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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 3877317, member: 1969"] Oh Leafs fans you are so silly. A masterpiece article from a Leafs fan that I came across today. It was written 11 months ago before the NHL season. It was terrible at the time, and looks worse now. Part of me thinks it is so bad that it has to be a troll but that does not appear to be the case. [URL unfurl="true"]https://editorinleaf.com/2020/06/13/toronto-maple-leafs-building-dynasty/[/URL] So much terrible but let's focus on a handful of highlights. [LIST] [*]Starts off with "The Toronto Maple Leafs are on the rise, their GM and coach are at the leading edge of the industry, and their rebuild couldn’t have been more [URL='https://editorinleaf.com/2020/06/05/toronto-maple-leafs-verge-greatness-2/']successful, short of winning an accidental early Stanley Cup. [/URL]" How about winning one playoff round before the 2020/2021 season. Is this not a reasonable expectation for a team ready to embark on a 5 year dynasty? [*]"If this were another franchise, you can guarantee people would be asking if this team was building a dynasty. It would be one of the main topics of conversation in the NHL – much like how everyone talks about Colorado despite the Leafs superior roster and system." Leafs superior roster to the Avs and whatever there system is. [*]"No other roster in the league has anything close to: Morgan Rielly, William Nylander, Mitch Marner, [URL='https://editorinleaf.com/2020/06/02/toronto-maple-leafs-matthews-richard/']Auston Matthews[/URL], Rasmus Sandin and [URL='https://editorinleaf.com/2020/06/06/toronto-maple-leafs-robertson-sportsmanship/']Nick Robertson to build around. [/URL] If this were any other franchise with these seven players, people would get sick of the word “Dynasty.” First that is six players. Second Sandin and Robertson are fine but lets not pretend they are anything close to legends. And to pretend they are "much" better or even better than Colorado's under 26 group of McKinnon, Rantanen, Makar, and other good young players like Byram, Newhook, Burakovsky. Oh Leafs fan. [*]"Add in an all-star goalie, Hall of Famer John Tavares, and a group of secondary players only a salary cap running genius could have assembled (Kerfoot, Hyman, Johnsson, Kapanen, Dermott, Barrie, Muzzin, Mikheyev) and it’s clear the Toronto Maple Leafs are approaching having the best roster of the salary cap era. [*]"Add in an all-star goalie, Hall of Famer John Tavares, and a group of secondary players only a salary cap running genius could have assembled (Kerfoot, Hyman, Johnsson, Kapanen, Dermott, Barrie, Muzzin, Mikheyev) and it’s clear the Toronto Maple Leafs are approaching having the best roster of the salary cap era." The best roster ever since 2005. I can't make this stuff up. [*]"The Toronto Maple Leafs aren’t just set up to [URL='https://editorinleaf.com/2020/06/09/toronto-maple-leafs-biggest-patience/']compete for a Cup for the next five years[/URL], they are set up for absolute domination." And that is how this masterpiece concludes. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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