2025-26 General Trades & Signings
- Thread starter herman
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I think every team, certainly every team in the East, is going into this season expecting that one way or another they'll need to beat Florida in order to win the Cup. So I do think that if you look at that move through that specific lens it's maybe not a game changer. For as good of a player as I think Ehlers is that Canes obviously have to do some soul searching in how they play as a team if they want to beat the best version of the Panthers.
L K
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They don't match up well with Florida...but they didn't before Ehlers either. They were never going to be able to change that with this mediocre offseason. Where I might disagree is that Carolina's play style couldn't still beat the Leafs. Florida is obviously the favourite to win again seeing as everyone took multi-million dollar discounts to stay but the cumulative age is eventually going to catch up to their style of play. Bobrovsky is also close to turning 37. I don't think it was a terrible investment to be the team that has the best chance to come out of the Metro division again and hope that Florida just runs out of steam in the next 1-2 years.
I'm fully on board with the argument that the Leafs were the best team that Florida faced in the playoffs. I'm not as convinced that they don't find a way to lose Carolina or Edmonton if they had gotten past the Panthers.
