Kuro Madoushi
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Carlyle was good for something then.
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NHL Off-Season 2014 |OT| - O stands for Overhaul
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CrazedArabMan
Member
You don't need our front office, you need Dan Cleary for that veteran leadership, he can lead you to the playoffs from the press box!
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
...I hope Cleary comes back in time for the playoffs.
I hope Nonis and the entire GM staff gets fired. Especially that fucktard Claude Loiselle. He is supposed to be a salary cap genius, and all he seems to do is overpay players. Just clean house. Fire the entire coaching staff too, and maybe the director of scouting.
I feel really crappy as a Leafs fan. It's been three years in a row of epic collapses. This organization (management staff, coaching, and players) cannot do anything when under pressure. Look at Boston and Montreal, two of our biggest rivals, doing extremely well. Montreal has two Canadian olympians (Subban/Price) and they actually made a decent trade deadline deal (Vanek) and their players seem to love each other. Montreal makes the playoffs every fucking year, minus the year they got Galchenyuk. =/ Boston is once again a juggernaut... Makes me sad to see TML fail so spectacularly...'
Fuck this team.
I feel really crappy as a Leafs fan. It's been three years in a row of epic collapses. This organization (management staff, coaching, and players) cannot do anything when under pressure. Look at Boston and Montreal, two of our biggest rivals, doing extremely well. Montreal has two Canadian olympians (Subban/Price) and they actually made a decent trade deadline deal (Vanek) and their players seem to love each other. Montreal makes the playoffs every fucking year, minus the year they got Galchenyuk. =/ Boston is once again a juggernaut... Makes me sad to see TML fail so spectacularly...'
Fuck this team.
Rumors are Nonis is staying, Shanahan's job is more upper level stuff and they'll let Nonis run the team. The coaching staff is gone though.
gaming_noob
Member
While they're at it, get rid of some of the players. There's obviously a conflict of interest when you have two different coaches saying they couldn't instill their system onto the team. Your best player should be the captain but Kessel is not the outspoken type. Meanwhile you have a blockhead as your captain. It's probably creating an indifference in the locker room. Get rid of one of them.
I think Phaneuf has now been exposed as a shitstain of a captain and an overpaid _asshole_. We get rid of Phaneuf, not Kessel.
Kessel is far from the problem. He is one of the best players in the league and Leafs are lucky to have him.
I hope those rumours are wrong. Nonis is an incompetent GM. I can't believe I ever defended and felt excited about the Clarkson signing. Thing is, I'm not being paid millions of dollars to manage the Leafs.
CrazedArabMan
Member
...I hope Cleary comes back in time for the playoffs.
Sad thing is that he keeps talking like he wants to and is shooting for, but like he has a roster spot now. Glendening is Babs new Cleary (and a much better one in terms of defense and energy) and there really isn't anyone else he could fill in for since everyone else is completely outplaying what he could even do. His time as a Wing I can say with 99% certainty is done.
Nah, I don't agree that your captain has to be your best player. Your captain should be the player that has leadership. Neither of them have that, mind you, but I'm fine with Kessel being the silent type and just being there to play.
Dastardly Jerks
Banned
It's so strange how it took me so long to see how utterly shit Carlyle is. Even up to his firing I didn't see any reason that he was apart of it.
Then again, advanced analytics never even came to Californias teams until Leafs bloggers started adapting them.
Goddamn trendsetters in the field they are.
Then again, advanced analytics never even came to Californias teams until Leafs bloggers started adapting them.
Goddamn trendsetters in the field they are.
Dastardly Jerks
Banned
Leafs are gonna Shannaban the league.
Who replaces him as Displincary Bad Guy?
Who replaces him as Displincary Bad Guy?
Sean Avery.
"On October 5th, 2014, in a game versus the Minnesota Wild...*video starts playing* look at this fuckin' guy, he's minding his own business and then WHAM out of nowhere Cooke fuckin' nails him in the head. *replay* ha ha ha look at him flop around. Fuckin' pussy. No suspension or anything, I just wanted to show you this because it's fuckin' hilarious."
Friends forever then.
