The Sabres are the heaviest betting favourites in any of the matchups today.
They’re playing a Matthews-less Leafs who need the L much more than they need the W.
Have rarely been more confident in a Leafs win.
This is the corniest shit I’ve ever seen.
Both LAK and STL won tonight. Perfect outcome for the Leafs.
I’ve been saying it for years: get punched in the face for your teammates! FUCK!
Berube has catastrophically failed at changing the culture of this team.
The Drive to Bottom Five, March 13
March 12 outcomes:
+2 points: TOR, NYR, CHI, STL, VAN, CGY, FLA, SJS
+1 points: NSH
0 points: NJD, WPG, SEA
Current Leafs placement: 8th-last
Apparently Gudas was (rightfully) kicked out of the game. I’m still not watching.
Alright then, one of the young guys has to go.
Anything less than a full-on brawl in the third is unacceptable. All five Leafs pile on Gudas. Rip him limb from limb.
They should, but they won’t.
The Drive to Bottom Five, March 11
March 10 outcomes:
+2 points: NYR, FLA, NSH
+1 points: LAK, STL
0 points: TOR, SEA, CGY, SJS, WPG
Current Leafs placement: 7th-last
How many fucking times is Berube going to say the Leafs players need to "dig in", "work harder", "commit". You're the guy who's supposed to motivate them to do those things!
I haven't watched since the Olympics, but are players really dogging it out there and observably not trying?
When his teams excel, he has a hard time replicating that success the next year, and gets fired.
Begging the Canadian press to stop clambering to report every time POTUS makes a 51st State/Governor of Canada reference.
Is there a more feast-or-famine NHL coach than Lindy Ruff? Look at his post-00's Sabres record:
Division placement:
DAL
2014: 5th
2015: 6th
2016: 1st
2017: 6th, fired after fourth season
NJD
2021: 7th
2022: 7th
2023: 2nd
2024: 6th, fired part-way through fourth season
BUF
2025: 7th
2026: 1st
The Drive to Bottom Five, March 10
(I hate myself)
How teams beneath the Leafs fared tonight (Mar 9)
LAK +2 points (1 point ahead of TOR)
——— Leafs are 8th-last ———
NSH DNP (1 point behind TOR)
WPG DNP (3)
STL DNP (6)
CHI +2 points (6)
NYR +2 points (7)
CGY 0 points (8)
VAN 0 points (19)
Mar 9 games relevant to the Leafs:
*LAK* (1 point back of TOR) @ CBJ
*CGY* (8) @ WSH
*CHI* (8) vs. UTA
*NYR* (9) @ PHI
*VAN* (19) vs. OTT
A sad state of affairs
How teams beneath the Leafs fared tonight (Mar 8)
LAK DNP (1 point back of TOR)
NSH DNP (1)
WPG DNP (3)
STL +2 points (6)
CGY DNP (8)
CHI +1 point (8)
NYR DNP (9)
VAN DNP (19)
Tampa players who got 0 points on the Lightning’s 12 goals this weekend:
Scott Sabourin
Erik Cernak
Charle-Edouard D’Astous
Pontus Holmberg
and
Victor Hedman
Decent chance of going 0-4 here.
This is what my fandom has been reduced to
How teams beneath the Leafs fared tonight (Mar 7)
LAK 0 points (1 point back of TOR)
NSH 0 points (1)
WPG +2 points (3)
CGY +2 points (8)
STL DNP (8)
CHI DNP (9)
NYR 0 points (9)
VAN +1 point (19)
Berube was supposed to be the hard-ass, accountability-first coach and that failed spectacularly. Took them just one season to start tuning him out.
DeBoer’s a total POS, though. What he did to Lehner was unconscionable, and throwing Oettinger under the bus after last year’s playoffs had all the Stars players saying “get this guy the fuck outta here.” Short shelf-life for him, unless he’s changed.
Brad Treliving is a coward and a bitch.
Edmonton paid a first round pick for a mediocre C and to rid themselves of Mangiapane’s contract (a good ol’ Ontario boy!)
We couldn’t have taken them up on that? Would that not have been a better return for Laughton? Surely they would have preferred Laughts to Dickinson.
For the first time in forever, the Leafs had cap space to weaponize to take undesirable contracts off the hands of contenders in exchange for assets and they did absolutely fuck-all with it. The fucking negligence.
Not a single close-to-ready prospect — in fact, no prospects at all — came back to the Leafs in the Roy/McMann/Laughton deals.
Treliving chose mystery boxes over players who could realistically contribute in the near term.
So disgusted with this organization.
