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The Official Post-Bitch 2025-26 Regular Season Thread

More encouraging stuff in today’s Luke Fox piece for Sportsnet

>>Skepticism over Gillis running the show in Toronto stems from the fact that he hasn’t worked for an NHL team since being fired from the Canucks in 2014, but he’s an outside-the-box thinker who has always embraced sports science and analytics.

He has studied the U.S. military and teams in other sports to learn how to maximize human performance. Gillis credits his deep dive into sleep, recovery and nutritional science for improving the Canucks’ road record. He built algorithms around fatigue analysis and brought in specialized coaches for both offensive and defensive skills.

Many of these performance-boosting methods are now commonplace across the league. They weren’t when Gillis pushed the problem-solving in the early 2010s.
 
“I’ve thought long and hard about what an organizational chart should resemble for a National Hockey League team in today’s day and age,” Gillis told the On Air podcast in a fascinating 2021 interview. “Technology and analytics and human performance, that science is there, and it can be utilized in a really effective way, provided the organization wants to.


“General managers in Canada get way too much credit when things go really well, and they get way too much blame when things don’t go well. And if you had a high-functioning organization, it would include a variety of different people that were filling in roles that were highly critical to the team’s success, but we’re allowed to also participate in designing that team success and were part of the decision-making process.
 
CH1 said:
More encouraging stuff in today’s Luke Fox piece for Sportsnet

>>Skepticism over Gillis running the show in Toronto stems from the fact that he hasn’t worked for an NHL team since being fired from the Canucks in 2014, but he’s an outside-the-box thinker who has always embraced sports science and analytics.

He has studied the U.S. military and teams in other sports to learn how to maximize human performance. Gillis credits his deep dive into sleep, recovery and nutritional science for improving the Canucks’ road record. He built algorithms around fatigue analysis and brought in specialized coaches for both offensive and defensive skills.

Many of these performance-boosting methods are now commonplace across the league. They weren’t when Gillis pushed the problem-solving in the early 2010s.
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If he answers no to trading for Foligno, Carlo and Laughton ....your hired
 
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To pretend Morgan Rielly is worth a 3rd round pick is just silly. Leafs may as well keep him if that's the case. There's a good chance his game bounces back with a system devised by a coach who is not a total moron.

I just asked Keith Pelley's ChatGPT model for a realistic trade offer. I don't think the Sharkeys would give up the first here too, but here it is:

To Toronto Maple Leafs​


  • Filip Bystedt (C, NHL-bound, size + two-way upside)
  • Shakir Mukhamadullin (LD, high-upside, former 1st-round pick)
  • 2025 1st-round pick (Top-10 protected → slides to 2026 unprotected)
  • Luke Kunin (roster forward, physical, can fill minutes immediately)


To San Jose Sharks​


  • Morgan Rielly

Condition: Toronto retains ~$1.5M AAV
 
I stopped reading at ChatGPT. It still thinks Marner is a Leaf so it follows that Reilly is younger and better
 
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