Another Leafs Autopsy with Kris Versteeg | JD Bunkis Podcast 

Keefe lost the room the second he was forced to walk back his criticism of the core four last year. It was at that moment they players realised they had zero accountability

Leafs are paying 40+ million dollars between 4 players who achieved 1 goal in 20+ power plays.....

Only Samsonov has come out and said i need to be better. Everyone else, its the same old thing- were right there, its super close, blah, blah, blah. The truth is, being close is good enough for this team......

What Marner lacks in toughness he makes up for it in smugness.

Has there EVER been a team that won the Stanley Cup that went 1 for 21 on the power play??? I seriously doubt it.

Can we bring Kris Versteeg on for our next years coaching staff. His break downs are always so in depth and on the point

This was not a good Boston team. We should have won this series. No excuses

No idea if anyone will agree but, for me, my off-season starters would be: - Let Samsanov go - Fire Keefe and Shanahan - Look at Marner waiving NMC in order to trade - Chuck a list of clubs Tavares would move to and look at moving him Netminder, couple of two-way defencemen and a goal scoring winger, for me.

People need to stop all this talk about Keefe being a good coach. He put the 4th line out in a game 7 with 11 mikes left after his team just scored. Pure hubris. o7

JD can you please apply for Leafs presidency? Your Leafs coverage is in another league, fully committed to the discussion, to the emotion, yet always careful/responsible/respectful and reasonable. You're the absolute best!

The Leafs Coach could have called a time out on that first goal they scored

When only your coach and goalie express any type of accountability for losing, it says a lot about the mentality of the team. Reilly almost did, but then reverted to "almost". And honestly, he may be the guy I'm most suprised with. He and Willy have been the only ones to really show up semi consistently in the playoffs lately, but Mo was a complete no show this year. And with the D so weak on offence drivers, he was needed more than ever.

It's a great point: Marner and Tavares contracts both coming up at the same time. When signed, John had accomplished so much, and Mitch was a young guy up and coming, though no real achievements at the pro, or even junior level. Now look at where we are.

Some players are paid to score goals. Others are paid to win. There's a big different there.

Why not coach Leafs to back check all the way to their own net during the rush? Mitch looked bad stopping his back checking role at the Leaf Blue Line giving the Bruins the OT game winning goal. 😀

Another rough playoffs. As an organization that wants to win Stanley's. Why do they aquire players and give them no trade clauses. Then when thing don't work out, now their in a pinch

The top 5 paid guys didn't take a home town discount to sign more skilled D. Don't feel sorry for them they are multimillionaires. Guys on other top teams took a little less money to have a chance to win.

Just get rid of Shanny, Keefe, Mitch, TJ and Ilya and bring in a structured style coach.

Marner just doens't have that extra gear to his game. Maybe in a different, more accountable situation he can find it, but I don't think he'll ever be a playoff performer with this team.

I am not a leafs fan, but I watched most of these games. I also watched that replay over quite a few times, I 100% agree with Versteegs break down of the blame on that last goal @7:15. I actually agree with what Versteeg said in general over those 15-20 mins, and feel it's more insightful analysis than all of the ad nauseum leaf dissections of the past (9 years running), but the likes analysts Kipper, Bourne, Friedman, etc etc

The Leafs have never had more than two Stanley cup playoff series wins in their history.

Can’t believe The Invisible Leaf (Marner) compared the Leafs players to “Gods” Bruh… 😂

Long time leaf fan , at least our team entertains us most of the time , this series was awesome , the buds came back to miss by a whisker .

Outside of icing what penalty wouldn’t be bad enough for 2 min?

Steeger! Now Leafs and Leaf fans take notes, this a guy that knows how to score BIG playoff goals and won multiple Cups making a 3 million a year 😂

Please keep Edmondson

The DNA of the core does Does Not Advance past the first round.

