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The Official 2026 Off-Season Thread: Revenge of the Nerds

Chakya would be guilty of some almost unforgivable chicken shit stuff if he doesn't fire him now. The notion of keeping him is insane.

Even paying lip service and going through the motions look bad. It should have been a swift firing.
 
Only a month, eh? I like your optimism.

If they do decide to bring him back, I think they’ll give him a whole lot more runway than that.
I checked and one time we tried this it was November and one time it was January so yeah, somewhere in that neighborhood bc we keep doing this apparently.

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If berube stays there's probably good reason to believe he won't be fired for a long while. Just because there's a bunch of easy low hanging fruit to improve the team. And they'll keep him all in the name of progress and improvement over last year.

But he won't stay.
 
Like if Berube is kept, clearly MLSE/Pelley still have a say ( which is fucking brutal) or Chayka is a fake nerd.

I think most people would agree that Chayka is probably a guy who couldnt say no to just about any GM job gig, so he would be someone who would probably reluctantly be okay answering to a dumbass owner ( whereas i think Mike Gillis would tell them to fuck off)

That said, surely he's going to be fired.
 
So I didn’t realize this, but as part of their trade deadline show, TSN conducted their own mock draft lottery where they drew their own ping pong balls…and the Leafs somehow won the top pick in this one too.

TSN then had Craig Button go through and conduct his own mock draft based on the lotto results. And, uhhh…his opinion seems to have changed a wee bit between this hypothetical scenario and the actual reality of the Leafs having the top pick.

Video clip is below and Button’s comments are around the 7-minute mark. When asked in this clip if the Leafs are taking Gavin McKenna, the answer is “OH FOR SURE! Absolutely! The gap between him and Stenberg has really widened since mid-season and the Leafs would be getting an elite, ELITE playmaking winger!”



View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QuwAo37xEjE&pp=2AEAkAIB


View: https://x.com/i/status/2053966459815047572
 
So now he's just admitting it.

It's crazy. How could Matty and Marner have been good with each other when Paul is trashing Matty all day long? Unreal that out of the American, the Swede, and the Toronto kid, the Toronto kid was the toxic one who burned his bridges and left the team.
 
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