Nope. he's being replaced by Bremner. Long overdue tbh.
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NHL Off-Season 2015 |OT| With the first pick the LA Kings are proud to select...
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Nope. he's being replaced by Bremner. Long overdue tbh.
Fata1moose
Banned
Hopefully Sakic gets ROR locked up soon, he essentially said that training camp is the deadline, he doesn't want it to be a distraction in the season.
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
Tear it all down. All of it. Scorched fucking earth! In Shanhan we trust!
Despite the roller coaster ride, the changes implemented since Shanny and Dubas came on have been good.
Most of our free agent signings more or less panned out except for Robidas.
Our prospects are doing well in the AHL and hopefully can make the jump.
As for our coaches, again, I do feel bad because Horachek was put in a position to lose. Spott was collateral damage though our PP was garbage and we gave up the most SH goals. St Croix deserves to lose his job after the pathetic goaltending.
This will really be Shanahan's Leafs now and while it will take awhile to get going, it seems a lot of the baggage is gone.
Phaneuf, Lupul, Kessel, and hopefully Bozak may be gone in the off season for picks and prospects. We'll rebuild smartly through the draft and through our development. I also like the tiers of development implemented by Dubas with the AHL and the ECHL and hope this pans out.
Despite the roller coaster ride, the changes implemented since Shanny and Dubas came on have been good.
Most of our free agent signings more or less panned out except for Robidas.
Our prospects are doing well in the AHL and hopefully can make the jump.
As for our coaches, again, I do feel bad because Horachek was put in a position to lose. Spott was collateral damage though our PP was garbage and we gave up the most SH goals. St Croix deserves to lose his job after the pathetic goaltending.
This will really be Shanahan's Leafs now and while it will take awhile to get going, it seems a lot of the baggage is gone.
Phaneuf, Lupul, Kessel, and hopefully Bozak may be gone in the off season for picks and prospects. We'll rebuild smartly through the draft and through our development. I also like the tiers of development implemented by Dubas with the AHL and the ECHL and hope this pans out.
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
They were doing their job and likely weren't going to be doing very much til the draft anyways.
I don't know who they'll bring in (I'd gladly take the penalty for Timmins
but I'm glad there won't be many people there from the old era spouting old era bullshit)If anything, we'll hopefully hire a bunch of scouts that can analyze prospects beyond just the eyeball and gut feeling tests. Though there are obviously people who are very good at it like Det/Ana/Mtl/Ott.
They'd better put that analytics muscle to work though; because I never really trusted the "fast, good hockey IQ, two way player, soft hands" bullshit anyways. It seems like all prospects were described this way so they need to go more in depth and really understand who they're picking and why so we don't get more Goats and Biggs
bonesmccoy
Banned
Aren't most of the junior leagues done now anyway? Why would the Leafs keep these contracts going forward?
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
Playoffs on right now though.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
Timmins is ours Damn it.
ZeroGravity
Member
Wonder if the Leafs will try to snatch Julien Brisebois from us. If they don't, some other team probably will. I'd be shocked if he wasn't a GM in the next year or two.
Surprised someone hasn't taken him already considering he was in the running for our GM job along with Bergevin years ago.
I think that's more right field
So apparently the leafs only have around 6 scouts left, one of them Morrison. Probably not far fetched that most of the other 5 are european scouts like Bergman and Ihnacak. Will be interesting if George Armstrong was one of them let go but he is about 100 years old at this point so who knows
Draft table is going to be empty unless there a ton of hirings before late june.
Draft table is going to be empty unless there a ton of hirings before late june.
I highly doubt the European scouts will change much if at all. They've been absolutely amazing compared to the NA scouts.
Biggs?! Gauthier?!
These are the types of players that should be drafted in the later rounds.
And if the Leafs choose Crouse, I will probably cry. How the fuck is a 6'4 230 lbs power forward that doesn't even have a PPG in the OHL rated so damn high?
Also Ted Nolan was just fired by the sabres
HadesGigas
Member
Goodbye everyone except Irbe.
CrazedArabMan
Member
Or you could have our scouts and find talent in later rounds and over ripe them and not have to suck to get it?
Kave learns to play hockey - final update
It's all over and unfortunately I don't come here with happy news. My team made it to the finals and we lost 1-0. First time we were shut out all year and first time we were so frustrated.
I'm just going to get my salt out of the way right now and yes I have no problem with any of you laughing at me being so salty over losing in beginner hockey but I'm so salty right now.
The other team knew they couldn't beat us straight up so they resorted to playing the trap all game. All credit to them their plan worked but I'm still salty about it. 1 light forechecker, 3 guys at the blue line and one guy in front of the net waiting to clear out anything we'd try to dump in. They capitalized on our one mistake all game and managed to score and just sat back for the remaining 1.5 periods after the goal.
I'm upset because I just couldn't do more to help my team, I wish I was better but dems the brakes we still had a fantastic season all in all, so that's all I'll say about that.
