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06 Feb 2025 19:32:39
Looks like you're getting your wish RLF with the line up tonight.

Knies - Matthews - Domi
Nylander- JT - Marner
McMann - Holmberg - Robertson
Patches - Kampf - Lorentz

This may work out because now opposing teams have to decide which line to match, both lines are top lines.
Plus how great would a Cozens or even Nelson look in that 3C spot??

Go Leafs Go

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06 Feb 2025 20:45:18
Exactly Tags. Fix that 3C spot and that looks like a potent lineup to me.

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07 Feb 2025 01:21:46
I’m sorry but I can’t stand that 2nd line. Over 34M on this line and they never play well together. Too many chiefs NO Indians. Keep trying it Craig, it doesn’t work. Sorry RLF, I agree with a lot of stuff you say but this l definitely is not one of them. I’m writing this before the game so hopefully they can make me eat my words but I doubt it.

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07 Feb 2025 12:32:56
Kind of a meh game all around. I hope they stick with this for a stretch of games to see how it works. Then if they can get a 3C upgrade, they have lots of options for the bottom 6.

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07 Feb 2025 16:00:32
Agreed RLF I hope they continue trying these lines for a few games. Last night was lots of PKing and Willy was fighting the puck all night. I'm sure it will get better with time.

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05 Feb 2025 20:34:41
Columbus TRADE Kent Johnson
Toronto TRADE KNIES

I think KNIES & JOHNSON were the 2 best players in the 2021 draft

If I'm Brad Treliving I wouldn't do this trade and I wouldn't do the trade either

I'm just curious do you guys have Knies as the best player in the 2021. draft

Knies was drafted 57 th overall what a pick the leafs made

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05 Feb 2025 21:49:56
Knies was a steal for sure. What about Hughes, Guenther, Power for example? Beniers and McTavish have been quite good. Can't look past the fact that Knies gets to play with Matthews and/ or Marner a lot. A lot of other guys on the draft board don't have that kind of talent around them.

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05 Feb 2025 22:09:32
You definitely have a weird way of giving players a shout out. Knies has become what this team has lacked for years. But what about McBobby? Guy has sighed a 1.35M X 2 contract and is on pace to almost hit 30 goals. What a steal this guy is. I don’t even think Bobby knew he’d take off like this. Made Tre look smart but I think he got lucky. This guy keeps up this pace or close to and the salary cap going up, he is gonna be in the neighborhood of a 5-7M dollar player per year. Enjoy this while we can at 1.35M another reason why Marner can walk is so we can keep guys like Bobby!

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06 Feb 2025 03:04:06
@Clarky He's really flying under the radar for sure. He also hasn't had the benefit of an entire season with Mathews and Marner. He was in fact demoted at times, and even left off the team out of camp. Mcmann definitely has heart as well.

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06 Feb 2025 13:36:11
McMann keeps working at his game and keeps getting a little bit better as the season goes along. Too bad Dubas and Keefe didn't give him a real chance earlier.

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05 Feb 2025 03:30:39
When Mathews is out, Mitch looks better.

When Marner is out, Mathews looks better.

What else does management need to see? Stop putting them together on a line!

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05 Feb 2025 16:04:08
I know most guy don't like this idea but I still want to see
Matthews with Knies and/ or Domi/ McMann and a 2nd line of Nylander-JT-Marner. Very difficult for the other coach to decide which line to try and shutdown with his top defensive pair.

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05 Feb 2025 17:24:58
I'd be good with trying that top line. Bert-Mathews-Domi was a good line for awhile last season, might as well try the same.

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05 Feb 2025 19:04:30
Domi just has no confidence right now but I also would like to see an extended look of

Knies Matthews domi
Nylander Tavares Marner
Robertson? Mcmann
4th line as you see fit. I think patches might be a good fit on the 4th alternating with Reeves.

I'm so sick of holmberg, was at the game last night and he is so out of position all the time, and failing both offensively and defensively.

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05 Feb 2025 22:13:04
RLF I’m not sure why you want that line so bad? They put Marner and Nylander together with Matthews a bunch when JT was out and vice versa when Matthews was out and they haven’t put up a point. No warriors on the line, no contrast. Won’t even work in regular season, it’s definitely not gonna work in playoffs. Not sure why you wouldn’t want the 3 spread out across top 3 lines and compete for ice time and PP.

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06 Feb 2025 02:40:36
Clarky. No offense, but that is complete garbage. Leafs have never tried those combinations a bunch of times and saying they have never produced a point the odd shift it has been tried is completely false.
They have used a loaded line for a shift after a penalty kill and they have produced. Was it every time, of course not, no line does.
There is no guarantee that putting Matthews, Marner and Nylander on three separate lines will create more offence or make the team more balanced or dangerous. Talented guys want and need icetime. Playing them all 16-18 mins a night isn't likely to equate to good production nor does it create hard matchups for the opposing coach. Which line gets the offensive zone starts the most? Which gets the most defensive starts? Etc etc.

