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RafiDRW
Detroit Red Wings
Location: Bill Cosby’s Magic Wiener #FireBlashill, TN
Joined: 04.16.2016

Jul 1 @ 3:01 PM ET
not meant to be funny why would he go to a horrible team like this. team is horrible i have seem my team win unless your over 60 you dont remember anything the leafs have done
- Hockeyislife

They aren’t a horrible team by any stretch. They’re the second or third best team in the Atlantic. So much talent and potential.
graemet13
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: I squish hippies with my carbon footprint, AB
Joined: 06.06.2013

Jul 1 @ 3:01 PM ET
not meant to be funny why would he go to a horrible team like this. team is horrible i have seem my team win unless your over 60 you dont remember anything the leafs have done
- Hockeyislife


You don't seem to remember basic grammar from your grade 3 English class....
Trapezoid
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: AB
Joined: 06.29.2016

Jul 1 @ 3:29 PM ET
i Knew he was gone i didn't care but to go to a joke team like the leafs is what bothers me they have not won the cup at all i wasn't born when they won what is the attraction here its a joke and i hope we win before the leafs i will give it to him then. In lou we trust. LOU LOU LOU
- Hockeyislife


Do you not like the Leafs?
moneyballs
Joined: 07.23.2014

Jul 1 @ 3:44 PM ET
AHAHAHAH Bye bye laffs. Theyre done. Now Matthews gets minimum 11 million and nylander and marner at least 8 mill, with no defense or goaltending. No cap left. Lmfaoooo team just (frank)ed themselves for 50 more years. Clown show of a franchise
- Moafer

Hockeyislife
New York Islanders
Joined: 05.29.2018

Jul 1 @ 3:48 PM ET
all JT talked about was the cup i want to be on a winner if he wanted to win the cup he could of signed with the bruins or Tampa they are much better than the leafs not even close.
HealthyScratch6
Toronto Maple Leafs
Joined: 09.13.2014

Jul 1 @ 3:53 PM ET
all JT talked about was the cup i want to be on a winner if he wanted to win the cup he could of signed with the bruins or Tampa they are much better than the leafs not even close.
- Hockeyislife

Leafs just leap frogged the bruins and are now up there with Tampa. I'd hate to be an Isles fan right now though. Just went from a fringe playoff team with some good young talent to full rebuild overnight.
moneyballs
Joined: 07.23.2014

Jul 1 @ 4:02 PM ET
Uhh obviously the best player in the world is going to make more than some average player? Matthews is very average and Tavares is overrated. Never going to win a cup with two people that don't know how to win when it comes to the playoffs. Enjoy your dumpster fire of a franchise. Draisaitl is just as good as Tavares making 3 mil less a year and Mcdavid is wayyyyy better only making 1.5m a year more. Bargains now after that horrible signing

- Moafer


This day keeps getting better
newwave
New York Islanders
Location: Cape Breton, NS
Joined: 07.04.2007

Jul 1 @ 4:40 PM ET
Leafs still have no defense . and how will they be able to keep their young stars now .
Atarileaf
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: ON
Joined: 02.12.2017

Jul 1 @ 4:44 PM ET
Leafs still have no defense . and how will they be able to keep their young stars now .
- newwave


In Kyle we trust. It'll come. I'm sure though that you're thrilled with Fillpula and Komarov, that's almost a replacement for JT.
Trapezoid
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: AB
Joined: 06.29.2016

Jul 1 @ 4:49 PM ET
all JT talked about was the cup i want to be on a winner if he wanted to win the cup he could of signed with the bruins or Tampa they are much better than the leafs not even close.
- Hockeyislife


Sooo... Do you think I should order my New,, JT Leafs Jersey with or without the C on the chest? I want to get it ordered before the Huge rush in sales.
Trapezoid
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: AB
Joined: 06.29.2016

Jul 1 @ 4:52 PM ET
Leafs still have no defense . and how will they be able to keep their young stars now .
- newwave


Its called ,, Asset Management.
mckawalley
Montreal Canadiens
Location: Bradenton, FL
Joined: 12.16.2014

Jul 1 @ 6:31 PM ET
T.O. will have to win this year with Marner, Mathews both looking at 18 Million combined next year and Nylander getting about 5.50 this year the Leafs will have nothing left for the remainder of the Team.

The next Blackhawks....... Tavares and Mathews and a revolving door with a revolting defense..
HealthyScratch6
Toronto Maple Leafs
Joined: 09.13.2014

Jul 1 @ 7:05 PM ET
T.O. will have to win this year with Marner, Mathews both looking at 18 Million combined next year and Nylander getting about 5.50 this year the Leafs will have nothing left for the remainder of the Team.

