32 Thoughts: Maple Leafs fallout and off-season questions around the league

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• Will the Penguins be able to keep Letang and Malkin? • How will this deep coaching market unfold? • What will the Sharks do with Burns and Karlsson? Those questions, and more, explored in FriedgeHNIC's latest 32 Thoughts. Presented by GMC.

• Coaching market is deep and full of optionsInitially, there was concern about too many blowouts, but longer series made up for that, with the most Games 7 since 1992 and, for just the second time ever, two Game 7 overtimes on the same day. Great, great theatre. Great, great competition.

One of the most challenging things about this dilemma is a lot of it is between the ears. Toronto is good enough to hold leads over Washington in 2017, Boston in 2019, Montreal in 2020 and Tampa this time around. But they are 1-9 in those series with a lead, and winless in five consecutive deciding games — a record. Years ago, I listened to Hall-of-Fame basketball coach Larry Brown discuss “being afraid to win.

For the record, I don’t believe that includes Mitch Marner or Auston Matthews. In fact, I'm curious to see if the organization broaches the idea of making them both centres, turning John Tavares into a hybrid-style forward who can still take faceoffs on his strong side while owning less of the position’s open-ice responsibilities.

I know someone is going to be insulted by their omission, but this is to give you an idea. These are just the people with NHL head coaching experience. There are going to be current assistants and fresh faces. The Islanders took Lane Lambert off the board, keeping him for themselves. Jeff Marek has mentioned Tampa Bay assistant Derek Lalonde as a Detroit possibility, and I wouldn’t be surprised if teams want to get to know Jeff Halpern, too.

 

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FriedgeHNIC GMC Pens will definitely keep Malkin and Letang because they are so loyal to the pens and I don't think would ever leave until their career is done

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