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01 Feb 2025 20:11:13
Anyone else watching these trades thinking the rental market is insane?

Seems like a lot for Ceci and Granlund as well as Petterson.

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01 Feb 2025 22:38:58
Yes LL. Seems much higher this year than years past. Any half decent player gets you a 1st rd pick apparently.

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02 Feb 2025 03:54:03
Like I said, I think the Leafs will look at a guy like Sissons. Has some term left and not a rental you only have to fit in this year.

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02 Feb 2025 04:17:21
Looking like a sellers market.
But I do think the Pettersson (legit top 4D) deal was a pretty good hockey trade for both sides.

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02 Feb 2025 12:49:25
What upgrade is Sissons over what they have currently?

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02 Feb 2025 16:50:25
Why Sissons?

Right shot C
Can play 3C or move up or down the lineup
Plays with lots of energy, good work ethic and pace to his game
More offensive upside over a guy like Kampf, without giving up defensive prowess.
Signed for one more season instead of a rental
Plays with some grit
Good Pker and Faceoff guy
Lots of playoff experience where he has played games in the 3rd round 2X and finals once.

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03 Feb 2025 01:58:17
I like Sissons as well. Maybe not as much as RLF, but he's a definite upgrade that hopefully doesn't cost to much.

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03 Feb 2025 12:03:23
LL. It's not so much that I am a big Sissons fan, it's just a player I could see Toronto target. I am good with the Leafs getting him if they do though.

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31 Jan 2025 20:10:13
Toronto trades

Brad Treliving for Daffy Duck!

This Guy is a JOKE!

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31 Jan 2025 00:51:16
Nobody is taking Rielly.
Nobody is taking our crap for good players.
Easton Cowan is not getting traded.
Neither is Marner.

Proceed accordingly.

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31 Jan 2025 19:16:53
T-Bum I understand your frustration. It seems that the LEAFS management is intentionally working towards a NON PLAYOFF year. Every other team seems to be making an effort to improve except the LEAFS. And for the time being they should stop targeting 50% players hoping to get lucky to add to the already 50% players on the team. With the limited scoring that is showing expect great frustration from the fans, we may even see a revolt LOL. But remember T-Bum its only a game.

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30 Jan 2025 18:25:35
Anyone have a theory about Mo? He's always been iffy in his own end, but he's a mess right now. I'd rather see Neimela get a shot than him at this point. This is the fastest deterioration I've ever seen from a player.

We've all known he needs a D parter for years, but even with Tanev he was bad.

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30 Jan 2025 21:18:29
LL. I will say what I have said for a while. New wife, new baby, new priorities. I don't think hockey is Mo's top focus. I don't think his head is on focused on hockey.

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31 Jan 2025 00:44:15
I get that RLF, but Rielly better start getting his head back into the game or else he won't be here much longer, regardless of his NMC.
It would be hard to trade him in season, but he would probably be one of Tre's first priorities to move in the off-season if things don't change.

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31 Jan 2025 11:12:09
I have my theory but I feel I notice much more than the average man. For starters, he won’t pin guys in his own end. So many goals go in from Morgan losing a puck battle because he is playing slap stick instead of pinning the guy to the boards and killing the play while a teammate picks up the puck for the breakout.
2. His gap control is absolutely awful. Guys are allowed to walk in to almost the top of the circle before they rip it and Morgan is too far away to even get a stick on it. 3. He is looking offense first all the time. Looking at times to jump into the play instead of worrying what happens if the puck gets turned over. 4. Start wiring shots from the point in the offensive zone like your name is Myers. I know Mitch and Willy like to come up to the point to take shots because there is less chance of getting hit up by the blue line. But be selfish and stop deferring the puck to these guys. Morgan can be wide open with a great chance in the slot and he will pass off to Mitch in the corner because he is hollering for it. Those corrections there and Reilly could be one of the better D in the league. Just IMO.

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31 Jan 2025 12:07:39
Tags. No argument here. I was just answering LL's question.

Clarky. I don't know if many would disagree with you about the quality of his play or that he has always had some warts. I think LL was referring to WHY such a big decline in play. Not so much of what is wrong with his game, but why all of a sudden is he much worse in almost all areas of his game. That's how I took it anyway.

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02 Feb 2025 12:50:42
Wife
Baby
Money in the bank

Mo is set

Hockey is secondary.

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30 Jan 2025 12:28:38
At this point I think the leafs need to be bold. it isn't good enough to bring in a couple depth players for the first time in a long time the Atlantic isn't an absolute gauntlet marner and Matthews can not be on the same line it doesn't give the leafs a chance to win at this point I'm ok with marner being traded

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30 Jan 2025 01:36:52
I'm tired of the Matthews & Marner tandem at all costs.
They looked horrible tonight.