That said this whole experience has been absolutely amazing. After the game my teammates unanimously voted me most improved player and I'm just absolutely honoured they would do that. I worked really hard and looking back I can finally admit I really did improve much. I was a guy on day 1 of the season couldn't even make it through 15 minutes of practice to finishing tied for 4th overall in league scoring and second in assists.
I've found my niche despite being a shorter guy (5'8) I was one of the more solid guys down low. I discovered I am very strong on the puck behind the net, and I'm hard to move once I park my fat ass in front of the net.
The whole learning to play hockey thing was definitely helped out a ton by having such a great team and teammates who were very encouraging and would always give me advice when I asked for it. I know a couple people here got a bit interested in trying this out. Honestly give it a shot. I jumped into this knowing no one, having never played hockey in my life and I had a blast. I'm already looking towards tons of shinny in the summer and probably a few power skating classes as I really want to improve my skating.
So thank you everyone for humouring me and reading my updates and giving me the encouragement along the way, I really appreciated it. I definitely will be keeping up with it going forward.
Hockey is really one of the greatest sports in the entire world.
It's all over and unfortunately I don't come here with happy news. My team made it to the finals and we lost 1-0. First time we were shut out all year and first time we were so frustrated.
I'm just going to get my salt out of the way right now and yes I have no problem with any of you laughing at me being so salty over losing in beginner hockey but I'm so salty right now.
The other team knew they couldn't beat us straight up so they resorted to playing the trap all game. All credit to them their plan worked but I'm still salty about it. 1 light forechecker, 3 guys at the blue line and one guy in front of the net waiting to clear out anything we'd try to dump in. They capitalized on our one mistake all game and managed to score and just sat back for the remaining 1.5 periods after the goal.
I'm upset because I just couldn't do more to help my team, I wish I was better but dems the brakes we still had a fantastic season all in all, so that's all I'll say about that.
That said this whole experience has been absolutely amazing. After the game my teammates unanimously voted me most improved player and I'm just absolutely honoured they would do that. I worked really hard and looking back I can finally admit I really did improve much. I was a guy on day 1 of the season couldn't even make it through 15 minutes of practice to finishing tied for 4th overall in league scoring and second in assists.
I've found my niche despite being a shorter guy (5'8) I was one of the more solid guys down low. I discovered I am very strong on the puck behind the net, and I'm hard to move once I park my fat ass in front of the net.
The whole learning to play hockey thing was definitely helped out a ton by having such a great team and teammates who were very encouraging and would always give me advice when I asked for it. I know a couple people here got a bit interested in trying this out. Honestly give it a shot. I jumped into this knowing no one, having never played hockey in my life and I had a blast. I'm already looking towards tons of shinny in the summer and probably a few power skating classes as I really want to improve my skating.
So thank you everyone for humouring me and reading my updates and giving me the encouragement along the way, I really appreciated it. I definitely will be keeping up with it going forward.
Hockey is really one of the greatest sports in the entire world.
Leafs aren't taking Crouse unless they trade down, or something really weird and he is still on the board. Taking Nylander last year and putting an emphasis on skilled players and high risk high reward players (Mark Hunter) goes almost completely against that.
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
The Illitch's treat their staff well; it's why there isn't a lot of turnover there. I'm pretty sure if other teams were able to go after the Wings' Euro scouts, they would.
I'm hoping our new scouts will be able to view prospects different and find those gems.
Hindsight. And let's not forget that there have been a lot of busts as well. Vancouver turned it around last draft but they were guilty of this too.
I want to say that was mostly a Brian Burke pick. As a lot of our NA amateur scouts are going to get the can, I expect this to change.
Seriously, we just shitcanned a ton of our scouts for they advice they were giving before, I seriously cannot believe we would go down the Crouse path.
Coldnoodle
Member
Kave is the 40/30 orange tab low center of gravity grit grinder.
Syph Medwes
Member
all of this please.
rip to ted nolan
lets see if grapes' hockey gods quip last night comes true and buffalo loses mcdavid
Fata1moose
Banned
Landeskog played with a broken wrist, even our "healthy" players were injured.
:lol exactly
HadesGigas
Member
Most important news of the day.
dr.rocktopus
Banned
can you help Kessel
I don't know what this means but thank you.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
Aww, there's always next time Kave. It's sounds like you had fun.
CrazedArabMan
Member
Look on the bright side, you made it to the finals, that's way better than anything the Leafs have ever accomplished here.
Unhandled Exception
Member
Someone tell some jokes or something. It's dead in here.
Craig Anderson lost his job to Andrew Hammond.
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
Murray is a piece of shit. You're seriously going to throw him under the bus after you did everything possible to be dead last? That's embarrassing.
If Zroid starts posting his junior posts in here, it will be just as active as the playoff thread
bonesmccoy
Banned
Nolan wasn't Murray's choice as hc - he was hired early in the President Lafontaine Era - so it's not crazy to think that they had very different ideas about player development and the future of the club, or that Murray would want his own hc during the rebuild.
I don't doubt that, but he's blatantly lying when he says it's a performance issue. Murray wanted the 30th pick and everyone knew it, and he's essentially throwing Nolan under the bus.