Leafs make MULTIPLE moves...This is GREAT

It's finally happening. It's not only have the Toronto Maple Leafs made multiple moves, but some new comments from Craig Berube and updates surrounding Brad's living have dropped, revealing what fans have been waiting for for months now, surrounding their plan to finish off the season. And it is not only very encouraging, but paints a very interesting light as Craig Berube is entering what is most likely to be his final stretch of games as the Toronto Maple Leafs head coach. We're going to break that down and discuss the moves they made, as well as a few other updates on this episode. You're going to want to stay tuned to the very end of the video. There's a lot to go over today. And Darius, let's dive right into it here. Now, there is a lot of things happening. The Leafs have called up Michael Pezzetta, and let's start with that here. You can see they recalled Michael Pezzetta from the Marlies. You might be thinking, you know, this isn't a huge move. They're not really trying to win now anyway, but there is some underlying meanings here because they're finally starting to call up some players from the Marlies. You can see some comments here from Craig Berube. Good sign for the Leafs to close out the season, and he acknowledged finally that they're going to be looking at some of the Marlies starting with Michael Pezzetta tonight. we're going to look at guys down there and see yeah you know and he's one of the guys rather that we wanted to see sorry i'd stay there for a little while now they've been eyeing him so dearest are finally starting to look at some of the guys and there is a couple of interesting names that we have our eyes out on to of course close out the season that we're going to dive into in a minute here and there's a ton of other updates you're gonna want to stay tuned but before we get into it we do want to let you guys know that this video is brought to you by our friends over at autoplanet and if you're in the brantham or durham region and searching for a great deal on a vehicle autoplanet has you covered they've got two convenient gta locations and you can get out of the cold and in canada's largest used car showroom with more than 500 vehicles ready to explore and right now you can drive away in a new car for as low as 49 a week with zero dollars down and every vehicle comes with a standard warranty and if you're not completely sure the car is the right fit for you you're protected with a seven day 750 kilometer return policy and whether it's your first ride, a family upgrade, or just something to freshen up your driveway, there's a huge range to choose from. 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There are a lot of players here that the Leafs can finally, I mean, they need to see what they, maybe not Luke Hames, might be a bit premature, but guys like William Villeneuve and others, this is now the time to see, okay, what do we have? Are they going to be able to be pieces going forward? Because at this point you're playing for the draft pick and you're playing to get some information on next season. Yeah. And just like cars from autoplanet with Luke Hames, I see him everywhere right now in the, in the gt i see his highlights everywhere he's absolutely ripping it up for me personally i would let him cook down there still right he came from the ncaa the top ranked ncaa free agent last season by the way and a lot of people talking about free agents and how you know the leafs might not be able to sign them top ranked signed with the leafs and uh he's having a really really good second half but i would let him cook down there you don't have to call him up maybe you give him a look for a game that that'd be fine but you don't have to ruin uh you know or derail him in any way so i would let him cook down there william villanoff i think you need to know what you have at the nhl level in this player he's having a really really good season and has put together good seasons in the ahl but to get back to michael posetta he's not going to come here and score 50 goals or anything like that he's not even close to that type of player he's having a decent year in the ahl but he just he grew up a leafs fan he is so excited for this i was surprised to not see him in the lineup sooner uh this year like did he have to start opening day no there was a lot of new bodies in the lineup that i could understand but to not see him a little bit sooner especially with how stagnant this team has been for so long i mean talking about calling up other players like brube was talking about this morning you waited till you were eight losses in after the olympic break and not only that uh you know you waited till you're 10 or more points out of the playoffs that's a little crazy it's been stagnant for a while so uh and also give players a look and the first guy is michael pesetta is a little funny to me but anyway uh you know michael pesetta grew up a leafs fan he's ready to go i wonder if he drops the gloves just for the sake of dropping the gloves tonight he is an energy bunny so he's going to be able to give a little bit of that tonight so i'm excited to see what he does against the division leading pacific division leading ducks which means your division stinks if the ducks are leading that one but um still i'm excited to see what he does tonight and hey if this means we actually do get to see a couple guys up and down like we just saw guru the other night he looked pretty good i don't think he's an everyday nhler but if you can you know put these guys in here and there maybe you're calling up sending guys back down every couple games just to give you know a look to a couple guys i think that could be at least exciting for us to talk about and watch for the rest of the year because let's be honest the rest of the guys have checked out already and whether you like it or not we can talk about that till we're blue in the face most of these guys are looking towards next season at this point so that's just for some conversations that have to be had in the off season so uh it'll be interesting to see how tonight goes because they they got to get a win and a couple guys got to get on the board and i don't know if pesetta is going to be that guy but he's going to offer a little bit of jump i think yeah you look at his stats he probably should have been playing a lot earlier just to change something they were very reactive this year they haven't been proactive whatsoever last year of course finished with 25 games with the montreal canadians ultimately they signed him and i expect we both expect him i think we were live when they signed or something like that and he was yeah i think he could have been a decent piece we're gonna see tonight