Akakabuto

Waived and traded perhaps?

McIlrath waived today apparently Picked up by Phoenix? They are apperantly looking for a 6/7th defenseman with some snarl.

Shoots left. Surprised he's not whiffing shots in a Wings uniform already.

Some people just wants to watch the world burn

I mean, Carlo f***in' Colaiacovo? Dude played six games in one season for Mike and then shares a story that he himself is not part of. Sucha *****. >Tom: You played for Mike once. How was that like? >Carol: He was an ******* >Tom: Something you like to share? >Carol: No. *Hangs up* Thats how he should have handled it.

I love how the journo's are now calling every player that have ever been in the same organization at the same time as Babcock looking for a story. Based Kenny knows who's boss.

Nash adds a 1st.

Nielsen for Turris. Now THATS's a trade I can get behind. I changed my mind.

Me on the right

Haydn Fleury come on down.

Only one other is worse; the eternal franco-anglo

"Apple don't fall far from the tree" What Babcock did with the list-thing is nowhere near what Peters said. Hope Babcock doesn't get bundled into this whole mess.

Plays for Frölunda(Gothenburg) so prolly a west coast boy. Much of mutty anglo blood have poluted the proud scando genes there. Many such cases. Sad.

5. Holtz

I think he means the difference in quality between the forwards and defense. Between Reilly, Muzzin, Ceci and Barrie there is about one who is capable enough in their own zone.

Who do the Red Wings have scouting in Mongolia?

f*** it, lets get Babcock back onboard and get these soyboys to shape up!

He would crash this tank with no survivors

https://www.capfriendly.com/teams/mapleleafs It's gonna be interesting for sure with that defense situation.

The Leafs have made me coom all season long. First the suckage and then the canning of Babs. The whole "We are the model franchise with all the best and brightest people in the business that is writing the blueprint for guaranteed cups and dynasty" was getting really annoying.

Aren't you kinda proving my point? You all hated the guy but did you lose your respect for him? For the record, I have nothing against old school psycho coaches and I think Babcock is a good one. I just think he failed in Toronto and that he has himself to blame for being fired. The failure of the Leafs as a team is not entirely on him though. I'm not too impressed with the mindgames either, old trick or not. Causing division among your players can never be a sound strategy. If they are not gonna like you then atleast unite them in that.

just gonna leave this here

I think there is a fine line that a coach like Babcock(just like Bowman) have to walk. You are right, the players don't have to like you. But they have to respect you. Uncle Mike seems to have lost the respect of his players and thats a failure on his part. He is a wellpayed professional coach, he should be able to handle young players, veterans, superstars and grinders. More worrisome for him is this seems to have happened before. He needs to change and evolve. The best way to make the players respect you is to win games. If your line-up/TOI and gameplan brings the team to win you can be as big of an hard-ass you want. You are making the right decisions and the players will respect that. When Babcock have been losing games he also seems to have lost his players. He is stubborn in his way of coaching and if his gameplan isn't working its on the players to work harder. When you lose that message gets stale pretty fast. Him being fired from the Leafs is entirely on himself. I agree with many others that the roster is very top-heavy and is missing some important role players that are part of the make-up of cup winning team. But if you want to keep your job you try to win games any way you can with the players you got. Babcock didn't want that. He wanted to win his way and refused to use his roster to its full potential. If you are under by one in the last seconds of the game you don't send out Hyman and others of the like as a reward for hard work with Matthews, Tavares and Nylander on the bench. You will lose. And do it an enough number of times you will be fired.

The HYPE is real!

Lets get back up on that horse, lads.