Good luck convincing him to take less.

no guts no glory

Keefe got forced to play a bit different they actually won those games. He should have done some strategy earlier in the series. He is always putting on his stars but you have to mix it up. Try different things. Just imagine if they played some of these guys differently in earlier games. Keefe said we want to get a split in the first 2 games. That is the wrong mindset. Aim to win every game.

This year the Bruins is at best average team and the Leafs still find a way to loose a game 7 😆 🤣 😂

Even if Tavares and/or Mitch were to be asked from management to waive their no-move clause, we wouldn’t know. They wouldn’t say it publicly that he declined their request. I doubt either will agree to waive. Leafs will get fleeced from the teams they accept to go to, if they decide to accept. Leafs are screwed.

Leafs fans will admit they'd rather go out the first around than take 4 or so years to rebuild. Avoiding the inevitable

Kris is insightful, can MLSE hire him as a coach or assistant in some capacity?

This team should be thanking God they didn’t trade Willy, JD… he’s 5 times the player Hyman is lol

The Toronto Maple Leaf's are like Stan Mikita's Chicago Blackhawks, full of talent didn't play as a team and only won one Stanley cup. You build a team from the back end forward. Brenden Shanahan needs to go

I wish we had players with heart i.e Nathan McKinnon and Kucherov

Berube has played???? So What did Shanahan do?

Steeger should coach the Leafs

Sammy should of came out and played the puck had enough time to bail out the two mistakes from , manner and Riley. If you watch the replay the puck is coming towards sammy and pastrnak is at the top of the circle, he could of shot it to the boards. Nylander is covering his guy on the point so i dont expect him to chase pastrnak down, hes playing his position and seeing its going to be a dunmp play

Everyone is expecting MAJOR CHANGES!…. Prepare for NOTHING!…. Ain’t nothing gonna happen that’s gonna make you say “WOW”.

Bunkis gaslighting Bourne into being some kind of Sheldon Keefe advocate is pathetic. Some people are just born smug

Painful is the understatement of the year.

I have been saying this to all my leaf fan friends since they all signed hockey is a team sport I don’t care how good you are you only play one period of each game you need to leave money for the player who play the other 2/3 of the game.

Patrick laine from Columbus for marner!!! Make it happen!!!

Offer Marner what he deserves, 3 million dollars. If he does not accept and does not agree to a trade, play him on 4th line for all of next season. Play Tavares on the 3rd line, Nylander at centre on the 3nd line and Matthes on line one.

And now Shanahan is back. What a complete cluster. 🤬

They lost to the 2nd worst team in the playoffs (after Washington), a team that lost both Bergeron (surefire 1st ballot H of F and Krejci). IMO you have to move Tavares (maybe not possible) and Marner (more possible) and fire Keefe, then go out and get 4-5-6 players that KNOW how to play playoff greasy hockey. Otherwise, they're wasting Matthew's best years.

Defence wasn't the reason they lost that series. 1 for 21 is why they lost that series.

No leadership, no accountability! The owners don't care. Shanahan is totally incompetent, accomplished nothing, but for some mysterious reason the owners don't hold him accountable. How can somebody so unsuccessful keep the job for ten years? It's mind blowing! Barely average coaching staff and the team, that is led by overpaid and underachieving `stars`, who (except Nylander) are unable to deliver when it matters. And in case of Matthews and Marner it's also a matter of character. These two are simply a bad leaders! I don't think, that it's so difficult to fix it - just get rid of incompetent individuals with no leadership qualities and replace them with a right people. But it all comes back to the owners. Do they even care? Is their goal to build a Stanley Cup contender? Is it their priority? I doubt that.

Not that it matters to the trajectory of this team at this point but I wonder if the crux of the problem stems from when they acquired JT. The young guys see a him come in with big money and they want what he has. Money first, team second mentality and Dubas couldnt be the adult in the room to shoot them down.

Shouldn't miss playoff hockey due to headaches and food poisoning to begin with

Why don't you ever hear the fans calling in?? Who care what these guys that are paid by the same company as the players have to say.

