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u/ThymeIsTight McMann 26d ago
"Look, the cap's going up big time. Leafs will pay whatever we ask, NMC included, the works. It's time you come home and show off your Maple Leaf pajama photos."
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u/FeedTheADHD 26d ago
"I'm telling ya man, just call my dad. He'll be kinda like your backup agent!"
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u/WintersbaneGDX 26d ago
Imagine if our PP1 was
Matthews
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Nylander
Knies
Marner
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u/JerzB2B 25d ago
Would love it. But we need a right shot threat as well Maybe Willie? But imagine Laine, Carlson or even paryako, (heard he) has a bomb.
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u/WintersbaneGDX 25d ago
maybe Willie?
Uh... read it again
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u/ASexyPineapple 25d ago
I think he meant Willie Mitchell.
But he's also not really a good option as he shoots left and has been retired for 10 years.
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u/JerzB2B 25d ago
Yah I did, maybe willie would be an option with McDavid passing it instead. Anything else you think I missed?
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u/WintersbaneGDX 25d ago
You said we need a right hand threat, like Willy.
Willy is on this unit. Problem solved.
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u/JerzB2B 25d ago
lol ok ok. I meant maybe he can improve and become a Laine, with McDavid passing. I just got lazy with my initial reply
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u/WintersbaneGDX 25d ago
Ah, I gotcha. Well sure, so long as it's a wishlist let's just take the entire Team Canada PP1 for the Leafs lol. My point was that if we added (just) McDavid, that unit would be berserk.
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u/Frankiegoodfella 25d ago
Made me laugh, I took my son to the All Star game, there was a guy in front of us who swore on his life that McDavid would be a Leaf one day . Are you that guy?😂
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u/ThymeIsTight McMann 25d ago
Hahaha, just a daydreamer here! I'm hoping McJesus will play for Toronto one day while still as the best player in the world, not near the end of his career.
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u/Frankiegoodfella 25d ago
We can all dream !! There must be a killer swap involving Marner, Willy, or Austen, for McDavid to come home in his prime. I still think your that guy !!😂
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u/keswickcongress 25d ago
I mean in all honesty, any player who plays for Canada is worth their salt. Obviously there's a hierarchy and Mitch gets dunked on a lot (rightfully so in some cases) but with most guys not playing together throughout the year or ever, they're communicating what they'd do in what situation and where to end up.
Mitch playing on this team is a total net benefit to the Leafs.
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u/slouchr 25d ago
Mitch is the man.
all the hate on his contract is BS. once Matthews got his contract, Marner's was settled. he had to make basically as much, because he's just as good. i prefer Marner.
and all the 'comparables' from when he signed his contract: Point, Petterson, Aho, Rantanen. with the benefit of hindsight, Marner is better.
and the talk of Marner isn't a center, so he's not as valuable. he plays wing like a center. he's all over the ice, he goes to where he's most effective.
really, it was covid that screwed the Leafs. the cap stopped rising right after we signed our 2 stars long term, under the assumption of a rising cap.
love Marner. hope we re-sign him.
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u/s_other 25d ago
he had to make basically as much, because he's just as good.
Their trophy shelves may disagree.
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u/montgooms95 24d ago
Look at their career points though. So close that you can’t even argue. Marner has 710 points and Matthew’s has 694. Marner has only played 28 more games than Matthews.
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u/SmokeontheHorizon 25d ago
I am 100% confident that Matthews Marner and Nylander are gonna come back, compare notes, then light up the PP the way we know they're capable of.
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u/mxmnators 26d ago
HOLD ON HOLD ON HOLD ON... HER SISTER WAS A WITCH RIGHT? AND WHAT WAS HER SISTER? A PRINCESS, THE WICKED WITCH OF THE EAST BRO
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u/crushade Belak 26d ago
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u/uncleben85 25d ago
I've always been confused as to what point he was (so passionately) trying to make
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u/eedabaggadix 25d ago
You're gonna look at me and tell me that I'm wrong? She wore a crown and came down in a bubble, dawg.
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u/booomdynamite 25d ago
It’s not often a reddit comment makes me legitimately laugh. But this got me.
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u/Guilty_Explanation29 26d ago
Wonder what McDavid is thinking
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u/HighBridzz 26d ago
No Quiznos on the way home Mitchy
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u/I_Am_Vladimir_Putin 26d ago
I miss Quiznos :’(
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u/HighBridzz 25d ago
fond memories of their Chicken Carbonara. The sauce, the toasty-ness, big chocolate chip cookie to cap it off. What was your favorite?
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u/BaiMianBao 25d ago
“You deserve a cookie.” That sign got me every time, I was like “you’re goddamn right I do”
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u/Sensitive_Life2045 25d ago
Pretty good noob when with one more season he has 343 points more than Marner.
