Maple Leafs Trash™

She basically just went off about people bullying her again, called out tumblr bunny blogs, hockey twitter, leafs twitter, made some poor comments and got called out my a lot of people. Bad things were said on both sides. She was definitely was having a moment, which sucks, but she put a lot of negative attention onto Kappy as people started tagging the pens twitter account and their PR account.

She’s a human being who is constantly being picked on and ridiculed, so I do have some empathy for her. However, sometimes you just need to let things go and if the attention she got really bothered her, there’s a setting called ‘private’ on most social media platforms.

I always liked him as a third line guy. Watched him a lot in person with the Marlies, cheered for him then. Super fast player, not afraid to hit other players and get deep into the corners, just needs to hit the net more when he shoots.

Was excited to see him take on a larger role on the PK this season, and I will miss his breakaways. Had some great moments in a leafs jersey, sad to see him go but unfortunately this was a needed transaction for leafs management to move on from this season. He will not be the only one to go.

In defence of some of the other forwards, when Keefe created the power line of Matthews, Tavares and Marner, he kinda skewered two other lines. Guys were playing in unfamiliar positions, and with other guys they weren’t 100% used to playing with.

Yes they’re professionals, and are expected to perform as such, no excuses, but they’re not perfect.

Some guys were completely invisible, yes. And some were very noticeable for all the wrong reasons.

Quite a few of the guys were very inconsistent with their play throughout this series, which I think hurt them in the end.

Unfortunately however, you need to be able to score to win games, and we clearly didn’t do that.

Absolute dumpster fire actually.

As much as this pains me to say, next season is it with this core.

Freddie has one year left, and as much as I’d love to keep him, we literally have no space. Yeah we’re losing larger contracts such as Ceci (4.5M), and our LTIR salaries for Nathan Horton and David Clarkson (10.6M combined), along with some smaller contracts such as Barrie (2.75M), Malgin (700K), Spezza (700K), but we will not have the space for him to demand an $8 million + contract which is around what Freddie can command from us or another team willing to pay. On top of that, say we bomb next season; will we trade him for assets? Who knows.

We need to add to our defence desperately. We’re losing 2 guys who ate up a lot of minutes and Dermott is going into his RFA negotiations. Sure we have Sandin waiting, but we need a good, veteran Defenseman who knows what’s up. No more of this “offensive defenseman” crap. We need a “stay at home” defenseman who actually does their job and focuses on keeping the puck out of our own net. Our additional cap space needs to be spent on bolstering our D if we ever hope to go anywhere in the playoffs.

We also need to look ahead towards our supporting cast of forwards. Contracts will be coming up over the next couple seasons and we’re going to need to get creative due to how our cap has been structured. Our reserve down with the Marlies has become depleted due to so many players being moved up to the Leafs or shipped out overseas to play in Europe/Russia. One of the Leafs top priorities needs to be focusing on rebuilding the Marlies in order to have a talented reserve on the back burner ready to go.

Hate to say it, but one of the big 3 more than likely needs to be dealt in order to stay afloat while the Cap stays where it’s at. I give Kyle credit, he tried. But having nearly $40 million tied into 4 players has essentially froze us from making any meaningful moves.