Are the Leafs going to get a 5 on 3 power play this season?
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Leafblooded
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As long as the reffing is as abysmal as last night out team isn't getting anything. They need to start sticking up for themselves. Only way to draw penalties in this league is to be willing to take penalties yourself when warranted.
Last night against the Habs, our goalie got run 3 separate times, as well as jabbed in the neck by Matheson. Our team didn't do f*** all. Take the game out of the refs hands and standup for your teammates for once!
Last night against the Habs, our goalie got run 3 separate times, as well as jabbed in the neck by Matheson. Our team didn't do f*** all. Take the game out of the refs hands and standup for your teammates for once!
PromisedLand
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No!
My reason:
Leafs don't work hard enough on the PP to get a 5 on 3 and put opposition in a position to take another penalty while Leafs are on PP
My reason:
Leafs don't work hard enough on the PP to get a 5 on 3 and put opposition in a position to take another penalty while Leafs are on PP
Leafidelity
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Calliing a second penalty on the Leafs while on the PP would finally prove how bias Refs are towards Toronto, and nobody wants that. Also, the panels will never mention it because it would prove how bias for Toronto they are.
TheGreatOne11
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hamzarocks
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on average how many 5 on 3's do teams get across the league and how many have the leafs averaged the past 5 years?
I doubt we don't get a 5 on 3 all year. Should be seeing this increase as the season goes.
Are 5 on 3's mostly called deep into the first powerplay across the league or early? Leafs have 152 powerplays and convert at 24.34%. Have about 37 PP Goals.
Could be the case that leafs scored early on those PPs resulting in the chance for a 5-on-3 to be gone, as a result of the goal.
I doubt we end without a single 5 on 3 all year.
I doubt we don't get a 5 on 3 all year. Should be seeing this increase as the season goes.
Are 5 on 3's mostly called deep into the first powerplay across the league or early? Leafs have 152 powerplays and convert at 24.34%. Have about 37 PP Goals.
Could be the case that leafs scored early on those PPs resulting in the chance for a 5-on-3 to be gone, as a result of the goal.
I doubt we end without a single 5 on 3 all year.
LeafsNation75
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It was frustrating that Sandin got called got goalie interference, even though he was pushed into Montembeault. However, seconds earlier before that happened, Samsonov got tripped while in his crease and there was no penalty against Montreal.
You think after the Leafs playing 47 games this season, it would get more attention during the intermission panels.
Contenderorpretender
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The refs have been brutal. So no. I'm shocked that sometimes they get more pp than the opposing team
LeafalCrusader
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LeafsNation75
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Look at the game against Winnipeg when the Leafs had to kill off a 5 on 3 in the 3rd period. The first penalty on Kampf was for delay of game and with 1:12 left on his penalty, Giordano got called for tripping Dubois, because his stick got stuck in that open part of his skate. So that's the type of luck the Leafs haven't got yet when they are on a 5 on 4 power play.
Buds17
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I voted yes, just for the law of averages.
But, your point is valid. Hard to draw a second penalty when the 5 guys on the ice are standing still and passing the puck around the outside.
We're probably going to get one at some point, but I'd bet that it's in some blowout game that doesn't matter, or at the end of a PP.
WestCoastLeafs
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Yes, of course they will. With 30 seconds left in a lopsided game.
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Gilmour1996
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LeafsNation75
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Honestly that's something I can see actually happening.
notDatsyuk
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We stand around the outside. They stand around the inside. Nobody infringes on anyone else's turf, so there's no need to call a penalty.
We don't even crowd them when they get the puck, so even an over-the-glass penalty isn't likely.
We don't even crowd them when they get the puck, so even an over-the-glass penalty isn't likely.
Suntouchable13
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Teams are not entitled to get a certain amount of 5-on-3s a season. Teams typically earn them, or it happens by luck. It is not some great injustice that the Leafs have not gotten any 5-on-3s. There is no conspiracy. It drives me crazy that people actually think Gary is an overlord of the NHL and gets to do what he wants without answering to the owners.
Al14
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Al14
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It's not a case of entitlement, it's a case of fair play. All too often what's a penalty against our Leafs is completely ignored by the Refs when an opposing player does the exact same infraction.
I have always called out the Refs for missing infractions against our Leafs. Just ask anyone that watches hockey with me. More often than not, our Leafs are called for a penalty that has been ignored/missed by the Refs earlier. It happens consistently against American based teams, especially in the playoffs.
The majority of NHL franchises are American based. Bettman's tenure, and continued employment, rests with pleasing the owners, the majority of which are American. It is no secret that the goal of the NHL is to grow the game south of the border in the U.S. of A. Their major goal is to score a huge TV deal, so having American teams doing well are what is important to them. A Canadian team winning the Stanley Cup is not in their best interest.
If Canada was important to the NHL, the Coyotes of Arizona would have become the Quebec Nordiques a very long time ago. Instead, Bettman is forcing the issue trying to make that franchise successful in this southern state. Why have the owners not stepped in and told him to relocate them already??? Why should our Leafs give a portion of the money earned from us the fans to prop up money losing franchises in the U.S.???
Does it make sense that the southern state of Florida has 2 NHL teams and the provinces of Ontario and Quebec in hockey crazy Canada only has 3 teams between them???
It's no surprise to me that our Leafs are the only NHL team to not have a 5-3 PP this season. I point to 1993 when Wayne Gretzky was not issued a game misconduct for cutting Doug Gilmour with a high stick. The NHL did NOT want an all Canadian Stanley Cup final.
LeafsNation75
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I never said the Leafs were entitled to get a certain amount of 5 on 3 power plays. If it wasn't mentioned a few games ago that they were the only team this season to not have any, I would have never known that.
The first time Toronto played San Jose this season, the Sharks had a full 2:00 minute 5 on 3, which of course they ended up scoring a goal.
Mugzy97
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I tried to find amount of 5 on 3 PPs per team or amount of actual 5 on 3 time per team but was unable to find these stats. If anyone else can find these please share.
LeafsNation75
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Auston Matthews goal in Game 1 last season against Tampa was scored with Toronto on a 5 on 3.
