After failing to show up on home ice in two of the most important games of the season, Toronto saw their playoff lives come to an end. Where do you put the responsibility for the Leafs playoff failures? Should the Maple Leafs move on from Brendan Shanahan? What do you make of the comments from Brad Marchand and Matthew Tkachuk? If you’re Brad Treliving, who are you saying goodbye to this offseason? Do the Leafs need to add more ‘snot’ to the lineup? TSN Director of Scouting Craig Button joins SC with Jay Onrait to discuss.
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Players dont play. Fans wont pay. Get it. Simple man
Players dont give a Puck. Why should the fans
No one should take responsibility except for auston Matthews and the other core 4 players.
They need guys that know how to win in the playoffs. Fk the regular season
They’re honestly just not that good, the only reason they won the division this year is because Florida was massively injured and sandbagged the last bit of the season.
Knowing that Matthews needed a lengthy recovery time after going through that stretch where he went to Germany for medical help, the Leaf top brass should be the culprits! How could you not get him on the LTIR, He is your franchise guy! The rest of team would have got them to playoffs, no problem.
It's on the management…sit their tough guys before and during playoffs every year
TORONTO FANS NEED TO LEAVE THESE ELITE ATHLETES ALONE. STOP PUTTING PRESSURE ON THEM.
Marthews and marner. I see everyone talking on hiw they weren't there for game 7. They weren't there fir entire series. If not fir domi and paccioretty in games 1 and 2, it would have been a quick series. It's the same thing every year. When it counts the most, thise 2 should just watch from the press box. Here's a stat, since 2094, Toronto has 2 series wins. Buffalo has4, and they have missed the playoffs 14 years in a row. Haha. What a joke the make me laffs r. I never get tired of watching fans walk away from loser leafs square after they r eliminated. Its the best time of the entire year when they get beat.
I had 2 leafs tickets on the dash of my car and some asshole broke in and left me 2 more!
Leafs are on a new network next season. The comedy channel.
Leafs got beat by a better team period!
The players
Shoot the puck more!! No fancy plays!!
Run it back one more time boyz….no compete no pride overpaid losers….they ran your goalie, u did NOTHING, no balls. We haven't had a real captain in a long time.
To win, you have to have heart. I was there in 1967, those guys had heart.
So Brian Burke was right along – you need belligerence & truculence in order to win. Which of the 'Core 4' has those sandpaper qualities, even for a smidgen? None. All skill, no snot.
Coaches get too much blame when a team loses and too much praise when they win. It’s ultimately the players that decide the outcome. I’ve talked about it with a DB that played under Don Shula and he said the same thing, the players are the ones executing the plays. Way too much finger pointing in ALL sports today and social media is a lot to blame.
Who cares? The sheeple will open there wallets again next year.
Gee I wonder how the Florida series would of went with Ryan Reaves in the line-up from game 1
MITCH MARNER FOR NATHAN MCKINNON
Gary F@#$'in Bettman for Starts. The Franchise owner second. Don't forget the Shiza flow down F ING hill. Corruption and greed though out the league. The Loyal Torontonians and Die Hard Leafs Fans have been insulted and embarrassed for unflinching dedication and Loyal to the Leafs and this great Canadian sport. Boycott this whole organization everything revenue income stream cancel. When the Franchise has suffered like us loyal fans have. Then Bettman may let Canada have a cup. Doubt that to. Cancel the Organization it's ran by balless Twat waffles.
TORONTO SUCK! NYLANDER HAVE BIG EGO, i dont care how much 4 guy making points on regular season, when its playoff time, we see what teams are really good, toronto pay too much money just for 4 guys. And those guys cant make even points in playoff time. 😂😂 GO PANTHERS! GO DALLAS! 🔥🔥
Matthews. Matthews. And Matthews!! He is NOT a leader. He is NOT a difference maker! He gets paralyzed under pressure.
No one is really to blame, there are too many variables. But if one thing has to be singled out, it's when Shanahan hired Dubas, Dubas was too young, too inexperienced and way out of his depth just when the young core needed a more experienced GM like Lou. Trading Kadri was the worst move of them all. All on Shanahan in my opinion. The Core 4 is over, the Shanaplan is over. Let's see what some salary cap space and the Berube influence does in the off season
Matthews, Marner and Domi. That simple. Matthews should not be captain.
All bunch a of losers! And….. Craig Button is a moron! Why trust the word of a guy who was fired and now is the self proclaimed voice of hockey thinks he knows everything. What a joke. The one thing he does have is really big big nose!!!!!!
The 4 player are the 1
Get rid of Mathews
Should have ditched Mathews years ago. One trick overpaid pony. Can shoot but that is it. Lazy AF and needed Marner to set him up. Game is way too fast for him. Does not want to do the work. So obvious. Even worse made him a C. What a joke. Tavares 10x the captain.
The players
Blame the fans for believing the leafs team is the best
thus guy hit it right on the "button" so to speak
Most teams that win the Stanley Cup don't have more than 2 players making over 9 million. Leafs have 4 players making over 10 million. You can't win like that.
The Toronto fan boy media deserves much of the blame. Every year, Sportsnet, TSN and CBC declare the Leafs the Stanley Cup champs before the playoffs start. They overhype the team and make stuff up (Elliott Friedman) how MAtthews taught Macdavid how to shoot because he is the Lord of the Shot. It’s a joke. They are so over rated. Just shut up. They have never been a competitive team in the last 10 years. Matthew’s, Taveras, Marner and company are not superstars and capable of leading a mediocre team.
The top 4 are good regular season players but when the going gets tough they disappear, Nylander defensively is a liability,mcmann and Robertson are Marlies,mathews is not a leader and with marner gone will be average,go after Bennett and get some dirty grit
Another office person gone. How many is this ? When are the players responsible for a dismissal play off. Again. But you know if Toronto had 3 players close to Shannan caliber lol. Different ending. But they don't. Just got one. Domi.
They should have fired him last season.
players are only good as management.
Button should be the GM
Blame me…blame me…go ahead blame me…
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