The next Blackhawks....... Tavares and Mathews and a revolving door with a revolting defense..

- mckawalley

You're probably pretty bang on with those numbers. A lot of guys around here are saying its gonna cost 30m for Matthews Nylander and Marner. That being said Leafs have one of the best cap guys in the league in Pridham. I'm confident he'll make it work. If reports are true Tavares took less money to be here and the leafs never even had to play the sponsership deals card like they did with stamkos.
slap_me_mongo
San Jose Sharks
Location: CA
Joined: 02.29.2012

Jul 1 @ 7:59 PM ET
Congrats Leafs fans, that's a helluva shot to the arm for the franchise.
Buggy166
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Canada, ON
Joined: 08.01.2007

Jul 1 @ 10:18 PM ET
You're probably pretty bang on with those numbers. A lot of guys around here are saying its gonna cost 30m for Matthews Nylander and Marner. That being said Leafs have one of the best cap guys in the league in Pridham. I'm confident he'll make it work. If reports are true Tavares took less money to be here and the leafs never even had to play the sponsership deals card like they did with stamkos.
- HealthyScratch6


Nylander's a 60 point player, not sure where people are getting these 9-10 million per year figures from.

Marner's been a step ahead, but again, nowhere near worth 9-10 million.

Auston's gonna get his pay day, the rest is yet to be established.

Also, Blackhawks won plenty of cups with those 2 having to deal with revolving doors.

I'd take those cups lol
Aetherial
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Has anyone discussed the standings today?
Joined: 06.30.2006

Jul 1 @ 11:28 PM ET
The hate is so delicious and chocolaty.

obie
Montreal Canadiens
Location: Oshawa, ON
Joined: 09.17.2005

Jul 1 @ 11:42 PM ET
not meant to be funny why would he go to a horrible team like this. team is horrible i have seem my team win unless your over 60 you dont remember anything the leafs have done
- Hockeyislife


Doesn't matter what happened decades ago... Leafs have Matthews, Tavares, Marner, Marleau, Nylander and Kadri up front... Can you think of any team that is able to ice 6 better F? At this moment I mean, not in 1967!!
GreatGigInTheSky
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: "Yeah, Garth is a tool"- Garf, ON
Joined: 06.12.2017

Jul 2 @ 12:36 AM ET
I do feel bad for the Islanders and their fans, I can't recall (although I am sure there are other instances) of a player stringing along a Franchise that a player has been part of for that long. JT left them in a tough spot by waiting so long. It really speaks quite loudly the character of the man. At least when O'Reilly stated that he lost his love for the game at times last year, he turned around and stated how he still wanted to be in Buffalo and help work to turn things around. Tavares didn't say anything and then turned around and left his former franchise and fans High and dry. That is the shame of this entire process. Don't try to tell me he owed them nothing, everybody connected to hockey knows loyalty is a strong factor within the game.
- macman9


Of course he did. That's called damage control. He was still under contract for years to the organisation.

Were he about to be a free agent, he wouldn't have said all the things he did, and instead quietly, but quickly, leave in free agency.
GreatGigInTheSky
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: "Yeah, Garth is a tool"- Garf, ON
Joined: 06.12.2017

Jul 2 @ 12:37 AM ET
How about Babs and Marleu?
- Cloud


Babcock was offered more money elsewhere.
Woderwick
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: David Clarkson's Water Bottle, ON
Joined: 02.12.2013

Jul 2 @ 1:32 AM ET
Look at how mad all you laffs fans are at my comments because you all know its true. Only took you guys 50 seasons to finally get a star that was born in Toronto to actually want to come back, most born there want to get as far away from that smog infsted poophole hahahah enjoy your trash team and your trash season laffs fans! 50 year clown show and going strong!
- Moafer

You don't have the brains of an ice cube.
Woderwick
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: David Clarkson's Water Bottle, ON
Joined: 02.12.2013

Jul 2 @ 1:36 AM ET
not meant to be funny why would he go to a horrible team like this. team is horrible i have seem my team win unless your over 60 you dont remember anything the leafs have done
- Hockeyislife

And you must be related to Moafer.
slap_me_mongo
San Jose Sharks
Location: CA
Joined: 02.29.2012

Jul 4 @ 1:49 PM ET
Feeling Glucky?
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Tanktown, ON
Joined: 10.08.2008

Jul 4 @ 8:46 PM ET
Leafs still have no defense . and how will they be able to keep their young stars now .
- newwave

By signing them. That's what you do with your home-grown stars.
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