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But is that really evidence that all coaches have a shelf life? Or is it that in a cap world where teams can't just go up and up and up there will always be a point where a GM will find it necessary to make a coach a scapegoat?

Maybe some of you caught the hubbub over Martin Scorcese's thoughts about Marvel movies. Well, he wrote an op-ed in the NYT today trying to expand on his point and it's worth a read: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/martin-scorsese-marvel.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur It's a...

Anyone who thinks going to the White House right now can be an apolitical statement should watch the video of Kurt Suzuki and Trump. That said, the list of players who chose not to go eventually grew to about 7 or 8 apparently.

Nobody is upset about the signings because they're worried about the Leafs not generating enough revenues to cover them.

Sure, just like in your mind every single goal scored against the Leafs seems to be a result of nobody throwing a good enough hit. There may, just maybe, some confirmation bias at work there. But, again, there isn't an actual attempt to answer the question you asked other than "Well, I guess...

No, not regardless of the changes. This is a different team than last year's team. I'm referring to the 2019-2020 Maple Leafs. That said, you may be too focused on the word "stretch" and less on the charge that this same lazy criticism gets trotted out whenever the Leafs lose.

It remains fascinating to me that for all the people who put forth this assertion(which is untrue and almost always based on isolated and cherry-picked examples) there's never actually an effort to answer the question. I think that's largely because any serious attempt to answer it within the...

As Benjamin Franklin once said, the only sure things in life are death, taxes and people criticizing the Leafs for a lack of effort when they have a bad stretch.

Vegas betting odds are calculated measures meant to encourage as much betting as possible while limiting a sports book's downsides. They are made by gambling experts, not hockey experts. Hockey experts questioned if the Leafs could make it out of the first round.

By who?

Seems like that may be cause for a grievance.

It's almost like a team's best offensive players are the most likely to score against anyone.

Right. Just stop Ovechkin. You know, the way all of those other teams have as he's scored 650 goals over his career.

Josi got a higher cap % than Hedman did. It's the exact same principle. It makes sense within the larger context of the league but it shows why the 1 to 1 comparisons to Tampa players were so intellectually dishonest.

Norris and AS voting aren't perfect but his finishes the last five years in Norris voting have been 5, 5, 11, 7, 7 and his AS voting was 5, 5, 10, 7 ,7. That seems like a reasonable reflection of him and where he ranks. One of the 10 or so better defensemen in the league but never a real serious...

It's top 10 protected.

Oh I'm sure once they've cleared out everyone there'll be some sort of Zombie version of the site with the name Deadspin where every post is some sort of "Look at this sick catch in the end zone! Tubular!" or whatever. But Deadspin as it's existed for 15 years or so is almost certainly gone.

I think that any sort of conversation in that regard might be productive to have if people didn't only come to it with "Kyle Dubas is stupid and/or bad at negotiating" or whatever.

This contract doesn't start until Josi is 30. So while I guess it's good value now(Josi is maybe a top 5 defenseman?) I don't know how excited I'd be to have anyone from 36-38 at this kind of money.

Well, it looks like private equity ghouls have just about killed off Deadspin. Blech. Capitalism is the worst.