GDT: Apr 22 7pm - BwO and the Leafs vs TB: Game 3 Baby - Squiffy hasn't done a GDT in a decade easy

[Torontonian]

Have a feeling tonight will be a tight checking game without many penalties. Gotta play hard and hope we go up 2-1 in the series.

If Hedman plays tonight, you know he’s not 100%, Toronto will need to finish every check they can get on him.

 

[kb]

There was Cam Neely too.. maybe a touch more talent and not quite as Saskatchewan farm boy crazy tough but cut from the same cloth.

Again, if there is some gdt schedule that I pulled the carpet out from under I apologize. In all fairness, I was a few jolly pops deep, so…

Anyhow, no worries right, there’s going to be lots more to make this year. Go Leafs Go

 

[Rob Brown]

 

[Suntouchable13]

That actually wasn't a horrible team.

 

[therealkoho]

I watch this about once every couple of months

GO LEAFS GO

It's a beautiful thing, that devastating right hand.

I used to like that stuff, but now, oh I don't know I guess I've become American by some strange osmosis and now abhor fighting, tie games and have come to embrace the shoot-out as the most exciting part of the game, so sayeth the godspell according to the BettMan and the Las Vegas morning line.

 

[1specter]

That actually wasn't a horrible team.

The forward group wasn't bad, they had enough skill for opportunistic scoring. Defense was pretty terrible though.

 

[RunItBackAgain]

That actually wasn't a horrible team.

If everyone was in their career year, maybe. But lots of them were in a down season. Grabo/Kulemin/MacA were all pacing for sub 40 pt seasons in a full season. O'Byrne was getting regular minutes in the playoffs after playing 16 games in the ECHL that same season and never saw the NHL again.

 

[AvroArrow]

If we lose tonight will you start to believe?

*Bill Clinton voice* We do not have any relations with the Edmonton Oilers

 

[Suntouchable13]

The forward group wasn't bad, they had enough skill for opportunistic scoring. Defense was pretty terrible though.

Good enough to take Boston to a game 7 and be within 10 minutes of advancing.

 

[therealkoho]

True.
To be honest, he hadn’t been great this year. If he has a groin pull that he is playing through, could be a detriment to his team.
But Tampa is thin on defense. They have no choice. And really miss McDonaugh

Just keep dumping it in his corner and go hard on the forecheck, and I mean paint the boards with him hard

 

[IPS]

The forward group wasn't bad, they had enough skill for opportunistic scoring. Defense was pretty terrible though.

I remember all the crap Randy Carlyle got for his "anti-possession" style of defense.

Dude was not a good coach but there was no coach in the world who could have made that defense work.

 

[therealkoho]

Soooo anyone else notice the Leafs are following the Oilers Win/Loss record in the playoffs? Lose the first game at home, win the second game at home? Oil lost their first game on the road? If we lose tonight I'm gonna lose my s#it.

Both teams had 50 wins in the regular season.
One team had 111 points the other had 109.

Is there some sort of Quantum entanglement between the Oil and the Leafs?

I think what it means is that someday soon McJeebuzz will walk across those great waters and become a Leaf

 

[ShaneFalco]

That actually wasn't a horrible team.

nope Lupul on his prime was a beast too

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Moore > McJesus

 

[CanadasTeam]

Somone has to ask Cooper the same question he was asked two days ago

 

[TorMapleJays]

Win->Driver's Seat

No.

Win and it is not a successful road trip. 2-0 is a successful trip.

 

[wingman75]

Sounds like he is 50/50. Do we even know the source of the injury?




Changes? Timmy?

 

[RunItBackAgain]

Lilly left practice with no extra work. People speculating he's coming in for Schenn tonight.

 

[ShaneFalco]

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Moore > McJesus

always liked him

 

[IPS]

Lilly left practice with no extra work. People speculating he's coming in for Schenn tonight.

Schenn had an amazing game in game 2. I'm as big of a Lilly fan as the next guy but the grit Schenn is providing is invaluable and he seems to synergize with Rielly decent enough.

 

[Oscar Peterson]

Lilly left practice with no extra work. People speculating he's coming in for Schenn tonight.

Should be coming in for Holl

 

[RunItBackAgain]

Schenn had an amazing game in game 2. I'm as big of a Lilly fan as the next guy but the grit Schenn is providing is invaluable and he seems to synergize with Rielly decent enough.

Agreed fully. I don't want him out of the lineup while Maroon and Perry are on the other team.

 

[TorMapleJays]

Schenn has 7 stitches, probably right on the pressure point of his bucket too. That can’t be comfortable.

IMO the Leafs have a critical choice to make tonight.
Either go out and try to weather the storm, or go out and be the storm.

I see what you did there.

 

[Optimist]

Dress the Wayne train tonight and the Bolts will be skating on eggshells all night.

 

[Sypher04]

Dress the Wayne train tonight.

Hell no to that

Have a feeling tonight will be a tight checking game without many penalties. Gotta play hard and hope we go up 2-1 in the series.

If you think about it that was a little bit last game. I think they only called maybe 6 penalties that were not puck over the glass