Leafs Talk

28 Jan 2026 16:57:06
1. Fire Brad promote Pridham
2. Trade and trade,
Carlo costed a 1st and a prospect
Detroit is looking for a right d man
Laughton costed the same, hopefully a 1st and something
OEL the way he is playing should get a first and prospect
Benoit pick or 2
Jarnkrok anything
Domi take please
Stolarz a team at the deadline may over pay
McMann should be able to get something-Edmonton?
Get rid of Machelli,
IF this can be done should be enough to tank into bottom 5, getting 1st back from Boston
Keep Robertson his bro may come aboard

I do not know who will take these guys but they got a try. Where’s trader Cliff.

28 Jan 2026 03:17:03
Ok, I liked the Berube signing, but it's time to throw him out the door. That's the only meaningful change you can make and I also have not liked his decisions for awhile now.

28 Jan 2026 08:20:24
It’s so odd how he went from switching the lines every period to not making any adjustments at all almost like he’s given up.

28 Jan 2026 12:32:02
Honestly, at this point, I don't see the point in firing Berube unless you believe the team is a coach away from going 20-9 for the rest of the season.
His message is true. It's their mindset in too often not wanting to play an in your face, pressure, physical game. Until they stop stupid mistakes, the puck is going to end up in the back of their net. They are not built to play run and gun which only works in the regular season anyway. Woll was not good last night, which didn't help.
My biggest complaint is that 3rd line. I know some of you really like or liked it. I never did. Roy was excellent last game, looked like the guy I thought we were getting, which hasn't been often enough this year. Robertson has been fairly invisible again lately. Cowan makes way too many mistakes with the puck. Not a good 3rd line. It's like the 2nd line you would see on a team that sucks going through a complete rebuild.
You fire the coach and the players win. You are telling them that we will find a guy that coaches the way YOU want to play, which barely got them out of the first round once. Just leave it for the rest of the season and reset in the off-season imo.

27 Jan 2026 15:34:41
Bit of a rant/ take here but I think the leafs would be in a better position if dubas was still the gm…

Here why we all know why he was fired. Because shanahan has a big ego and he wanted to move marner. What that trade looks like idk but ultimately it was the right move to do going forward… under dubas we went through years of the core four which he wears 100% but he was able to find value contracts.

But I think we can agree that his philosophy on how to build a winner had changed by the end look at what he did the year he got canned brought in oreilly accari at 50% retained and it cost two nothing prospects 1st 2nd and 3rd then he grabbed McCabe and lafferty for a 1st and 2nd and two nobodies then also added schenn for peanuts. those were not dubas type guys but he adjusted and to this day that was the strongest lineup during the core 4 era and it’s not even close.

Fast forward to today we bring in tre he brings in a few guys half of them don’t even play and the current theme is to bring in players that are older past their primes and we signed them to multi year deals in hopes that they are good in the short term we let Mitch walk for basically nothing if you want to compare it to what the return should’ve/ could’ve been and while I like some of the moves the guys he brought in are all the same type of player for the most part bigger slower defensive minded. and we have seen what that has done to them best example was minny one dpairing crippled the leafs because they couldn’t keep up. So I guess what I’m saying was they shouldn't of let marner walk and let dubas try and correct his mess a bit… but also not go from fast skilled to basically the complete opposite they need to blend the two together.

At this point tree is gone along with the entire coaching staff sell off some guys and try and be aggressive in the offseason.

27 Jan 2026 17:57:59
In all fairness, if Pitt was bottom of the League this year, I doubt any thinks this way. And lets remember, Dubas was planning on selling off this year and Crosby and company changed that possibly. It was Dubas who made a bunch of bad signings and trades when he had got the reigns in Pitt.

Saying we should have kept Dubas, who is now getting lucky in Pitt and fire Tre because he has really been unlucky this year, seems like revisionist history. Leafs have not been healthy since the season started. Tanev out almost all year. No one thought that would be the case. Nylander has missed time. Stolarz, Joshua, Laughton and Carlo have missed significant time. None of them are old guys. Matthews, for whatever reason had a horrible start and poor last year as well.

How was Dubas going to fix Matthews all of a sudden lack of scoring the last year +? Have you really looked at the roster the last season Dubas was in charge. Woll and Samsonov in net. Liljegren, Brodie, Timmins, Gio, Rielly and Holl on D. Kerfoot and Kampf playing 15 mins a night. Engvall and ZAR in the bottom 6. The guy who also gave us Malgin for that year. We needed Matt Murray to play games because Dubas thought Samsonov was a #1 goalie and he stunk.

As for Marner, Dubas left suddenly when the Leafs thought he was staying and they got Tre about a month before Marner's NMC kicked in. Why didn't Dubas trade him before he left? After he is long gone there is a report he wanted to trade Marner. Let's remember, Dubas himself said his biggest regret was the Malgin trade. He didn't say his biggest regret was keeping the core 4 together. It was him who said "We can and we will. " It is doubtful he would have traded Marner before the NMC he gave Marner was going to kick in. And if you believe Shanny wouldn't let him, then you have to believe he wouldn't let Tre either. Although, we do know Tre tried to trade Marner when it was clear Marner was leaving, and Marner wouldn't waive.

I think you are reaching here big time in regards to Dubas. Tre was also the one in charge last year when the Leafs took Florida to game 7 in the 2nd round.

