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

[Mess]

Point is no Marner. 25 goals since 2020. Kid does not know the difference between regular season and playoffs.

Not bad for $6.75 mil cap.

That kid is pure money come playoff time. Reminds me a bit of Dougie Gilmour as Point has that "killer instinct" we keep hearing about lately.

 

[Gabriel426]

Not bad for $6.75 mil cap.

That kid is pure money come playoff time. Reminds me a bit of Dougie Gilmour as Point has that "killer instinct" we keep hearing about lately.

Point reminds me of Claude Lemieux, he just hit that button comes playoffs.

 

[koyvoo]

If leafs want to win, we need a real goalie

Do you expect this real goalie to create offence and score goals in games 5,6 and 7s of series?

Because if this goalie who would save can’t score, even prime Hasek would be screwed with the sport of offence our coward superstars provide in those crucial games.

 

[Superstar]

You had better bring your work boots and your own lunch pail to this TB/NYI series.

Gotta give Tampa a lot of credit, while they have the elite talent they're also prepared to work and get dirty and grind out games .. They have learned how to win in the playoffs.

Of the 6 games last year and the 3 this year in the series 5 of those games have gone 2-1 final including 2 in OT last year.

These teams dump it and chase it down and manufacture changes out of nothing but hard work and determination.

You mean they don't skate the puck back into their own end like it's the regular season only to give it away for a goal?

 

[SeaOfBlue]

Do you expect this real goalie to create offence and score goals in games 5,6 and 7s of series?

Because if this goalie who would save can’t score, even prime Hasek would be screwed with the sport of offence our coward superstars provide in those crucial games.

Two of the three games in the NYI/TBL series have been 2-1 wins. It's not like they've been shootouts or anything. We can't have goalies who spot goals in close games and so far we have yet to find a goalie who does not give up these soft goals. We can win close games in the playoffs, but not when we are giving up weak goals or making silly mistakes and the other team is not.

Our defense has made a lot of these games easy too. It's not like they even have to play as well as their counterparts to win... They just can't have a sub .900 save percentage in series clinching games while the other goalie is putting up a .940. That has to be fixed if we want to win anything, regardless of what our offense does (short of outscoring our problems, which is not a sustainable solution in the playoffs).

The Leafs have not had issues generating offensive opportunities. If our last three series were determined based on what we generated, we would have won all three (and the last two would not have even been close). We have struggled to finish. We've worked hard to get the chances, but the other goalie makes huge saves, or we hit a post, or a guy otherwise misses. Meanwhile the other team seems to capitalize on the fewer chances they are given, or gets a bunch of soft goals, and they end up winning.

I almost feel like the Leafs are at the point where they are afraid of messing up, but because they are trying so hard not to mess up, they end up doing exactly that. Almost like a driver who is trying not to hit a pole ends up driving right into the pole because he was focusing too much on it. I think that happened to our goalies especially, and I think it happened to guys like Marner, Sandin, and Dermott when they made some terrible mistakes. They were so focused on not making the wrong play that it was what ended up happening (i.e. Marner really tried hard not to flip the puck over the glass only for him to do exactly that even though literally nobody was around him).

 

[RomanianLeafs]

Is there any possible outcome in any of these games that won't result in half the posts in this thread being about how much the Leafs suck?

This...we are all upset but this is becoming annoying...this is around the league thread not the i hate my team thread

 

[Eternal Leaf]

look at point taking the beating to create a chance and then score. Marner and his contract is a f***ing DISGRACE

Even if they had the same contracts, Point is twice the player. Just on another level in the playoffs.

 

[horner]

look at point taking the beating to create a chance and then score. Marner and his contract is a f***ing DISGRACE

Mathews and his f***ing contract DISGRACE

Both Mathews and Marner don't have a playoff gear

Would take Point over Marner and Mathews

 

[Hockey4Life91]

What a play by Point! Paid the price and scored.

Good non-challenge by the Isles

An incredibly clutch player. Goals in 6 straight games. 2 OT goals during Tampa's cup run last year, including the 60T thriller, and the game winning goal in the cup clincher. He certainly has another gear in the playoffs.

 

[Mess]

You mean they don't skate the puck back into their own end like it's the regular season only to give it away for a goal?

This concept of keeping possession looks good in a spreadsheet, where possession metrics drive personnel decisions, or if you have a known soft small skilled team that is none physical, and you know it would be harder to regain possession by dumping it in, and then aggressively forechecking, hitting and regaining possession.

In other words deploying a regular season strategy that fails come playoff time.

 

[socko]

We should start now clearing cap space for Brayden Point. Trade Marner. Don't let Tampa sign him for peanuts again. Throw the bank at him. I'm willing to give up the 4 first rounders. We can recapture with the Marner return.

 

[rumman]

Gotta be able to grind out games or parts of games when not playing your best.

I think both team have shown this, no quit in either team.

 

[rumman]

A lot easier when you have Vasileskiy as your starter.

Every time he handles the puck is a concern to me.

 

[rumman]

Is there any possible outcome in any of these games that won't result in half the posts in this thread being about how much the Leafs suck?

No. Because the Leafs suck......

 

[3blizzard4]

There is a lot of Leafs talk over at the Islanders forums. For a team in the conference finals, we sure do occupy a special large space in their headspace.

 

[ottawa]

There is a lot of Leafs talk over at the Islanders forums. For a team in the conference finals, we sure do occupy a special large space in their headspace.

There's literally a habs vs vegas thread sitting at the top of the page in the Leafs forum that is almost in entirety discussing the habs.

 

[socko]

There's literally a habs vs vegas thread sitting at the top of the page in the Leafs forum that is almost in entirety discussing the habs.

Those are teams currently playing in the playoffs including the team that eliminated us in an upset. The Islanders talking about us could be considered living rent free. I've always thought they made way too much about losing Tavares. For the money they offered him, they could get someone better.

 

[ottawa]

Those are teams currently playing in the playoffs including the team that eliminated us in an upset. The Islanders talking about us could be considered living rent free. I've always thought they made way too much about losing Tavares. For the money they offered him, they could get someone better.

Oh right, I forgot they're still salty about that lmao. It's been 3 years.

 

[FreeBird]

We should start now clearing cap space for Brayden Point. Trade Marner. Don't let Tampa sign him for peanuts again. Throw the bank at him. I'm willing to give up the 4 first rounders. We can recapture with the Marner return.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Ducharmehas tested positive for COVID.

 

[PromisedLand]

You had better bring your work boots and your own lunch pail to this TB/NYI series.

Gotta give Tampa a lot of credit, while they have the elite talent they're also prepared to work and get dirty and grind out games .. They have learned how to win in the playoffs.

Of the 6 games last year and the 3 this year in the series 5 of those games have gone 2-1 final including 2 in OT last year.

These teams dump it and chase it down and manufacture changes out of nothing but hard work and determination.

but but but but but.... zone entries..... fancy plays.... who cares about hardwork, determination and dump/chase. nobody wins that way....

might as well play music not only in practice but during games and bendover to every players' contract demands

 

[rumman]

but but but but but.... zone entries..... fancy plays.... who cares about hardwork, determination and dump/chase. nobody wins that way....

might as well play music not only in practice but during games and bendover to every players' contract demands

Leaf Nation loves it’s shiny toys, lunchbuckets not so much......

 

[rumman]

Ducharmehas tested positive for COVID.

Tough break, Habs had a uphill climb to begin with, this won’t help. I guess they could use it as a rallying point?

 

[Clark4Ever]

Ducharmehas tested positive for COVID.

Yikes. I hope it hasn't spread to any of the players or this series could unravel in a hurry.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]