Showing posts with label marner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marner. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Do you know your Cup-winning new guys? Take the "Who Didn't He Play For?" quiz

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It’s Mitch Marner’s world right now, and we’re all just living in it. Less than a year after a sign-and-trade sent him to Vegas on the eve o...
Monday, June 1, 2026

Hurricanes or Knights? A Stanley Cup Final rooting guide for 30 other fan bases

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Welcome to one of my favorite columns to write each year, where we go through all 30 teams that didn’t make the Stanley Cup final and offer ...
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Friday, May 22, 2026

Who team should win the Conned Smythe award for worst trade with the Cup winner?

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We’re down to four teams left in the playoffs, and longtime readers know what that means: It’s time to take a look at the field for one of t...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Eight critical questions the Leafs should ask the candidates to be their next GM

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The Toronto Maple Leafs are in the market for a new GM, and probably a president too. I’m offering my services. No, not for the jobs themsel...
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Friday, January 23, 2026

Welcome back, traitor: Remembering six of the ugliest receptions for returning stars

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It’s been a week of returns in the NHL. On Monday, we saw Jonathan Toews’ first game back in Chicago, returning to the city where we won thr...
Friday, January 9, 2026

Ranking the 10 best NHL matchups we haven't seen yet so far this season

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We’re officially hallway through the NHL regular season schedule, and given that each team plays every other team at least twice, that means...
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Monday, June 30, 2025

Should Leaf fans view Mitch Marner as a hero or villain? A debate with myself

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It’s official. The Mitch Marner era is over in Toronto, with the Leafs executing a sign-and-trade deal that sends him to Vegas Golden Knight...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Mitch Marner UFA power rankings: Who needs him, what's funniest and where does he land?

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We’re less than a week away from free agency, and the big name is Mitch Marner. You may have heard about it. It’s been kind of a thing . And...
Friday, June 6, 2025

The Mitch Marner UFA villainy rankings: Which destination would hurt Leaf fans most?

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Mitch Marner’s run as a Maple Leafs is all but over, with all signs pointing to his departure as an unrestricted free agent on July 1. That ...
Friday, May 23, 2025

Playing "What if?" with 6 key Maple Leaf decisions from the Brendan Shanahan era

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It’s over. The Brendan Shanahan era is all but done, Mitch Marner is all but gone, and big changes seem imminent in Toronto. The Maple Leafs...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

DGB "Leafs Lose" mailbag: Thoughts on Shanahan, Marner, hope, and all those boos

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It’s the middle of May, which means that the Toronto Maple Leafs have lost. It took a little longer this time, with this team going deep int...
Monday, March 10, 2025

NHL weekend rankings: An unpredictable trade deadline shakes up the Top 5

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Well, that was something. The annual trade deadline didn’t deliver huge numbers as far as the actual volume of trades, but the ones that did...
Monday, May 27, 2024

The 2024 NHL playoffs all-disappointment team: Mitch Marner, Elias Pettersson, more

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We’ve made it to the conference finals, with four teams left and a dozen playoff losers already sulking on the sidelines. It’s time to let t...
Friday, May 10, 2024

Who to trade, who to fire, and is there any hope? A "Leafs lose" DGB mailbag

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It’s the second round of the playoffs, so it must be time for our annual “the Leafs were just eliminated” mailbag. This should be a million ...
Thursday, May 9, 2024

“We can and we will.” A history of how the Maple Leafs got here, in 12 quotes

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“Obviously we’re looked upon as… you know, kind of gods here to be honest.” – Mitch Marner, May 2024 Did you enjoy the Maple Leafs’ final me...
Saturday, April 27, 2024

A radical theory on why the Leafs are losing another series: The Bruins are better

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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. It’s the playoffs, the Toronto Maple Leafs didn’t show up on time, they briefly got going with an o...
Friday, December 1, 2023

Mailbag: December trades, a roster challenge, and more

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Which team would win this 3-on-3 tournament? All goalies with a regular goalie in net (e.g. Oettinger, Shesterkin and Samsonov, with Vasilev...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Every Leafs playoff loss of the Shanahan era, ranked from least to most painful

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The Leafs lost in the playoffs. Again. Six times, in fact. That’s progress, in a sense – the most playoff games they’ve lost in one postseas...
Monday, December 12, 2022

Weekend rankings: The red hot Maple Leafs make their case for the top 5

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Yes, the Leafs are in. Sorry to ruin the suspense, but I’m guessing the slow build to a big reveal wouldn’t have worked. The Leafs have been...
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Puck Soup: The Devils you say

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On this week's episode of the Puck Soup podcast: - New Jersey is good. But how good? - The Leafs are bad. But how bad? - The Preds, ...