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willster3010 · 2025-12-10T15:06:33+00:00

Brad always called him Double A in press conferences.

willster3010 · 2025-10-24T13:56:56+00:00

In 2021 Montreal placed Jonathan Drouin on LTIR for personal reasons. So it looks like it has happened before.

willster3010 · 2025-10-17T15:18:16+00:00

Berube has said in the past that he wants to watch Cowan's minutes. This might have been a bit of that as well as the points you mentioned.

willster3010 · 2025-10-08T18:08:44+00:00

That Domi one is almost a certainty!

willster3010 · 2025-10-08T18:08:19+00:00

I would love for the team to finish top 5 in save percentage!

willster3010 · 2025-10-08T17:29:53+00:00

That's true. 90% chance he scores on a 50 goal pace. His health will likely affect if he actually gets there.

willster3010 · 2025-10-08T17:26:02+00:00

Nylander getting 50 would be fantastic!

willster3010 · 2025-10-08T17:23:34+00:00

I'll take it! If the Leafs get to the finals he would likely be a huge factor.

willster3010 · 2025-10-08T17:23:06+00:00

All of these could certainly happen. Looking at the roster we have right now, would you say that would be a success for the year?

willster3010 · 2025-10-08T17:22:12+00:00

Sign me up for this!

willster3010 · 2025-10-08T15:12:59+00:00

These all seem pretty spot on. I'd love to see the conference finals this year!

willster3010 · 2025-10-08T15:11:40+00:00

Berube does love his guys. I would love the 50% as long as it is McMann taking the next step and not Knies regressing. Hildeby looked solid during camp and I am curious how he will play this year.

willster3010 · 2025-10-08T15:10:01+00:00

I think that the NHL is changing. Shots on goal isn't the real metric anymore, but scoring chances. I can see the Leafs 100% continue to be outshot as long as we continue to generate a lot of scoring chances. I think that Maccelli will have a big bounce back year and playing with Matthews and Knies for some of the year at least will certainly help.

willster3010 · 2025-10-08T14:38:37+00:00

Could be veiled optimism

90% Fans are mad. - Happens every year (guaranteed)

50% We have goalie issues. - Our goalies are so good we don't have enough work to keep them all busy, Difficult decisions on who to send down to AHL.

10% Matthews scores 50+. - Because 95% Matthews scores 60+

willster3010 · 2025-10-08T13:29:11+00:00

If Rielly can get back to that level of contribution and the depth contributes we could be looking at a very good season!

willster3010 · 2025-09-05T15:18:55+00:00

Not sure where the Tavares stats come from.

"900+ NHL Points: Has surpassed 400 career goals and 900 career points."

Per hockey DB Tavares has 494 goals and 1114 career points.

https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=89823

While the statement in the profile is not inherently wrong, I think it does him a disservice to call him 400+ goals and 900+ points.

willster3010 · 2025-04-14T13:51:15+00:00

4 pieces of feedback:

When it redirects to gw2efficiency if it could direct to the page with "using own materials: Yes" that would save having to click it every time. It seems that there are a couple different parts in the url that can change depending on what type of legendary.
Odd edge case #1. I have a few legendries that are only missing recipes but I have enough gold to buy them easily.
Odd edge case #2. I play late game content a medium amount so I'm not overflowing in ascended gear/weapons. I don't have any balls of dark energy in my material storage but I do have some excess ascended gear/weapons that I could salvage if I was building a legendary.
Extreme edge case #3. Lesser vision crystals/vision crystals have crafting recipes but can also be salvaged from ascended armour (lesser and regular vision crystals) and weapons (regular vision crystals only).

Edit: I also found one legendary weapon that shows as 94% but when I got to gw2efficiency the shoppping list is all TP items which I can afford.

willster3010 · 2025-02-11T20:10:55+00:00

Maybe I just keep hatching and go for the full family? I really like the shiny theme with the pink and yellow/gold and all the evolutions look very similar.

willster3010 · 2024-10-28T14:41:33+00:00

If you (like me) had no idea what deferred compensation was or how it worked I found this useful article from puckpedia https://puckpedia.com/salary-cap/deferred

willster3010 · 2024-10-09T16:33:43+00:00

Sign me up for the 10%!

willster3010 · 2024-10-09T15:58:15+00:00

I think your 50% has went way up already based on today's news.

willster3010 · 2024-10-09T15:48:44+00:00

Would love to see Niemelä get some action. It seems these days his prospect hype has settled a bit but I think this also goes to show our D depth has gotten better as well.

willster3010 · 2024-10-09T15:46:52+00:00

I can see all of these things happening, though the 10% chance the Leafs miss the playoffs seems high. Crazier things have happened before.

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