2025-26 Toronto Maple Leafs General Discussion

[L K]

Team USA going to hang out with a pedophile on Tuesday.

 

[Joe S.]

Team USA going to hang out with a pedophile on Tuesday.

All those rich douchebags are part of his base.

 

[Bill_Berg]

So what if Matthews will miss a game or two. China is going to eliminate the Stanley Cup anyway.

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2025993934003155088

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2026315767260532866

This is going to save the front office/ownership from their own waffling half measures and sell properly for a re-tool.

 

[rdowdall]

I hope Treliving has an excellent auctioneer voice.

 

[L K]

Guentzel isn't going to hang out with President Shits his Pants.

....Fuck Matthews. He's free to do it. But my respect level for him is in the tanks.

 

[ZBBM]

Guentzel isn't going to hang out with President Shits his Pants.

....Fuck Matthews. He's free to do it. But my respect level for him is in the tanks.

I haven't followed the Olympics but if others aren't going I'll be sorely disappointed if he does.

 

[louisstamos]

I haven't followed the Olympics but if others aren't going I'll be sorely disappointed if he does.

A small handful - Brock Nelson, Kyle Connor, Jake Guentzel.

I think everyone else is going.

 

[leafsjunkie]

I haven't followed the Olympics but if others aren't going I'll be sorely disappointed if he does.

His mom is Mexican too. I'll be disappointed.

 

[Bender]

A small handful - Brock Nelson, Kyle Connor, Jake Guentzel.

I think everyone else is going.

I doubt most of them think much about politics. I mean the director of the FBI was getting hammered with them in the locker room. Just a bunch of jocks good at a sport at the end of the day.

 

[herman]

Vastly different pressure on him as the captain of the US squad to have to show up for the pomp and circumstance, compared to the other randos on the team, so he's in a no-win situation if he were politically/morally against this administration. Who knows how the US team GM determines the next Four Nations/Olympics rosters?

https://twitter.com/x/status/2026386890362941764

https://twitter.com/x/status/2026387268093481311

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Matthews is apparently not staying for the state of the union so if he can at least get out of this without having to take a picture with Trump I could stomach this.

 

[herman]

Matthews is apparently not staying for the state of the union so if he can at least get out of this without having to take a picture with Trump I could stomach this.

They shook hands (but he looked like he was maintaining a defensive position, relatively speaking)

https://twitter.com/x/status/2026388262835585464

 

[dappleganger]

Matthews is damned if you do damned if you don't.

If I had the chance to visit the White House I would really want to go regardless of how I felt about the sitting President. It's a sad state for the office that this is such a divisive decision.

Personally I would have to decline but I wouldn't admonish anyone else who would choose to go.

Edit: Haha! They made Matthews go first!

 

[herman]

If there wasn't a game on Wednesday, I'd have declined the visit and joined the Women's team in Vegas at Flava Flav's invitation.

 

[Guru Tugginmypuddah]

Matthews shook and booked.

Tkachuk yucking it up.

 

[ZBBM]

Yeah, I guess I'll give him a pass on this, having watched the perfunctory handshake vid.

 

[Guru Tugginmypuddah]

If there wasn't a game on Wednesday, I'd have declined the visit and joined the Women's team in Vegas at Flava Flav's invitation.

Sounds like a much better time.

 

[L K]

Eh, I think going is enough for me to lose respect. Is he sticking around like the Tkachuk losers...no. But the White House is an embarrassment. I don't care how much "I just play hockey" mentality you have. You have to be a moron to see who Trump is. Going there to shake his hand is a joke. Trump has no respect for the White House or America. You aren't celebrating anything other than a thief, a con man and a god damn pedophile.

I'm not calling for his head or anything but respect is earned