BREAKING: Leafs make MASSIVE changes... This is absurd | Toronto Maple Leafs News

We have some breaking news. The Toronto Maple Leafs have just made multiple massive changes. And while fans have been begging for change the entire season, Jim Hiller has just went out and not only made one change, but shuffled every single line. The lines are in an absolute blender. For the first time this season, we're going to see some very interesting combinations. But not only that, we have a brutal update that just dropped surrounding Chris Tanev. And folks, it is over for him. For the foreseeable future, which now opens up many questions surrounding this team's blue line, the future of their blue line, and what John Chayka has planned next. A ton of news to go over today, but before we get into it all, there's a lot, a quick reminder, hit that subscribe button, you guys would be so supportive. Darius didn't necessarily expect this today. Jim Hiller said, screw it, we're going to change every single line, basically, on this team and just completely mix things up. And you're going to want to stay tuned for that, but first, let's dive into the Chris Tanev update and get that off our plate because there is a big piece of news that dropped a little bit ago here. So you can see Chris Tanev is officially week to week, ladies and gentlemen and we'll dive into the lines there's a little tidbit now but a report came out let's see here Leafs updating the status now of Chris Tanev from not day-to-day but from just being placed in the IR going to miss a minimum of three games to now being placed on the uh I guess he's going to be week to week so you can see kind of the timeline here it started October 10th he was placed in the IR when he got hurt of course a couple days later got placed in the IR then was week to week today so Darius people are saying this is the end of his career the end of his season at the very least he's going to miss a significant amount of time and For somebody who was coming into the season, was viewed as one of the most important, if not the most important, arguably players in the team outside of you know Austin Matthews, he's now done for the foreseeable future. Yeah, I'm not going to go as far as most people's brains went yesterday, which is, oh, his career is over, which is, I think, a little crazy. And Darren Dreger came out as well and said that there's a lot of room for optimism right now that he's going to play again this season. They're just giving him a little bit more time. And some of the tests that they did, I think it was earlier this morning, revealed that he's going to need a little bit more time to get back to a hundred percent keep that in mind like when he returns he should be you know back to feeling really well and that's why they're giving him extra time but this is a scenario where i hate to do this because i'm really the optimistic guy usually here on the channel and usually blinded by optimism sometimes but this is a scenario if you're the Toronto Maple Leafs you're looking at this and you go this guy can't give us 84 games anymore he just can't like we're gonna need another option here we're gonna need to figure something out and with or without Chris Tanev if i've said in videos this year i've said it since the preseason they got to do something like they have to make a trade here on the back end this is not good enough with or without him and he's a huge player for them right one of their most important players kills plays one of the best defensive defensemen in the entire National Hockey League huge part of this team but even with him they need something else now is that taking a look at or a longer look at Marshall Rifai maybe right we'll see what he's going to be able to do tonight as well if he does get back into the lineup which it sounds like it might not happen depending on kind of if they do go 11 and 7 again which i don't think they're doing but we'll get to that later in this video but um is it taking a look at Ben Danford when he's healthy calling him up maybe i would like to see what he looks like at the NHL level with a couple of these guys i don't know if he's like the answer right now which is the biggest thing is he going to be a fine defenseman yeah i think he's going to be a fine depth defenseman for this team at some point in the NHL he has speed you know he can break up plays himself he's a great young player but is he like the answer you call him up and he's gonna fix everything like i don't know if that's the case right now i think they do have to go out and not make a panic move nick but make a move nonetheless to bring in a defenseman and there's a couple reports this morning from Elliot Friedman too that when Chyka steps up to the plate he does not like to hit singles he likes to be like last year and uh you know hit those grand slams so we'll see if he has a another trick up his sleeve yeah Friedman's saying they don't know if they're gonna make a move right now they're gonna have to um we'll have videos of course talking about it but like you mentioned he's gonna go big so if he's gonna this may mean that it might be hinting from Elliot Friedman that he might not be going after a guy like Zach Whitecloud he might be going after a bigger