GDT: Around the League - Stanley Cup Edition - Round #3 [Final 4]

[keonsbitterness]

I'm 27, I have been optimistic about a Leafs Cup in my lifetime based on nothing more but probability. I am no longer suffering that delusion.

27 is too young to lose your optimism.

 

[fahad203]

He was bad, but I do think age contributes to his poor play. For a powerforward, getting to 32-33 and beyond playing that way is hard miles, Hell Wendel Clark called it a career at 33.

No doubt. Then he should have been signed or expected to be impactfful. Let alone playing the amount he did

I rather somekme else gets those minutes. Heck I think Petan would have contributed more against the Habs

 

[socko]

I don’t look at the opportunity to get kicked in the ass by the Golden Knights to be a once in a generation opportunity. Our standard was very high coming out of the rebuild and the mission statement was to be in the Tampa Bay class and make short work of the Bruins. Win a Stanley Cup. There is so much work to do and it can be discouraging to think we might take some steps back. But the first step is to be clear headed about where we are as an organization and hope tough and correct decisions are made to get things back on track.

I'd say it was a bigger miss for management than the fans. It was by far their best chance to get a few playoff round wins. They could easily have zero when they get fired. That will make finding any future employment difficult.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Wow Price keeping the Habs in it. What a pass by Stone, though

 

[SeaOfBlue]

Leafs need so much more of that. Hyman and Foligno were supposed to but both were battling injuries, and Simmonds is just too old now and he took a beating that series. Need more guys able and willing to lay the body, less useless slugs like Engvall and Mikheyev that wouldn’t hurt a fly and have no offensive talent to boot.

Mikheyev is huge for our PK, and is one of the better guys in the league at it. I think as long as you temper your expectations (pair him on a 4th line with Spezza to provide some speed and use him for his defensive/PK abilities), there is a ton of value in a guy like him.

Engvall may be a little bit more expendable. Far from a "useless slug" but somewhat of a lesser version of Mikheyev.

We need more guys who can play but know how to play in the tight areas, and that involves a lot more than laying the body. We tried Vesey, Thornton, and Simmonds, but we need better skill and skating ability than those guys provided.

I am looking at a guy like Brock McGinn for example, but hopefully we get someone better than him. Joey Anderson could be an internal option for it as well.

 

[Stephen]

Anderson with 2 boarding plays on McNabb on the same shift.

 

[Superstar]

Pietrangelo is so good...too bad for the Leafs.

 

[Amadeus]

Man these Golden Knights are outstanding! These guys are just so in-synch. For the Leafs, the puck was lava. These guys are just so talented that it's a reality check on how far we truly are before we get to their level.

They can play any type of game - tough, finesse, whatever you want.

 

[fahad203]

Mikheyev is huge for our PK, and is one of the better guys in the league at it. I think as long as you temper your expectations (pair him on a 4th line with Spezza to provide some speed and use him for his defensive/PK abilities), there is a ton of value in a guy like him.

Engvall may be a little bit more expendable. Far from a "useless slug" but somewhat of a lesser version of Mikheyev.

We need more guys who can play but know how to play in the tight areas, and that involves a lot more than laying the body. We tried Vesey, Thornton, and Simmonds, but we need better skill and skating ability than those guys provided.

I am looking at a guy like Brock McGinn for example, but hopefully we get someone better than him. Joey Anderson could be an internal option for it as well.

Mikaheyev is trash. We gave up 2 pp goals in game 7 he has no points in 12 games

He by far is most overrated player on this team. There are plenty of players who can kill penalties and skate for league minimum

See: Tobias Reider

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

The first two periods were typical Montreal. Come out flying in the first and then lay an egg in the second.

 

[socko]

This game has too many scoring chances for Montreal. They have limited finishers. They need a low event game to have a chance.

 

[Menzinger]

The Habs strategy was only going to get them so far, Vegas was well structured to deal with their attempts to clog the neutral zone and Price can only do so much. Vegas is a great team and will make short work of them.

 

[3blizzard4]

Is this the first time in the playoffs at the Habs are trailing in the 3rd?

 

[PromisedLand]

Matthews is a work in progress but his physical buy in was good up until the end of the series. Marner is just unacceptable in terms of what normal hockey buy in looks like even for a skilled finesse player.

Marner has ZERO goals in the last 18 playoff games. Justify that 11 AAV contract even without any hits or so called finesse

Absolutely UNACCEPTABLE

 

[Superstar]

Is this the first time in the playoffs at the Habs are trailing in the 3rd?

They haven't trailed in their last 7 games.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Is this the first time in the playoffs at the Habs are trailing in the 3rd?

They trailed in games 2-4 of round 1

 

[socko]

They haven't trailed in their last 7 games.

Winnipeg was almost a bye for them. What a disgrace that series was.

 

[3blizzard4]

Vegas knew that to get anything past Price it would have to be ugly: bounces, tip-ins and screens.

Now lets see what the Habs can do.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Mikaheyev is trash. We gave up 2 pp goals in game 7 he has no points in 12 games

He by far is most overrated player on this team. There are plenty of players who can kill penalties and skate for league minimum

See: Tobias Reider

Our penalty kill went to shit these playoffs right after Muzzin went down due to injury. Hardly a coincidence. There is a player whose last name starts with “M” that’s crucial to the PK, but it ain’t Mikheyev, or Marner for that matter.

 

[Knies iT]

If you want to watch a train wreck live, tune into Kes' house on SN (streaming on YouTube).

 

[socko]

Gallagher is making me laugh with these 55 foot slapshots.

 

[3blizzard4]

Habs still playing bore fest hockey. Jeez.

 

[Superstar]

Staal and Perry only played 6 and 7 plus minutes so far...a complete liability against Vegas' fast and hard forecheck...of course Leafs make these 2 old guys look like stars...

 

[fahad203]

Out penalty kill went to shit right after Muzzin left due to injury. Hardly a coincidence. It ain’t Mikheyev or Marner who stirs the PK drink.

So we can't count on our PK then at all ? I mean one guy can be thst influential then maybe it was Muzzin was killing all these penalties not Mikaheyev

So Mikaheyev does really suck. He's not even good at one job he's supposed to be good at

 

[Superstar]

Gallagher is making me laugh with these 55 foot slapshots.

He's looking to get lucky with the 5 hole.