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AB - I agree with this prob being Shanny's last year but why not let him go this summer? Why let him run in back for the 100th time with most likely the same result, perhaps worse as our forward group is worse now. Just more uselessness on behalf of MLSE. All they care about is money, its clear. As a Leaf fan of over 30 years, it deeply saddens me that this is happening to this team and were wasting the Matthews era.

Bruins number 1. I dont even consider Montréal to be second...ottawa is for me. Modern era wise

Shannahan should have been done last year.

I would have to say Boston is the number one rival. They've played each other in the playoffs 4 times in a span of a decade and both are Original 6 teams. Montreal will always be bigger in the grand scheme of things though. The history of those two goes back forever.

You dummies, the only person who can trade Marner is Marner

MLSE is a cancer! They have supplanted Harold Ballard as THE WORSE owners in Toronto history. The Leafs have no rivals, just universal hatred by all other teams.

Designated franchise player exemption

You know, my wife's family is from Ottawa ... yeah, I married her anyway ... but its always amazed me how much Sens fans hate the Leafs. It's pathetic! I don't hate the Sens - they're an Ontario team! I hate the Habs, and Flyers for historical reasons, and the Bruins, the Panthers and the Bolts, but all of these have some recognizable logic to them.

Montreal

Boston is the #one rival only because same division?

AB - your memory of why Dubas left is different than what I remember. In a situation where he had failed to make any substantive progress, Dubas was negotiating for increased control AFTER discussions had concluded and MLSE and his agent had a hard deal on the table. Shanny reacted to the last minute brinksmanship as he should have ... he moved on. Is my memory flawed, did other information come our after the fact, or did I misunderstand your comments? I just never understood that decision to have anything to do with handling the Core 4.

Wrestling is fake, just like your podcast

Easy, you sign for a percentage of the cap, not a hard number. Youre traded, you still make the same % of the cap on whatever the adjusted cap is for your next team.

The leafs suck because they don't take the lower teams seriously ,they are expected to win Arizona ducks Montreal on so when the leafs meet these lower teams ,either they sleepwalking or in a coma.

Surprised mo isn't a fighter if he fights usually gets the snout knocked out of him😅😅

I think it's Boston, with the previous playoff history.

Who are

The core 4 haven't earned their contracts in 7 years. Time to change the core.

For MLSE, Shanahan is doing a wonderful job. An exciting team guaranteed a playoff spot with a full arena. MLSE wants the franchises to make money and the Leafs do - lots of it. Only when MLSE sees a drop in revenue will Shanahan be fired. MLSE is in the hockey business not hockey fandom. I must admit I am confused by the inherent logic that Shanahan would be worthy of more time if he was bold, forced a trade of Marner and Nylander and as a result were fighting for a playoff spot. Not sure how Leafs' fans believe they would automatically upgrade from these 2 players.

Rewrite history much. Dubas wasn't renewed because he negotiated a contract. Then backtracked publicly using his wife and children as an excuse, he then demanded his boss' s job in everything but the title but most especially his boss's paycheck. There isn't a company in the world that wouldn't have passed on him for that. Then instantly he has a job offer from the Fenway group that matched what he attempted to use his children to leverage from Toronto. "Those guys", all have NMCs. There is no forcing them to do anything. All they can do is let Marner walk for nothing which brutal asset management. Fire Shanahan... Dubas, Shanahan and Keefe all should have been fired after they lost to Montreal. This experiment is almost done. It is only a few years away from another tank. Matthews will be 30 when his next contract is up. At some point he will start to think about having his name on a cup instead of being the highest paid guy in the history of hockey. Nylander... imagine how little effort 31 year old, 11.5 million dollar, full NMC Nylander will put into defending. Marner is likely gone for nothing next year. All because Dubas or Shanahan didn't have the stones to draw a line in the sand with the Nylander negotiation. Montreal. If I had to choose a world where Boston or Ottawa won every year and Montreal never won, or a world where Montreal won a single time. Life would be good for Bruins and Sens fans.

It was buffalo way back when they was good

Boston fans will not pick the leafs at all. all Montreal fans would say the leafs

Why do there has to be a one two they both suck and leafs fans hate them both but Boston fans do not hate the Leafs at all they mok us. But Montreal fans hate leafs fans with a passion there's more hate between leafs and Montreal.

I grew up in Edmonton being a leafs fan back in the day when gretzky was there I was playing hockey with Shane Doan and Darcy Tucker they was Edmonton fans me only leafs fan around so Edmonton is now my second team if leafs go out but if leafs still around I don't care about Edmonton

Montreal for me just because of the history

Boston

Boston Bruins

I've listened to about 6 hours total of this content and all I gotta day is there's no way David isn't drunk

They can set the cap structure so it's an after tax income.

10 million in Toronto is really only 6-7 million a year Mathews does not get paid the most money highest cap hit but not highest take hame Stamkos 8 million takes more money home then any leafs players do.

Wild idea. No cap at all. Too fucking bad if your revenue sucks...welcome to the real world.

People can say what they want about the Phoenix/Arizona Coyotes, but i would like to formally thank them for introducing young kids like Matthew Knies and Auston Matthews to the game of hockey. If there were no team in Arizona, Auston Mathews might be slugging it out in the MLB right now instead of scoring 60 goals for the Leafs 🤷😃

Denver isn’t a state ! Tools!🛠️

I almost spit my coffee out when you said Keefe was “hot and horny for a good tinkering” 😂😂 I love it! My brother always called him tinker bell haha.

Absolutely have to even it out. Every no-tax state team should have a “tax effect” reduction in their salary cap amount. That way there is no advantage for those teams against all other teams. Obviously it would have to be added to the CBA, but take the average state/provincial tax rate and apply it to every team’s salary total in a no tax state to “add in the state tax effect on those salaries.

