Would love to see Steeves get time up there he’s got a lot of skill.
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I injuries are piling up which means the boys are playing a more physical style of Hockey. Love it.
This will better prepare them for the playoff grind.
This will better prepare them for the playoff grind.
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Yep, he was onto having a top5 worst defense every year, and now the Leafs have been top5 defensively ever since Holl moved onto the top shutdown pairing.
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Holl can make some bonehead plays. If he played 10-15 minutes a night I wouldn’t have an issue with him. He’s actually decent until he gets fatigued around his 4th shift. He’s just not a top 4. He’s 6th or 7th depth.
Yes, Holl is the reason lol. Maybe it has to do with the team, particularly the forwards, being more committed to the defensive side of the game which is easy to see for anyone.
Correlation =/ causation
Holl isn't the only reason we're better now, but he's been a quality defenseman and a solid part of our matchup pairing for a while now. Babcock irrationally sitting him to play the likes of ancient Hainsey, Zaitsev, Ozhiganov, and Marincin certainly didn't help anything.
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yeah the whole team instantly learned how to play defense for the first time in 4 years, the very instant Babcock left.
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This will be the case until he's gone and then the next player is the one they can't play without......rinse/repeat.
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Don't give that user attention. Just another user trying to take credit away from Dubas, and trying to say that a person who was against Dubas was wrong.
Him not replying to you tells us everything.
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Looks like Babcock was on to the wrong things.
One of the many things was Nylander isn't very good. Thats a huge miss in a long list of misses by Babcock.
Yeah we probably need to sign maricin back I wonder where he’s playing now I haven’t seen him in any games..
That's just as believable as thinking that Holl magically made this team a top 5 defensive group because apparently he's a Pronger level defensive player.
Babs is an idiot and I dont say things like that lightly. I still shake my head and get annoyed thinking of how he dealt with Spezza for his first game as a leaf. I could go on and on as we have done to death here already. All coaches have blind spots but "mr. (3rd person) i bet on babcock everytime" is up there for most unlikable leaf of all time for me.
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Best player got ragdolled and disappeared after that, the other got hurt in PRACTICE & is out a month and the Captain and his too cool for school line mate just can't. What physicality are we talking ? the best players have to participate to make a difference in the playoffs. To me the same questions come up as previous years.
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Mmm
My favourite thing with Babcock was playing Hainsey the full two minutes on the PK for absolutely no reason. Even in overtime.
Other teams with far worse d-corps never launched the same player for the entire PK - but Babcock because he is some genius thought that was a good strategy. As if Hainsey was otherworldly.
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Not that Babcock wasn't an idiot but that's more than likely an assistant running that.
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