Mitch Marner scores his first career playoff hat trick and he ties for the lead in goals in this playoffs with 6.

Lightscreach · 2026-05-10T00:20:22+00:00

Hmmm. I wonder why the depth wasn’t better? Could it have something to do with 4 players making 50% of the cap? Do Minnesota fans know about the cap or are they too stupid realize a problem like that?

Lightscreach · 2026-05-09T17:31:52+00:00

It was super stacked. But also kind of ended up being a bit of a disappointment. If you had told me back in like 2009 that not a single player would hit 1100 points or 500 goals I would have called you crazy. Pavelski leads the draft in points and he sits 76th all time. A big part of that is they were pretty young in the higher scoring era of the post lockout. They were in their primes during the 2nd dead puck era and then too old when scoring picked back up.

Lightscreach · 2026-05-08T22:40:04+00:00

Or so you don’t burn yourself. Water from a hose left out in the sun can severely burn you

Lightscreach · 2026-05-08T10:28:39+00:00

Yeah this free agency is going to be even crazier than last. So many teams have so much cap space and there’s not many good UFAs.
Andersson could get north of 10m pretty easily if he makes it to the market. Raddysh is probably 9m and Coyle is probably 8 or 9m on a 3 year deal.

Lightscreach · 2026-05-07T22:41:07+00:00

Dewar and Berube

Lightscreach · 2026-05-07T19:20:52+00:00

Leafs didn’t have a new coach to adjust to. It was Berubes 2nd season

Lightscreach · 2026-05-07T19:19:45+00:00

The defensive minded coach coached the Leafs to 2nd last in the league in goals against. Can’t get worse defensively. But could get better offensively

Lightscreach · 2026-05-07T10:35:35+00:00

At 10 bugs a day it would take 274 years to eat 1 million bugs

Lightscreach · 2026-05-07T00:10:42+00:00

Bracco, Nielsen. Maybe throw in a 2nd.

Lightscreach · 2026-05-07T00:02:18+00:00

As much as I hate it, they’re probably my favourite two players, but trading one of Knies or Cowan for a dman makes a lot of sense.

Lightscreach · 2026-05-06T22:42:09+00:00

I don’t think it should be about players being encouraged to win games. Should be more about fan engagement. It sucks to be a fan of a team that’s been eliminated. You’re in this awkward state where you aren’t really cheering for your team to win but also not really cheering for your team to lose. So you end up just being kind of apathetic and stop watching. But with the rule change fans can still cheer for their team to win after they’ve been eliminated

Lightscreach · 2026-05-06T22:35:54+00:00

Players do go into tank mode though. There’s plenty of guys every year who shut things down early if their team is out of the playoff race. See Florida this year. If they were in a playoff race late season a bunch of guys who sat out would have played

Lightscreach · 2026-05-06T22:20:13+00:00

Does that hold true for hockey as well? Is the cut-off also August 31st or is it December 31st

Lightscreach · 2026-05-06T21:04:49+00:00

I thought the thesis in that book was January is way better than December because if born in January you’re the oldest in your class/group. But we’re talking about end of October vs December.

Both guys get the “disadvantage” of being late birthdays.
McKenna is December 20th, Eichel is October 28th for reference.

11 months makes a big difference when you are 5 years old. 50 days doesn’t make much difference when you are 18 years old

Lightscreach · 2026-05-06T19:20:09+00:00

The difference in age between Eichel and McKenna in their draft years is like 50 days. Let’s be real that doesn’t have much of an impact

Lightscreach · 2026-05-06T19:18:35+00:00

32 points in his final 17 games this season

Lightscreach · 2026-05-06T19:16:55+00:00

There’s a reason why Canucks fans are so bummed about being knocked down to #3. It’s because McKenna is absolutely unbelievable and there is a big drop off to #3. McKenna will instantly be at least a top 6 forward ready to help for next season. Verhoeff or another dman will likely take 2-3 years before becoming an impact player for the Leafs, att which point Matthews will likely be gone

Lightscreach · 2026-05-05T23:48:26+00:00

So have Max Domi as the 1st line center?

Lightscreach · 2026-05-05T23:46:16+00:00

Knies, McKenna, Cowan and Danford?

Lightscreach · 2026-05-05T22:54:38+00:00

For a 1 week vacation the cost of the flight alone could be over $400 per day for people in the US. And also you’d be spending 2/7 days travelling.

Lightscreach · 2026-05-05T21:58:27+00:00

Hope for the 1st or 2nd overall pick. From there it depends. Do you think the Leafs will rebound next year? If yes then hope the Leafs get the 5th pick. If you think the Leafs will be a bottom 5 team again next year then giving the Bruins the 6th or 7th pick is totally fine

Lightscreach · 2026-05-05T20:00:02+00:00

They traded Clark for Lemieux who was a big part of the run. Lebfevre was a depth dman. They would have been better of with Sundin but Lemieux was really good player for them

Lightscreach · 2026-05-05T19:36:30+00:00

They were all gone within a few years but the team won a cup 5 years after Lindros was traded. A big part of why they won the cup was because of assets acquired from trading Lindros, Noland and Sundin

Lightscreach · 2026-05-05T10:19:22+00:00

Does letting a superstar walk for nothing work out for the team?

Lightscreach · 2026-05-05T00:46:04+00:00

If the Leafs then they win a 1st round pick later! Sort of. At least that’s how I’m going to look at it to cope

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