The closest the Leafs have ever come to making a bold decision was the five years Brendan Shanahan spent micromanaging Kyle Dubas.

You’ll get Doug Armstrong/Craig Berube 2.0 and you’ll live with Doug Armstrong/Craig Berube 2.0.

The thing about William Nylander is that the fans of any other sad-sack perennial loser franchise would give him sainthood as an all-time team icon who helped make the bleakest years even slightly tolerable, and 60% of this fanbase absolutely fucking hates him.

Truly a testament to how awful Craig Berube is that he is still icing his best lineup in a lost season and they’re getting dog-walked by the Belleville Senators.

My personal reaction to this article:

1) Pelley’s trade deadline involvement feels more an indictment on Treliving’s failure than anything else

2) I reserve the right to walk back that opinion if they don’t hire a POHO *and* a GM.

Tired: Dave Nonis or a Potato?
Inspired: Brad Treliving or ChatGPT?

Irony being that Dubas is doing the exact thing in Pittsburgh (squeezing the last competitive gasp out of the last days of a core before a full tear down) that the next GM in Toronto will have to do.

Logging on to revisitation of Kyle Dubas trades while still in the wake of Brad Treliving absolutely torpedoing the Leafs.

(I mean this is the most derogatory sense possible, first one is horrendously stupid)

Why? And also, don’t?

It’s totally on me for opening the comment sections, but it is absolutely fucking absurd to me that we are in the year 2026 and there are still people out there who think the answer to the Leafs problems are Mark and Dale Hunter.

Poor Artur. It’s for the best…but poor Artur.

#LastFourWatched We are on a nice little streak.

Brad Treliving has two decades worth of front office experience, wonder if he's available?

They fired Treliving, so I guess I'll come back (offer contingent on the next guy not being worse.)