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04 Apr 2026 21:07:34
We cannot get anymore points this season. We have a serious contention on being bottom 5. Three teams below us have to pass us and they are only 2 points behind us and one of them is 1 point behind us. No OT, straight up losses for our last 6-7 games and we should be ok to land a top 5 draft pick.

04 Apr 2026 21:54:09
Hey Clarky! Yeah it is such a wild last couple of weeks. There are teams chargin to the bottom and others charging to get into the playoffs and some teams that are right there at both options not sure what to do lol.

It makes for great hockey to watch though for sure. 2 games tonight that will be like playoff games as they all try to climb the standings will be Winnipeg and Columbus...... and San Jose and Nashville.

04 Apr 2026 16:06:07
One post mentioned earlier about Buffalo up against the salary crunch for signing Tuch. I was just reading a article saying the two teams that might take a run at him would be Chicago and Columbus. Chicago I could see swinging it for sure as they do have lots of cap with really only one major player heading to RFA or UFA and that is Bedard.

Columbus though for all the Salary Cap they have which on tre surface looks massive has some major decisions to make. They either have to sign the following or spend to find replacements for them.

I will onaly mention the major key pieces as they will probably not go after their minor pieces.

Charlie Coyle UFA
Mason Marchment UFA
Boone Jenner UFA

Cole Sillinger RFA
Adam Fantilli RFA
Jet Greaves RFA

Then they do have to fill a few other spots.

So if they go after Tuch that will gobble up 25% of that $40 million cap. Will there be enough money to sign all of the above or replace with the same quality of player and the spare pieces?

05 Apr 2026 10:13:53
Honestly idk if any of their UFA’s are back. Coyle might cash in on a career year. Marchment probably wants to be elsewhere and Jenner just isn’t the player he once was. They will prioritize the RFA’s. As for Tuch, I think it’s all smoke screens and he will stay out. Why would he leave Buffalo now?

05 Apr 2026 14:20:33
One reason. $money. He may have grown up in Syracuse, but New York has a high state tax. Not to mention if they are 2 to 2.5 million apart and if Chicago came knocking with a number with a higher take home after taxes.

Which does he take? This will in all likelihood be his last NHL contract, so who can blame him for trying to max out the earnings on it?

05 Apr 2026 14:38:38
Marchment I think will want to stay with Columbus. Again. Money and chemistry with his linemates. His past 3 teams before Columbus were with Florida, Dallas, Seattle. All teams with no state tax. He had a 10 team no trade list and he obviously either waived it or didn't have Columbus on it. Coincidentally they have one of the absolute lowest state taxes without being tax free.

Coyle... yes he will get money for that year he has had, but he is also not a bad player to have as a big centreman who is comfortable playing Ist, 2nd or 3rd line are rare in the league.



I agree Boone Jenner is not what he once was, but he would probably do the home town discount to finish his career there. Even though he is not the player he was.....sadly he would still be tied for 5th in points on the Leafs. :o(

01 Apr 2026 12:50:34
So does anyone else see the problem with Pelley coming out and saying that all the Leafs need is a retool around Mathews and Nylander? It looks like who ever he hires they will run it back with the same heartless bunch who hasn’t won a thing in the last 10 years. Change up a couple third and fourth liners and expect a different result. The firing of Treleving at this time of the year after talks of an extension not two months ago has me thinking.


Maybe Treleving wanted to blow this team up and trade Mathews and or Nylander but was told no by Pelley. MLSE has to stay the hell out of the hockey operations and let the GM and or head of hockey operations decide what to do. I think that we will know by the GM they hire, if they are going to quietly rule the team and limit what the GM can and can’t do then they will have a hard time hiring a GM with any experience as nobody will want to take the job!

01 Apr 2026 21:09:19
No, not really. Do you think he is going to tip his hand to the players or the media or the public? He has to say to the public the ship is not sinking, even though the life boats have been launching and the SOS has been sent. Can't panic the passengers (fans). Or to play devil's advocate...

What if Pelley did say to blow it up and Treliving said "No, I can get it back on track." That also could have been the scenario. No need with putting speculation into it. We don't know what went on behind closed doors and it is not good to hypothesize.

