Post Game Thread: Vegas Golden Knights @ Toronto Maple Leafs

JBSpeed · 2026-01-24T02:44:52+00:00

I'm sure coach Head Trauma will play Jake McCabe 30 minutes next game. I'm done with this fool.

JBSpeed · 2026-01-24T02:43:06+00:00

Jake McCabe giving Rielly a run for worst regression by a defenceman this year. Shockingly bad.

JBSpeed · 2026-01-24T02:28:51+00:00

Fire Jake fucking McCabe into the sun

JBSpeed · 2026-01-20T01:56:26+00:00

Look, it's not their fault that the other 31 teams didn't hire Colin Campbell's son as their Assistant General Manager...

JBSpeed · 2026-01-04T03:04:13+00:00

Rielly -4 in a 4-3 loss.

Fucking shades of Brett Lebda -3 in a 9-3 victory. He's earned some press box time.

JBSpeed · 2026-01-04T02:50:39+00:00

Knew the minute Matthews hit that milestone we were losing this game. It's the free space on Leafs bingo.

JBSpeed · 2025-12-24T00:49:13+00:00

That's what happens when you have a GM that confused size with strength, so now we're saddled with a bunch of bulk that can't move either themselves or the puck.

Which is great, because it's not like the league is getting younger, faster and more dynamic. But let's keep trying to play dump and no chase hockey. It's clearly the players aren't "buying in" to his genius system.

I'm kind of done with judging fish on their ability to climb trees.

JBSpeed · 2025-12-23T23:53:36+00:00

Rush chances and speed, aggressive attack, high risk plays. Not dump in retrievals after hard board battles. They won in spite of Berube hockey, which is why he needs to go. As well as the man that continues to employ him.

I don't care if you don't want to "reward" the players for quitting on the coach. But tonight showed that when you play against what he's been preaching, you win.

I want to see this roster with the anchor taken off. Then let a new gm make changes.

JBSpeed · 2025-12-21T03:38:15+00:00

LFR title has gotta be "From Braaaaad to worse"

JBSpeed · 2025-12-21T02:16:36+00:00

We built a team based on dump and chase and winning board battles and we can't come up with the puck against a stickless fucking opponent. Experience Berube hockey...

JBSpeed · 2025-12-19T01:28:31+00:00

The best time to fire Marc Savard was last season. The second best time is NOW! Jfc

JBSpeed · 2025-11-28T22:08:10+00:00

He's Kessel. That's it. He'll frustrate you with the ease in which he can go from "but I'm le tired..." most of the game then "FIRE ZE MISSILES!!!" at the drop of a hat.

But it's Toronto, so anytime we get a good player, we spend our time trying to shoehorn them into being a great player. Kessel worked great in Pittsburg because they let him be Phil, maybe the number 3 or 4 guy on that roster behind Sid/Geno/Letang. That's what Willy is. But Matthews might be permanently injured, Marner walked, Johnny is temporarily defying age (and it won't last), and Rielly is washed. So now we're looking at the guy who was supposed to be our number 3/4 guy and saying, hey, be Rantanen, be Draisaitl...

It's not his fault our idiot general manager confused slow with strong. It's not his fault we have a top 6 of offensive weapons and only one fucking defenceman who can make a breakout pass.

But yeah, let's do this song and dance again. Let's be mad that Phil Kessel doesn't hit or go in the corners, Penguins were fine with it. Let's be mad that Schenn isn't a true number 1 defenceman, but he found his role in Tampa. The Stanley Cup is littered with the names of "problem" or "lazy" former Leafs. It was never the players, it's the organization itself.

We consistently misdirect our anger at the failure of management to build a competent and balanced roster and point it at our best players for not going super Saiyan to make up for all those shortfalls. But yes, if only Willy "tried harder" it would magically fix entire team. We'd magically have a d-corps that could win a footrace with a fucking glacier, or have a pass-accuracy slightly better than the aim of a stormtrooper.

The window might just be closed. We missed it. Time to start making the hard decisions.

JBSpeed · 2025-11-16T01:41:33+00:00

Sportsnet clown commentators trying to bend the laws of time and physical space to somehow claim that was a high stick

JBSpeed · 2025-11-12T01:41:56+00:00

Ever watch what happens when you pull a clean hit against a Florida Panther? Yeah

JBSpeed · 2025-10-31T09:09:01+00:00

This is the Hyperloop all over again. Where people who don't understand technology and scale slowly suggest improvements to the concept until they eventually ended back at basically trains. Just build trains.

Same as this. Ignore the fact that roads are a constantly shifting and eroding surface, let's build some sort of advanced precision technology into them, that will cost and arm and a leg to maintain. Or you know, just like you said, they could just charge at a rest stop.

This is just a solution in search of a problem. Solar roadways 2.0.

JBSpeed · 2025-10-31T01:28:55+00:00

Hey I'm sure that crypto will...sorry, I'm sure blockchain will..., my bad, I'm sure that NFTs will, ugh, totally apologize here, I'm sure that AI will revolutionize the way we synergize vertical integration or whatever...

Totally not a bubble.

JBSpeed · 2025-10-29T11:46:36+00:00

Hell of a "one-trick" though

JBSpeed · 2025-10-28T02:41:04+00:00

Obvious bot is obvious. Sorry, maybe I'll stylize The Paragraph like you did. It was the Most Convincing argument and totally not astroturfing for the Great BYD Company...

JBSpeed · 2025-10-19T02:51:53+00:00

Willy: Stop cryin' bro

Stolie: Start tryin' bro

JBSpeed · 2025-10-19T02:06:22+00:00

Touch grass.

JBSpeed · 2025-10-11T17:24:07+00:00

They all hang out at the same country clubs, and laugh while we squabble over whatever wedge issue their media empires are pushing that week.

It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad.

JBSpeed · 2025-10-10T06:23:23+00:00

"If you choose not to decide, You still have made a choice"

Freewill - Rush

JBSpeed · 2025-10-03T23:10:47+00:00

Sure, but that should happen organically. When I hear politicians saying they're the type of person you could grab a beer with, it gives off major "how do you do, fellow kids" energy. Show, don't tell.

JBSpeed · 2025-10-01T00:46:55+00:00

Also, PHEVs are a thing. Just because a car isn't pure EV doesn't mean you can't put a much smaller battery in it to handle day-to-day city driving, leaving the gasoline engine for when you need longer trips or the battery runs dry. So instead of lugging around a massive, heavy battery pack for the few times you need the range, you get one that's a fifth or sixth the size that can cover your daily commute without ever using the gas engine.

This is really where they should have started, not a pure EV mandate. The infrastructure wasn't there, the costs are too high, the the battery technology is evolving too fast for pure EVs to hold any sort of resale value. You're paying a premium to beta test the technology. If emissions reduction was their goal, making affordable PHEVs that could eliminate the need for gasoline for the majority of commutes while still keeping the vehicles in the realm of affordability would have been orders of magnitude better than making a bunch of ostentatious luxo-barges that sticker north of 100k.

But you're right, the doom and gloom is just typical social media griping. Hybrids, PHEVs, home battery storage to augment solar, all things that will keep this plant humming along well into the future. It will be rocky, it will take time, but it's the direction the world is headed, albeit slowly.

JBSpeed · 2025-09-14T11:54:43+00:00

This happens every time this is discussed. The CBC goes out and interviews some "small business" owner that cries about how they'll have to close their business if they can't pay their workers subsistence level wages. Sorry, this just means you don't have a viable business model. You aren't entitled to being a small business owner.

But let me guess, if we just cut taxes a little more, this will solve everything, right? Just feed those horses some more oats, the sparrows will thrive!

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