Ryley Fletcher

Educator, music lover, Leafs fanatic, big Arkells guy

[Ryley Fletcher @RyFletch]

@NickZthe2nd Freddie v Mitchy 😍

[Dwayne Bennett @DwayneNHL]

The Mitch Marner revisionist history is wild. But here's my assessment of why it failed in TO and why he's found success elsewhere.

The standard "he’s soft / can't win" rhetoric never made logical sense. Toronto's failure wasn't a talent issue...it was a structural failure of roster construction, deployment, and asset management.

Here is the truth bomb:

1. Matchups & The Kessel Parallel - In Toronto, Marner faced top-pair D and shutdown lines every night. In Vegas, he’s playing behind Eichel and Stone. Because opponents have to hard-match Eichel’s line, Marner gets 2nd-pair matchups and feeds on them. It’s the exact same reason Phil Kessel feasted in Pittsburgh after years of carrying the load in TO.

2. Flawed Cap Construction - The #Leafs were built incorrectly. Too much money up front, not enough on the blue line or in net. When a roster is that top-heavy, those elite forwards have to be superhuman to mask the depth issues. When the tight playoff whistle blows and they score like normal stars, the lack of depth exposes the whole team.

3. Coaching & Management- Matthews and Marner were never split up under Keefe or Berube. Only Babcock did it, but he did it when they were 19 and 20. If they had that structural discipline when the core was 24-25, the results likely look entirely different.

Combine that with management trading away SEVEN 1st-round picks and FIVE 2nd-round picks during the Matthews/Marner era, and they completely starved the pipeline of the cheap ELC depth needed to survive a top-heavy cap.

Vegas didn't need Marner to be a savior, they just needed him to be an elite piece of an already championship-caliber puzzle. It’s about usage and deployment.

Vegas did it correctly. Toronto didn't.

#LeafsForever #VegasBorn #NHL

[Ryley Fletcher @RyFletch]

@NotLeafsNeedGod If Gudas doesn’t kill Matthews, Leafs don’t go in for blood against Ducks, Gauthier doesn’t get his back broken…

[James Bailey @bails85]

Here's my plan to fix the leafs

Let mitch walk
Tank next year
Draft Gavin McKenna
Sign Mcdavid

[Ryley Fletcher @RyFletch]

@Jordan___A Lol such an ignorant, yet unsurprising take

[Ryley Fletcher @RyFletch]

@spittinchiclets @BizNasty2point0 Can confirm, he never played in the O

[Ryley Fletcher @RyFletch]

@Laughts21 @TaylorC_2112 Sorry it was this brutal of an end for you here Laughts, loved you out there.

[Nazem Kadri @43_Kadri]

Rule number one : You always keep the dawgs … #96

[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

Respect #13 ❤️

[Ryley Fletcher @RyFletch]

@MadelnCanada @Ozoon_CA Gotta go with XL Crosby. Or McDavid. Or MacKinnon. Or Celebrini. Or Marner. It’s almost impossible, man, any of them.

[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

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[Ryley Fletcher @RyFletch]

@Beebsbondy From where?

[Ryley Fletcher @RyFletch]

@Beebsbondy NHL hockey is going to feel REALLY slow again…

[Ryley Fletcher @RyFletch]

@TaylorC_2112 Want to be clear, I “liked” this, but I do not like this.

[Ryley Fletcher @RyFletch]

@NickZthe2nd 8-0-2!!! Even better 🫦🫦

[Ryley Fletcher @RyFletch]

AM34 you DOG

[Mark Gooden @TooGooden17]

When Cespedes threw up his hands to say this was a dead ball, the umpires ruled it was not dead and it was an inside the park home run.

[Ryley Fletcher @RyFletch]

Ohhhhh BABY 🫦

[The Athletic NHL @TheAthleticNHL]

The Toronto Maple Leafs and Anthony Stolarz have agreed on a four-year, $15 million contract extension, sources tell @reporterchris.

[Ryley Fletcher @RyFletch]

@NickZthe2nd Left it all out there, always. Remember when he dropped the gloves for them? Miss that man a lot.

[Ryley Fletcher @RyFletch]

@LondonKnights Cc: @Beebsbondy