Post-Game Talk: Another week, another embarrassing loss

[Leafsfan74]

Look.at some of those +/- ...Marner, Rielly, JT. Bad habits creeping in agaiin at a time when they should be rampng up and shutting the hatches.

It's why guys like me.don't celebrate individual stats very hard. Individual regular season stats don't alow one to lift the Cup..Marner can get 150 points and it means abso!utely nothing if they lose in the First Round. This is where.guys like O.Reilly and Murray must pay dividends.

As much as the deal seemed. "fair" when signed. Dubas may very well regret sticking with Rielly.as a poor mans #1.

 

[Puckstuff]

Get the lead, clog the neutral zone and watch the Leafs implode because Keefe's coach doesn't know how to play against clogged neutral zone or dump/chaser/recover the puck and play hockey.

Freakin JOKE

Absolutely ZERO confidence in Keefe in the playoffs. Cooper is gonna eat him up.

I'm honestly a bit concerned about Keefe vs Cooper.

Though this a regular season blip and no Brodie and O'Reilly makes a big difference. But I want to see better lines, better match ups and smarter decisions from Keefe. Hoping Schenn comes in for Holl as well.

 

[Smif]

aside from a few fortunate wins, they've really looked like a mess since the trade deadline. The majority of the team looks lost aside from a couple of players

The lineup has been a complete mish mash since the TDL. Seems like Keefe has no idea what he's doing with the team since the new additions.

 

[Blanche Blanche]

Get the lead, clog the neutral zone and watch the Leafs implode because Keefe's coach doesn't know how to play against clogged neutral zone or dump/chaser/recover the puck and play hockey.

Freakin JOKE

Absolutely ZERO confidence in Keefe in the playoffs. Cooper is gonna eat him up.

Only an idiot would play Samsonov with an expecting wife.

Just a way to kill his confidence.

Just like he killed Lilys with that dumb benching.

Promoting Kerfoot randomly, and never getting these loosy goosy plays to stop.

Keefe is being swept this year by Cooper

 

[LeafalCrusader]

 

[fahad203]

Keefe: Hmmm....Play the goalie whose injured and thinking about an imminent baby...yahhh thats the one!

He's not injured. He's been cleared to play
The goals he has given up tonight has nothing to do with injuries

He has given up similar goals many times, even when he's fully healthy

That's just Sammy. You should watch his highlights from last year

 

[mikeyz]

And there are some of you here who still think we're going to beat Tampa in a month? Lol. Keep dreaming.

 

[Skullz]

Terrible, just terrible. So many turnovers. Man are we ever discombobulated. Have looked like total crap since the TDL. Time for Keefe to stop fiddling around and figure out some combo's that work together and leave them that way.

All our D were horrendous. Reilly especially.

Forwards sucked too. Getting tired of this! JT looks like he's skating in mud. Willy needs to find another gear and soon. Really disappointing performance again. Definitely in a funk.

 

[Metroid]

We play a trash game against the Sens and now against the Isles
But we think we can beat Tampa /Vasi ?

Of course, you clearly don't know the leafs M.O

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Without a doubt the most embarrassing loss of the season. Giveaways galore, completely outskated and outworked. Game was going well until Liljegren fanned on a pass (which boy he sure has done a lot recently) and the cascading giveaways the Isles made no mistake on. Mitch and Rielly combining for another brutal giveaway after just pulling within one was the nail in the coffin and they just gave up afterwards.

Lines have no chemistry, no help for Samsonov, no heart, no brains. Keefe refuses to settle on lines and pairings, and once again the Leafs get dominated. I’m sure the next game he makes lineup combo #25 will be the correct one.

 

[Leafblooded]

Only an idiot would play Samsonov with an expecting wife.

Just a way to kill his confidence.

Just like he killed Lilys with that dumb benching.

Promoting Kerfoot randomly, and never getting these loosy goosy plays to stop.

