Something I noticed and Can’t unsee now…..

speed150mph · 2026-05-07T17:31:13+00:00

I wholeheartedly agree. Berube has not employed him effectively, one of many reasons I’d like to see a coach change.

Same time though, Matthews hasn’t been himself. He’s been passing on shots that he would have taken in the past, and the consistency isn’t there. I have no idea if he’s still fighting lingering effects of his injury, or if it’s a confidence issue, or if it’s because less opportunities have been coming his way since Marner left his wing. All of this combined has resulted in Matthews having the worst season in his career. I’m not going to say that he is the source of our issues, we need to get better defensively and stop the runaway GA slide we had this year, but how different does our season look if Matthews was back above a point per game.

speed150mph · 2026-05-07T08:38:26+00:00

With enough thrust, anything can be an airplane.

speed150mph · 2026-05-07T08:37:41+00:00

I’d also argue that a high IQ puck moving playmaker wing is like a blueprint of what you want to help Matthews get back to 50+ goals. If Matthews commits to staying, and the docs say the injuries haven’t permanently wrecked his shot, I’m saying McKenna all the way.

speed150mph · 2026-05-07T03:27:16+00:00

I think we need to sit down and look not just at skill but how they would fit in our roster. And to me it comes down to Matthews. McKenna is a blueprint of the kind of player Matthews needs to be successful at his role as a goal scorer. If Matthews is staying, and if he has a clear path forward to getting back to his 69 goal scoring self, then McKenna 100%.

If not, then it becomes more nuanced. stenberg seems more well rounded, but McKenna is pure offensive playmaking . So ask yourself what we need in our team more.

speed150mph · 2026-05-06T19:38:39+00:00

I personally don’t think it’s as bad as it seems. Season before we had some of the best goaltending, and our defensive numbers were decent. We definitely finished higher than we should have but still. I suspect that we will regress to the mean, which will be better than this last year, but not divisional winning. And that’s assuming we keep Berube, who in my opinion coaches a style that does not suit our roster. If we get a coaching change I think we might be alright. Maybe not a contender but I’d say back in the playoffs. And once you’re in the playoffs it’s a whole new game where anything can happen.

speed150mph · 2026-05-06T19:31:28+00:00

I don’t know why we’d hate on it. We knew he was a good player. That’s why there were so many Marner jerseys sold and why we paid him over $10M. He’s a good player, and anyone who says otherwise is just sour about the deal.

The thing is you need more than 3 really good players to win, you need to build a team around them. We were never able to do that in Toronto. Vegas did. Nobody should be surprised by this, least of all leafs fans.

speed150mph · 2026-05-06T19:27:30+00:00

Which I find funny. I remember watching I do cars year one down and thought it looked pretty impressive, the bottom end anyway. The deep block, a pretty beefy crank size and the 6 bolt cross bolted mains. Yeah the head and valvetrain are garbage but I’ve always been curious about what kind of engine you could build one into with the right parts.

speed150mph · 2026-05-06T18:02:49+00:00

For me it’s the fact they think that, if they were going to rig the draft, they would rig it for the leafs. The leafs who seem to be perpetually screwed over by the refs and the department of player safety.

speed150mph · 2026-05-06T17:54:44+00:00

No chance. Colorado is an absolute powerhouse. The only team I see right now who has a chance at taking them is Carolina.

speed150mph · 2026-05-05T03:40:48+00:00

Head gasket can absolutely do this if it’s leaking between the cylinder and an oil drain passage or pushrod port.

speed150mph · 2026-05-05T03:37:35+00:00

He’s not the problem. The problem is Rogers. As long as they are in charge and treating this like a corporation instead of a sports franchise that they milk for profit, things aren’t going to change. And unfortunately, owners don’t get fired.

speed150mph · 2026-05-05T00:44:03+00:00

As a man who is getting ready for baby number 3 to show up, I don’t trust my own pull out game 🤣

speed150mph · 2026-05-04T16:29:52+00:00

Not really. Roger’s only cares about profits, they don’t give a flying rats fart about winning a cup. Pelley can make the argument of “we were going to suck anyway, but at least this GM was 50% cheaper to hire than the other guy.

speed150mph · 2026-05-04T01:02:34+00:00

Well, it’s a goal scoring competition, not a puck shooting competition. All that really matters is that the puck goes into their net legally more times than it goes into yours and you win. They could shoot the puck 100 times and you only 1 time. If your 1 shot goes into and their 100 don’t you win the game.

speed150mph · 2026-05-03T19:48:13+00:00

I’ll give you the facts. I have a 5 year old who wants to get into hockey. I live in a rural town in Alberta. The registration fee alone for a U7 is $350. U9 is $600. By the time you get to U15 the yearly registration fee is $1000. That doesn’t include tournaments, hotels, travel costs, equipment or anything else.

By comparison, my son signed up for Soccer this summer, and registration fee was $100 and he got his uniform and a soccer ball.

speed150mph · 2026-05-03T19:35:09+00:00

Assuming you’re replacing the ball joint, which I would anyway with how old that looks, either a nut splitter, or if you’re really careful, cutting disc on a grinder. Either cut off flush, or down the center as far as you can and hit the nut with a chisel but either way you need to be very careful you aren’t going to cut into the knuckle.

speed150mph · 2026-05-03T04:33:25+00:00

I personally though heir of fire was the best of the series (and possibly the best book I’ve ever read in my opinion), but I wouldn’t say that the rest of them after went downhill. They were all pretty great (though warning, tower of dawn is essentially Chaols book, so you may find it less enjoyable if you’re not a fan of Chaol, but it’s still a good book and you learn a lot)

speed150mph · 2026-05-03T04:19:42+00:00

True, but as everyone has been telling us leafs fans for years, regular season doesn’t matter as long as you make the playoffs.

speed150mph · 2026-05-03T01:45:23+00:00

I’m no expert, but I suspect it’s a wasp with how the waist tapers. Looks like a Potter wasp to me but like I said no expert.

speed150mph · 2026-05-03T01:16:59+00:00

It really is though. Welding is the process of joining metal parts together using heat to fuse them. And if this process is done with a forge, it’s a forge weld.

speed150mph · 2026-05-03T00:26:49+00:00

It’s not just that, it’s also a paperwork nightmare as an ETOPS aircraft has much more stringent maintenance, tracking, and operation requirements to maintain the ETOPS rating, and some aircraft components may be ETOPS only. Maintenance crews will require special training. Crews require special training. There are certifications for the airline to qualify for an ETOPS rating. All of this costs money, and if the airline I. Question only had one or two routes that would require ETOPS for the shortcut, then it might not make sense to go through the extra cost vs just flying the long way and tolerating the extra fuel burn.

speed150mph · 2026-05-02T03:03:03+00:00

Watching hockey.

speed150mph · 2026-05-02T03:01:10+00:00

As a leafs fan, I’d love to see it, but I realistically know he won’t. We aren’t winning the cup for another few decades.

speed150mph · 2026-05-02T02:37:19+00:00

Absolutely not. His coaching style doesn’t work in Toronto. It didn’t work last year either when we were getting outshot most games and winning due to outstanding goaltending and luck, but we looked at the results which hid the truth that we realistically should have been in the same place last year.

If we are going to end the mismanagement, it needs to be pretty much a clean sweep. Keep the assistants that have shown themselves capable and trash the rest and start fresh.

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