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30 Jan 2025 02:04:17
All Marner does is look for Matthews as if no one else is on the ice. He has the puck in the slot, but instead of shooting, he passes to Matthews in the corner for a one timer, lol such a joke.
BTW Marner has not scored a goal on am NHL goalie since Matthews came back from injury.

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30 Jan 2025 13:33:40
Hurts the productivity of whoever is in that line too. It’s like they’re an extra to just go and stand in front of the net. I was hoping Berube would be the guy to put a stop to these two once and for all. They should only be together on PP and I’d even have them in different units for a bit. It is becoming annoying watching them together. 1 in every 5 games they have a good one? Why has he literally changed every unit but this one that is so inconsistent. Willy had all the offensive chances last night and he was playing most of the night with Domi and Holmberg. Wake up Chief!

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30 Jan 2025 14:32:51
I don’t get it could this be what oreilly was referring to when he said some player in Toronto will never win because Matthews and marner have to play together because it’s what they want so it has to be like for real they should of pulled the trigger this summer.

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29 Jan 2025 20:41:50
Trade Domi for literally anything and sign Saad.

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30 Jan 2025 14:33:36
Saad is in the same boat as domi doesn’t produce much and isn’t a two way player it’s a very lateral move.

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26 Jan 2025 14:20:48
I'm starting to lose faith in Berube. It seems like the same song and dance Keefe would do, albeit different systems.
Marner & Matthews always stapled together, regardless who's injured or not. To make matters worse, they bring up their best remaining LW to play with them and have a blender for the rest of the lines.
Ut makes Ottawa's job easier only having to shut down one line and having the last change to boot.
When Matthews was injured, JT gets shifted with Marner. Now that Knies is also injured, McMann gets shifted to the top line with Matthews & Marner.
Now I know Nylander has his faults, but give me a break, he gets shifted all over the map playing with Holmberg and Kampf and whatever other scraps the team has. AND he doesn't complain at all, at least to the media.
I would love to see if Marner reaction if this happened to him.
Berube needs to split Marner and Matthews, especially with all these injuries Leafs have. Even when the team is healthy, I would like Marner and Matthews split to help balance the rest of the team.

One final note, Matthews calls the fans out after the Reaves fight, and probably rightly so. BUT, he responds the next game with his worst showing since coming back from injury. He was dog rubbish last night IMO.

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26 Jan 2025 16:18:46
Well said Tagsy and I agree. Not sure why we always resort to keeping these two together. We have watched them fail in playoffs year after year. I was hoping Berube would be the guy to put a stop to this. If you want to make over 10+M per year, you should be able to run your own line with production. It’s annoying that I don’t think they have played longer than a period apart this year, like why not even try it Chief?

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27 Jan 2025 14:25:16
I am all for having Marner away from Matthews, although my idea for the top two lines when healthy is not the most popular on here either.
I see this as a more playoff style hockey they are playing. Berube is still trying new combos to see what will work. Plus, injuries have been plentiful this year and hard to really know what Berube would want to try when healthy. I'm not too worried about too much. Playoffs will be the real test. Until then, it's just how hard are they willing to compete and what habits are we seeing. imo.

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29 Jan 2025 13:58:43
RLF. Agreed they are playing a different system, which is more playoff style hockey.
My beef is that Berube even though he may be trying new combos to see what works, he is still just like Keefe in the fact that he never seems to split Matthews/ Marner. Especially with all these injuries, it makes more sense to spread the wealth instead of loading up one power line with all the best players from each position making it easier for teams to shut the Leafs down.
I would just like him to experiment with Matthews & Marner split. Maybe try Domi up with Matthews again and see if they still have some of that chemistry they built last season.

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29 Jan 2025 15:53:25
Tags. You guys make valid points. Just my opinion, but I think all the injuries is the main part of this. You try and spread it out with all these injuries on a team still learning to play a completely different way, and they may never score. They were starting to find a rhythm and then JT and Patches went down. Then Knies. Nevermind Stolarz also being out. I am actually surprised how competitive they have remained in pretty much every game. But that's me.

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29 Jan 2025 18:26:38
Have to agree with RLF on the injuries. JT (as aligned as he is at times), is still a solid 2C option. Not having a 3C hurts, but having no 2C is devastating. I'm surprised they're winning at all.

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29 Jan 2025 20:43:57
LL. Injuries are playing a big part imo.
The top line expected tonight is McMann-Matthews-Marner which is fine. 2nd line is Domi-Holmberg-Nylander (yikes)3rd line is Patches (if possible) -Minten-Robertson (not strong) 4th line Lorentz-Kampf-Reaves (Reaves has really declined)
I look at it this way-If that was the lineup to start the season, people would have said we're not even going to come close to making the playoffs. Nevermind the goaltending tandem of Woll and Murray as well.

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