Love him or hate him, he was never afraid to take a swing (rightfully, or wrongfully)
Man, even if Kyle’s teams were dog-water defensively they were never THIS boring.
We’re never happy with what we have.
Dubas wasn’t perfect, and no GM is.
But the guy was so handicapped by Shannahan and probably ownership as well we never truly got to see how good he could become.
And now he’s debatably a top 5 GM in the sport.
Dubas’ problem was he massively overpaid
That was it
Otherwise he was great
I said this for years and everyone told me I was wrong and he was the drizzling shits.
Ooook.
I felt it should have been Keefe when Dubas was fired, but at some point Dubas needed to go, too. However, if even half of what is rumoured is true, then Shanny should have been the second to go way earlier and Dubas promoted to head of everything.
Dubas sucked at giving out contracts but he and tre are pretty similar with trades
Lest we forget.
1st ,and two 4th round picks for Foligno and Steffan Noesen, Mason Marchment for Denis Malgin , Nazem Kadri for Kerfoot and Tyson Barrie , Erik Gustafson for Rasmus Sandin , 1st and 2nd round pick for Jake McCabe and Lafferty, 1st 2nd and 3rd round picks for Ryan O’Rielly and Noel Acciari , two 2nd and one 3rd round picks for Giordano and Blackwell, and plenty more. Dubas traded 27 draft picks, drafted 35 players in 5 years with only 5 players having played in over 200 hundred games with 2 of them being traded away by him. The other 3? Robertson, Knies and Holmberg.
It sucks we are back to the days of celebrating that the team got worse after the trade deadline.
I also want to add that Joe Bowen having this giant turd of a season be his final one calling games sucks hard.
When Dubas made trades/signings you could always understand the thought process and even if you didn’t like it your like ok fine whatever. Trevling you are just left wondering what this person did to get the job. Just so incompetent.
Kyle was under rated. And neutered by Shanny
So, my next question is… when does Matthews leave? I know his contract is up 2028, but the best time to trade him for assets would be 2026-2027, so I imagine next season at some point he’ll be gone. Maybe even this off season.
And you don’t know what you got til it’s gone
Dark days ahead my friends. At least we’ve got the Jays.
At the very least we should miss Shanny
Say what u will he left the leafs in far better shape than when he got them
Brad was hired to be his puppet and the second Shanny left the team imploded
And yes he refused to move off the core 4 but I dont necessarily blame him for that,
they consistently made the playoffs and usually lost to teams by a very narrow margin that went on to make it to or even win the finals
It’s entirely possible they could have gotten lucky given enough attempts (maybe had a 1/20 chance) and we just gave that up for a 0% chance
I can’t believe we paid a 1st and a prospect for 50 games of a 4th line centre and a 3rd.
I always said we needed to fire coach and shan. Dubas was not the problem.
If only we had Tre and Dubas. Tre absolutely sucks at trades but seemingly great at signings, Dubas great at trades but gets on his knees for signings.
I don’t actually understand the plan at all at this point
They weren’t built to win in the playoffs then and aren’t built to make the playoffs now. Fuck you Shanahan.
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Love him or hate him, he was never afraid to take a swing (rightfully, or wrongfully)
Man, even if Kyle’s teams were dog-water defensively they were never THIS boring.
We’re never happy with what we have.
Dubas wasn’t perfect, and no GM is.
But the guy was so handicapped by Shannahan and probably ownership as well we never truly got to see how good he could become.
And now he’s debatably a top 5 GM in the sport.
Dubas’ problem was he massively overpaid
That was it
Otherwise he was great
I said this for years and everyone told me I was wrong and he was the drizzling shits.
Ooook.
I felt it should have been Keefe when Dubas was fired, but at some point Dubas needed to go, too. However, if even half of what is rumoured is true, then Shanny should have been the second to go way earlier and Dubas promoted to head of everything.
Dubas sucked at giving out contracts but he and tre are pretty similar with trades
Lest we forget.
1st ,and two 4th round picks for Foligno and Steffan Noesen, Mason Marchment for Denis Malgin , Nazem Kadri for Kerfoot and Tyson Barrie , Erik Gustafson for Rasmus Sandin , 1st and 2nd round pick for Jake McCabe and Lafferty, 1st 2nd and 3rd round picks for Ryan O’Rielly and Noel Acciari , two 2nd and one 3rd round picks for Giordano and Blackwell, and plenty more. Dubas traded 27 draft picks, drafted 35 players in 5 years with only 5 players having played in over 200 hundred games with 2 of them being traded away by him. The other 3? Robertson, Knies and Holmberg.
You’re right, it was way better under Dubas….
https://preview.redd.it/mccgky5c1jng1.jpeg?width=1158&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb569aece2f0d9519bbac917f972ac1539e8b7e3
It sucks we are back to the days of celebrating that the team got worse after the trade deadline.
I also want to add that Joe Bowen having this giant turd of a season be his final one calling games sucks hard.
When Dubas made trades/signings you could always understand the thought process and even if you didn’t like it your like ok fine whatever. Trevling you are just left wondering what this person did to get the job. Just so incompetent.
Kyle was under rated. And neutered by Shanny
So, my next question is… when does Matthews leave? I know his contract is up 2028, but the best time to trade him for assets would be 2026-2027, so I imagine next season at some point he’ll be gone. Maybe even this off season.
And you don’t know what you got til it’s gone
Dark days ahead my friends. At least we’ve got the Jays.
At the very least we should miss Shanny
Say what u will he left the leafs in far better shape than when he got them
Brad was hired to be his puppet and the second Shanny left the team imploded
And yes he refused to move off the core 4 but I dont necessarily blame him for that,
they consistently made the playoffs and usually lost to teams by a very narrow margin that went on to make it to or even win the finals
It’s entirely possible they could have gotten lucky given enough attempts (maybe had a 1/20 chance) and we just gave that up for a 0% chance
I can’t believe we paid a 1st and a prospect for 50 games of a 4th line centre and a 3rd.
I always said we needed to fire coach and shan. Dubas was not the problem.
If only we had Tre and Dubas. Tre absolutely sucks at trades but seemingly great at signings, Dubas great at trades but gets on his knees for signings.
I don’t actually understand the plan at all at this point
They weren’t built to win in the playoffs then and aren’t built to make the playoffs now. Fuck you Shanahan.
I think I miss Kyle Wellwood