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

[hockeylover]

I will say that bringing in such an effective PP guy in McKenna and having the coach who had our PP rolling the most should be pretty nice. I feel like our PP let us down a bit in the last few years in the playoffs.

Seems like we lost the goalie and special teams battle most years

 

[Cojo]

Chayka definitely going off the board in every decision so far.

I sure as hell hope that’s not an indication of what could happen at the draft

 

[Hoss]

The sportsnet article mentioned that Willy and Auston liked the guy apparently.
I also wonder with the Babcock and marner mental health stories, I wonder if Hiller may have been a guy that the others went to for support after Babs trying to mind eff the youngsters

 

[thehabhater]

I hear that Dreger knew about the hire weeks ago, and he told both LeBrun and CJ.

 

[hockeylover]

View: https://x.com/DobberHockey/status/2067238796752523467?s=20


View: https://x.com/DobberHockey/status/2067238464408408086?s=20

 

[hockeylover]

View: https://x.com/TalkeyHockey/status/2067235750744134069?s=20

I haven’t double checked these %s but seems not bad?

 

[Aberdeen]

I don't even care who it is, just happy to be blindsided for a change.

 

[hockeylover]

View: https://x.com/markhmasters/status/2067231784043938067?s=20

 

[hockeylover]

View: https://x.com/willynylly/status/2067234127900799088?s=20

 

[CH1]

Solid hire. Never understood why Kings fired him

 

[worm]

Time to dig in but this time with math!

 

[Preston]

View: https://x.com/DobberHockey/status/2067238796752523467?s=20


View: https://x.com/DobberHockey/status/2067238464408408086?s=20

People are gonna be shocked when the Leafs play a completely different style than a team with like 0 star players. Good coaches adapt to the roster they're given based on what the data says. I assume this was discussed extensively in the interviews because Chayka has mentioned multiple times how he wants his teams to play.

 

[hockeylover]

I think the name is def a bit underwhelming but all the numbers I’ve seen seem to support it.

 

[Preston]

View: https://x.com/i/status/2067242318516699324

An analytics guy that Matthews loves. Uhhh sign me up

 

[CH1]

Time to dig in but this time with math!

Rabbit hole instead of fox hole

 

[Volcanologist]

the Matthews thing is obviously key to this hire

 

[Killer93]

Hiller is a great hire by Chayka/Sundin. People slamming the hire are clearly morons looking for something to bitch about. Also great to see Dreger/Lebrun/CJ/Seravali all whiff again on their "hire rumors"

 

[thehabhater]

Hiller is a great hire by Chayka/Sundin. People slamming the hire are clearly morons looking for something to bitch about. Also great to see Dreger/Lebrun/CJ/Seravali all whiff again on their "hire rumors"

Everything that they write is fiction.
Everything.

 

[MyNameIsJonas]

Hiller really fizzled out in LA, but fuck me look at the rosters Holland gave him

 

[LeafGm]

Chayka definitely going off the board in every decision so far.

I sure as hell hope that’s not an indication of what could happen at the draft

I genuinely think there’s a 0% chance Chayka passes on McKenna.

If he did though, then hoo boy—I’d be out on this team until he’s fired.