Tom Wakefield

Sports? check. Movies? check. Otherwise, i'm probably not tweeting about it.

[Tom Wakefield @tomwakefield88]

Such an important read.

[Katie Rogers @katierogers]

"Reporters and editors who get their ideas from their social-media feeds — which is most of them, most of the time — can mistake a paid simulation of public interest for the real thing and then make it real by covering it. "

https://t.co/jenxweDHCs

[Tom Wakefield @tomwakefield88]

The team I shared with my dad plus the voice of that team all my life plus my dad‘s favourite artist and song = tears, and we haven’t even started the season yet. #LeafsForever

[LeafsJellyHD @LeafsJelly]

𝗝𝗼𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗻 𝗙𝗮𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗼
𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘚𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘢 - 𝘔𝘺 𝘞𝘢𝘺

@Bonsie1951 #LeafsForever

[Tom Wakefield @tomwakefield88]

@TLNdc John Brophy no?
Tom Watt?
Nick Beverley?

Babs might have been a worse person but has to be considered a better coach then that triumverate.

[Tom Wakefield @tomwakefield88]

This is a great idea.

[JFresh @JFreshHockey]

one thing i would like to see in draft previews alongside the NHL player comparables is bust comparables. who is a guy who profiled just like this dude who did not work out

[Tom Wakefield @tomwakefield88]

@Bonsie1951 @BizNasty2point0 The voice of my entire @MapleLeafs fandom. The voice I’d fall asleep to as a child; the voice I now seek out online every game. The voice I shared with my dad. One last season - can’t wait for the journey.

[Tom Wakefield @tomwakefield88]

Excited to watch the inevitable star-studded Jay Roach HBO dramedy about all this in four years.

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

We’re living through one of the most unfathomably insane months in political history.

[Tom Wakefield @tomwakefield88]

Couldn’t they do?

Domi Matthews Jankrok
Bertuzzi Tavares Marner
Knies kampf Nylander
Holmberg Dewar McMann

?

[Steve “Dangle” Glynn @Steve_Dangle]

The more the Leafs tinker due to injuries, the more I wonder if they at least try splitting Matthews, Nylander, and Marner onto three different lines. Something like…

Knies - Matthews - Jarnkrok
McMann - Tavares - Marner
Bertuzzi - Domi - Nylander

[Steve “Dangle” Glynn @Steve_Dangle]

The more the Leafs tinker due to injuries, the more I wonder if they at least try splitting Matthews, Nylander, and Marner onto three different lines. Something like…

Knies - Matthews - Jarnkrok
McMann - Tavares - Marner
Bertuzzi - Domi - Nylander

[Tom Wakefield @tomwakefield88]

@jacroy67 You’re so fired up :). Sens players would have done the same if the situation was reversed. Still, suspendable offence for sure.

[Tom Wakefield @tomwakefield88]

@DNVFields is Windsor field open tonight for soccer practice?

[Jonas Siegel @jonassiegel]

Who should the Maple Leafs pursue to replace Ilya Samsonov?

MMLR: https://t.co/MJKNjSIFXM

[Tom Wakefield @tomwakefield88]

It’s one game, but #LeafsForever top forwards look locked in. That defence though 😬

[Tom Wakefield @tomwakefield88]

@PNE_Playland - need help with your translation service? 😆. The Dino exhibit is fun but this was some odd language in a Quick Facts 🤪:

[Tom Wakefield @tomwakefield88]

It’s so much better than anything offered in Canada #NHLonTNT

[Sara @SaraCivian]

This panel is literally the best thing that ever happened to the NHL

[Tom Wakefield @tomwakefield88]

I agree with this, which is why I’d still keep the “core 4” and simply look to shrewdly add to it. Again, next two or three years, with cap space, I’d be looking at RFAs rather than draft picks to add players to this window of opportunity, if possible. #LeafsForever

[Kevin Papetti @KPapetti]

Matthews is currently signed to a five year deal that started in 2019-2020. Marner's deal started at the same time.

The cap was $81.5M that season. It's probably going to be $83.5M in the last year of 34's deal.

The pandemic probably hurt the Leafs more than any other team.

[Tom Wakefield @tomwakefield88]

It’s this kind of thinking + knowing the classic stories of Red Wings, Oilers, Capitals who needed big losses by the core before they won, that puts me in the keep the core 4 intact camp.

But maybe the @MapleLeafs are just the modern 80s Jets, in the wrong div @ wrong time.

[Tom Wakefield @tomwakefield88]

Agreed. Also think teams with a mid-20s core and cap room should take advantage of RFAs more to compliment and extend their own window. Too bad @MapleLeafs don’t own any of their own 2023 picks to do that #LeafsForever . Could have been a way to add more value than UFAs.

[Kevin Papetti @KPapetti]

There are plenty of teams that SHOULDN'T do this, but the true elite teams should be more aggressive with trading late first-round picks.

[Tom Wakefield @tomwakefield88]

If last year’s Presidents Trophy winning @FlaPanthers win the Eastern Conference, I wonder if that changes how @MapleLeafs fans feel about the second round exit… #LeafsForever #FloridaPanthers

[Tom Wakefield @tomwakefield88]

Love behind the scenes content like this in @TheAthletic . Good on the @FlaPanthers - hope they’ve finally turned a corner.

[Mark Lazerus @MarkLazerus]

Years of endless free tickets. Preposterous sponsorship deals. Constant firings and re-hirings.

Now, three wins from the Stanley Cup Final.

Here's the inside story of how the comically dysfunctional Florida Panthers finally found stability and success:
https://t.co/Sv4ghlRYO7

[Tom Wakefield @tomwakefield88]

If last year’s Presidents Trophy winning @FlaPanthers win the Eastern Conference, I wonder if that changes how @MapleLeafs fans feel about the second round exit… #LeafsForever #FloridaPanthers