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Superstar said:
Dallas piling on in front of Vegas' net, making life difficult for Hill...now, why didn't the Leafs do that?
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It's crazy when you watch all these other teams in different competitions (stanley cup playoffs, Mem Cup, IIHF Worlds) and see just how differently they all play compared to the Leafs.

In the Canada vs Latvia intermission, Dave Reid was talking about Weeger and the goal he got walked on and how he thinks the giveaway was a direct result from him rushing the play because of a earlier hit he took. That's one element that I just really disliked about our team that our forwards play with such little physicality and thus defenders are never really hearing footsteps.

You want one way to score more goals in the playoffs? Start being more physical on the opposing teams defensemen, wear them down over 7 games and watch them start turning the puck over in dangerous areas in their own end.
 
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andora said:
Wow

How telling.. couple of jackasses
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Its not telling at all. The clip is heavily edited. And the reason Laine smirked at one point after Tkachuk said Perry is that Perry had literally just tried to injure Laine at the World Championships on a dirty play

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Corey Perry hurts top prospect with 'garbage play'

Patrik Laine got his first taste of playing against Perry at the World Championships.
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But yeah, so telling...
 
Superstar said:
Dallas piling on in front of Vegas' net, making life difficult for Hill...now, why didn't the Leafs do that?
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They literally did. The only difference is the puck is going in for Dallas, and the goalie is letting out more rebounds, because they're facing Hill, and not Bobrovsky in god mode.
 
TheDoldrums said:
Its not telling at all. The clip is heavily edited. And the reason Laine smirked at one point after Tkachuk said Perry is that Perry had literally just tried to injure Laine at the World Championships on a dirty play

www.sbnation.com

Corey Perry hurts top prospect with 'garbage play'

Patrik Laine got his first taste of playing against Perry at the World Championships.
www.sbnation.com www.sbnation.com

But yeah, so telling...
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I was kinda having fun with it
 
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SIMMONS SAYS: Deifying of Kyle Dubas just can’t continue

You know who else was nice? Dave Nonis treated his staff well, as did Cliff Fletcher with the Leafs. Both got pushed out 'cause it was time.
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JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH

I started covering the NHL in 1980. In those days, you just assumed Canadian teams would play for the Stanley Cup.

Why wouldn’t you? In my university and high school years, the Montreal Canadiens won four Cups in a row. In 1982, the Vancouver Canucks played for the Stanley Cup, Then came the Edmonton Oilers, who lost in ’83, won in ’84 and ’85, and probably should have won in ’86. That year, a rookie named Patrick Roy led the Canadiens to another championship, beating the Calgary Flames in the final.

The Oilers won again in ’87 and ’88 before the Wayne Gretzky trade was made and without Gretzky, they won in ’90. In between that, the Flames won their only Cup in ’89.

So, if you do that math from 1982 to 1990 — nine seasons in all — Canadian teams won seven Cups and played in all nine finals.

And now, nothing. No titles. No true contenders. No Canadian teams a minute away from a championship celebration. Since the Habs’ win in ’93, I can think of only one Canadian team that should have won the Cup since then and that was the 2011 Vancouver Canucks, with a 3-2 lead in the final against the Boston Bruins. They were the best team in hockey — just not when it mattered most.

The simple answer for why Canadian teams don’t win championships any longer? Mostly, they’re not good enough. Ottawa made a Cup final and was taken apart by Anaheim in 2007. Both Calgary and Edmonton made finals with so-so teams and high-end talent but couldn’t win the last series in the end. And right now, Ottawa, Montreal, Winnipeg, Vancouver, and Calgary are all trying to figure out who they are while the top-talented Toronto and Edmonton teams haven’t been able to figure out playoff hockey.

This isn’t about taxes, salary caps, fans, and pressure about all the convenient reasons why Canadian teams don’t win. This is about getting better. This is about having a plan and a strategy and building a foundation. I saw Canadian hockey at its best in the ’70s and ’80s. The Oilers or the Maple Leafs could become one of those title teams. Or become like the 2011 Canucks, living a lifetime of what-if.
 
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weems said:
It's crazy when you watch all these other teams in different competitions (stanley cup playoffs, Mem Cup, IIHF Worlds) and see just how differently they all play compared to the Leafs.

In the Canada vs Latvia intermission, Dave Reid was talking about Weeger and the goal he got walked on and how he thinks the giveaway was a direct result from him rushing the play because of a earlier hit he took. That's one element that I just really disliked about our team that our forwards play with such little physicality and thus defenders are never really hearing footsteps.

You want one way to score more goals in the playoffs? Start being more physical on the opposing teams defensemen, wear them down over 7 games and watch them start turning the puck over in dangerous areas in their own end.
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Not that putting pressure on defensemen is not important, but we saw plenty of times that the Leafs made mistakes with no pressure, that you do not need to run a guy through the boards to cause said pressure, and that good defensemen can make plays even when they are under that kind of pressure as long as they have support, which is more often the problem with the Leafs (at both ends; we may have the first layer of strong forechecking but we are not always good at shutting off the support).

In the case of Weegar though, he just made a terrible decision. If getting hit causes him to make decisions like that, when he had practically no pressure on him, then he is not a very good puck moving defenseman.
 
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