Bates Battaglia?
- Snot Dillingham

That is Master Bates to you.

this thread is getting boring🤦🏿‍♂️


- Skalapy

You could tell us a few more times how great you were at football and how jacked you are.

When someone is tying the puck up along the boards for more than 20 seconds, you should be allowed to slash their Achilles tendon with your skate blade.

Wow.

How Leafy of Canada lol

Buh bye Canada

Canada needs to get back to the basics, Leafs too.

Start from the net out. Goalies, defence, offence.

Good coaching and playing a sound game structurally. That how you win hockey games.

Go Leafs Go.

A Leafs prospect is captain of team Canada and they get eliminated in the quarters.
So leafy
Progressing well.

Running it back again and again and again is obviously the best possible move.
- mjones242

Nah, I wouldn’t run it back. I might consider letting Samsonov go, probably Klingberg. Unless things change, Bertuzzi can move and maybe you can get more for the $5M going to Brodie.

But I also wouldn’t move out one of the top scorers in the league for prospects and picks who may or may not pan out in 3 or 4 years when Matthews is playing out of his mind. If you can’t sign Nylander or get a top return for him, his $ is available next year.

You could tell us a few more times how great you were at football and how jacked you are.
- jribout

on a related topic; i will be at the match tonight representing in my new Christmas Jew leaf shirt👊

i thought about my custom laff zarape from algadones as well but I’m on the wagon after the holidays so it just doesn’t seem fiestive enough to sport👍🏿

i’m just coming off a high volume phase and in a light week to hyper trophy and rest the joints so I’m looking super supple 👍

neck flex for heavy 10s yesterday so the neck is jacked for crypto arena 👊🏿

what a (frank)ing joke🤦‍♂️

edit: nice alliteration 👍🏿

That is Master Bates to you.
- jribout

Second guess was Luca Caputi.

Canada needs to get back to the basics, Leafs too.

Start from the net out. Goalies, defence, offence.

Good coaching and playing a sound game structurally. That how you win hockey games.

Go Leafs Go.
- Arctic_AARDVARK

Something completely unrelated proves everything I was saying

q: why do laff fans like to take each other from behind?🤔

answer: so they can both watch the loafs lose🤦🏿‍♂️

lololo🤣

That is Master Bates to you.
- jribout

Happy new year man! What did you do for yours?

I spent mine with my closest family. I got to show my kids the fun stuff to do as a dad as well as reminisce with my dad about New years eve when I was a kid. Did you have family over or visit your parents?
- Aaron_85

I banned my family.

- homiedclown

she took up a lot of storage in my spank bank for the year that flick was on the hbo😍👊🏿

Canada needs to get back to the basics, Leafs too.

Start from the net out. Goalies, defence, offence.

Good coaching and playing a sound game structurally. That how you win hockey games.

Go Leafs Go.
- Arctic_AARDVARK

Yes.

Failing to win a third straight WJC is damning evidence of Canada’s obvious decline.

Yes.

Failing to win a third straight WJC is damning evidence of Canada’s obvious decline.
- Atomic Wedgie

Spent too much of their cap on skilled forwards

Nah, I wouldn’t run it back. I might consider letting Samsonov go, probably Klingberg. Unless things change, Bertuzzi can move and maybe you can get more for the $5M going to Brodie.

But I also wouldn’t move out one of the top scorers in the league for prospects and picks who may or may not pan out in 3 or 4 years when Matthews is playing out of his mind. If you can’t sign Nylander or get a top return for him, his $ is available next year.
- Canada Cup

So the same loser core if they dont win this year?
Nice!
Willie gets traded if/when the leafs get bounced in the playoffs. Letting him walk for nothing is completely stupid.
Tree will do a sign and trade.
If of course he doesnt sign to a reasonable contract.

Yes.

Failing to win a third straight WJC is damning evidence of Canada’s obvious decline.
- Atomic Wedgie

Other than Makar, whens the last time Canada developed an elite D or G?

America is pumping them out every year.

So bumhole, Canada needs to get back to developing goalies and defence.

So the same loser core if they dont win this year?
Nice!
Willie gets traded if/when the leafs get bounced in the playoffs. Letting him walk for nothing is completely stupid.
Tree will do a sign and trade.
If of course he doesnt sign to a reasonable contract.
- Fakepartofme

Watching CC cope with this fact is bizarre.

Normally he at least tries to be the reasonable one. Run it back and lose with this core again, then get nothing for an asset who’s at the absolute peak of his career.

Brilliant!

This is why you don’t get attached to individual players.

Nah, I wouldn’t run it back. I might consider letting Samsonov go, probably Klingberg. Unless things change, Bertuzzi can move and maybe you can get more for the $5M going to Brodie.

But I also wouldn’t move out one of the top scorers in the league for prospects and picks who may or may not pan out in 3 or 4 years when Matthews is playing out of his mind. If you can’t sign Nylander or get a top return for him, his $ is available next year.
- Canada Cup

There's no way Nylander gets traded in-season but, and to play Devil's Advocate, that doesn't mean that it's necessarily a terrible idea.

Trades aren't zero sum affairs - just because you're not getting the best player back doesn't mean it's not the right move to make.

Any deal would have to be a "hockey trade" where the Leafs get back something significant in return that can address team needs - namely, a stud defender who can play big, shutdown minutes. Any picks/prospects returned would only be necessary to try to create balance (e.g. Willie is likely the "best" player in the deal, so the dance partner would need to sweeten the pot).

Suffice it to say, this team is destined to "run it back" again with their Core 4 + Rielly. And it's a (frank)ing terrible idea and we all know it because history is more than likely to repeat itself.

As a Canadian I hate when we lose internationally, but as a hockey fan I think it's good for the game to have more competition. Good on Czechia.

As a Canadian I hate when we lose internationally, but as a hockey fan I think it's good for the game to have more competition. Good on Czechia.
- Zezel

Team Canada was not a favourite going into this tournament. It's USA's to lose.

Spent too much of their cap on skilled forwards
- Canada Cup

Don't let false equivalences stop your from making a hilarrrrrious joke!

Got that Garmin bike radar light for Christmas. I always thought it was a pretty superfluous bell and whistle, but I don't want to ride without one now, especially in the poop. Strongly recommended.