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Agree show me.

No mention or calling out of Leaf fans for their pathetic despicable behavior... even Philly fans have more respect maybe by degrees but they do.

It was interesting to watch Seth Jones dominate offensively in this game. Made me think, when we had Montour, he was inconsistent and sometimes awful. So much so we cast him aside. Florida took a chance and turned him into an offensive force. Signed a fat free agent contract with Seattle and was overall meh. Average at best and over paid. Now Seth Jones was dreadful in Chicago. Much like Montour here, and yet now he's looking exactly like Montour did in Florida. So the obvious thing to consider is perhaps it's not so much the individual players you need to examine on the Sabres, but maybe the coaching and the system itself. Just something to ponder over the summer 🙂

Tomorrow is the best day of all. Tomorrow is podcast/media Leaf whining day. The what went wrong discussions begin. They are the best. On that note I heard that post game Matthews said there were "too many passengers" and I believe Marner agreed with that. Very interesting that your star "leaders" put the blame on others rather than taking the responsibility or even better by having actually stepped up themselves. Other than his game 6 goal Matthews was in fact a pretty big "passenger" and considering his salary and role perhaps the biggest passenger of all.

Yes. I don't think in any way shape or form Marchand would come to Buffalo (I think he'd be more likely to actually become a Leaf than a Sabre) but he is most definitely the kind of veteran leader the team needs. He practices, preaches, and competes to high standards.

Not true. To the bold, if they can win the Calder Cup I will suggest they did in fact do it right and maybe more of them belong on the NHL roster next year and it's time to make some Sabres changes and learn from that AHL roster. But I don't think that is what they have. One would think in fact that the worst NHL teams should have the best AHL rosters and all the non playoff teams get bolstered rosters so in theory those are the teams that should go further if they are built correctly. In that way, Rochester has been underachieving. Maybe that changes this year but as in everything Sabres I believe in nothing any more until it happens.

As usual Toronto folds like a cheap tent in high pressure big game situations.

Haha! Comedy in 2025 is straight out of a Ray Bradbury book.

I think what bugs me about your Amerks posts is the lack of context. "They're doing it wrong, just like the Sabres" Amerks might be flawed (we'll see) but they're contenders; they're nothing like the Sabres. They had the 7th-best defence in the AHL this year and the 7th-best offence and the 4th-best record. In NHL terms, they're the Knights or the Canes, not the Sabres. It's one of those things where you've set yourself up to be 'right' until they win the Calder Cup, and even then you'll say "It wont translate to the NHL because they're doing it wrong."

Will Cuylle, Schneider, Rempe for Peterka and Byram

If Quinn were traded. (And Byram or Power for a revitalized playoff-capable 2nd pair RHD) would you offer Marchand a 2yr $6M contract to be a middle 2RW behind Tuch?

Who's that super annoying leafs guy that does those YouTube videos where he screams with that high pitched whine? He's gotten popular sadly, but would enjoy seeing that meltdown from this

I think the Rangers would have trouble paying Byram what he wants. I also think Byram is significantly better than Schnieder. Would have to be a few more pieces to make this work

