This the EMBARRASSING rise and fall of the Toronto Maple Leafs. How an NHL hockey team loaded with high-end talent, failed to live up to expectations. In the most embarrassing, Maple Leafs way possible…
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love how the title is BECAME a joke again. they were always a joke
Leafs live rent free in the head of every bottom feeding team in the league ….. most valuable franchise that subsidizes half the league with their rev share because even when they lose they have the most eyes on them. 😂 everyone else is the little brother to the leafs.
You don't need superstars to win a Stanley Cup, but you do need a TEAM from top to bottom. Relying on a chosen few to carry it doesn't work. Too many heavy contracts combined with minimal heart is a recipe for what we see today. Maybe they'll learn someday…or not.
They spent too much cap space on forwards. They probably should have gotten a defenseman instead of signing Tavares. If they were going to sign JT, then they should have traded Nylander or Marner for a defenseman. They also paid Matthews and Marner a ton of money before they won anything. They kept coming close to winning series, and it's fair to say they were a bounce away from winning some series they lost. But when you keep coming close to winning only to lose, there's more going on than bad luck. They should have shaken things up with a big trade.
The Panthers had talent but couldn't win anything until after trading Huberdeau for Tkachuk. The Leafs needed a similar move. I believe it was Shanahan that didn't want to break up the Core Four. They kept getting the same result until it was clear Marner was going to move on, and they ended up not getting close to full value for him. That's poor asset management.
Things got really bad when they refused to realize that Berube's strategies and systems aren't a good fit for their roster. Treliving decided to keep him on board for the season, and now he's gone and Berube will be after the season. They've lost talent, the roster construction isn't great (their defensemen are old and slow), and Berube's tactics are ineffective and not suitable for his personnel. They need to get away from dump and chase and go back to playing with pace and skill (that's what good teams like COL, TB and MTL do) but not go all-in on skill like they did before. They do have Knies now. He brings some different elements than Mitch. Their back-end needs a lot of work. Getting a high pick this year would help them a lot.
Idk who’s a worse ownership the leafs or ny jets
good grief Gardiner and Rielly 👎👎