Hey boys, long time listener and a CPA with years of experience with expat taxes. Lots of misguided discussions on the taxes conversation, but in my opinion, the easiest way to even the playing field would be similar to a tax equalization. Essentially, every player has two tax returns. The first, their real one, the second would be equalized to a single state in the US (likely NHL headquarters). This return would be for the cap calculation. This way teams in Canada with a higher tax rate would be able to pay players a bit more while not having the same cap hit (difference being the actual tax amount vs the hypothetical return). In the end this might cost a bit more in tax prep fees, but would be huge for equality in the league.

No tax states have such an advantage. To make it fair they needs to lower the cap on those states in proportion to tax %. Problem fixed

last time i checked no tax states still have roads, bridges, schools, hospitals and on and on... they have exorbitant property taxes... so unless these guys are living in a hole in the ground... they're getting taxed. this is such a corporate media narrative, because the mega wealthy own that media and would love nothing more than a tax break.

Why is it that the Oilers and Rangers can build championship level team? Is it the tax or bad GMs who over pay for their star players? Sounds like an excuse to me.

Please Mr. David Morassutti, eye contact is the way to go!! Why can't you look into the camera to help keep your audiences attention at all times not only when you are speaking. Mike refers to you by your first name and no sir you cannor look him into the eyes!! Lol i know it's petty in my part but it's just a suggestion. Cheers!!

The Leafs are the same, imo. They will be lucky to make the playoffs. Assuming they are keeping Marner, they would be better off not making the playoffs, this should force the promised "Bold Moves".

The discussion on D pairings was interesting. I've always seen the fit of OEL and McCabe - they're almost Reilly and Tanev light. The Tanev McCabe discussion was a consideration of a standard lineup vs situational combinations. 45 seconds to go in the third, up by a goal and the opponent has pulled the goalie ... bring on Tanev/McCabe! You'd have to play them together enough to get the feel of one another, but I don't think I could see this as a standard pairing. Also, no one seems to be mentioning that Reilly, paired with Tanev, and OEL, paired with McCabe, should be able to add offence from the back end - this has been as big an issue as the D's ability to defend. Marner for Necas straight up .... before I say "have you lost your f*&king mind", lets remember we're saying this on July 11th, and today, there is no other impact player to go out and get with what you save by paying Necas vs Marner. Now, if it was June 23rd, and you had a tentative deal in place with Jake Guentzel and could manage the cap impact .... well that's a whole different discussion. Then you've flipped Marner for Necas and Guentzel. We didn't or couldn't act while the window was open. The problem is not Marner, its roster construction, and we have let the free agency period move by us, so there is no longer any opportunity to make the changes required to fix roster construction. Anyone suggesting they would do this deal now, is really answering a question about why they're incapable of being a GM. There's a lot of stupid talk about Marner. People need to remember that he is not the problem ... never has been. The problem is that Dubas paid too much individualy and collectively to four players who are all forwards and usually play with one another. One of them - AM - would be stupid to trade. The other three? You could get rid of any one of them and create better balance by adding a really good forward and a top two D-man with what you saved by subtracting one player and another spare part. I think the D is better. But last year, I thought the Leafs were just inside the top ten teams. Now, I think maybe top seven/eight. The thing that seperates the Leafs from the Panthers or the Knights, or the Oilers or the Avs? They are less courageous and less willing to do WHATEVER needs to be done to win now.

And why isn’t anyone mentioning Tampering here. Clark had a contract and you don’t think he was talking to Dubas while under contract to the Leafs?

Hey wrt the football match, the best teams and best players always get the calls. If Canada can establish a pattern of excellence then those calls will go their way. And Wes Clark leaving to hang out with Dubas, no loss. The faster we purge this organization of anyone still loyal to Dubas the better. Hayley W., Brandon P. and all others demonstrating to be a truly LOYAL Leaf employees, let’s elevate and promote those people and hire strong Leaf employees loyal to the organization and remove anyone praying at the cult of Dubas.

With regards to the defensive lines, don’t forget that there is no rule that I know about in the NHL that say “thou shalt not change up lines during a hockey game. We could very well see Tanev and Reilly be a pair for 80% of the time, and see Tanev and McCabe out for the final 2 minutes of a game with a 1 goal lead, or Reilly and OEL/Liljegren if we are down by 1 in the final 5 minutes. I do like that we now have a little more of this flexibility behind us. And you have to remember, we are stacked up front. Everyone says we need more goal scoring, but we were on the top 5 in the league for goals 4 in the regular season. Everyone says “well we fall off in the playoffs”. You’re not wrong, but that’s not because we have shit forwards. The talent is there. The issue is how they are ran, which might be fixed by a different coaching style. Also, our defence and goaltending sucked. It’s hard to get into the game when the other team scores 2 goals in the first 5 shots then locks down their end of the ice, or when we spend 5 straight minutes in our own zone because we can’t get the puck past center ice. The goaltending and defensive rebuild we did this year should fix these issues. This should allow our forwards more time in the offensive zone where they can do their job.

Truth be told...Spezza saw the writing on the wall and left before he was removed. As far as Clark is concerned, I'm actually surprised that the organization didn't replace him once dubas was gone. Nothing to see here folks...move on. There are plenty of talented scouts who can replace him.

Money? or work environment?

Who cares! Not like we’ve gotten the best draft picks in years, or they would be scrambling to sign ufa to fill holes

The only real loss is Clark leaving with the Leafs' internal consideration of their prospects. I don't think given the Leafs prospect pool that this is a big issue.

Not a big loss. Relax.