21 Feb 2015 02:42:27
Leafs lost again.
They're really really good at nosediving on purpose! LOL!

1.) 21 Feb 2015
To be honest chirp I don't know how anyone can argue with you this is the worst run I think I have ever seen a team go on.if this isn't a tank one thing is for certain.pete horachek will and should never coach in this league again.

2.) 21 Feb 2015
As a Leafs fan I'm fine with it.

Besides if they start winning people will lose their minds and start complaining how they can't lose/tank properly

At this point, winning is actually losing.

3.) 21 Feb 2015
That's true gr81 it is the smartest thing that they could do.pittsburgh did it back in 84 to get Lemieux and they won 2 cups because of it.im not going to say the players are tanking but I think the feeling from management when they fired Carlyle was whatever happened was a win-win.i think the trading and lowball offer to franson was when it really sank into me.to not offer franson 5+mil and trade him with phaneuf already out .plus they could have gotten more for him at the deadline but nonis and company knew if they kept him till then they might win a game or two.any team in the league would probably go on a losing streak with there top 2 dmen missing.and that contract offer, marc methot got more to keep playing for his hometown team.this really showed they didn't want to keep franson because he improved their chances of winning.if methot got 4.8 then franson should get 5.5 at least. tanking is the smart move for Toronto. that is if it doesn't turn out like when Ottawa did it to get diagle.

4.) 21 Feb 2015
So now people admit to the intentional tank and are a-okay with it? Jesus.
It's pathetic. It's an insult to the league. You think this happens if McDavid or Eichel aren't the top 2 picks? Intentionally imploding an NHL team is just plain sad and stupid . They don't even pull this in Carolina, for cryin out loud. The leafs, and Toronto as a whole, should be ashamed.

Of course, leafs fans won't be because they live in a fantasy world where this is no big deal. If it were any other team tho, watch out.

5.) 21 Feb 2015
Yes its pathetic! You should be a shame of tanking! They going to end up like Edmonton! Rielly say its a chore to go play for the leaf! Its only going to get worst

6.) 21 Feb 2015
@chirp

I am sure all leaf fans are fine with the team losing(bc it's advantageous to the rebuilding process), but you're off your rocker if you think the team itself is losing in purpose.

And you can call the leafs pathetic all you want for losing right now, but if they end up really sucking for a few season - in 4 or 5 years you can eat your bs for breakfast lunch and dinner bc they won't be pathetic anymore.

7.) 21 Feb 2015
Oh look the oilers lost again last night as well. I don't even know how you can possibly criticize any other team of supposedly intentionally tanking when your team is still 2nd last in the league and has had 3 1st overall picks in the last 5 years and haven't picked outside the top 10 since 2008? LOL

8.) 21 Feb 2015
Chuck, if I really need to explain this to you again, then you're even more dense than you let on.

Oilers are 10-11-3 since that disaster Eakins was fired. They're trying, and they're not doing all that terrible. Leafs fired their coach while in playoff contention, have been in a downward spiral ever since, and have done NOTHING to try and fix that. The players are trying, but CLEARLY the system is flawed. And the "coach" behind the bench has no business being there. It was a ridiculous move to begin with, has proven to be even worse than could have been predicted, but hey it's McDavid or Eichel so why try and fix it, right? Generational players come along and suddenly the leafs are the worst team in the league as soon as mgmt realizes they don't have a team that can win the cup? Pathetic. What a group of losers. And leafs fans just deny it or go along with it because they're just as bad. Blinders on forever. You're sad, man. Just plain sad.

9.) 21 Feb 2015
21 Feb 2015 19:36:48
naw charles xavier, chirp says that's all due to mismanagement, because, you know, they're the only team that can use that excuse.

10.) 21 Feb 2015
@chirp dude you have no right to bring up lame excuses about the leafs tanking when Edmonton is obviously the team tanking here over the last 5 years and you know what? McDavid and Eichel won't help them either so have fun still sucking for the next 3 years to your carlye comment they fired him because the leafs were 3-7-0 in last 10 and were falling not to tank and to @shankar what ever your name is sticking up for chirp all the time why don't you just go jerk him off your probably doing that already anyway

11.) 21 Feb 2015
21 Feb 2015 21:28:51
LOL how am I sticking up for chirp, you might want to re-read buddy, cause your reading comprehension is almost as bad as his.

12.) 21 Feb 2015
Shanker sticking up for Chirp? The only other person on this site that I've seen stick up for Chirp is Draisaitl and that's just because they are equally as biased against the leafs.

13.) 22 Feb 2015
I was almost positive that you were sticking up for him on another post my bad

14.) 22 Feb 2015
@hab I think this is the worst I've seen but how soon you non leaf fans forget just last year. I can't believe I wasted my time looking into this but please take the time to go to mapleleafs.com and check their schedule from last year. From March 16th, 2014 until the end of the season they went 2-12 to nosedive from near the top of the east. If there had been more games left in the season, who knows how man they would have lost. Were they doing this on purpose too? I said last week that 10 game losing streaks are common for my team. I'm sorry I addressed you but it is a waste of time dealing with chirp, I don't know how you defend him. He will be angry if the leafs get McDavid, if they don't, he'll find something else to be angry about. Eh chirp, look at the only team the leafs beat during this landslide. You got it, the titanic oilers.

15.) 22 Feb 2015
@Charles

Yeah I think Shanks comment was asarcastic

16.) 22 Feb 2015
22 Feb 2015 05:21:16
and chirp, how is 10-11-3 good? works out to like a 75 point season and another top 10 pick if that pace was maintained for an entire year.

17.) 22 Feb 2015
A team doesn't tank for 5 years! That means they just suck. You can't say the oilers are tanking when they got waaay better towards the end of the season. 10-11-3 isn't a last place team, it's not good but at least there not losing there way to McDavid. Chirp might be a little hard on the leafs but he's not the only one that thinks teams are tanking for McDavid.

18.) 22 Feb 2015
@leafs17 I can't help but feel management has put the players in a nearly impossible to win situation.and even though I hate to use the word tank I don't know what else it could be called. I don't think the players are tanking as they really played their asses off last night to beat the jets and have over the course of the whole debacle put up a few solid efforts even with a depleted lineup.i won't go as far as saying management planed a tank job when they fired Carlyle.i think initially they had hope a more defensive approach would lead to more wins.but I can't help but feel more could have been done early in this losing skid which could have helped them win a few games and kept them close to a playoff spot. are they actually tanking?i don't know. just like you don't know if they are not.im not fully agreeing with chirp but I mean I can't really argue with him when a team goes this bad nearing the end of the year it makes you think.and I've heard tankjob being thrown around just as much from leaf fans as anybody else

19.) 22 Feb 2015
Obviously chirp is the only one that knows for sure that the leafs are tanking but no response to last years debacle? They went from near the top of the east to missing the playoffs in a month. I've been thinking of getting a leaf tattoo for years now with "maybe next year" under it. Leaf fans know that extended losing streaks are common. Is management tanking, maybe? I guarantee these players have more pride than that. To those who think the oilers or other teams in the past haven't been in this situation need to give their heads a shake, or allow me to.

20.) 22 Feb 2015
That's true for the most part they do falter near the end of the year.this year maybe is just a little worse.and you are right other teams have tried to make there teams worse near the end of the season to drop in the standings it happens almost every year.i also agree and have said on numerous occasions that I don't feel the players are tanking.im not arguing with you guys i'm just stating I can't make a reasonable argument on whether or not there is a tank going on.

21.) 23 Feb 2015
23 Feb 2015 09:13:32
I'm not biased against to Leafs. Just saying