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

McMann --> McKenna
Roy --> ???
Laughton --> ???
Jarnkrok --> ???

Stecher --> Raddysh
(Carlo?) --> Tanev
Benoit --> Andrae
(Myers?) --> ???

Woll --> Akhtyamov

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I was browsing rosters last night, and Dunn on Seattle (final year) and Stamkos on Nashvillle (2 years left) caught my eye as trade targets.
 
The Leafs will be a better hockey club next season. Besides Ottawa, at least one more team that made the playoffs in the east, will not make it in again next year.
 
LeafGm said:
Fuck Stamkos. No more of these Toronto guys who explicitly turned us down in their primes, but then come here when they’re old and broken.
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Yeah, that resonates with me, but he’s clearly out of place there, and had a crazy season last year. These weren’t necessarily trade targets for us, by the way, just guys who looked like maybe could be dealt. McCann is another.
 
Also, I don’t know what Dubie’s plan is. Most of their best guys are pending UFAs and they have nothing behind them. Not like they’re going to win anything, so just keep letting them burn their final years?
 
mbow30 said:
Even if they do nothing else they’ve added a top pair dman, a 4/5 dman and a first or second line winger, with the only exits being their 2nd, 3rd or maybe even 4th best goalie and one of the worst dmen in the league. You can also include tanev, who if he returns to form is a top notch #3 dman, as an add.

find a centre, drive some competition down lineup from guys like koblar, Cowan, groulx, maybe a sim, and this teams miles better than last year.
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Forgot the new coach
 
www.nytimes.com

Gavin McKenna’s path to being 2026 NHL Draft’s projected No. 1 pick

McKenna's road to the draft is expected to end in its predicted spot: on stage at Buffalo's KeyBank Center as the first pick.
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“He’s got incredible vision,” Medicine Hat head coach and general manager Willie Desjardins said of McKenna at the time. “He can see plays before they develop.”

Said one scout of McKenna heading into his draft year: “His hockey IQ is off the charts. He sees plays that others don’t see and he can make passes that other players can’t make so he’s got a combo pack of being able to read, see situations, and at an elite level know who’s open and when they’re open and then he’s got the puck skills to move the puck to those people before sometimes they’re even ready for it. His vision and his creativity are high, high-end. He’s an elite offensive mind.”
 
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