I hate to be a downer, but I think we'll be swept. It's not any one thing that we can pin the blame on, so it's just not an easy fix for the next game. I have a certain amount of sympathy for the players though - this was a back office blunder that started about a year ago.

Think about how much better the next “generational player” will need to be to consistently dominate all aspects of hockey long enough for a team their on to win the cup?

I know if I was a GM I’d probably give up my first round picks indefinitely. That money NEEDS to be spent elsewhere.

He’ll get his good 2-3 game multi goal runs occasionally but nothing like he used to. So. What was the point if a kid with /that much more potential than any other kid active in the nhl/ can’t win the cup in their prime, before they got figured out?

Think about it - all teams have figured out how to defend against Connor McDavid now. They’ve completely shut down his ability to score consistently. Understandably, he’s switched up his game. Fine: now he’s all about assists. It’s not because he’s selfless, it’s because it’s either that or retire.

... that between actually working and getting caught up, some stuff is already old news!

FWIW I appreciate your posts here. Slowly sliding away from other socials and I've been off X since the name change.

Also - this is a great article, and a reminder to check the timestamps of all blogs/media posts, I find there's so much info coming at us this time of year...

Also, can we have a max quota for leafs jerseys in one location any any given time? Would help with my anger management.

Other than the last 5 minutes it was both the most chaotic and the most boring hockey I’ve seen from the Oil in a while. I have a feeling whatever illness is plaguing the Viking Ekholm enough to miss a practice and a game might be dragging down more players than we know.

(Yes, they’re delicious)

Canadian, here. For some reason this is lost on a lot of Americans. WE don't pay the tariff.... Nor will the Chinese pay their 10% tariff...

Remember when reds used to make CRT televisions audibly buzz and the red-iest reds would have static? And we just learned to stay away from reds in broadcast? Those were weird, but predictable days. Now, everything basically works, but whenever I see bright reds like this my PTSD makes me wince.

So now that TikTok is back - are you going to act like it's back forever?

Those were wild times!