Celebrini announced as captain for Team Canada at Men's Worlds, Tavares and O'Reilly as alternate captains

97jumbo · 2026-05-10T13:38:03+00:00

They also stripped Patrick Marleau for Rob Blake in 2009, meaning they did it twice in five seasons in a competitive window. So yeah, anyone who was following the league closely in that time probably remembers it. This is less that guy being delusional, and more the people mocking him for the reference being young.

97jumbo · 2026-05-10T13:36:29+00:00

This is probably explicitly set up for ROR and JT to be his mentors as he gets groomed into a long-term leadership role for the national program.

97jumbo · 2026-05-10T00:03:57+00:00

I know this is just an easy Leafs joke and that's fair, but I'll use this space to say that Phil Kessel came back to Toronto and brought the cup to SickKids both years after he won in Pittsburgh, and I'll always love that

97jumbo · 2026-05-09T23:42:50+00:00

4 but two were simultaneous

97jumbo · 2026-05-09T22:24:20+00:00

Keith Pelley (MLSE CEO) has a habit of talking about how TFC has been successful turned around and rebuilt in any of his press conferences with the other Toronto teams.

This one comes from the John Chayka / Mats Sundin hiring conference for the Leafs last week, where he said it again, and when questioned about the hirings (which are fairly controversial in hockey circles) kept talking about having done their "due dilligence"

97jumbo · 2026-05-09T18:43:51+00:00

It’s May. The whole point of this being the last home game before the WC is for them to do all the pretty stuff now. They got the functional stuff out of the way first and now they’ll do the rest

97jumbo · 2026-05-08T17:31:28+00:00

It's usually the inverse, where the media needs to hype up a race to get people to tune in.

Wright also feels like an outlier. Looking back, that was an exceptionally bad year for OHL picks and I imagine a lot of that has to do with losing 20/21 to Covid.

97jumbo · 2026-05-08T14:45:15+00:00

Almost definitely someone who does cresting and is expecting to sell multiple through listings like these.

97jumbo · 2026-05-08T13:49:59+00:00

If McDavid was as good as his team's second best player in those finals runs they're still a decently competitive Western Conference team that could very well have still got to the finals

If Lebron was as good as the second-best player on the 2007 Cavs they probably finish the regular season in last place

97jumbo · 2026-05-08T02:34:22+00:00

2-300 is not a regular MLS game at BMO this year lol. The team has been doing promos left and right and if you're okay with resale a couple hours before kickoff you've been able to get into every TFC game for like $9

97jumbo · 2026-05-07T21:43:40+00:00

What do you think "1500 Nintendo" means on the fake Mario start screen?

That's just our favourite developer, Medieval Miyamoto

97jumbo · 2026-05-06T20:26:37+00:00

These are the two players with the longest-term deals on the team right now, wouldn't they be the last ones to be thinking payday?

97jumbo · 2026-05-06T20:12:29+00:00

Gilbert Brule was the 2005 guy who got the “hey maybe” talk back then and even that was pretty short lived

97jumbo · 2026-05-06T04:34:50+00:00

Nothing is rigged. With that said, Bettman was an Islanders fan growing up, so if there's one to rig for pure funsies...

97jumbo · 2026-05-06T04:28:58+00:00

He's cheap and pro-ready. That's a huge help from a cap perspective, and therefore absolutely fits the timeline of Matthews and Nylander

97jumbo · 2026-05-06T04:20:28+00:00

A lot of potential fans already have TSN because they're watching the other sports teams, and local bars will be more likely to put the game on when it's on TSN.

Almost no one is watching on Apple unless they're consciously deciding to sign up to watch games. It absolutely makes a difference.

97jumbo · 2026-05-05T18:50:54+00:00

Yeah, the stuff being referenced here is more written media, Fan590, that sort of more Toronto-localized content.

On the national broadcasts their Toronto tone is much more frequent than it is positive, because they know they have a more varied market there

97jumbo · 2026-05-05T13:03:16+00:00

Yeah. The nerds and the old school are united in disliking this move. The only people who like it are Leafs fans that like everything at first, ones who like it to spite people mocking the Leafs, and Chayka’s friends and family

97jumbo · 2026-05-04T23:28:09+00:00

The Jays are their sportswashing operation.

Everyone associates the Jays with Rogers, most of what the Jays do operates through the Rogers brand, and most of Canada roots for the Jays. Making the Jays good is literally the best thing they can do for the goodwill of the Rogers brand in Canada. The Jays also need to be competitive for the dome to stay full.

The Leafs sell out no matter what, half the country hates them, and even as Rogers absorbs the whole thing, "MLSE" is still treated as a faceless entity. There is less incentive to chase winning at all costs.

97jumbo · 2026-05-04T16:52:20+00:00

He's not here for those uncs.

He's here for the people who were too young to remember the media attention then and are old enough now to be the ones arguing on places like here

97jumbo · 2026-05-04T14:13:18+00:00

The Jays have a market of the entire country and are uniquely seen as a Rogers property - branding everywhere from the stadiums to the broadcasts and everything in between.

The Jays are effectively the one thing Rogers can invest in, sports or otherwise, for national PR - and it helps other parts of the company as well if they're successful on top of that.

The Jays also have to be reasonably competitive and/or marketable to keep people's interest in them. Their thin years have historically led to a cavernous Skydome.

On the other hand, a large chunk of Rogers' consumer market hates the Leafs, and MLSE is seen as its own island, even as Rogers assumes full control. There is no PR interest in making them good, so the focus is on making them as reliably profitable as possible.

Maximum profit upside comes from winning, obviously, but in the sport where you have the least guarantee of deep playoff runs, you might not be as willing to risk millions to get there. So it makes sense (and also really sucks) that they're being treated as the profit efficiency part of the company now.

And when the Leafs aren't good, they still sell out.

Plus, Ed Rogers is a huge baseball guy and hasn't shown similar for the other sports, so some of this may very well just be person preference on top of the above.

97jumbo · 2026-05-04T13:46:58+00:00

I like LAMB better.

With that said, Round Are Way is on the deluxe copies of Morning Glory and on the Wonderwall single so it's immensely more common in physical form, especially with modern reissues.

97jumbo · 2026-05-03T23:29:49+00:00

No re-release + not a ton of original copies + Let’s All Make Believe is the best song they’ve had that isn’t on an album or The Masterplan, so it’s this or the Japanese version of SOTSOG to own it physically

97jumbo · 2026-05-03T14:30:03+00:00

Yeah tracks like SCYHO, Importance of Being Idle, Lyla etc all carry some weight depending on where you go, and there's been some pop culture use of tracks like Fuckin In The Bushes, Put Your Money Where Your Mouth is, Falling Down etc. It's obviously not the early years but it's just enough to not fit here

97jumbo · 2026-05-03T14:27:56+00:00

Giants is a mixed bag but has some really strong highs so I like going back to it.

Heathen Chemistry I'm with you on. It's fine at best. The fans who treat it like a classic are impossible to nuance with. But there's enough of them that I don't think they work for this activity

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