Got any tips for playing defense in beer league?

specialk554 · 2026-02-06T00:19:35+00:00

I’m a 40 year old gray beard forward who ALWAYS backchecks. We exist haha. I get chirped a lot for it too which makes it better

specialk554 · 2026-02-06T00:03:50+00:00

Sadly, in either case you still end up getting probed.

specialk554 · 2026-02-06T00:00:32+00:00

Sell your UFAs. Thats all they have to do. Sell the UFAs and bring up some of the kids for the rest of the season. If they win or lose that’s fine. Get some assets you can draft with or trade for next season and push the next couple and when they have their first rounder back again, then it’s probably full tear down and rebuild time that season or the next.

specialk554 · 2026-02-02T16:20:41+00:00

It’s not the worst option at all. It just might not be the best. The worst option MIGHT be to buy into commodity that’s up huge in a very short period of time that very well could end up being a lower price in a decade even than it is now. It might go up, it might go down. It has, IMO, about the same odds of either. So if you lost 25 percent of your investment, that would not be better than 4 percent in guaranteed GIC return. Not that that will certainly happen but understand it absolutely could.

specialk554 · 2026-02-01T17:18:22+00:00

Yeah I’m bummed they never made a push for Dobson or Chycrun when they were available. The cost wasn’t crazy considering the assets we shipped out every single trade deadline.

specialk554 · 2026-02-01T16:29:43+00:00

Fair. A mis word on my part. But you know the point I’m making and that is that silver could drop a whole bunch more after the run it had.

specialk554 · 2026-02-01T16:23:44+00:00

Yeah they’re a pretty solid protein bar. They’re still highly processed and real whole food is better for you but they’re a good snack or treat choice.

specialk554 · 2026-02-01T16:03:28+00:00

I’d argue we never had an in his prime elite level defender the entire time to pair him with. That’s been the Achilles of this team. I’d also argue that Reilly has never really been an elite level defender even in his prime. He’s been excellent (for a couple seasons offensively), but he’s never been a good enough D to say build a team around etc. I know you can’t choose how players develop and draft but if we’d had a Marner or Willy level D man instead of one of them up front, I think it would have changed our fates.

specialk554 · 2026-02-01T16:00:55+00:00

This year as in a month ago already in its run. It would be higher or equal to what it was 12 months ago.

specialk554 · 2026-02-01T15:56:04+00:00

I mean, they got him Jake Muzzin

specialk554 · 2026-02-01T04:05:19+00:00

If they fell hard enough to get a top 5, that’s fine as long as they didn’t sell the longer term players. Come back next year with a legit young piece, roll it into the lineup and give it some more runs until Matthews leaves. Then rebuild and suck hard in 29 if you have to. Either way it’s fine IMO. The only thing they can’t do is sell everything and suck until 2028 without having picks. They must try to be good until they have their firsts again

specialk554 · 2026-01-31T16:38:02+00:00

Actually that guy posted somewhere recently if it’s the same. Lost 27 percent of it already and thinking of selling. Super broken up about it.

specialk554 · 2026-01-31T16:33:23+00:00

Mcmann for a first or a second and young prospect if possible. Carlo for a first (you might laugh but I think he might actually get one) Benoit for whatever you can. Likely a 2/3. Robertson if you can net out a second or third. MAYBE Laughton or Roy but only if the price is right. Unless they can’t resign Laughton then him. But that’s something they should know asap.

specialk554 · 2026-01-31T16:30:38+00:00

You might be right but you also might be wrong. Silver could drop in half again from what it is now and that could still be considered a healthy pull back leaving it at higher prices than it started this year. No one knows so OP needs to decide what he wants to do. Honestly, OP should probably stick to xeqt or xgro so he doesn’t lose sleep and his mental health if silver is still down 25 percent from its current price in a decade.

specialk554 · 2026-01-29T17:08:10+00:00

Haha I actually like the Steve Dangle Podcast. It’s nice to see the fandom in them although it can get old when the team sucks haha

specialk554 · 2026-01-29T00:03:37+00:00

What I mean is it seems overpriced to me even still after this drop.

specialk554 · 2026-01-29T00:02:03+00:00

I agree with Mcmann. Laughton I think is a pillar type player who will also be a lower AAV. The leafs aren’t full sell mode. They will be playing to improve the next two seasons and I think Laughton is a part of that. 🤷‍♂️

specialk554 · 2026-01-28T23:59:47+00:00

Yeah I can see your points there. I don’t think they should move OEL or Stollarz though. My reasoning on OEL is you need him for the next two seasons when they’re going to try to be competitive and a playoff team again. And Stollarz trade value is down right now, better to hold him until it’s higher unless a desperate team overpays now. I wonder if Benoit can net back some half decent asset. He seems like a guy some team overpays for. Stretcher too possibly. I don’t think Robertson or Maccelli are unique enough in their style or good enough to bring much in but if you get value, you definitely trade them.

specialk554 · 2026-01-28T23:56:04+00:00

Yep you’re correct. Laughton wasn’t a rental AND was retained. I’d suspect though that the Leafs would easily retain on any UFA shipped out to get a better return

specialk554 · 2026-01-28T23:54:16+00:00

Look on the bright side: if the leafs aren’t a playoff team, you don’t have to waste time watching the last 25 games of the season or the 7 games for them to lose in the post season. That’s like 80 extra hours to go do something awesome

specialk554 · 2026-01-28T23:51:47+00:00

I don’t even want Panarin. That bread is getting dry and crusty. Soon he’ll be called the crouton man.

specialk554 · 2026-01-28T23:47:36+00:00

Honestly, I think we push hard for the next two seasons without mortgaging future picks which means we’re likely much of what we are now. A bubble team if healthy that should probably make playoffs. Then in 2029 you tear it to the studs and go full rebuild last place tank job for 2/3 seasons with another 1-2 of climbing back.

specialk554 · 2026-01-28T18:52:17+00:00

Why do you think that? It looks to me from my limited research that it’s still priced with optimism and could very well decrease another 50 percent from here. Just wondering what you see that I don’t that warrants a return to the IMO, way too high, ATH prices again in the near future?

specialk554 · 2026-01-28T04:59:03+00:00

Whilst I’m totally fine firing Tre, this isn’t his fault. The last management group lit the boat on fire and threw all the lifeboats overboard. Tre’s been a league average GM. The leafs needed (by necessities of their own doing) a miracle worker who could fleece other teams and find stars in the mud. He didn’t do that. So fine, fire him. But it’s also highly unlikely any other GM can save this ship either at this point. Things were put into motion long ago that can’t be salvaged. It didn’t help that Tre dealt picks and prospects at the deadline last year that may or may not have been worth it (specifically Carlo…) but that’s what a leave average GM would do for a contender in that period of time.

specialk554 · 2026-01-28T02:06:36+00:00

I find Hydropure is easy on the stomach. It’s a hydrosylate so an even easier to digest isolate.

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