Around the League - 2024-2025

[Jacquestrapless]

Nasty

 

[MSZ]

So unnecessary for Kucherov. First period was all Tampa.

 

[Evilhomer]

I've always been a proponent that Keefe wasn't the main problem, the main problem is spending more than 50% of your cap on four forwards, and worse, who all have similar play styles. Also, the whole team except like 2 players don't have that "dog" in them.

I am not surprised that Keefe is doing pretty good in NJ. Obviously we will see come playoffs.

I think Jersey will get eliminated fairly early. Much too soft as a team.

Nasty

That looked very ugly.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

I see the Islanders suffered a Stanley Cup hangover after beating us and got smoked by the Sabres.

 

[francis246]

For a sport that’s supposed to have such tough guys, some of these NHL players are so sensitive. Werenski’s comments after the game just makes the CBJ locker room look worse. It’s “bullshit” that Laine speaks his truth about what he feels happened in CBJ? Come on Werenski

 

[Lightsol]

Nasty

Sorry, not sorry. Tkachuk plays that way himself, and quite frankly, he did it to himself by stupidly sticking his knee out like that. He plays that normally, he takes a check, not a knee shot.

 

[Antropovsky]

I've always been a proponent that Keefe wasn't the main problem, the main problem is spending more than 50% of your cap on four forwards, and worse, who all have similar play styles. Also, the whole team except like 2 players don't have that "dog" in them.

I am not surprised that Keefe is doing pretty good in NJ. Obviously we will see come playoffs.

There’s plenty of video, post-game interviews, and "Blueprint" episodes showing Keefe practically begging this core to play playoff hockey during the season.

And now we have plenty of video of Berube doing the same, to no avail.

 

[arso40]

There’s plenty of video, post-game interviews, and "Blueprint" episodes showing Keefe practically begging this core to play playoff hockey during the season.

And now we have plenty of video of Berube doing the same, to no avail.

Smart teams coach to personnel tampa didn’t win like Florida and they didn’t win like the penguins so either trade for the personnel or change the philosophy

 

[Antropovsky]

Nasty

This is further proof of why Tampa has rings and the Leafs don’t. A $9 million player, Hart, Art Ross, and Ted Lindsay winner, and two-time Stanley Cup champion, Kucherov, throwing a dirty knee on his archrival in a regular-season game.

Not a good hit (but maybe not intentional), but it shows the player’s competitiveness. None of our core players have that in them, not even in a playoff series.

 

[LeafsFan89]

I think Jersey will get eliminated fairly early. Much too soft as a team.


That looked very ugly.

Kucherov is such a dirty player. Looks like he legit leads with the knee lol

 

[BallardEra]

The division got a little tighter with Boston and Tampa winning last night:

 

[Jojalu]

The division got a little tighter with Boston and Tampa winning last night:

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6 points out of 8th..

2 points still from first in the division.

Tight race this year. It would be nice to actually have games near the end of the year matter for positioning

 

[stickty111]

I think Jersey will get eliminated fairly early. Much too soft as a team.


That looked very ugly.

New Jersey is a lot more tougher this year. They are responding to questionable plays. They have been praised for sticking up for one another. They aren't any more soft than the Leafs are.

 

[1specter]

New Jersey is a lot more tougher this year. They are responding to questionable plays. They have been praised for sticking up for one another. They aren't any more soft than the Leafs are.

I dunno about that. Patches obliterated Hughes and they just stood and watched

The division got a little tighter with Boston and Tampa winning last night:

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That was fun while it lasted. The way this team is playing especially with Stolarz out now the wildcard is in its near future.

 

[Sypher04]

For a sport that’s supposed to have such tough guys, some of these NHL players are so sensitive. Werenski’s comments after the game just makes the CBJ locker room look worse. It’s “bullshit” that Laine speaks his truth about what he feels happened in CBJ? Come on Werenski

I’m firmly on Werenski’s side here.
Laine quit on that team in Columbus as much as anyone else may have. He pulled the same crap with Winnipeg after he arrived in Columbus too (yapping, throwing shade).

He was acquired and paid to be a leader in that group and came nowhere close to providing for them.

Hell he barely even played 50% of the game during his time as a Blue Jacket and was supported by his teammates through his mental health struggles.

I think it shows a tremendous amount of immaturity to throw your former teammates under the bus when you were often not even there to battle with them. And it’s especially tone deaf coming from a player whose book is “talented but doesn’t want to put in the work”

It wreaks of a lack of self awareness. It’s very, I wasn’t the problem, it was everyone around me.

 

[PromisedLand]

who expected this? LOL

 

[francis246]

I’m firmly on Werenski’s side here.
Laine quit on that team in Columbus as much as anyone else may have. He pulled the same crap with Winnipeg after he arrived in Columbus too (yapping, throwing shade).

He was acquired and paid to be a leader in that group and came nowhere close to providing for them.

Hell he barely even played 50% of the game during his time as a Blue Jacket and was supported by his teammates through his mental health struggles.

I think it shows a tremendous amount of immaturity to throw your former teammates under the bus when you were often not even there to battle with them. And it’s especially tone deaf coming from a player whose book is “talented but doesn’t want to put in the work”

It wreaks of a lack of self awareness. It’s very, I wasn’t the problem, it was everyone around me.

I don’t think anyone is in the wrong here. Laines comments are justified. That CBJ organization is not committed to winning and they haven’t been for a while. And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being honest about that. Being honest about a situation shouldn’t turn into throwing teammates under the bus. He didn’t say his teammates are bad people, he said the organization wasn’t committed to winning and is he lying? Nope, what has the organization done to demonstrate that they are serious about that?

He also never mentioned his teammates. He said it’s up to people’s imagination. I inferred that as management not the players.