Are You Worried About The Future Of The Maple Leafs? | SDP

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1. Late stage capitalism is at it again

2. Retool = repeat

3. Should be called "TTSP": The Three Stooges Podcast"

4. Just vote with the one thing Rodgers care about…….YOUR MONEY!!!!

5. No passion, no soul.

6. As a Sens fan I'm not worried at all. This has to be the least successful rebuild ever……from bums to elite and back to bums is so satisfying.

7. Get him out of town and get some guys that have some guts and determination not a powder puff

8. He has his one foot half way out the door! 😂😂😂 good job chasing another all star out og the city Laff fans!

9. This fanbase thinks McDavid wants to play there btw

10. These three do not understand business one bit. The Leafs owners have a product in a massive market with a fanbase that will never go away. They can do whatever they want, and the fans will not go away

11. After Toronto effusively celebrated him as a gold medal champion, why would he want to play anywhere else? Clearly Toronto was happy for their captain right?

    Oh, wait…that's right; instead, Toronto was salty that the U.S won gold and even saltier that Matthews was celebrated at the White House and *gasp* shook the President's offered hand, instead of immediately reporting back to the Leafs and apologizing profusely to all Canadians. Leading, of course, to calls for him to be stripped of his captaincy and traded, and booing him his first game back.

12. Canadian market hockey teams are in perpetual decline due to the value of CDN dollar and the fact that players are paid in USD. Canada's taxes are not competitve with most US states and players with choices are keenly aware.

13. You guys need to make some hockey trades with Columbus

14. Stop buying merchandise and tickets and you will see Change

15. Trade nylander for a couple good prospects and some picks. Keep Matthews until next year and if he doesn’t want to resign trade him for even more prospects and picks. That’s as much of a rebuild as it is a retool. Is no good ufa that will help this team.

16. Matthew’s is a goal scorer, that’s it and on other teams that have him just do that he/ will be successful. Toronto expecting way more from him especially now as captain, essentially changing his natural game up and criticize afterward for it. He’s a guy who fills A role not many ones. The team that uses him just for that, gets the best out of their team. Again, he’s a strictly, pure and natural goal scorer. He’s a role player and today’s nhl expects everyone to be able to have many which of course can be terrific IF he’s a natural all around guy that way but a player like Austin plays a simple role and that’s where he’s best.

17. actually being top 4 doesnt guarantee you top 5 lottery pick, stop making up bs. Its higher odds but its not a guarantee

18. He[Austin] does not care to be here on TO …why would he…poor management is hard to play for… where is the plan!!!!!!

19. Let the yank go to american team

20. Yup he left it up in the air when he should’ve just spoke his mind like a real leader…

21. "Despiration" is the right word.

22. Nylander and Mathews gotta go. there was never a Core 4 l. It was Tarvares and the three brats. and Reilly looks like my uncle Terry.

23. Absolutely worried about the leafs future. Especially since the organization keeps wanting to cheap everything out. They really needed to keep that medical staff that helps keep their players healthy. We got them back quicker.

24. He always sounds bored about everything. The Leafs sound like sh!t show.

25. To LA for Byfield+ ??

26. Please hire chuck fletcher 🙏

27. Mathews Answer's to direct questions are pathetic. Virtually no answer people want or need to know and he is Hiding. He is a great goal scorer but after that as a Captain Zero out of 10, as a Leader of the most historic team in the NHL next to Montreal, Zero out of 10. Does losing hurt very badly, not with this Bunch of Pathetic Jokers, all the leafs aside from J.T. who done in two years. Trade Willy and A. M. both Pathetic

28. Rebuild!!

29. I think its a retool with Larson, Rielly, Carlo, Beniot, Yarnkrok, Robertson, Macabe and Storlarz are the ones out. I also think they will make good trades

30. I think they blew it by taking too much of last year’s team apart. People seem to forget that they came within a whisker of beating the Panthers, who went on to win the Stanley Cup. Had it not been for Bennett taking out Stolarz (accident my ass), and several other uncalled injurious hacks, they probably would have won, and if they had, they were past the toughest match-up. However, the media and fans forced management’s hand and drove Marner out, and everything went downhill from there. They might barely make the playoffs with a re-tool next year, but the likelihood of getting anywhere near the Cup with this core is minimal.

31. Austin Mathews has gotten worse over the last two years but his pay is still as much as possible…

    If you weren't anywhere close to winning when he was at his best, why would you think that you have any chance with him as he is now?

32. a retool on winning 2 playoff rounds in 10 years.

33. As a montreal canadians fan… nope … kind of glad..

34. This might be hard to hear but I listen to these dreaming guerin calls the bad org to trade the team USA captain to come play with several great Americans and an awesome team. Anyway yall can discuss this possibility. I get if it’s too tough lol

35. They should move on from him now, he’s a proven loser, him and willie, the leafs are NEVER, EVER going to win a cup with these soft, weak, pampered and overpaid players. They have no heart or desire to go all the way.

36. … "you need him he does not need you" well … Steve … this is the kind of thinking that got them in the situation they are in today … YOU can call him a "star" but in my humble opinion he is only a star "on paper", in real life he was not able to produce, like a real "star", in his 10 years with the Leafs. I DO NOT CARE HOW MANY GOALS HE SCORED, he didn't do it when it really mattered …

37. Problem is Toronto is not a position to rebuild because the have no real draft picks in the bank. They're all been traded away.

38. The season was Tavares' plan to get Matthews to leave so he gets the C back

39. 🙂

40. Steve is bang on correct completely drowning 6:28 in

41. you guys had a ton of good insight into some Treliinv stuff that i never thought about. idk if its true but i believe it, i think its what Jesse said about other GMS in the league think of dealing with the useless GM known as Tree

42. Matthews is a big fan of Filip Forsberg. The Predators badly need a high end center. Welcome to Nashville Auston 🙃

43. Matthews thrives in an environment where he's NOT the leader or captain of the team he's on. Look at him at 4 Nations and the Olympics: he plays fine in a system where he's not wearing the C.

    I think a solid option would be him to go to Florida on the 3rd or 4th line. He can play to the strength as a great goal scorer with Marchand, while not having the stress of "I need to lead"

44. MLSE, invoking the ghost of Harold Ballard….. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG ?? cant wait LOL

45. You get to a point where you start to wonder what the point of being a leaf fan is anymore

46. Matthews learned from Marleau to always look out for number 1.

47. Matthews to Vegas and Hellebuyck to Florida but Winnipeg is smart enough to get something back for their player

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