The Toronto Maple Leafs probably won’t get Patrick Kane.
I know it and you know it. The Toronto Maple Leafs don’t need to change their entire roster to trade him for a 33-year-old who is one of the league’s worst defensemen.
The assets needed to defeat Patrick Kane can be used to help the team where they need more help. The cost is outrageous. They don’t have room for a hat.
Whatever.
Who cares?
If Patik Kane is even slightly possible, I will hope it happens. I’ll be watching Patrick Kane do amazing things on YouTube and I’m going to fantasize about what he would look like feeding pucks to Auston Matthews.
Protection? Protection for the losers.
Realism? Give me Kurt Vonnegut instead of James Joyce any day.
Realism is about losers. I want Patrick Kane to be with the Leafs and until he gets traded to another team or retires, I will hope that happens.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are indebted to their fans Patrick Kane
This list is amazing. I will argue with anyone, anytime, that this is the best roster in the NHL and the best Leafs roster ever. I will never stop believing that luck is a huge factor in a playoff series and I know this for a fact and I don’t want anyone else to admit it but they just got in trouble with bad luck and could easily defend already three times. Champions
But let’s be realistic: a loss is a loss, and most people don’t care what should or could happen.
And they shouldn’t. The Leafs have a real chance of winning the Stanley Cup with their current roster, but chances are they won’t because you have to defy the odds to do so, and only because you were unlucky last year and the year before. this is not true. This means you “should”.
If you flip a coin and it comes up heads five times in a row, there is a mathematically equal chance that it will come up heads again. The coin has no memory.
So this lineup could win, but most likely won’t win. You can have an objectively better team and that won’t make winning the Stanley Cup likely.
So, it’s time to throw the fans a bone. They owe us one player each off-season, and this year I’m proposing to make him a 33-year-old Hall of Famer who is the best passer in the league.
Hey kids, you stayed with us and in return we hired Patrick Kane to make next season $$$ no matter the results.
Chicago takes on Mazzin and switches to the third team in a tricky deal too odd to fully explain. This third one takes another 50% of Kane’s salary, and the Leafs get double of it.
They somehow force out Hall and Kerfoot and throw in the first few – not lottery protected – Hawks, along with whatever prospects they want, and you’ve got pretty little Patty Kane to bet with your Matthews.
Now your second line is Bunting-Tavares-Nylander and Auston Matthews is scoring a league-record 97 goals and we’re all having so much fun we don’t even care about the playoffs or the Stanley Cup and who knows we might even win !