It's my annual tradition around here to post this well worn newspaper article circa 2017. If you live anywhere close to Leafland like I do, it's a lifetime of listening to Leafs fans and Leafs media that makes this holiday extra special. Enjoy! https://torontosun.com/2017/09/11/simmons-vaulted-by-big-3-this-maple-leafs-team-is-a-champion-in-waiting ----------------------------- You can see a Stanley Cup from here. Maybe for the first time since the Stanley Cup season of 1967, you can see it. You can envision it. You can believe in it. You can close your eyes and actually picture Gary Bettman calling Auston Matthews — assuming he will eventually be granted the captaincy — to come up and grab the Cup. The Toronto Maple Leafs: Future Stanley Cup champion. This isn’t a dream or a joke, it’s a path. It’s a destination. The seemingly impossible eventually becoming possible. For most of our lives, we haven’t known anything like this at all. You could hope, but it was never realistic. You could predict, but it wasn’t logical. There hasn’t been a Maple Leafs team in 50 years that looked to be anywhere near the part of champion in September. Even that old 1967 team — and it was old — didn’t begin the season as any kind of favourite. But as the Maple Leafs open training camp on Thursday, you can honestly say that for the first time since the 1960s, the one most of you never saw or lived through, you can look at this group, especially the kids, the coach and the management team, and you can see a finish line. A finish line ending with a parade. And a future that isn’t necessarily all that far away. And, believe me, there has been no reason to pen anything like this in my first 30 years writing about the Leafs. This season may be too soon. Teams don’t go from last to playoffs to title in three seasons. But in four seasons? That’s happened. Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane carried the Chicago Blackhawks to their first of three Stanley Cups in just their third NHL season, 2009-10. Toews was 22 when he was handed the Cup. Kane was just 21. The template of sorts was set for new champions then. You can win a Stanley Cup with a great centreman (Toews), a great scorer (Kane), an A-defenceman (Duncan Keith) a front-line coach (Joel Quenneville) and solid goaltending with Corey Crawford, and before that, somehow, Antti Niemi. Sidney Crosby was in his third NHL season when he and Evgeni Malkin took Pittsburgh to the Stanley Cup final. The Penguins won a year later: Malkin was 22, Crosby turned 22 two months later. The template was there. Strength down the middle with Crosby and Malkin; a burgeoning A-defenceman in Kris Letang; Dan Bylsma as coach; Marc-Andre Fleury in goal. After that, Drew Doughty led the Los Angeles Kings to their first of two Cups under coach Darryl Sutter. That was Doughty’s fourth NHL season, the fourth season for goalie Jonathan Quick. The complete Anze Kopitar played the part of Toews; Jeff Carter played the Malkin role as the second-line centre. The template changed more than slightly this June, with Pittsburgh winning its second straight Cup. The Pens had the goalie in Matt Murray, the coach in Mike Sullivan, the centres in Crosby and Malkin, but not a Doughty, a Keith or a Letang to be found on defence. They just had guys. And they won with them. With Ron Hainsey and Brian Dumoulin. With Justin Schultz and Ian Cole. Trevor Daley and Olli Maatta. Somehow they won with them. This is Year 2 for Matthews and Mitch Marner, and Year 2.5 for William Nylander. The Leafs have never been in this position before, with young players with such immense and diverse talents. They are each exceptional and varied in their games. This is a year to grow and learn to contend. No one in the Eastern Conference has young forwards of this pedigree or talent level to compare with. And who knows? In a game getting younger, as professional sports appears to be trending that way all over, what could that mean for a team that has yet to win a playoff round? After this season, though, with Matthews and Marner in Year 3, before their big salaries kick in and the salary cap tapdance begins for the Maple Leafs, the running of the Cup marathon does not look like a mountain that cannot be climbed. Pat Quinn coached some very good Leafs teams in his years in Toronto. Good, yes. Great, no. They looked like they might one day get to a Cup final if everything went their way. Twice they got to the Conference final and tapped out. They never had the look of a future champion. Pat Burns coached some surprisingly good Leafs teams in his first two years in Toronto. Overachieving, yes. Great, no. In the inspiring and miraculous first season in Toronto, Burns’ teams came within a Kerry Fraser hair of playing for the Stanley Cup. They were good and lucky and, when Doug Gilmour played, they were great. No Leafs team has been close since. Even the Roger Neilson teams of the late ’70s, with Darryl Sittler, Lanny McDonald, Borje Salming and Mike Palmateer looked like they were a player addition or two away from being serious. But as top-heavy as those teams were — they had the template parts — the Montreal Canadiens were stacked with eight Hall of Fame players and a Hall of Fame coach. The playing field was hardly level. Those Leafs made a semifinal once. Now, look at the Eastern Conference today, before this season begins, and project what might come soon. Pittsburgh has already won three Cups. History will tell you there may not be a lot more for the Penguins. Ottawa has Erik Karlsson, but what else? Henrik Lundqvist is nearing the end in New York and their top three skaters are nowhere near the level of Matthews, Marner and Nylander. Montreal has Carey Price and an aging Shea Weber on defence and not a single proven centre up front. Washington, which finished 23 points ahead of the Leafs and 73 goals ahead in goal differential, doesn’t seem built for playoff runs and needed overtime to take the Leafs rookies out last April. Which leaves what in the future? The Lightning seems to have all kinds of depth and strength and the Cup template of the Blackhawks and Kings fits it, with Steven Stamkos and Tyler Johnson at centre, Nikita Kucherov on the wing, Victor Hedman as a top-three NHL defenceman, the coach Jon Cooper and young goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy. It looks like it can contend for a number of years. Florida has the requisite centre and defenceman in Sasha Barkov and Aaron Ekblad, but do they have enough aside from them? Jack Eichel will be carrying Buffalo to a better place. But who has Matthews, Marner and Nylander? And depth alongside them up front. The defence isn’t where it needs to be yet, but it can improve internally. Frederik Andersen can be a Cup-winning goalie. Babcock has already been a Cup-winning coach. Now it should be a matter of when. The view to the top of the mountain, forever cloudy, forever illogical, forever impeded by barriers of incompetence, ownership woes or lack of talent, seems rather clear for the first time in my life — and probably yours. The Leafs will win the Stanley Cup. I’ve never written that before. This team is a champion in waiting.

I’ve read two different articles now how badly the Rangers need a top pairing LHD. Bryam is the exact type of “splash” move the Rangers like to make. What’s causing this move to not happen? Is Drury more likely to not trade with us because of the history of him here? In same division? Adams isn’t very good at trades? Bryam for Schnieder. Is that close in value?

Simply delicious......I will enjoy the fallout from the Maple Laffs fans

This is your yearly reminder that the Toronto Maple Leafs haven't won a Stanley Cup since 1967 and have NEVER won three rounds in a single playoff year. A tradition of failure!

What a fitting way for the Maple Chokes to get eliminated

Marchand is actually not that hateable when he’s wearing a uniform for a team nobody hates. Also, Toronto fans are terrible. Besides the booing, there is never any energy in their arena. Compared to the Dallas game last night. Complete 180

Toronto gets smoked in game seven and Tage hits five goals in Denmark. Pretty nice little Sunday.

F--- TORONTO!