JB7 wrote:ItsDanger wrote:Dubas is on last year of his contract. He was given way too much leeway to build this team. Instead, he completely wasted this core. Good riddance.
If Shanahan had a clue what he was doing, he would have fired Dubas years ago.
Dubas was given Matthews, Marner, Nylander and Rielly to build with, and has basically done nothing with his draft picks, and much beyond signing Tavares as a FA, which was pretty much Tavares wanting to come home.
The thing is Matthews, Marner and Nylander have been severely underperforming this whole Florida series so far so how can you blame THAT on Dubas? All he's done is try to add experience, leadership and toughness to this team to give them some backbone and right now its the star players that need to show up and deliver when they've stayed largely silent so far in this series.
Also have you been following any Leafs prospects AT ALL?? Besides Knies who has looked pretty darn good before he got injured, there's at least several more prospects that are looking pretty decent with the Marlies who could be in the lineup in a year or two. The Leafs went from having barely any good prospects in their system before Dubas arrived to now having a fair number who show some promise in being NHL players someday. That's something that Leafs fans haven't seen in many years and is part of the reason why they've seen relative little success until recently.
That’s why I gave up on the Leafs. Absolute joke of an organization.
Thank god ownership was too focused on the Leafs, to leave Masai to build the Raps. Result - championship over the same period of time in a league that is much more difficult to win in.
Its much easier to build a championship team in the NBA when one or two big moves that can land you a star player or two can be the difference between barely making the playoffs and becoming a championship team. All the Raptors needed was to get rid of Derozan in exchange for Kawhi and boom they went from a good team that could never play consistently well in the playoffs to winning a championship.
The NHL on the otherhand is truly a team sport and most everyone needs to be playing good to win in the playoffs. That's why its probably the hardest trophy to win in all of sports because you can't have any passengers and you have to grind out 16 wins.
