Dumb Leaf fans. Tavares will lead the Leafs into the same oblivion as he did to the Islanders ! Islanders are fantastic since that premadonna left and Leafs are getting worse. I'll take Kadri any day !
@@nicholasceriello7750 it's the Islanders...they'll never understand what it means to be the captain of the hockey universe! Especially when he was THEIR Captain - that was disrespectful...every NHL player would love to play in Toronto...and now he is. Tell them to cry me a river, build a bridge, and drive over it....
@@nimeshshah7229 , How are your leafs doing with the pajama boy LOSER!!!! WHERE ARE THE IDLANSERS, WITHOUT HIM? OH, YEAH! That would be in the eastern FINALS!!!! Leafs as USUAL, ELIMINATED!!!! 1967 and COUNTING!!! ONLY 5 MORE LOSING YEARS TO GO WITH CAPT LOSER!!!
how are the crylanders doing this year? lmfaooo. when was the last cup you losers got? 1983? and what the fuck is a idlansers? are they new? you didn't win a cup last year, and you wont this year.
It was gonna be matthews IF IT WASNT FOR HIM DO A DARE CHALLENGE TAKING OF HIS CLOTHES AND RUNNING AROUND THE CITY AND DOING BAD THINGS IN FRONT OF OUR YOUNG PLAYERS HE WOULD OF BEEN THE LEADER
@@CityZxens not the end of the world, he was a kid and is still maturing. He’ll get the C someday I think, just a matter of time, kinda like Bergeron was for a while until this year
@@chrisw2546 I take it you haven't heard him call a Canucks game. Good God, hope your mute button works. It's Miller over at TSN, who calls the games a bit better but is a huge Habs Homer.
@@pippaholmes4756 , yep perfect fit! A LOSER PLAYER WITH A LOSING ORGANIZATION!!!!! LOL. HOW DID HE DO TONIGHT! LOL. A TYPICAL NO SHOW IN ANOTHER LEAF LOSS AND ELIMINATION !!!! LOL
@@johnaudia9202 what success? You lost the goalie that carried you all last season, Lehner couldn't wait to get out of Long Island lmao. Should be called So Long Island.
MoRiellyMoProblems lol umm I’m not an Islanders fan (live in Canada). If only someone in Toronto carried that team past the 1st round. Even local boys like Tavares and Marner didn’t want to take home town discounts lol.
I smell a stench coming from your fucking joke of an organization!! Pajamas had to watch us win in his stupid city !! Now we will win the cup !!! Leafs suck !!!
this is amazing.. John is definitely most deserving.. and he's wearing the game 7 vs philly the shot shirt.. i am sure he is thinking about winning the championship for the leafs day in and day out!!! go leafs go!!!
What a perfect way to present him the Captaincy. To walk in and see his wife holding their newborn already sporting the "C". As a father, I can only imagine the feelings running through him as he walked through that door to see his family followed by Kyle Dubas making it official. Priceless.
That has GOT TO BE thee best way to tell a guy he's the next Captain of an NHL team ! I was the Captain of my junior hockey team here in Ontario, I know, peanuts compared to this...but the way I was selected was very important to me. I was nominated by a vote of my teammates. That meant the world compared to the coaches doing it alone. I'm sure some disagreed, but they never acted like it once the decision was made. We went on to win the All-Ontario Championship in the Junior C league, going 38-0-1 in regular season, and not losing a playoff game. I'm so grateful to my teammates, coaches, and fans, still all these years later (it was the 1994-95 season) and made me who I am today. Congrats J-T, welcome to the club :-)
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Can't complain about JT. Nothing bad about him. But my sentimental and favorite pick would have been Morgan Rielly. He's been here the longest. He was drafted and developed by the Leafs right from the get go. He went through all those crap years and grew from it to become the amazing player he is today. He just finished the best season he ever had and should have won the Norris IMHO. Of course, if the Leafs win the Cup now or in the next 5 years, nobody will have anything to complain about. But if they don't win the cup, my prediction is that Matthews leaves after this contract is up and will do what JT did to NYI and go home. I sort of feel like the whole rebuild and trajectory changed when the Leafs decided to get JT when they previously were adamant not to speed up the rebuild or fast-track it. Matthews is supposed to be and IS the face of the franchise for the Leafs and should be for the next 10 years, but now I sort of feel like JT hijacked it and he's obviously become the darling for Babs, Dubas, and Shanny when it was supposed to be Matthews. Matthews always was and still is and will be the best player on this team. I love this Leafs team, don't get me wrong, but something still feels funny about how JT came in and changed what trajectory of things. If the Leafs win the cup (and I desperately hope so), none of this will matter. But if they don't, I'm always going to look back at the signing of JT and then making him captain as the point where things changed. JT essentially bumped Nylander out of the leadership group....he's not even mentioned anymore as being a leader on the team even though he's also supposed to be one of the top players, I feel like Nylander has lost a lot of what originally was going to be his (ie, playing on the top Powerplay etc, but he's been pushed back in everything due to JT budding in to round out the 3 headed monster when it used to Nylander). With that 11 million, I'm sure the Leafs could have acquired 1 or 2 top dmen they needed. Aahhhh...we'll just have to wait and see in the next 5 years. I hope I'm wrong, but that was my gut feeling and it's usually right.
The dude bleeds blue and red and y'all want Mathews that can't even keep his pants up to be the captain? LOL this guy is from the city too. Just a great honor. 💯
Hey John earns this 100% he’s wanted to be a leaf since he was a little kid and now he gets to be apart of the Toronto Maple Leafs and be the Captain now ... John you may not be my fav player Matthews is but YOU DANG DESERVE IT GO LEAFS GO!!
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Best choice for sure. John Tavares and Steve Dangle are the reason the Leafs are my number 2! Hey I’ve been a Pens fan since 1994, I can’t change completely.
From an islanders fan here. Jt is the man and babs and shanny hold their own so it was a no brainer. Jt 110 with to on his back they gotta shot. He is the perfect captain. Ot game winner against florida for the series. Proven to be the one that gets it done.
@@logann6737 thank you . We basically replaced Tavares with the best coach in the sport ! I believe that in hockey as in the NFL, it's all about coaching !
Believe it or not but John is now the captain of my hometown and FINALLY we have a captain and plus during his childhood, he always dreamed of being on the Leafs.
If it wasn't Morgan Reilly, then it had to be John Tavares. As a lifelong Leafs fan, there is no doubt Tavares will be the best captain for this team moving forward. It must not have been an easy decision, but I am glad they did their due diligence and made the right choice. Proud to be a Leafs fan today.
And if the criterion were just to award the C to a guy with a gorgeous wife, the selection still stands. OMG. John got himself a trifecta. Wife, son, captaincy.
He may be entering a pressure cooker, but he so so mellow, Ed got this. The leafs may be a media shit show, Babcock is a stubborn SOB, but I do think they try to be one big dis functional family.
