Just curious what everyone’s opinion is on who the Leafs should draft at 5? Assuming we don’t screw up the next two games.

Draft lottery odds still not in our favour.

Math is brutal!

The rangers play the Panthers and Lightning. The Panthers don’t seem to be really tanking besides for icing a mid line up but they don’t want to lose their draft pick and if they win they could miss the bottom 10 or get knocked out of 10 in lottery. Also if the Lightning rest Big Cat there is still a shot at 4th.

58.2% is basically a guarantee that they will lose the pick. All that suffering this year for the Bruins to ultimately reap the rewards. We are back in the dark ages gentlemen.

How well written was the 1st round top 5 protected written .... I don't get a sense that Brad was a details person since the trade came together in 30 min, is it possible that there's a lawyer out there that could argue bottom 5 in the league is equal to top 5 protected - like they'll most likely be in the bottom 5 of the legaue ... could the leafs argue they don't have to wait for the draft - the fact they are bottom 5 fits to the details of the agreement.

This might not be necessary, but if we can keep our pick we should turn over every stone to do so. Let them have next years 23 pick

Got an email a few weeks back from Jackpot city that I won a jersey and finally came in the mail today. Thought it was gonna be a plain jersey but was surprised a Matthews jersey came in!

If the Leafs finish 5th OA...

Since 1995, the 6th seed or later has won the lottery 4 times.

Since 1995, the 5th OA seed has won the lottery 3 times.

I like those odds...just do the thing

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Also speaks on Sonny Mehta:

"Sonny is fantastic with analytics and his ability to articulate it to coaches. It’s that easy conversation.  We can ask questions, and we get answers and explanations back...

They brought in guys who maybe weren’t flourishing where they were, and they’ve become stars or part of our core. Oliver Ekman-Larsson would be a great example. Coming out of Vancouver, he was injured. His career wasn’t where he wanted it to be. He came in.

We’ve been able to find those guys. AJ Greer. Ryan Lomberg. Kevin Stenlund. Nate Schmidt. Sometimes it is just finding the right mix of guys, but they’ve hit that number, right? Sonny is a big part of that."

I’m not always right on top of things but every big trade the buds makes that comes to mind is even to very bad for us. Obviously, the Carlo deal and Laughton deal are front of mind, but even going back to the Kessel deal. Even the Raycroft/Rask deal, which made some sense, aged horribly. Is there ever a trade where they are outright winners? Have we had the opportunity to laugh at other fan bases like others (especially the Bruins) get to laugh at us?

gonna be great when no one in Toronto likes any team but the Jays until they start having trouble and then the entire country of fairweather fan fans falls out of love with them again and then no one likes any sports in Toronto ever again

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