Thankfully I knew they were gonna lose soons I heard Woll wasn't playing so didn't sting at all. Figured it would be goaltending wasn't but same result anyways. Lol

Leafs need to buy him a fancy walleye boat and sign byfuglien

Dang, as a Bruins fan. It feels really good to hear Leafs media so down on their team. Almost makes me want you guys to succeed. Almost 😏.

The players only care about the money. They don't care about winning the Cup. How could they? They have never been close to winning the Cup and won't be because 4 guys eat up so much of the cap that the rest of the team has to be patched together and can't be good enough.

Toronto needs to go find Billy lol 🤣

If Boston isn't a good team and just beat the Leafs than what are they and why are we even talking about them 🤷

The offense is struggling to get goals from the core 4 and I like to ask why you sit out your second most offensive player behind Matthews in Robertson in game 7???? You deserved to be fired for sure.

why would marner take less than 11 now? hes a better player than nylander. accept that. its the truth. we almost have no choice but to move him(marner)

Get a goalie

I should be wearing my Leafs hats all summer long, not putting them away as soon as the weather heats up. Thanks for another pathetic exit, Leafs.

There was only two, real major issues that the Leafs encountered.. 1. Our Lack of Team defense was an issue in the first few games vs Bruins.. (that is a coaching issue) he has not been able to get this team to play proper defense the entire time he has been here.. That difference, could have gotten us one or two more games before our back was to the wall.. This is a FACT...... 2, Our Powerplay.. Not adjusting our powerplay to an entirely new zone entry and attack is again ( COACHING )... This team should have raced to the blue line with speed and chased a dump in,,,, then force point shots while crashing the net... They failed to adjust and we missed out on maybe, 15 more goals which would have ended this series... In Every other area, the Leafs matched or exceeded Bruins play... How do we know this --(((we went to game Seven OT)))... DEFENSE & A PP ADJUSTMENT was the difference.... OVERTIME IN GAME SEVEN.... Only because we played two very bad defensive games!! Thats what killed us and that is COACHING... No One player could change that... Period

Team needs a new owner - soul less corps own this cash cow and can't let the $$$ train slow down.

Hey Leafs, lower your ticket prices

9:13 talk about having ZERO AWARENESS!! That team you claim “isn’t that good” JUST BEAT YOU YET AGAIN! I just love people who claim the Leafs are so talented blah blah blah (yes they have talented guys, absolutely no question about it) but then they get BEAT and those same people then say “Well the Bruins aren’t that good.” Well which one is it because, IT CAN’T BE BOTH!!

Bruins win the series and Versteeg says the suck, Well what does that sat about the Leafs?

Let Rielly be a Leaf who plays left wing. He is NOT a top 4 D-man.

Samsonov could have smothered that puck or poke checked it away. If you asked anyone on the ice that 1 on 1 behind closed doors I bet you they all would say we thought Sammy was gonna cover that. 1/21 on the power play lack of offence it was the closest defensively fought games in round 1 (games 5-6-7) it was a goaltending battle and the leafs lost it. He let in dunkers in games 3 and 7. If the leafs played the way the played the last 3 games for the entire series it may be a different outcome. Regardless we would have been smoked in Florida. So will Boston

There, there, there, now. Don't you worry, our Leafs will get wiped out in the 1st round in the playoffs next year too. And the year after that, and the year after that, and the year after that, and...........

