Around the League - 2022-23 Season Edition

[Kurtz]

Buffalo trades ROR: wins cup 11 months later
Buffalo trades Eichel: wins cup 18 months later

And both guys will end up with a Conn Smythe

 

[SeaOfBlue]

Yeah the most glaring difference is watching Eichel hit Marchessault from below the goal line to the top of the circle for a snipe, we had almost none of that despite having the passing lanes available. The amount of whiffed shots on those set ups would have been enough to win a short series if we converted on even half of them.

They forced way too much inside. I like that we are a good forechecking team and we can grind out goals in front of the net, but if the goalie is not giving those goals up and you are clearly seeing that he is giving up goals up high, then maybe try to aim for the thing that is working?

We are easily a team that should be able to beat in a variety of ways... But seems like the players are not capable of doing that nearly enough.

 

[3blizzard4]

How long before that Golden Knights truck outside is overturned by celebrating drunk fans?

 

[ACC1224]

And both guys will end up with a Conn Smythe

Has to be the goalie, no?

 

[Nineteen67]

Has there ever been a bigger crowd to watch a game outside the arena?

 

[BertCorbeau]

Nice to see Mark Stone miraculously heal for the start of the playoffs and lead his team to a cup

 

[Stephen]

Incredibly frustrating. Game 1 could have easily been a win and Game 3 was an OT loss. How easily this could have been a different Final.

I take a different view. Leafs were several bad calls, bad bounces and good efforts away from getting past Florida. To win that series they had to overcome the Panthers, bad officiating and themselves. Can't beat 3 opponents in one round.

 

[The Masters]

Mark Stone is such a force. He's the leader in the trenches

 

[Stephen]

Nice to see Mark Stone miraculously heal for the start of the playoffs and lead his team to a cup

Eh, I would have taken a playoff resurrection from Jake Muzzin or Matt Murray.

 

[BallardEra]

Has to be the goalie, no?

Jonathan Marchessault.

 

[Stephen]

Mark Stone is such a force. He's the leader in the trenches

He's such an awful skater but just plays with a bite and emotion level we couldn't ever hope to get out of 91.

 

[BertCorbeau]

I take a different view. Leafs were several bad calls, bad bounces and good efforts away from getting past Florida. To win that series they had to overcome the Panthers, bad officiating and themselves. Can't beat 3 opponents in one round.

Would have been interesting to see what would have happened had the refs called that holding the stick on Gudas.. if the Leafs win it on the PP and take it to 6 games

 

[ACC1224]

Jonathan Marchessault.

Shows how dominant a team they are when it’s hard to pick the MVP.

 

[3blizzard4]

Mark Stone is such a force. He's the leader in the trenches

Another ex-Ottawa Senators player! Jeez they have had their fair share of amazing players.

 

[keonsbitterness]

How long before that Golden Knights truck outside is overturned by celebrating drunk fans?

Depends. Anyone from Vancouver there?

 

[Stephen]

Would have been interesting to see what would have happened had the refs called that holding the stick on Gudas.. if the Leafs win it on the PP and take it to 6 games

The hinge moment for me would have been Marner skating half speed to the blueline and then lobbing it over to Matthews who chipped it up and it was knocked down by Florida. If that was a normal zone out and the Leafs managed to not fall behind, the series would have settled down a different way.

 

[Martin Skoula]

They forced way too much inside. I like that we are a good forechecking team and we can grind out goals in front of the net, but if the goalie is not giving those goals up and you are clearly seeing that he is giving up goals up high, then maybe try to aim for the thing that is working?

We are easily a team that should be able to beat in a variety of ways... But seems like the players are not capable of doing that nearly enough.

Honestly it’s like they play to prove Berger and the rest of the media wrong more than they play to max their chances of winning.

“They’re too soft”
They start running around getting suspended

“The defense can’t defend”
They play offense scared and start losing 2-1 goalie duels instead

“They can’t score playoff goals”
Most of the offense is now designed around one of Tavares and Matthews deflecting shots and digging for pucks in front of the net.

You can’t have a coherent identity if your identity is proving someone wrong or being the opposite of something, they need to pick positive values and ideals and commit to them regardless of what outside pressure is telling them to do.

 

[1specter]

Eichel gets the last laugh over McDavid, Matthews and Marner

 

[PromisedLand]

Hey PoMo how many goals did you give up in the game tonight to lose series in 5 and not even sniff the cup

 

[fahad203]

Lazy and coach killer Jack Eichel

 

[Nineteen67]

The NHL has been lucky with winning cities
Wash
STL
Tampa
and Vegas

Col was kinda meh boring, but they made up for it this year.

 

[BertCorbeau]

Lazy and coach killer Jack Eichel

Plus attitude issues.

Good for him for waking up.

 

[robertmac43]

Congrats to Vegas. A team that is willing do anything and trade anyone to get the job done.

 

[Dreakmur]

Jonathan Marchessault.

Was he even one of their top 5 most important players?

Eichel, Stone, and Pietrangelo for sure should be ahead of him. Maybe Stephenson and Theodore too…

 

[The Masters]

what a beating