Series Talk: [A1] Toronto Maple Leafs vs [WC1] Ottawa Senators | Part II (TOR lead 3-1)

[HockeyVirus]

The question is, does Ullmark lose the net for his 3rd time in his NHL career? And if so, what does that mean for his contract with them?

 

[93gilmour93]

Where are all the sens fans , y'all just gonna let all these maple leafs fans spit on your grave in here?!

 

[Korpse]

The 2 of them are having a meeting about yesterday's game. They'll be back shortly.

We were a little busy trying to over hear the Sens team meeting. Apparently they had one and it’s a big deal that a team had a team meeting.

 

[Roo]

only 1 game. adjustments coming. Game 2 should be a good one.

 

[Crosscrease14]

Sens already down 2-0 after this terrible song

 

[Relapsing]

Where are all the sens fans , y'all just gonna let all these maple leafs fans spit on your grave in here?!

Dude, there's like, 4 leafs fans that have spammed the main board threads about this series and game 1. They're a dedicated bunch, I'll give them that.

 

[Just Rude]

This is the last day I can instigate my two little bros to fight before my teams takes a L too and I gotta be quiet so I get it

Your boys are going to give the Caps all they can handle.

 

[HockeyVirus]

I wonder when the narrative that the Leafs core can't handle being hit will die? Another bizarre one still repeated. As if these guys are 100 point players and no one is hitting them.

 

[Strangle]

Oh what a burn…
It’s amazing how you can’t have any real talks about the Leafs with Leafs fans

I have money for the Leafs to win this, but home team, game 1, Stanley Cup expectations. Usually the 1st 10mins are the survival minutes for opposing teams and I didn’t feel the pressure from the Leafs

Doesn’t mean they s..ck just expected them to go out of the gate with different energy

What do you want to talk about? I’m down for a discussion, but keep it respectful because you’ll only get back out what you put into it

 

[Strangle]

How was he suppose to have stopped?

With his skates. Like everyone else does?

The guy initiated some contact to give him an excuse to go flying into our goaltender. He wasn’t even knocked off his skates, he bailed.

Unless this was his first day skating or something?

 

[BigDaddyLurch]

Your boys are going to give the Caps all they can handle.

...that's the hope...we'll see if the kids can handle the moment...

 

[Korpse]

With his skates. Like everyone else does?

The guy initiated some contact to give him an excuse to go flying into our goaltender. He wasn’t even knocked off his skates, he bailed.

Unless this was his first day skating or something?

He should have stopped to avoid contact with marner? Not his fault Marner gave him the outside lane. Gotta cut the guy off before the net if you don’t want him to lose an edge while he cuts to the net.

Everyone knew Greig was gonna drive the net. Marner played it soft and gave him the lane.

 

[Strangle]

Sens and Ullmark in particular just put up a stinker. Not sure if they're a good enough team to do that even once and still win a series like this but one game doesn't necessarily mean everything. Going to need Linus to dial in sharpish and get more pucks into the Leafs' high danger areas.

The Leafs tend to like to do things the hard way so I still see this going at least 6 games.

The Tampa series started with two blowouts going each way. Yes the entire boards here were saying “it’s over” after the leafs got blown out in game 1

It wasn’t over and neither is this series

 

[ItWasJustified]

With his skates. Like everyone else does?

Does he have an extra pair of skates on his back? Because he was on his back when he hit the ice, less than 1 metre from Stolarz.

 

[Strangle]

He should have stopped to avoid contact with marner? Not his fault Marner gave him the outside lane. Gotta cut the guy off before the net if you don’t want him to lose an edge while he cuts to the net.

Everyone knew Greig was gonna drive the net. Marner played it soft and gave him the lane.

No he can initiate contact with Marner, but you have to pull up before you run into the goalie with reckless bullshit like that.

He didn’t lose an edge, he bailed. He knew exactly what he was doing and so do all the maple leafs

 

[Strangle]

Does he have an extra pair of skates on his back? Because he was on his back when he hit the ice, less than 1 metre from Stolarz.

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[Sens9292]

Imagine being able to have a hockey discussion without it always involving the refs. It’s a shame

Because Leafs never cry about how the refs are always against them. It’s hockey.

 

[Evilhomer]

I can only imagine how civil it would be in here today had the Sens drawn first blood.

Fans can have fun, Leafs, Sens or, um, others. It's part of being a fan.

That said, Ottawa isn't going to roll over. It's going to be a f***ing war. There's only one way for the Leafs to shake that perennial "choke" label.

Why does the Leafs winning mean that Ottawa "rolled over"? I don't think Ottawa will roll over. They just aren't as good as the Leafs, and they will struggle to win games against this Toronto team. I don't think it's any more complicated than that.

 

[ItWasJustified]

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So he was just going to stop while driving to the net instead of driving to the net and get shoved by Marner? You're delusional.

 

[Sens With Benefits]

Regardless of the penalties, Sens didn’t play well. 2/6 of the calls were bogus, especially the Matthews dive but you can’t take those penalties. The precedent was set with the Timmy penalty, Sens should have known better.

Sens were way too horny with their hitting, very obvious they are rookies to the playoffs and were out classed by a team who’s been there before. Ullmark was left out to dry but still did not play well. Stolarz played really well, and he looks legit.

Sens should bounce back and play better. Tkachuk also looks hurt out there which is not great for Ottawa. 5v5 Ottawa wasn’t dominated which gives hope at least.

 

[kevsh]

if you don’t want him to lose an edge

You really live in your own special make-believe world don't you?

Anyone who has played hockey at any level can pretty easily spot the difference between a player legitimately driving toward the net with the intention of creating a scoring chance and targeting the goalie but making it look like he slipped (or was pushed) into him.

I'll give you a hint, watch Grieg's stick as he's cutting toward Stolarz. He had ZERO intention of pulling it across and trying to score. In fact the second Marner touches him he goes almost completely limp (again, just watch his stick and arm).

That is textbook goalie crashing, by an amateur. The really good ones can make it look like an honest play. He did not.

 

[TheBeastCoast]

"A" literally means one. Scoring and injure are two purposes.

Okay?

 

[Korpse]

You really live in your own special make-believe world don't you?

Anyone who has played hockey at any level can pretty easily spot the difference between a player legitimately driving toward the net with the intention of creating a scoring chance and targeting the goalie but making it look like he slipped (or was pushed) into him.

I'll give you a hint, watch Grieg's stick as he's cutting toward Stolarz. He had ZERO intention of pulling it across and trying to score. In fact the second Marner touches him he goes almost completely limp (again, just watch his stick and arm).

That is textbook goalie crashing, by an amateur. The really good ones can make it look like an honest play. He did not.

Lol, didn’t address a single thing I said. Didn’t say greig was trying to score.

 

[Korpse]

No he can initiate contact with Marner, but you have to pull up before you run into the goalie with reckless bullshit like that.

He didn’t lose an edge, he bailed. He knew exactly what he was doing and so do all the maple leafs

He knew what he was doing but he did lose and edge. If you want him to pull up, cut off that lane. Marner was soft and gave the lane.

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

Marner making everyone eat their own words.

He came up clutch for Canada at 4 Nations. And he stepped up again last night in Game 1.