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2025-26 Toronto Maple Leafs General Discussion

L K said:
I really don't understand what Berube sees in Myers. Every single game he plays is the same thing. He takes a bad penalty....his pairing gets filled in.....he goes adventuring away from his defensive coverage.
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To top it all off he's not even particularly physical, which is usually what keeps someone like this in the line-up.

I really liked Myers' play last season so I don't know what's happened to him now. But it's really not worth trying to "fix" a 7-8-9-10 defenceman when he's hurting your team this badly.
 
L K said:
I really don't understand what Berube sees in Myers. Every single game he plays is the same thing. He takes a bad penalty....his pairing gets filled in.....he goes adventuring away from his defensive coverage.

As much as I'm frustrated with Rielly, stop playing Myers. Literally anyone else is a better option
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Add in Tre too. He could end this foolishness and send him to the Marlies via waivers. Do they really think he'll be picked up?
Like CTB said, I'd rather see the 4th D pairing then the 3rd.
 
L K said:
I really don't understand what Berube sees in Myers. Every single game he plays is the same thing. He takes a bad penalty....his pairing gets filled in.....he goes adventuring away from his defensive coverage.

As much as I'm frustrated with Rielly, stop playing Myers. Literally anyone else is a better option
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I think every coach has a weird attachment to a player that we can't understand. The one that come to mind for me is Quinn with Lumme.
 
McCabe being day-to-day is a bad sign. Nylander was "day to day". When Woll was out they said they expected him to be out for roughly a week and that was pretty bang on. Everything they have called day to day has spiraled into things like Stolarz going AWOL for the season.
 
Joe S. said:
I can't remember a crazier season for injuries than this one.
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'02 playoffs were injury riddled - I haven't thought about which was worse.
Older rosters tend to have more injuries. I was expecting a higher number of injuries this season so I'm not in shock
 
4EVRLEAFAN said:
Where's our stats guys, has the East ever been this tight before? We'd be tied for 1rst in the Pacific.
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I haven't got the time to dig through the stats but it seems unusually tight in the East
Every team in the league still has some sort of a shot to make the playoffs
Worst to best pts win% in the East .512 to .655 - that has to be unusual.
Probably means fewer teams selling at the trade deadline so bidding might get even more nuts.
 
14 games left until the All-Star/Olympic break.
- 14 games in 25 days
- Two 4 game Western Road trips
- Two back to backs (both against a rested team)
- 9 of 14 games against teams currently in a playoff spot

The Leafs will have played 57 games by the time the break rolls around. Last year they were 35-20-2 72 points (.632 PT%) with 180 GF and 161 GA. This year they are 21-15-7 49 points (.570 PT%) with 143 GF and 140 GA

Scenario 1 - Leafs play at their season pace (.570 PT%)
- They would go 7-5-2 on this stretch and be 28-20-9 65 points.
- If the Leafs play at their exact pace (7-5-2) they would be 28-20-9 65 points and be on pace for a 93 point season. 2020-2021 was the last year that 93 points didn't make the playoffs in the East.

Scenario 2 - Leafs play at the pace they have since Joseph Woll made his season debut (Nov 15) (13-7-6 .615 PT%)
- They would go 7-4-3 and be 28-19-10 66 points (.579 PT%).
- They would be on pace for 95 points.

Scenario 3 - Leafs play at their pace since December 1st (10-4-5 .657 PT%)
- They would go 7-3-4 and be 28-18-11 67 points (.588 PT%).
- They would be on pace for 96 points by Game 82

Meanwhile the 4 teams ahead of the Leafs in the Atlantic are all on heaters. The Atlantic has taken over the title of "best division" once again by point percentage.

Atlantic - .587 PT%
Metro - .572 PT%
Central - .576 PT%
Pacific - .528 PT%
 
Basically what you’re saying is the Leafs need to keep it going, but sticking a 8-10 game win streak in there somewhere would help massively.
 
L K said:
14 games left until the All-Star/Olympic break.
- 14 games in 25 days
- Two 4 game Western Road trips
- Two back to backs (both against a rested team)
- 9 of 14 games against teams currently in a playoff spot

The Leafs will have played 57 games by the time the break rolls around. Last year they were 35-20-2 72 points (.632 PT%) with 180 GF and 161 GA. This year they are 21-15-7 49 points (.570 PT%) with 143 GF and 140 GA

Scenario 1 - Leafs play at their season pace (.570 PT%)
- They would go 7-5-2 on this stretch and be 28-20-9 65 points.
- If the Leafs play at their exact pace (7-5-2) they would be 28-20-9 65 points and be on pace for a 93 point season. 2020-2021 was the last year that 93 points didn't make the playoffs in the East.

Scenario 2 - Leafs play at the pace they have since Joseph Woll made his season debut (Nov 15) (13-7-6 .615 PT%)
- They would go 7-4-3 and be 28-19-10 66 points (.579 PT%).
- They would be on pace for 95 points.

Scenario 3 - Leafs play at their pace since December 1st (10-4-5 .657 PT%)
- They would go 7-3-4 and be 28-18-11 67 points (.588 PT%).
- They would be on pace for 96 points by Game 82

Meanwhile the 4 teams ahead of the Leafs in the Atlantic are all on heaters. The Atlantic has taken over the title of "best division" once again by point percentage.

Atlantic - .587 PT%
Metro - .572 PT%
Central - .576 PT%
Pacific - .528 PT%
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Man it will be crushing if it comes down to 2 games in November we were leading but....
 
cw said:
'02 playoffs were injury riddled - I haven't thought about which was worse.
Older rosters tend to have more injuries. I was expecting a higher number of injuries this season so I'm not in shock
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I can understand Tanev and Stolarz but Carlo who's 29 with a plate infection? Willy with god knows what? The first two are injuries of players getting ground down due to age/injury history, but I just don't see it with the rest.
 
4EVRLEAFAN said:
Man it will be crushing if it comes down to 2 games in November we were leading but....
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I definitely don't want to get into another 05/06 situation where they're eliminated on the last game of the year. And definitely will not be happy if they spent assets to do that.... Really hoping the team can be consistent in some direction. Doomsday would be being eliminated late, spending assets to do it and giving the Bruins the 6th or 7th overall pick.
 
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