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

GMs get a lot of leeway in Canada. It’s not just Toronto. Even in MTL, it was never Bergevin’s fault

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leafman101 said:
I’m not paying a premium for a 32 year old 2/3rd line center.

Gotta save those assets for higher end players.
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I don't even consider moving any of Knies, Cowan, etc., just as they're in the early stages of their growth and looking fantastic. Especially when we can reasonably expect a good coach to be brought in on this go round.

I'm still so annoyed we gave away Minten for free. I would be calling Boston to bug them about letting them have the 1st next year instead of in 2028, and trying to get Minten back. Give them Carlo and the right to the 2027 1st. haha.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
I don't even consider moving any of Knies, Cowan, etc., just as they're in the early stages of their growth and looking fantastic. Especially when we can reasonably expect a good coach to be brought in on this go round.

I'm still so annoyed we gave away Minten for free. I would be calling Boston to bug them about letting them have the 1st next year instead of in 2028, and trying to get Minten back. Give them Carlo and the right to the 2027 1st. haha.
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Tbf on minten, we needed to sweeten the pot to get Boston to trade us their #6 dman for a top 5 protected first b
 
CH1 said:
Somehow players are treated like goofy children that need though schooling
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We still have a really weird, old school paternalist view of hockey coaching in Canada. You're coaching millionaire and multi millionaire professional grown ass men. It's a partnership now and the coaches role is the SME on tactics, ice time distribution, and can maybe throw in a good speech once in a while.
 
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Preston said:
A GM managing his staff, ensuring they are good at what they do and follow a process when evaluating players, value the right things, back their decisions up by using data, etc. All very important and over a large sample size, hard to explain by just luck.

But I'm just saying chayka scored decently well on most objective metrics with his drafting in Phoenix and based on their apparent disastrous lack of resources and staff, I can't help but think a lot of luck played into that.

For me he gets a clean slate on how he manages his scouts during the draft. You can't really compare Toronto to Phoenix on those resource-intensive departments like amateur scouting.
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I’m not sure we’ve unlocked the secret sauce to drafting just yet but being data driven and not trying to get too smart is usually a good start.
 
It is actually highly amusing to think about how the trade went from:

Almost 2026 6th overall or worse + Minten for Carlo.

To actually 2028 1st + Minten for Carlo.

That a completed trade could result in such a dramatically different eventual package has to be a first in NHL history.
 
I don't think Minten is that good but it's funny that his defensive nerdies were legit good this year and he would fit our 3C hole perfectly either way.
 
zeke said:
I don't think Minten is that good but it's funny that his defensive nerdies were legit good this year and he would fit our 3C hole perfectly either way.
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He’s not gonna be a game breaker but fuck me it’s so hard to find centres and we just gave him away.
 
I bet Tre had never bothered to even watch one Bruins game to scout Carlo first hand before the trade. But I'm sure he was aware of his name and that he was a mainstay in the Boston lineup and a coveted rhd. No further analysis required.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
I bet Tre had never bothered to even watch one Bruins game to scout Carlo first hand before the trade. But I'm sure he was aware of his name and that he was a mainstay in the Boston lineup and a coveted rhd. No further analysis required.
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6’5 225 R shot D sounds good when you’re scrambling to make any kind of move in the 11th hour because you pissed the season away doing god knows what
 
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