Treliving is gone and it's time to move on. Let's see who they pick to change the chaotic situation, then we can judge the upper management figures. It is not in their best interests to have a stagnant team. It is easy to say MLSE has to stay out of hockey operations but... they do own the team. If it keeps getting screwed up then again... people will get replaced. Same as any other business model that doesn't work.

02 Apr 2026 12:54:14
Since it's Pelley who said they already have the foundational pieces, it is more likely that Tre would have said to blow it up and Pelley said no, than the other way around happening.
I know this won't be popular, but I think firing Tre was bad for the Leafs if the new GM is just going to be a puppet for Pelley and a continuation of Dubas and Shanny's plan is what we can expect moving forward.


I think under Tre, big changes were coming this summer. He even said he will be having those conversations after the season ends. Then, he gets fired. Pelley comes in and says the pieces are here to build around.
I am not too optimistic at the moment, that other than maybe Mo, that any real change is gping to happen.

02 Apr 2026 18:31:02
I don't think anything changed. Ownership has zero interest in a rebuild as non hockey people. They want gate revenue from playoffs as it is the most lucrative time.

Pelley is there to make money and that's literally it. He has zero interest in hockey or knowledge about it. I know everyone keeps blaming Pelley, but I really don't see it the same way. I think he looked at Tre and thought "He probably wants to change everything and that's a risk. Let's not".

For the next years the Leafs will do absolutely nothing risky, then rebuild if it is mandatory.

03 Apr 2026 00:49:43
LL. I don't disagree that ownership wants gate revenue, but the deeper they go in the playoffs, the more revenue, so winning as much as possible makes the most money.
To me, Pelley was hired as the guy they thought would get them the farthest and therefore make the most money.

He was a president of golf, a completely individual sport where the most talented typically do well. He probably thinks hockey works the same way. Leafs have been there and done that and it didn't work.
That's why his comments that resemble the Dubas/Shanny era makes sense imo.

03 Apr 2026 04:50:16
Pelley is clueless when it comes to hockey
The Leafs will be non factors for the next decade with him at the helm

01 Apr 2026 11:44:06
Thoughts on Pelley presser.

I only caught part of it, but what I essentially got out of it was he wanted to glaze our rivals and TFC and the Argos, which I found weird and out of touch. Then he said we were going after Dubas 2.0 lol.

Bottom line, all he did was say what everyone was thinking: he has no clue what he’s doing, and he even stated I will have no part in building the team aka I’m taking no blame if it goes back to before Matthews era.

Only saving grace will be who they bring in as GM; hopefully he’s a stud, or I don’t see anything positive ahead

04 Apr 2026 21:46:53
I just have this feeling that he was blowing smoke up people's butts. He had to be careful regarding addressing the not tanking issue. The League frowns on that. Regarding having the foundation pieces still in place, that is classic blowing smoke. He is not going to panic #1 the fans that are fans of those foundation pieces, #2 not blow his chance at finding the right President and GM. If it was public knowledge the team was going to blow up and rebuild then right away those new people would be at a disadvantage in trade negotiations knowing that those players need to be moved. I believe they are in negotiations for permission to talk to certain people for those jobs and maybe have been for a while now.

I just get this feeling that if there are some big moves made it will come out of left field like the first Rantanen trade and catch everyone off guard.

Pelley has been an executive for a lot of years and one thing about executives is they are very adept at talking out of both sides of their mouths. They can tell a Vice-President one day he is doing a great job and 3 days later fire and replace him without losing a minute of sleep. They can protect the major shareholders by giving a glowing report to all the minor shareholders. So him saying we are doing a Retool could actually mean a Rebuild. Time will tell.

31 Mar 2026 21:19:34
Why are we talking Bruce Cassidy? He looks like he runs the same system Berube does. Don’t work for this team. Why Doug Armstrong? What have the Blues done to say wow I want that GM?
The most important over anything else is Nylander, Matthews and Reilly need to go or it doesn’t matter who the coach is. It will be the same soft result.