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I like this. Adds on top of the muscle memory too, which gives more overhead for processing. This is all I could think of when Keefe said “When teams play the Leafs, they set up the game for the Leafs to beat themselves”

Another arbitration avoided. Bobby McMann and Simon Benoit come in under this number.

Ben Danford drawing attention from Hockey Canada for a potential WJC slot PPP T25U25 kicks off after the Civic holiday. It is looking to be rather tepid.

Hyman had a bit of this issue as a Leaf as well. It also led to his body breaking down every postseason. Article in question: https://hockeysarsenal.substack.com/p/nick-robetson-development-pathway Spelled only 85% of his name in the url

Earlier this season (and last season) back to looking more effortless these days

Just give it to Willy Just reinforcing that slowly picking your way through the NZ/OZ with a mindset of maintaining possession just leads to getting counter punched off the rush.

Exquisite PR pivot

GPGAPts 77102535 He's bigger and older than Nick Robertson and put up more pts in this platform season, and someone the Leafs were kicking tires on signing to a UFA deal.

I don't doubt they offered long term in the 5s. Knies' agent is less dumb than Blake's. Or Tulsky is some kind of sweet-talking savant.

I agree on the Knies bit to improve the Tavares line. Nylander can be really good on Matthews wing once in awhile, but last season it looked like they made each other worse (to the eye) and Berube said as much obliquely. They're really similar in capability and when paired up they set the wrong...

I didn't expect a different outcome once it flipped to a Judge-only trial. Victims have such a high threshold requirement to be 'perfect', especially in cases like these.

This was the kind of deal I was hoping the Leafs would try to get Knies on last offseason. 45M over 8 yrs with one more ELC year to go.

Sounds like a Detroit or Buffalo signing

I don't know this space. Anyone look interesting?

I do like that Joshua-Tavares-Roy line, but I think Roy is definitely going to be centring a line, per Treliving. Willy just needs a forechecking LW and a centre who isn't a Domi about defense to be effective. The Leafs are relatively loaded with forechecking LWs (Knies, Joshua, McMann...

Cap Wages has some handy data (sometimes wrong) showing how teams acquire the players in their line up. Leafs 2025 roster ForwardDefenseGoalie Draft411 Trade430 UFA731 Robertson is counted here (draft); Joshua is counted as trade.

You certainly called it upthread. I want to split Tavares and Nylander though. Joshua-Tavares-Maccelli/Domi/Cowan + McMann-Roy-Nylander is what I have in mind. I want Nylander to get more regular season reps in a shutdown role. Coaches avoided that for valid reasons, but building his DZ play up...

https://jhanhky.substack.com/p/what-to-expect-from-dakota-joshua Jack Han worked with Joshua during his stint with the Leafs development team. If he can keep up and setup a forecheck, he'd be a good fit with Tavares-Nylander, or even (heaven forfend) Tavares-Domi.

Victor Johansson drawing national junior team attention. And I guess I am vying for starter’s role between the pipes. (Not really)

He’s doing it!