27 Jan 2026 18:41:19
@RLF I respect your opinion but saying it was a reach is your opinion yes the injury bug is unlucky and I’m not saying everything dubas did was great but like I pointed out he adapted weather you believe dubas had total autonomy to make deals or not shanahan wouldn’t let his boys go as you stated dubas wanted to tear the pens down… after not making the playoffs for x amount of year and and aging team I think it was the right thing but Crosby didn’t want that so he bought some value contracts look at the season mantha and brazeau are having that was what dubas thrived at I’m not saying dubas was perfect but treliving hasn’t had a resume of success either and I think the leafs have turned into a version of the flames not as bad… but there’s still time I guess my worry is that treliving will not sell and this team will go no where and Matthews will walk for nothing just like Mitch.

27 Jan 2026 21:40:09
Goat. I respect your opinion as well. Facts are facts though. There is no proof Dubas wanted to trade Marner and was fired because of it. Plus, Pitt had just missed the playoffs for the 1st time in a while when Dubas took over. Most of us thought what Tre built for this year was really good and better than anything Dubas had done.
It just seems your post comes from recency bias and what looks like revisionist history.

In Toronto, Dubas was offered a new contract, so Shanny wasn't intending on firing him. Dubas apparently came back wanting more money and autonomy (Shanny denies it was about autonomy) . Now, does that mean Dubas definitely wanted to move Marner? No, but he wanted to do whatever he wanted and not answer to anyone I guess if autonomy is believed to be true. Was he changing his ways? Maybe some.
Yes, at the deadline in T. O. he grabbed vets with some grit at the end. Didn't retain any though. They walked.

In Pitt he signed Ryan Graves at 6X$4.5M and Jarry 5X$5.375M. He just gave Lizotte 3X$2.25M. Other than that he re-signed Sid, which wouldn't have been too hard. Others are just 1 year deals and yes, he bargain bin shops well. Doesn't look much different than what he did on Toronto to me.

He traded for Dumba. He traded Glass for a guy not even in the NHL. He traded Guentzal and Smith for pretty much what turned out to be nothing. That's not good. He traded for Karlsson, which has worked out well for him. Who has he really signed or acquired that shows he has really changed?

No one picked Pitt to do well this year and Pitt was apparently selling assets, but they have overachieved. That selling off was said to have come from Dubas, so he didn't even believe in the team he built for this year. So yes, I would call that lucky and not skill. If Pitt sucks next year, is Dubas still the guy we should have kept?

Tre has got his teams farther in the playoffs than Dubas has, so if we are looking at success, Tre has him beat. Tre made it to the 2nd round twice in Calgary and once in Toronto. Dubas has made the 2nd round once.

28 Jan 2026 02:13:04
@Goat i really don't see this the same way. Dubas had no way of knowing that goaltending tandem would catch fire or that the big senior citizens in Pitts would all look 25 again.

Most things Dubas has done over there have looked horrible imo.

26 Jan 2026 10:02:55
I was looking at the Reilly buyout.

It would cost the leafs 3.5m on the cap for the next 4 years and they would save 4m then after that for the following 4 years it would cost the leafs 2m

Is it worth it? Imo if he’s not willing to waive I don’t see how else you go about it. My be bad PR but look how Vegas operates guys still wanna go there. 4m gets you a decent player just saying.

26 Jan 2026 10:57:42
I agree that Reilly needs to move but can we talk about the elephant in the room? McCabe has been killing us with these massive turnovers leading to goals and it’s happening every game. Not sure what’s going on in his head as he usually my favourite D. Not as physical and terrible game changing turnovers. It’s like he is turning into Reilly.

27 Jan 2026 13:05:56
Interesting on the buyout idea. Could be a bargaining chip with him if they really want to move him. As long as Leafs will sign off on the buyout, it's either give us some teams you will go to, or we buy you out this summer. Let him choose.

27 Jan 2026 13:11:10
Yea, McCabe. Like I said days ago, who stole his hockey brain? It's been a while now he has been making really stupid plays.

27 Jan 2026 18:43:20
I think it’s simple with McCabe he’s always been a complimentary player the leafs are asking him to carry that blue line and he can’t it’s not his game.

25 Jan 2026 20:14:42
Time for Berube to go boys!

24 Jan 2026 02:44:19
It’s over if you can’t get up for that game then you never will stolarz was ok but should of never played I don’t trust anyone on this team mcmann maccelli Benoit stecher Robertson can all go hope we can get back pIcks and prospects.

24 Jan 2026 04:31:14
A lot of truth to that Goat.
The big question to me is, when did McCabe get a lobotomy? It's like someone stole his hockey brain over the last about 10 games. He was responsible for 2 goals against tonight including the 5th goal which sunk the comeback effort. He is a liability right now.

24 Jan 2026 10:18:48
@RLF that play on the fifth goal was Reilly like lol when it comes to McCabe I think he will be alright I just think a lot of the high pressure moments have been put on him out there and he’s just not that player. My other gripe would be why did berube split up him and stecher when they played so well together during the best part of the leafs season. Hence why I don’t trust the coaching staff.

24 Jan 2026 12:36:19
I think Rielly will waive his no-move contract this year.
I mean how much negativity can one person take?
He’s without any ability on the defensive side of things and his offence is dwindling AND he knows it.
I would bet his figuring skating star wife is saying to Morgan “please honey let’s move, you don’t deserve this abuse”.
And you all know ‘our wives know better’.
LOL.