I’ll play devil’s advocate. You job is to hire the best coach you can. There’s a coach with Hall of fame credentials available that has shown some problematic issues in the past. When you talk to him he’s able to address how he intends to change those previous behaviours and that he’s learned the errors of his ways. That’s pretty tempting if you are a GM especially if other options are someone unproven or proven to be incapable of winning.

Not saying that I’d hire Babs if it was my job, but I can see how it happened.

Hey man. Can you add some links to this? Direct links instead of hashtags? It would help people to validate the info.

I agree that PLD for Laine was a reasonable trade and made sense at the time. I know that you aren’t going to replace Buff. My opinion is totally hindsight, but I think if you went back and traded Laine for a strong #1 D the Jets would be in a different place right now.

And totally agree that it’s surprising how long of a leash Chevy had. I feel like most teams would rather keep the devil they know vs making a large change. Having someone under you who isn’t performing keeps the spotlight on them, but replacing that person puts the spotlight on you if they can’t perform any better.

I don’t know exactly how Tkachuk got hurt, but according to Maurice, there’s a long list of serious injuries. This is pretty standard for teams that make deep playoff runs. I personally wish that the playoffs were called more in line with the rulebook for a bunch of reasons, but minimizing injury is one of those reasons. I don’t see the upside of having a bunch of the best players play hurt through the finals, not being able to play at their potential, and not being able to start next season or shortening their careers. I don’t see how it improves the game to not call slashing and crosschecking penalties. I’m also skeptical on how many players hit their head and can’t stand up after, but are able to pass concussion protocol and return to the game. This shit will come back to haunt the NHL in the future.

Basically, the Leafs haven’t been much different the last 4 years. We haven’t accomplished any more than the Jets, but we keep trying the same thing. We keep adding talent and getting nowhere.

I don’t follow the Jets as close as the Leafs, but I don’t think you guys were the same team after Buff left. I think trading Laine for PLD was a mistake - should have been for someone to replace Buff on the backend. That being said, nobody is paying me millions to GM a team, so that opinion could be completely wrong.

I think there’s a lot of room for enhancing the user experience, but it’s definitely not bad. This will come in time.

I feel like the content and discussion is a bit more mature than reddit. This is the main reason I will stay here.

It has to be better than Melnyk though right? Right?

I think the jets are about to enter a rebuild. You guys might want to hire Gallant and prepare the tank o7 o7 o7

Hopefully the new ownership will be a positive change.

It was 2 - 0 then I had to take a phone call. Came back to 6 - 1. Ouch.

I was just listening to day by day this morning. Definitely gets in your head.

Sorry. With the goalies you probably know just as much as I do. I might do mock drafts for the next year and see how much worse I am than nhl teams.

That’s fair. It definitely wasn’t his best 3 years, but I think it’s also partly because of where the caps are - just like the penguins they are on a downturn. I think he’ll do better in New York. At the very least a step up from gallant.

Really? Why is that? Guy has had a ton of success. The rangers have a ton of talent and underperformed last year. This should help.

I might as well start the controversial opinions. I was hoping the leafs would get him and replace keefe. I can’t watch another year of us doing the exact same thing.

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I think Bedard and Fantilli will probably go 1 and 2. Carlson will probably be 3rd. After that I wouldn’t put money on anything.

Matvei Michkov is sort of the dark horse in the draft. He’s ranked high in skill but still has a contract in the KHL for a couple of years so he can’t play in the NHL. Teams might also worry that he would stay in Russia and never come, so I could see him drop and possibly picked up by the Caps. They’d probably be confident that Ovi would be enough to get him over here.

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Cause the logo looks like a toilet seat…

By the second round for sure. First round maybe. It definitely seems to be hard to draft goalies but you can get a high rank goalie prospect much later in round 1 or 2 and if it works out then you are laughing. If it doesn’t, then probably nobody will say anything unless you drafted him 3rd overall or something.

Great tit is a bit misleading.