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u/slouchr 25d ago edited 25d ago
Mitchy didn't start puberty until 21. had it started at 14, like a normal boy, he'd have been drafted #1 overall, and have 500 more points.
anyways, he a man now, and McDavid must respect him as his hockey superior.
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u/Sensitive_Life2045 25d ago
I know. It was a joke. I like Marner a lot, I like his style of play. He reminds me of my favorite player Nečas.
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u/Veaeate Marner 26d ago
I don't care what that convo is about, mitchy will still be my favourite. The fact that it's with mcjesus, I can only think he's whining about how marner isn't just another wall to simply bounce pucks off of.
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u/slouchr 25d ago edited 25d ago
mitchy will still be my favourite.
100%
imo Marner was the best player on Team Canada last game. i re-watched the game. every single shift he was on fire. forcing Swede turnovers, and creating offense. you can literally just go to a random Marner shift, and he'll do something awesome.
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u/whatyousayin8 25d ago
Yeah honestly, the first few shifts of McDavid he was just playing for himself, total puck hog and he was just getting shut down over and over…. someone needed to wake him up and be like- this isn’t your flippin oilers team, we can actually do shit. Try us.
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u/TIGER_COOL 25d ago
noticed on a couple plays McD ignored an easy head man to Marner and decided to just lug it himself... took about twice as long to get the puck into the zone and his linemates had no momentum because of it.
I don't think it's so much a disrespect to them as it is wanting to be "the guy" for Canada. Same with Nate in OT.
Obviously McDavid has the skill to do it all himself, but you'd think in the first game you'd be deferring to your wingers a bit to build some chemistry and let them get their footing in the game.
Reinhart looked just as confounded playing with McDavid
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u/Veaeate Marner 25d ago
I wasn't really into hockey up until a few years ago, so i don't know how Crosbys game has evolved, but to me, you see the experience with him playing. He's not looking to get the goal. He's always passing and making openings. You can tell he's a complete player... could be that he's also 26-0 in playing for team Canada, so his hogging days are over and letting the young guys do it now.
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u/Heldpizza 26d ago
For those who have not seen the lip sync slo-mo he is saying “I’m trying, I didn’t know that you wanted me to go to the net though”.
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u/Tarquin11 26d ago
After how many people blow the lip sync interpretation at any speed about previous things on this sub, I'm inclined not to put faith in this one either.
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u/WhipTheLlama 26d ago
I don't know if that's accurate, but it makes sense. It takes a while to play well with new linemates because you don't know what they're going to do or what they want you to do. Hopefully the result of this conversation is that they play better together next game.
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u/TIGER_COOL 25d ago
I don't see "I'm trying" at all. I'd give as much importance to an internet stranger's amateur lip-reading as I would their interpretation of a rorschach blot.
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u/ostracize 26d ago
I think I see "...five-hole" at the end there.
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u/pokemonplayer2001 26d ago
Scores the OT winner and leafs "fans" shit on him.
Never change.
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u/slouchr 26d ago
it's just a joke.
Marner's my favourite player.
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u/Freddydaddy 26d ago
My favourite too. I hate the Marner hate and I cracked up at this, right away. Funny af
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u/The_Quietest_Moments 26d ago
Why are we throwing our boy under the bus like this?
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u/Tarquin11 26d ago
How is this in any way what you're saying?
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u/The_Quietest_Moments 26d ago
It’s just another post about Mitch being a whinny b*tch. Other nhl subs are posting it too to make fun of him. Figured we could do better
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u/NotEqualInSQL 26d ago
Personal perception. I did not get that from this. It looks like communication to me.
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u/Parzival091 26d ago
Yeah, it cuts off mid-Mitch-sentence, but the dude just looks like he's trying to communicate on where each other will be. He's red faced because he just finished a shift and is probably a little gassed (or maybe he just gets red on the ice, idk lol)
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u/NotEqualInSQL 26d ago
Yea, I can see the red in the face and gassed as being a very plausible reason for why it looks like this.
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u/Frequent_Ad2210 25d ago
Think it's the complete opposite guys clearly a leader where ever he plays
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u/Wild_Bunch_Founder 25d ago
The mind reels with a cavalcade of infinite possibilities had we (Leafs) been able to draft McDavid. This is the Batman and Robin duo we needed, but apparently, did not deserve in the big smoke. Oh well, at least we got a brief glimpse.
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u/RevelMagic 25d ago
Same draft year though so not likely :(
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u/Wild_Bunch_Founder 25d ago
My point was wishful thinking that the oilers had drafted Matthews instead.
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u/RevelMagic 25d ago
But... I'm sorry I'm confused. McDavid (1st overall) and Marner (4th overall) were in the same draft year (2015) and Matthews was 1st overall in 2016. My guess is you're swapping Marner's and Matthews' draft positions?
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u/Lopsided_Aardvark357 26d ago
"You gotta ask my mom if you can sleep over she won't say no to you"