Randy Carlyle is a great coach who teaches a fantastic, highly successful defensive system. Oh wait, you *do* have two first ballot HOF defensemen at their peak on your blueline right? And your #3 dman would be the #1 on 25 other teams, right? No? Oh shit. Uh well, you at least have a surprisingly deep corps of forwards, with a couple of young all-star talents and a few highly effective veterans? You don't have that either huh... you know what, nevermind, Randy might not be the coach for you after all sorry.
bonesmccoy
Banned
Twitter is telling me that Peter de Boer and Shanahan have a 'connection'.
And apparently de Boer has some kind of relationship with Kadri.
I could see this going down.
And apparently de Boer has some kind of relationship with Kadri.
I could see this going down.
Apparently every decision will go past Shanahans desk now too, thank god.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/feature/?id=115803
Go Jets!
Haven't seen a Canucks game all year so I might go to Sunday's game and hope for a loss.
Go Jets!
Haven't seen a Canucks game all year so I might go to Sunday's game and hope for a loss.
Don't know what to think of it.
It's kind of the opposite spectrum of the whole advanced statistics thing too. The Devils apparently are one of the best possession teams.
EDIT: What if DeBoer to Toronto, and Carlyle to New Jersey? I would love to see how it plays out, lol.
Is de Boer getting canned this season?
His contract is up this season. Lots of rumors about the Devils deciding to move on.
Yes but the Devils have zero offence, like none at all, outside of Jagr.
Not a whole lot of good possession will do if you can't put it in the net.
Devils have given up the 8th least amount of goals against, I'll take it if he can get the Leafs defensive zone coverage under control.
Coldnoodle
Member
Toews is kind of like Bozak.
Might be a good fit for the Leafs then. Offence has not really been an issue.
Obviously, there is a hole in that #1C position
But our players are not really the greatest possession players, is this something you can teach? I have no idea. Anyone is better then Carlyle right now then. My only expectation is that they bring in someone who works well with young players - need to fix the damage caused by Carlyles rampage.
Well that's the thing, a good start would be having a possession-oriented coach to see what we have to work with here.
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
Gonna need the loilers to get at least 1 more point to slide into prime Ekblad territory.
Seems crazy to me for them to let him go. They only missed the playoffs because of shootouts and don't exactly have an amazing roster.
Coldnoodle
Member
Wouldn't mind Deboer, Trotz or Laviolette as the new Caps coach.
Yep, in my eyes as long as we move on from Carlyle I'll have no complaints. We try that possession game, it doesn't work then we know its a personnel issue and we end up with a good draft pick in the McDavid year, a crazy deep draft, if it works out then we get in the playoffs.
Win, win!
They have no choice if he wants to leave. His contract is up, it's not like a player where you hold his rights as an RFA or something, once the contract is up he doesn't have to sign another one even if they want to keep him. Hopefully he wants to come to the Leafs.
Well, for starters.
Clarkson has a 42.7% possession number this year. Pretty bad right?
Last year, Clarkson had a 61.2% possession number, and the year before that was 51.1%. The 51.1% is more realistic but still much better than his current year. That's just one example so there's zero guarantees of him or the overall team improving dramatically.
Can't be any worse though.... can it?
Coldnoodle
Member
It's the Leafs.
gaming_noob
Member
DeBoer is going to help Clarkson's game. That $5.25M/Y contract is going to look like a steal in a couple of years.
Yeah, for Clarkson.
By FAR the best/funniest thing about Clarkson's deal to me is the fact his agent threw language into it about the bonuses specifically to prevent a buyout. So awesome that his agent was like "damn I better put in a no take-backsies clause because this contract is fucking poison!"
I bet the future of contracts will be like that. All players want to be able to protect themselves from buyouts and losing money.
You avatar is amazing :lol :lol
I could see this really working out for the Leafs, and Clarkson. If they don't adapt under him then you know you have to move some of the players.
gaming_noob
Member
I've never seen this done in the reverse. Amazing.
I was hoping someone would notice doughboy peaking out from behind Shanahan. I tip my hat to you Red.
I saw that but I couldn't tell whom it was, lol
I didn't even notice.
I always notice you Leaf fans
gaming_noob
Member
it was a joke...more of a compliment to the team he's following.