Warhippy

Damn.  We're kid friendly until 7:30

Everyone gets a team but Quebec/Canada

The most likely are the ones to cause the most headaches.  Atlanta.  Kansas.  Oklahoma.  Houston and Salt Lake.

The most beneficial and better for the long term future of the league and to increase revenues.  Quebec and another team in the GTA or horseshoe

I feel we can let this one slide.  Down a bed of nails

This one right here.

You said active player.  I am going to assume this also means active or acting management and I want a running start for when I connect

It's been to long already.  We need to know!!

Come on Ghost, it's a life experience  

I say he ends up in a hoor house in lawndale in chicago with syphillis from a one legged street walker named clarice who was actually born clarence

@Ghostsof1915 sadly I think you're right.  Nashville took a step forwards without question while it appears the Jets and Flames took the steps back.  LA got better, Anaheim is a wildcard due to their goaltending.  LA got better.  Arizona is still up in the air.  I don't see St Louis having a terrible year either and now we're dealing with the Bedard effect.

So it comes down to are we better than Arizona, Anaheim, San Jose, Chicago, Calgary and Winnipeg.  The thing is, we don't even have to have them be appreciably better than us.  We just have to be mediocre against them and we will miss the playoffs because the teams ahead of us right now are still that far ahead of us.

I still think we'll miss again this year but what happens after is what will matter

@Bob.Loblaw now...go back to about 2004.  How does it look since then?

Bottom line is if we're speaking about bad management regarding assets and picks, the Leafs are easily as bad or possibly worse than the Canucks since 2019

@Curmudgeon

Amazingly if you actually trace things out.  Grundstrom, Durzi and Jarvis make the Leafs immediately better.  Cuelemans would be their best D prospect or player right now and Stenberg possibly their best forward prospect

Honestly shockingly bad for winning exactly one single playoff round 

Literally LITERALLY a series of comments about important it is to have people on there with different opinions to keep others honest and critique while offering a different point of view.  A place where you can be open minded and call out others for boorish opinions and for acting like petulant know it alls.

But you got removed for calling out a different mod...by a guy who regularly suggests physically harming or murdering other hockey players on different teams and committing genocide against citizens of a nation in conflict because he is on the other side; for not acting like an adult?

K.  Seems about right for that person.

This myopic nonsense means nothing.  BC's population increase 1.2 million in 12 years and saw a mere 4% emissions growth while almost tripling its LNG development, increasing development to unheard of levels AND nearly tripling its port systems for imports.  

Nova scotia saw an almost 70% drop in coal usage for the majority of its energy needs, saw an abandonement in its entirety by numerous oil and gas developments off of sable island and increased its renewable energy sources from 12% to 27% in that same time frame with a promise to be off of coal by 2030.

Sorry, this story doesn't tell you what it is supposedly hoping you it does.

4 hours?  So....he took like 300 steps?

Anaheim.  If they get him they'll have Bedard, MacTavish, Zegras, Gaucher, Perrauelt, Tracey, Pastujov,  as their emerging young forwards is just not fair.  Any single one of them would immediately be our best prospect or young roster player.

Our annual season run to secure a crappier draft pick is like screwing timmy the mailroom clerk in hopes of getting a raise.  we're literally screwing ourselves to the middle.

90 minutes of feidman talking about what it was like growing and shaving off his first beard

Murphy has to know this could easily be Neely as it could be Linden

@DazzleI will again play devils advocate and remind people that Gills was GM of the year, 2 presidents trophies, 2 conference titles, 5 divisional titles and 5 straight playoff appearances with an SCF berth  while being the titular GM from the end of the 2008 season through the end of the 2014 season.  Finishing only once outside of the top 10 int he entire league.

Gillis never had a chance to stockpile picks or build the team as he was chasing championships with one of the most consistently best teams in the league over a 5 year span.  He left the team with Horvat and not much else but he had nothing in which to build with as in his 6 drafts he only had 5  first round draft picks.  Two of them top 10 in Hodgson and Horvat.  Hodgson was not due to him and Horvat was due to a trade.  His average draft position was 26.  

Benning on the other hand drafted top 10 consistently and left the team with exactly 1 good draft in 2014 and nothing else.  Traded our 1st round pick twice and drafted two top 10 busts in Virtanen and Juolevi (I understand the arguments there). He also only finished in the playoffs twice with one of those years being the covid year bubble team.  The complaints about "gillis leaving us with nothing" are a decade ago and anyone drafted by him would be almost 30 or over.  We're a team with zero assets needing yet another rebuild and that's entirely now on benning

@Dazzle, funny enough if you go back last year.  Anaheim was 2nd in our division heading in to March 3rd.  But if you go back to 2019.  Anaheim had already started shedding players/vets/contracts for picks and prospects.  They in turn signed replacement players to single and 2 year term contracts (I think the max prior to this year was a 3 year)

Every single trade they made was towards futures away from Getzlaf and the old core.  

https://www.capfriendly.com/trades/ducks

They made absolutely no compunctions against signing and trading players or shedding aging players for picks the second they could.  THAT is the fundamental difference between vancouver and the Ducks right now.  I made the statement that Anaheim would do vastly better than they had to start the year and was wrong; but look at the young core I just listed and then compare it to what we have.

Damning

@Dazzle you absolutely know he's going to Anaheim or San Jose with Fantilli or San Jose drafting 2nd or 3rd just so we can watch Bedard/Fantilli and McDavid torch this team for the next decade or more

Bedard/McTavish/Zegras/Gaucher/Pastujov/Perreault/Tracey all at forward and then that defense of Hinds/Zellweger/Mintyukov/Helleson with not a single one of them currently over the age of 21.

That's not including whoever they draft this year as well with 4 picks in the first 2 rounds and their entire roster over the age of 25 up for grabs including Shattenkirk/Klingberg who will return at least late 1sts

I am honestly saddened by how fast and efficiently Anaheim turned their entire prospect pool around while still holding additional picks this and next year without making any major moves but having assets ready to go to cup contending teams 

It could get better for Montreal than that.  They COULD feasibly draft 1st AND 2nd in the draft

@hammertimeI 100% think it's a coaching issue.  BB is just not the coach for him.

@6of1_halfdozenofotherI will repeat that until the day I die watching the Skinner contracts etc.  They literally can not control themselves.

I really don't know.  That's the thread as it stands, thus far only one person has mentioned not wanting hoglander while the universal consensus is every team in the league would jump.  Small sample size but interesting

GMs cannot control themselves.  We see that every free agency and towards the TDL.  Hoggie being that valued by other teams though is genuinely interesting.  A suggesting of Hoggie and a 5th for a pick an Barron from Montreal is worth considering