piece like Edvinsson if he becomes available or maybe even Nikishin so let us know down below what your thoughts are trade pressure is kind of building here for this team now like pressure is being put on John Chyka and pressure clearly is being put on Jim Hiller because out of nowhere uh david alter dropped an article and it was a weird one because it didn't really come out in like the normal way through practice it came out through kind of an article there is they're completely switching up the lines so you can see here uh essentially an article dropped from jim hiller or rather from david alter i think it was talking about how jim hiller decided now things are just going to completely change now i mentioned earlier that basically every line has changed you have Bo Gru back in the fourth line kind of the same basically but you can see here now it's nylander matthews rossovich so the first line is swapped now you have nylander up top which was i think inevitable you have marchenko moved to the second line but you also have nick paul promoted to the second line with cowan moved down mckenna remaining there colton sissons moving up to the third line with now Duhaime, Teddy Bluger and of course Bo Gru on the fourth so there is complete blender complete mishmash of uh players i guess if you want to call it that and all of a sudden now you're moving guys around and Nick Paul is no longer alongside Colton Sissons there's just a lot of movement here and some huge huge changes just a note on this too on the fourth line we'll see closer to game time and warm up but i do actually think Bo Gru is coming out for Zach McDowells so keep an eye on that as we head closer to game time but on the top line we know that Matthews and Nylander work and look great together and i said yesterday why is Jim Hiller starting the game with the same lines the entire season when we know halfway through the game you're going to change them anyway because you keep going back to lines that look similar to this every single game so why not start with i see some of the comments oh it's because they're trying to throw other teams off other teams have video on the Leafs and you're trying to win well why would you start a lineup that isn't as good so he's finally changing it up here uh Nylander with Matthews we know works Roslevic i don't know about you Nick but pleasantly surprised by his performance so far this season uh i have some concerns about speed on the second line i know Paul is actually quite fast but i do still have concerns about speed with that second line i do wonder about Marchenko being freed up to be the guy on that line and really really create and maybe that could open them up for more scoring opportunities and really show out tonight and then Cowan with McKenna I mean I don't know how you don't like that like I think and you have a responsible defensive center in Sissons I think that could actually be very very good for them tonight so that should be a lot of fun hopefully they're shot out of a cannon and on the defense pairings nothing's really changed since the last time they changed them uh on Saturday so we'll see how it all plays out Bob's going tonight uh but I kind of like some of this because it makes sense right when you look at it you're like all right Nylander with Matthews that's been working Rozovic works with Matthews let's see what that looks like from uh the start uh puck drop tonight and then Kirill Marchenko get him going a little bit more like he hasn't been bad I see all this stuff this morning that he's been bad they need him to be great and all that type of stuff he hasn't been bad like he's been fine but I think there is another level and I think that's what people are kind of searching for and I think that's what he's searching for too so we'll see if it gets unlocked with John Tavares and Nick Paul I I feel like that line could potentially be very difficult to play against too so we'll see how that plays out but uh some logical moves from the head coach nick because uh i think it was time to start the game a little bit differently than just the same lineup every single time and it's very different than the craig ruby style where he would stick with lines for a very very long time very different i think it makes sense you look at the top line there's a lot of fire power there maybe marchenko this can unlock him and if marchenko gets going on the second line all of a sudden the whole team opens up the third line now as well like mckenna feeding to mccowan McKown McKenna feeling feeding to Cowan will be pretty exciting um it is all good stuff also this just came out from Marchenko and he said that I feel fine not awesome so he knows that he can be better he feels that he can be better I think all of this is just in an effort to get Marchenko going get everybody kind of on the same page here and one final thing like you mentioned Bobrovsky gets Buffalo so folks let us know down below I mean there's move after move here lots of changes continuing to happen and obviously with Chris Tannebaum now their blue line is going to need a lot a lot of work here and Matthew's had some interesting success against Buffalo in the past so hopefully the same happens tonight thank you guys for watching