Post-Series Talk: Boston Bruins Defeat Toronto Maple Leafs (win 4-3)

[Chaos2k7]

Keefe knows he's fired.

That's where a coach might get them to do something different, or prepare them for such eventualities...

 

[Sheppy]

 

[TheDizee]

Again I never said that

It’s okay to expect your goaltender to have a great game. Samsonov just isn’t good enough. That’s more the problem of the GM.

He lost all 4 games.

It would have been nice if the rest of the team was able to produce but these last couple games were tightly checked and there was not a lot of room for offense. Woll was able to get a couple wins.

It’s okay to say that Samsonov let in a couple of goals that he should have had.

Samsonov definitely is not a cup quality goaltender but he was not the reason you lost this series. You scored 12 goals in 7 games.

With that said, the reason you cannot GET a cup quality goaltender and defense is because you have so much cap space tied up into a bunch of floating forwards who cannot produce at all when a team checks them hard.

It is all linked and everybody but the Leafs seems to see this.

 

[AwesomeInTheory]

lol. lmao, even.

At this point I don't even know what would resolve things for Toronto short of an act of god.

 

[KCbus]

Funny enough if they didn't pay their big guys so much money they could spend more on better D and goaltending.

If you're only scoring one in playoff games, you'll struggle to win games.

No kidding.

How nuts do you have to be to see a seven game series where you hold the opponent to only 18 goals, SCORE only 12 yourself, and think that your problem is goaltending?

 

[Bruce Granville]

What I always hated about the Leafs, until recently, was their defensive corps. That has gotten better. Lyubushkin, Edmundson and Benoit looked quite decent to me in this series. Rielly looked a step behind mentally, holding on to the puck too long in the offensive zone and getting stripped. I seem to remember him being quicker and more decisive.

I agree, but a lot of the “good” D might be on Boston.
With Pasta obviously injured and no real #1 or #2 C they are not exactly an offensive powerhouse.

 

[JAK]

Shanahan has been there a very long time.
What are the metrics for his performance review, I wonder

Leafs ownership only cares about profits.

 

[T REX]

I think Sammy is NOT a decent goalie...but he got the team to OT tied 1-1

At that point, it's on Matthews, Marner, Nylander, Tavares, Reilly to win.

That's all you can ask of him. He did his job. Not gonna fault a bad goalie who played a great game.

Core 4 are just not that good come post season. Shanny? See ya.

 

[MoreMogilny]

Samsonov definitely is not a cup quality goaltender but he was not the reason you lost this series. You scored 12 goals in 7 games.

With that said, the reason you cannot GET a cup quality goaltender and defense is because you have so much cap space tied up into a bunch of floating forwards who cannot produce at all when a team checks them hard.

It is all linked and everybody but the Leafs seems to see this.

I’m sure someone in the organization sees this

But they preferred to double down

And they’ll do it again for next season

 

[CrownofThornton]

Both teams were so bad on PP it wouldn‘t have mattered.

Painfully true.

 

[KingPuckChoo]

Woll wasnt even that good this season.

well he was better than Samsonov, that's the only point I'm making

i'm not saying if any were good, there's statistical evidence that Woll has performed better than Samsonov both during the season and in the playoffs, that's all bud

 

[Dr Pepper]

Now do his stats this series compared to the 3 other goalies that played.

He did all he could tonight, in a game he knows he wouldn't have started if Woll didn't needlessly dive across to try and stop an inconsequential goal.

Toronto's anemic offense was 100% to blame for their playoff exit. Everyone except Nylander needs a reality check.

 

[PB37]

Looked like that last play was icining. But leafs took their sweet time getting back to puck and got beat out by the Boston player.

It's a designed timing play by Boston dating back to when Krug was still with the team. All eyes on the blueliner, who rips a slapshot down the ice. A forward, usually Pasta, streaking on the opposite side, hitting the blueline in full stride as the puck crosses and hits the back stanchion and out to Pasta, who's around the circles by this point and catching the puck off the
bounce, negating the icing. Normally they do this play on the PP and not so much at 5v5.

 

[Divine]

He did all he could tonight, in a game he knows he wouldn't have started if Woll didn't needlessly dive across to try and stop an inconsequential goal.

Toronto's anemic offense was 100% to blame for their playoff exit. Everyone except Nylander needs a reality check.

Did you think the one goal he allowed in regulation was a bad goal?

 

[RedRocking]

Yes. Samsonov was swept by Swayman 4-0.

The reason it went 7 was Samsonov got a game against Ullmark, and Woll went 2-0 against Swayman.

Always acting like goalies are totally separate entities from the teams they play for.

Never change!

 

[pizza line]

Haha leafs suck. Bunch of overpaid floaters.

 

[Donnie740]

A useless goalie and an equally useless coach is what cost Toronto in this series. Again.

Samsonov let in at least one pitifully soft goal in every single game. Tonight he let in two pathetically weak goals in a 2-1 loss.

Boston’s first shot of the series was a goal and you knew the Leafs had ZERO chance with Samsonov in net. Inexplicable why Bozo the Keefe decided to start him for the first four games.

Impossible to win a seven game series with such a God-awful goalie.

 

[Divine]

Always acting like goalies are totally separate entities from the teams they play for.

Never change!

One Leafs goalie got swept vs Swayman. The other Leafs goalie went undefeated.

 

[Dirty Dog]

Now do his stats this series compared to the 3 other goalies that played.

Dude, the leafs started playing much better as a team when they were down 3 - 1.

Your posts on goalie win-loss records is completely missing the point

 

[Givememoneyback]

I’m sure someone in the organization sees this

But they preferred to double down

And they’ll do it again for next season

That sucks

One Leafs goalie got swept vs Swayman. The other Leafs goalie went undefeated.

Undefeated, won two games

 

[Divine]

Dude, the leafs started playing much better as a team when they were down 3 - 1.

Your posts on goalie win-loss records is completely missing the point

And Samsonov still was the only goalie to lose when they started facing elimination

 

[clydesdale line]

Boston is Toronto's daddy. Ain't no way around it.

 

[SanDogBrewin]

Samsonov with a 0.935 save% and 3rd star of the game
Leafs fans: It was our goalie's fault!

Samsonov played a good game. No guarantees Woll would have stopped both or even one of the Bs goals.

 

[TheNumber4]

I knew the Leaf’s would never win anything when they took Giordano on.

Bad hockey karma having that POS around.

 

[Vilam]

How come they never show Leafs square when something bad happens? That's what I want to see; that's good TV dammit.