Keefe is being swept this year by Cooper

No no you don't understand, Marner will play 48 mins and win games with his drop passes single handedly

 

[PromisedLand]

Only an idiot would play Samsonov with an expecting wife.

Just a way to kill his confidence.

Just like he killed Lilys with that dumb benching.

Promoting Kerfoot randomly, and never getting these loosy goosy plays to stop.

Keefe is being swept this year by Cooper

Holy Sammy's wife is expecting? didn't know that.

 

[wingman75]

7 goals on 27 shots. 1 was an empty net, but bush league goaltending as well.

Maybe, but the number of turnovers and free time the Islanders had was more pathetic than the goaltending imo. Every goal was pretty much a direct giveaway, or uncovered guy in front.

I can't decide who was worse between McCabe, Liljegren or Rielly. The others weren't much better.

I mean, McCabe didn't know to cover the guy in the crease on the four on four? Liljegren with yet another fan on a pass? Rielly, instead of making a sure play on the puck just f***ing wings in just after they got back in the game? C'mon, that is not winning hockey. Doesn't matter who was in the net.

 

[Enniskillen]

No passion, no heart. Acciari was traded to the wrong team. O’Rielly will not want to stand up for these soft losers.

 

[horner]

Lucky for us, Isles will upset the Bruins in the first round and we can face them in the second round!

Revenge baby!

We won't be Boston

 

[Anthrax442]

*Checks the Jays calendar*

 

[Aashir]

Oreilly needs to come back quickly so mcmann can return to where he belongs in the AHL

 

[DraftSchmaft]

Three things were true last round 1.

Point was less than 100%

Kucherov was less than 100%

Muzzin shut everything in his path down.


All of these are false this season (Kuch and Point back to elite is especially scary) yet everyone is so cocky we are favorites in round 1. I truly believe we have regressed to under dogs.


Hot take: out of the 4 teams (Boston Tampa Toronto and probably Rangers) battling to get into the cup finals from the east, Leafs have 4th best odds. That's just sad. Literally handed a cheat code core in 2018 and we still don't stand out among the best.

 

[Voodoo Child]

I didn’t watch the game for reasons stated in recent post history - either an automatic L or a snorefest win. Peeping the highlights now.

Did Keefe do the thing where he has Matthews-Marner-Nylander on different lines again? Because that’s stupid. If it was gonna be done it should have happened years ago but now? In the most pressure-packed season they have?

And that right there is the difference between Mitch and Willy; put Mitch with anybody and he produces, but Willy needs a secondary threat.

Sammy has stood taller than Murray this year but it concerns me that he’ll have 1-2 games a month where he’s not stopping a beach ball.

Giveaways giveaways giveaways…Mo, Timmy…

 

[Stephen]

The first period looked like a good playoff road test in progress. Then the team went full Lou-ser.

 

[Smif]

Only an idiot would play Samsonov with an expecting wife.

Just a way to kill his confidence.

Just like he killed Lilys with that dumb benching.

Promoting Kerfoot randomly, and never getting these loosy goosy plays to stop.

Keefe is being swept this year by Cooper

Hard to disagree.

 

[Racer88]

Sure would be nice for once to have an elite goalie like some of these other teams have.
Im so tired of them picking from the crap heap

 

[Mr_Fun]

Two turning points tonight -- Sorokins huge save when we had them on the ropes, and Marners crapola pass into Reillys skates when we had just made it close.

Just a bad night overall. If you want to single out a particular person and blame them solely for the loss fly at 'er. I mean you won't be wrong it saying said person was an absolute bum tonight.

 

[Cleetus]

Get the lead, clog the neutral zone and watch the Leafs implode because Keefe's coach doesn't know how to play against clogged neutral zone or dump/chaser/recover the puck and play hockey.

Freakin JOKE

Absolutely ZERO confidence in Keefe in the playoffs. Cooper is gonna eat him up.

yep you have been posting this for years, and you have been proven right everytime!

 

[horner]

7 goals on 27 shots. 1 was an empty net, but bush league goaltending as well.

Look at the bush league team in front of him.