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The Official Post-Bitch 2025-26 Regular Season Thread

LeafGm said:
Pretty pivotal couple of weeks for the future of this team. The management team that’ll likely be in charge for the rest of the Matthews era, one way or another, is going to be put in place.

Then we find out if we’re adding an impact young player or if we’re giving one to Boston instead.
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No pressure.
 
I like this better than Scott White, as good as Dallas is. That guy is pure old school feels/vibes traditionalist type and tbh it would have been red flaggy that they'll take a backseat on the data bit if they went with him. Chayka was shit his first go around, but given the stress Pelley put on the data driven shit, I trust he'll utilize his resources and I expect his resources to be superior to what they were in Phoenix.

I'm not ecstatic or anything. But I'm willing to give him a chance here. This is light years beyond the Tre hire. Light years.
 
Sundin/Chayka is just Shanahan/Dubas part 2. Some may say Dollarama Shanahan/Dubas, but I think there's some upside that both can be better in their respective roles.
 
interesting that they're a package deal. makes it sound like they might go in a different direction at gm if sundin says no.

i do love the idea of mats coming home. maybe it's homer bias, but i think this team has done an awful job of managing the media up top and nobody knows how to deal with the toronto media better than sundin. he just needs to stay out of the way of hockey decisions, which should come by his nature.
 
Never forget that Stathletes had Weber > Subban, something that was unheard of in the nerd community. As per a 2019 athletic article:

As the story goes, the company had the deal close but gave the Weber side the edge and the Habs used it as their stats defence vs. their own analytics guy.

This is one of the great NHL stories. The Habs hired an analytics guy, Matt Pfeffer, then traded Subban for Weber, then fired Pfeffer for being against it and calling it a dumb trade.
 
If it's Sundin/Chayka they're aiming for here, that just really seems like Pelley is painfully aware of what a questionable hire Chayka is and how his history and qualifications (or lack thereof) will be picked apart, so he needs Mats to lend his credibility and a fan-friendly face as cover.
 
I think expecting a former elite player not to weigh in on what happens on the ice is hopelessly naive
 
Preston said:
Sundin/Chayka is just Shanahan/Dubas part 2. Some may say Dollarama Shanahan/Dubas, but I think there's some upside that both can be better in their respective roles.
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Fwiw, Chayka has a better resume than Dubas did at the time he was promoted to GM...and yeah, I'm not concerned about Mats being worse than Shanahan. Maybe he is, but Shanahan turned out to be a fucking dummy, there's a lot of room to the upside for Mats to land in and not a whole lot of room on the downside.
 
I just wanna hear them talk. What will Sundin's job description be? Is he secretly data driven too? Is Chayka more refined since being handed a GM role as a child? Did he finally master managerial skills in his Wendy's venture? Does he value the numbers even more now, after years of evidence that the numbers are the truth?

Many many questions on both of them. We haven't heard from one of them in 6 years and the other one... Ever. Let's see what they say.
 
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Mehta was my #1 but after Dellow and Arty's boy, Chayka probably wasn't that far down the list for me. I don't think of him as a traditional nerd like Mehta, he's more in Dubas territory potentially. And Dubas is fine. No matter which nerd or data driven hockey guy they hired, it's always gonna be a question mark. We don't know how good they'll be.

With Chayka, he sucked the first time so we just assume he'll be that bad again. Maybe he will idk. But this is a very different situation and the mandate is to be data driven. Could have been way worse.
 
And it’s the same “what a world” sentiment which was expressed by many in the NHL when they heard Chayka at last year’s MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference talk about brain MRIs helping assess hockey IQ.

Yes, this happened.

“One of the things I’m doing right now, there is a company called Performance Phenomics and what they do is MRI of brains,” Chayka said last year.

“It started off with concussion studies and it’s morphed into performance analysis.

“The simplest way to explain it is they’re measuring connectivity and density of someone’s brain. So for myself, I’m running on dial-up, I’m not as athletically gifted as professional athletes.

“Then you get Connor McDavid who they scanned and he’s running on fibre optics. Just the way he’s built, and who he is, he’s processing information — his proprioception and spatial awareness — he’s basically processing information at a speed faster than I’m moving.

“He’s anticipating what people faster than they’re doing it. Johnny Gaudreau, you’d think would be high on that kind of scale.

“There are physical attributes and also things like hockey sense, players ability to anticipate and read and react. We’re doing a lot of work on that.”


Wow, this is a great mind. Leafs are so lucky
 
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