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[deleted] t1_jar6vn5 wrote

I'm not the hockey expert that many are, but I look at Kyle Dubas turning over 1/4 of the Leafs roster, and mortgaging the future, and I think "This year? When the Bruins are playing on another planet? What's the point? So we can survive the first round, and get creamed in round 2?"

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Sweatier_Scrotums t1_jarcncz wrote

Surviving the first round and getting creamed in round 2 would be a historically unprecedented level of success for the Leafs.

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[deleted] t1_jard7j0 wrote

My friend, I'm in my 60's, and I remember the Leafs winning 3 cups in four years when I was a boy. I thought they were always going to be there...

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Sweatier_Scrotums t1_jardmmy wrote

I'm a Browns fan in my 30s. My dad is in his 60s, and he first got interested in the Browns when he saw them win their 1964 championship. So we feel your pain.

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walterpeck1 t1_jas7a48 wrote

As a guy in his 40s who saw John Elway shit on the Browns twice and then get shit on in the Subperbowl after that,

lol

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shiathebeoufs t1_jarhifg wrote

If you take a look at the Leafs' championship window (current contract timelines), it's basically the next 1-3 years. This is also historically one of the best Leafs teams in the past 30 years... Boston is just insane. Have to go for it, regardless of stupid amazing Bruins

EDIT: Also the President's Trophy winners are 2-13 in the last 15 years for the cup... just saying, there's a chance :)

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Uncle__doctor_soup t1_jar8rxv wrote

Dubas is up for contract renewal and knows if they don’t make it out of the first round he’s done so he’s saying fuck it and hoping for the best

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MathMaddox t1_jarisl3 wrote

Exactly. He's mortgaging the Leafs future, not his own. If it doesn't work its someone else's problem.

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