No

No its not!!! Just look at the results from 2014 to 2024... I am a Leafs fan for 25 season now. It was my first big anniversary... I am from Europe. Every game I watch, harms my daily life. I was so pationate for 25 years now... There were awesome times, but they were at the beginning of the ride. Look at how they perfom on saturdays in the regular season. Its the same deal. Saturday games are the best for me to watch live. And they lose often on saturdays... I watched Game 7 live. i just cried for almost an hour. I dont want to point the finger on specific players or staff members, BUT something has to change!!! I am so frustrated by now. I already watch old clips from Kaberle, Tucker, McCabe, CuJo, Mogilny, Belfour and so on... They never won a cup either, but at least the were fun to watch!!! If they lost, they had Domi, Tucker and McCabe... And even in a loss, CuJo looked awesome. Sundin always delivered... The Boys are no boys anymore. They are grown ass men, who made a fortune for life already. Its time to justify all of that!!! No matter how, I dont care. They need to get a run going at least. I am not even talking about the cup anymore. Its about to the get the ball rolling for once...

Rielly is a Rielly big problem brought nothing in the series

Toronto struggled the whole series. They were fortunate to take it to the 7th. They should be happy about the effort they made. But I don't believe the Leafs or Bruins are going to go any further in the next round of the playoffs this year. Overall they had a respectable season. Let them walk away with some honor and dignity. Contrary to the opinion of many, winning is not everything. Show some respect for these players. They do deserve it.

Even if the Buds managed to get past the Bruins,the Panthers would knock them around like a rag doll.

Mngmt squandered the talent burnt the farm prioritized small players and lost great talent - without getting anything in return. You can’t beat a big team with small team. I’m going to put my stick in your back until you make me stop and the leafs have no one to do that. There is nothing wrong with the core but there is a huge problem with the fans and mngmt, and that is loyalty. Without loyalty, you never win. Scapegoating marner is idiocy. He is a great player. Did no one hear he had a high ankle sprain? Playoff stats: Marner 57 games 50 points +10 two way player Nylander 54 games 43 points +1 inconsistent one way player Matthews 55 games 48 points +2 two way player They that want to get rid of your best playoff two way player really just do not want Toronto to win. Other interesting dubas mistakes: keeping nylander over Hyman Hyman 65 games 48 points +5 two player with grit-playoff character Kadri 52 games 44 points +15 two player with grit-playoff character With the leafs 19 games 10 points +6 Mike Babcock future HoF coach with gold medals, stanleycups If Toronto had gone with Babcock and hunter this team would have had playoff ready size and toughness in the supporting cast built thru the farm and they would have had a dynasty

Why didn't Morgan rielly not dive to get in front of Pastranac he'the longest vet on the team moron fire him move Rielly on please.🤔🤔🤔🤔🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

AM most overrated player in hockey. Only in Toronto.

This team just cannot win. Plain and simple. Build the team around Matthews, nylander, woll, and Knies and McCabe. Everyone else trade …. They neeed a new culture . New everything… maybe even get a goalie who can stay healthy.

Without Marner, Matthews does not get 69 goals!

Who ever gets Mitch will be a steal. Yall retarted for trading him. Your 1st lines arnt your problem. Your 3rd and 4th lines don’t score and are horrible. Cuz you pay first 1st like way too much to get good players on your 3 and 4

Listen to Chris Versteeg tear up the Leafs…How did you do as a Leaf Chris? Answer me that! Prime example of a pot calling the kettle black.

Who watched the Florida Boston game last night? Florida looked worst than the Leafs and they had Bobrovsky in net. It's only game 1 but I don't think Boston is goingto take Florida lightly especaially after the close call they had with the Leafs. The Leafs need a coaching change. You can blame the players on the ice all you want but when there's this much talent on a team and you can't harness it the coach deserves the blame. Put Marner, Nylander and Matthews on one line and let the other guys elevate their play to be on the 2nd line. To me it felt like the lines were disjointed with no cohesion. Okeefe got totally out coached. The players saved his ass from total embarressment.

what happens when they miss th playoffs net year??? it is certainly possible without solid goaltending and an aging defence .

You can have all the skills in the world but if u dont have the heart then ur just an ordinary hockey player.

Why people talk about Marner trade. He has NO TRADE CLAUSE. He likes Toronto. Going NOWHERE this year.