he's not gonna be somebody who scores goals or is a really big point machine but he's somebody who provides energy with which if you're already kind of sacrificing points with cali yarn croak no disrespect, then it would make sense there. But he is commanding the tank. Craig Brube is commanding the tank. And the good news is we finally now, with this comment, and again, the move itself isn't that big of a deal, but we get to see some of these guys. And whether that be Pezzetta, whether the Leafs want to bring him back next year, whether that be William Villeneuve, it can show, and you can only get so many out of it, two dozen games or a bit less than that, 12, 15 games, whenever they call up William Villeneuve, hopefully. But whatever we get to see is going to, I think, kind of paint a picture surrounding what Craig Brube's plan. I guess Craig Brewer probably won't even be the coach. So what the front office's plan is going forward, starting with Poseta is very interesting. At the same time, it is a good organizational deed, I think, here, because you can see if you work as hard as you can and show people, you know, people usually respect you if you show that to the fans and show your work ethic, which is funny because the team has none of that right now. So I think Poseta, on the surface, you should probably call up somebody, I don't want to say younger, but maybe a little bit younger, even though Poseta is only 27 years old. But this is a good reward for him. If we don't see them call up guys like William Villeneuve and others, I'll be very, very disappointed. You have absolutely nothing to lose at this point. You're not trying to win games. You're not trying to, you know, you're trying to tank at this point. And again, we can look at the power play, all these different things. At this juncture, the only thing that matters to me is losing games in competitive ways and seeing what the young guys have to offer. But these are mini tryouts, I think, for a lot of these guys, too, which is what should have probably been done a while ago, not as tryouts, but to actually change things up. You can make an argument if they would have made some moves months ago and something like that, some sort of energy could have been boosted out of this team. yeah maybe again we'll never know hindsight's 2020 as well but i was a little surprised you know we talked about it like you said we were live when they signed him and i thought okay there's a fourth line piece right there i think that he would maybe not every game right but i thought that he was going to be with the team and through his quote too you could tell that this guy understands what it means to be a toronto maple leaf if you come in you work hard people will love you forever and obviously there's different expectations on top players right but i think that if the leafs the last couple of years had lost like maybe they don't win a stanley cup but they went on deep playoff runs and they were trying really hard and the losses weren't the way that they were losing 5-1 completely collapsing every time right where it was a tight game and you lose like you did in 2002 or something where it was like man you laid everything on the line and unfortunately you just came up short we it would be a completely different narrative right now so this is a guy that understands that right so again i don't know if he's going to be a huge difference maker but i'm i'm excited for him specifically to get into the lineup he grew up the least fan now you can see a couple different things this morning in terms of power play units So Cowan, you know, I think Nize is going to be on the first power play unit tonight, but Cowan was taking reps there because Nize got hit in the face with a shot today. Also, OEL has been put on power play one over Morgan Riley. So that's something new tonight as well. And again, in the grand scheme of things, like they're not making the playoffs and most people have checked out of these games. But, you know, the little things and little things that they're changing are interesting to me. So you can see that as well. And, you know, Mark Masters was talking about a few different things this morning. joseph wool is starting in net as well he's uh i think that's pretty interesting too by the way because he started the last game against the canadians so i wonder if they're running him more as a starting goalie now whereas at the end of last season we saw more of a one one one one deal stolars hasn't you know he's had good games this year but he hasn't had a season like he did last year so i thought that was pretty interesting but uh this is a game where matthews has to score and the guys have to get going and you gotta get a win and i know at the end of the day like we're all hoping for that top five pick because you know for this whole season to go this way and then for you to still give Boston your pick would suck so we're still hoping for that but show a sign of life show that you know we can build off something to go into next year in a couple of these games here and we'll be fine and you know David Amber spoke about it too like you know the other night you lose to Montreal 3-1 one of the goals empty netter right not horrible not horrible in terms of you know how you're losing if you're getting blown out every night and the guys look like they absolutely don't care which some of the guys look like they absolutely don't care anyway it would be a lot worse and we'd be talking about something else right but if you're losing like 2-1 here and there try and get that top five pick it would certainly help and draft the best player available and and see what you can do next year because it doesn't have to be a long turnaround it doesn't there is a world where it does turn around but there has to be a couple moves made in the meantime to see that actually come to fruition yeah if you're a top five pick next year you could be looking at depending who it is a very very good team and one final thing before wrap up here. You can see Craig Brube spoke out about the Cowan-Matthews-Neil-Hender line. They've had some good stretches at times. Early on in the season, they were together for a bit. They did some good things, and it's a good opportunity for Cowan. I'm liking this. I don't like Craig Brube at this point. I think he should probably be let go for a multitude of reasons. Finally giving some more opportunities to the Easton Cowan, and now for Michael Pezzetta. It is what it is, but seeing that is exactly what we wanted to see, and they're finally doing it after weeks and months of failure. They're going to at least let us see some... I'm not even saying Pezzetta's necessarily that guy, but hopefully they'll let us see some of the younger players.