Post-Game Talk: CAPTAIN MORGAN!!! | LEAFS WIN 4-3 IN OVERTIME

[kb]

it's from 1 game. gonna take a few good games to recover his numbers from a 6 GA performance.

Vasi is rocking a 4.22 with an .853....not sure we should be concerned that much.

 

[Antropovsky]

This series is about to get way more intense when Bunting returns by game 5.

Bunting gives me loose cannon vibes. Who do you take out for him? Knies has been one of our best forwards.

 

[Le Magnifique]

Bunting gives me loose cannon vibes. Who do you take out for him? Knies has been one of our best forwards.

One of our best ... accept for the full lines ahead of him.

So really, he's just been one of our forwards is what you're trying to say.

 

[The Best Leafs Everr]

Vasi is rocking a 4.22 with an .853....not sure we should be concerned that much.

It's Hedman that we should be worried about. You take him off that team and every game is a blowout win for us. Need more headshots.

 

[Brown Dog]

Deserve’s got nothing to do with it.

Maybe...but maybe this game broke their spirit and buoyed ours.

I felt last year that their spirit was broken in Game 6. Lightning looked ready to roll over until they had that ill-gotten 5-on-3 that allowed them to tie the game and ultimately win in OT and send it back to Toronto for Game 7. We can't take anything for granted and have to go into curb-stomp mode.

 

[usernamezrhardtodo]

It's Hedman that we should be worried about. You take him off that team and every game is a blowout win for us. Need more headshots.

The John Brophy school of thought...I like it. They would be doing it to us on every shift if we had a guy semi-lame.

 

[RealisticLeaf55]

Bunting gives me loose cannon vibes. Who do you take out for him? Knies has been one of our best forwards.

I agree. On the one hand, he gets suspended and takes penalties. On the other, he also causes penalties and can score. Knies needs to stay on the roster. Someone else will have to move out.

 

[LaPlante94]

Yeah but even last night, even in a 36 save performance, you can make a legitimate case he should have had 2 of the 3, maybe even all 3.

He's been off all series

1st goal was just a defensive breakdown and if you give someone like Cirelli a chance from there he's gonna bury it a majority of the times. 2nd goal he was bad on and made a bad read leading to him being out of position. 3rd goal was a shot from the inner hash and placed perfectly in the top left corner. McCabe played the body behind the net but didn't hit him good enough to stop his momentum or to pin him against the boards and allowed him to come out like that.

 

[authentic]

Bunting gives me loose cannon vibes. Who do you take out for him? Knies has been one of our best forwards.

I say don't take out the player we're 5-0 with. Lafferty probably sits is my guess. Or ZAR.

 

[Antropovsky]

There was a lot of "hold me back" energy coming from Hagel there on that exchange with Luke as well. He's like a small yappy dog barking at the mailman behind the safety of a screen door.

Yeah... That felt like a junior high fight where the small weak friend was acting tough while his bigger friend picked a fight. How old is he? "He's irrelevant! Holy fu$%!" Notice how Hagel stopped there... Couldn't come with any evidence of Jeanott being relevant.

 

[RunItBackAgain]

I wanna know when a team has ever been able to slash a goalies stick out of their hands like TB has done twice now without a call being made, or doing what Kucherov has done like 2 or 3 times by intentionally poking at the goalie when the play is blown dead or nowhere near the net? I feel like if we tried that we're in the box easily and everybody says it's an obvious penalty.

I mean Drai got a call for tapping a guy the other night. The refs call whatever they want.

 

[PromisedLand]

Man I know They won last night but I'm getting concerned about Samsonov.

3.70 GAA

878 save%

That's got to get better.

the only reason leafs won night was samsonov. tampa outshot, outchanced teh leafs last night

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

Bunting gives me loose cannon vibes. Who do you take out for him? Knies has been one of our best forwards.

The 4th line has been pretty lackluster compared to Tampa's 4th line, largely because Lafferty is brutal. I'd be happy to have Bunting in over Lafferty

 

[Antropovsky]

I say don't take out the player we're 5-0 with. Lafferty probably sits is my guess. Or ZAR.

Lafferty's speed and physical play has been pretty evident out there, and ZAR scored. Both are 0 in plus minus column... They've done their jobs.

 

[Divine]

I agree. On the one hand, he gets suspended and takes penalties. On the other, he also causes penalties and can score. Knies needs to stay on the roster. Someone else will have to move out.

Lafferty or Zach-Astron-Reese seem like the clear choices to come out for Bunting.

Bunting is a 50-60+ point player who's had chemistry on our first line. I don't know how keeping him out of the lineup over players like Lafferty or ZAR make us better.

Bunting is our highest scoring player outside of the core 4.

 

[kb]

It's Hedman that we should be worried about. You take him off that team and every game is a blowout win for us. Need more headshots.

Just dump the puck in his corner and force him to turn at speed, and chase.

That should aggravate the ol' groin right there. But they do need to get a piece of him every chance they get.

 

[theTTC]

I agree. On the one hand, he gets suspended and takes penalties. On the other, he also causes penalties and can score. Knies needs to stay on the roster. Someone else will have to move out.

Kerfoot out.

 

[RealisticLeaf55]

Kerfoot out.

Pretty much what I was thinking.

Lafferty or Zach-Astron-Reese seem like the clear choices to come out for Bunting.

Bunting is a 50-60+ point player who's had chemistry on our first line. I don't know how keeping him out of the lineup over players like Lafferty or ZAR make us better.

Bunting is our highest scoring player outside of the core 4.

Aston-Reese is hard for me to part ways with because he has been such a solid bottom 6 player. Gritty and can score the odd goal here and there. Kerfoot or Lafferty I would be okay with.

 

[Antropovsky]

One of our best ... accept for the full lines ahead of him.

So really, he's just been one of our forwards is what you're trying to say.

Yep because traditionally that's what one of the best means? This one him in his very first playoff game.

 

[theTTC]

the only reason leafs won night was samsonov. tampa outshot, outchanced teh leafs last night

Also, and mostly, because Leafs didn't physically back down or mentally fold. Tampa gave it their all: miserable, referee-approved violence, and Leafs stood their ground. A win is a win on many levels here.

 

[Brown Dog]

Tampa is such an unlikable bunch. Really have a high level of hate for a lot of their guys, especially Cooper.

 

[stats1]

Keefe would once again how inept he is if he puts in Bunting. Knies has been one of our best performers so far

 

[RunItBackAgain]

It's Kerfoot that comes out imo. 3 games in:

12 shots for/27 shots against
18CF/48CA - 27.3CF%

He is 2GF/1GA +1 at EV though

Last night with Tavares and Willy he went 4/11 27CF%

Him with ROR and Acciari went 0/14 0CF%

 

[PromisedLand]

Tavares' statline looks horrible

 

[Scion]

Pretty much what I was thinking.


Aston-Reese is hard for me to part ways with because he has been such a solid bottom 6 player. Gritty and can score the odd goal here and there. Kerfoot or Lafferty I would be okay with.

I disagree, Kerfoot has actually done well when put on the fourth line. Lafferty is the obvious subtraction, he does noting from a play driving standpoint.