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@ProducerDrew_ 2026 because of McKenna and Raddysh but I prefer the bottom 6 from 2025.
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@domluszczyszyn @jtbourne Maybe they try to spread the talent out a bit more rather than go with a hard split the between the top and bottom 6. A third line that can score would be ideal at least. I don’t care if the 4th line doesn’t score much. Could Knies pair with Paul on the 3rd and score a bit?
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Thing I like about Leafs new bottom-6 is that it knows what it is. PK, check, do it right. For years Leafs bottom-6 has included like… Spezza and Thornton, Robertson, Jarnkrok, Domi, all these guys that didn’t really wanna play that part. Can skate, bigger, just more predictable
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@jakebeleafs not sure about that, none of the guys signed today have particularly strong analytics
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McKenna-Matthews-Roslovic
Knies-Tavares-Nylander
Joshua-Sissons-Cowan
Lorentz-Quillan-Groulx
Inj. - Domi
Thoughts?
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@JeffVeillette I don’t like the moves either but to be fair the Leafs haven’t had many successful seasons at all in the last 15 years so it’s a pretty easy W to always say it’s gonna be bad.
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Pretty much every time the Leafs have had an offseason where half this site goes "Jeff doesn't like it, so I do" in the past 15 years, it's gone poorly for them, but you're free to bet against me
Coach Frank@CoachFrank18
Which is all the more reasons why I love what they did if you hate it
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@domluszczyszyn don’t really see much of a path to improvement in the top 9 at this point.
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NHL contract grade
Jack Roslovic is... fine. Gotta hope there's a lot more coming for the Leafs top nine, though, because right now this just looks sideways from what they already had.
nytimes.com/athletic/74132…
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What am I missing on Matthew Knies.
Why is Toronto so interested in moving him?
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@domluszczyszyn Lots of focus on the players involved which makes sense but it’s nice to get another 3rd rounder in this draft as well.
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@scottie2hotti4 @JFreshHockey I don’t think the leafs make this trade if they aren’t planning on playing him. He’s kinda the centrepiece of it from their end and Andrae is at a point in his career where he NEEDS to play or else there’s no point picking him up
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@JFreshHockey Better than Benoit? Will he play Torontos 5-6 D or press box?
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Andrae is a strong puck-mover and a feisty and extremely committed puck battler who even throws hits. He is also 5'9 and an average-at-best skater who lacks high-end offensive skill. His results have been very good, but his coaches have generally played him in depth minutes.
JFresh@JFreshHockey
There is a lot of great stuff here.
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@AdamWylde You were on team “carry 3 goalies”? Feel like it’s easy to break camp that way but if you have to commit to it, it might be kind of annoying down the road.
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Listen… I don’t get this.
Unless it’s a cap dump that leads to something else, I don’t understand this at all
Toronto Maple Leafs@MapleLeafs
TRADE: We’ve acquired defenceman Emil Andrae, goaltender Samuel Ersson and a third-round selection in the 2026 NHL Draft from the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for goaltender Joseph Woll and defenceman Simon Benoit
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@FranziaMom Saying “we get it, you’re cool!” in relation to something written almost 100 years ago feels insane to me.
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What’s the endgame in outsmarting classic literature. Why refuse to find what’s good about noteworthy art.
James de Llis@meta_nomad
I'm dropping this at halfway. It gets old fast, maybe using the word cunt was super duper edgy in '34, but now the whole thing comes across as whince-inducing. We get it Henry, you're really cool!
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@TicTacTOmar Mermis and Myers are unplayable. Right now, Benoit is not far behind. Anybody is worth a shot.
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Stop with this fire Berube bullshit.
You all had him top of your wish list just over a year ago.
Craig Berube should be untouchable for the foreseeable future.
You can’t keep burning through solid coaches and pretending the coach is the problem all the time.
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The thing is no one really wanted Berube except you and the face puncher crowd. Now even most of them even realize it was a mistake.
Leafs have plenty of time to turn things around, but let's not act like Berube has been a good fit for the personnel available.
Chris McCluskey@mcclusk
Stop with this fire Berube bullshit. You all had him top of your wish list just over a year ago. Craig Berube should be untouchable for the foreseeable future. You can’t keep burning through solid coaches and pretending the coach is the problem all the time.
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@JohnnyGiunta_ This is territory that we have not charted since 2019 shortly before Babcock got canned. Just legitimate irredeemable bad hockey. Every position, every phase of the game.
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@JFreshHockey tbh I think this team would benefit from another defenceman who profiles similarly to Rielly (i.e. is capable of moving a puck) but wouldn’t want to pay the trade premium that would be required to get a guy so one dimensional.
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@WatchMyReview Would have kept at least one. Having two first round pick D men under 25 and trading them both feels crazy. Leafs current fully healthy D group has 2 guys I’d swap out for either of them in a heartbeat.
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Admit it, Sandin/Lilly were a pretty darn good pair and were very young.
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