - Gunnarsson
Gardiner - Franson
Phaneuf - Hainsey
Andersen
Reimer
The offense has potential to be terrifying. The first line in a matchup role against top competition would be great, and the third line in a sheltered, soft-scoring role would be deadly. The second line of course would be money as well, that Matthews/Nylander combo has been deadly, and a guy of Lupul's skillset would easily contribute. The fourth line is three guys who are great defensively, PKers, but at their peaks all had 20+ goal ability as well, and can be absolute pests.
Defense is a bit sketchy though. Franson is really the only right handed defender of any merit the Leafs have had (Zaitsev, Schenn, Polak, Komisarek, & Carrick the others). The pairing of him & Gardiner was a great combination, two of the most underrated players on the Leafs in the past decade. The problem is that, Rielly still doesn't have a partner...Gunnarsson as a stay at home, shot suppressing type seems like a better fit than the higher risk Phaneuf, who would still be a monster on a third pairing against weaker competition, with a solid veteran like Hainsey as his partner.
Andersen obviously shores up the goaltending, and Reimer can be a solid backup, as he is proving this year with Carolina, and had some incredible runs with the blue & white.
If we're going by some of my actual favourite line combinations of this decade:
Hyman - Tavares - Marner (2018-2020)
Johnsson - Matthews - Nylander (2018-2020)
Kulemin - Grabovski - MacArthur (2010-2012)
Komarov - Kadri - Brown (2016-2017)
Kaberle - Komisarek (2009-2010)
Gardiner - Franson (2013-2015)
Muzzin - Holl (2019-2020)
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notDatsyuk
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I'm pleasantly surprised at how many 'votes' Gunnarsson and Komarov got; surprised, neither pleasantly nor otherwise, at how many Lupul and 'Mac and the USSR' got; and disappointed, although not surprised, at how many Phaneuf got.
I'm relieved that there hasn't been an "all the current players, with Kessel, Phaneuf, and Reimer subbed in", which I half expected to see.
I can't really disagree with any of them, except for how high or low some players are. For example, I would not have Kessel on the top line, or Phaneuf on the top pairing, but that's personal opinion.
I'm relieved that there hasn't been an "all the current players, with Kessel, Phaneuf, and Reimer subbed in", which I half expected to see.
I can't really disagree with any of them, except for how high or low some players are. For example, I would not have Kessel on the top line, or Phaneuf on the top pairing, but that's personal opinion.
