GDT: Carolina Hurricanes at Toronto Maple Leafs. Sat Feb 22nd, 2025, 7pm

[Burnie97]

Canes are a team I get a little extra satisfaction from beating. Probably because they make you earn it.

A 4 point weekend would look good in the standings.

Yup 100 %

I know it's going to be a downer to some coming off a great tournament.

However it's time to get back at it. Hopefully they're all fired up tonight.

 

[Frostitute]

None of these guys need nights off. The game on Sunday won't be remotely close. The Leafs will roll over the Hawks on Sunday.

Well now you've gone and done it.
Hawks 6-1.
Hopefully my terrible prediction balances the Hockey Gods appetite for proving small humans wrong.

 

[13pacheco31]

Well now you've gone and done it.
Hawks 6-1.
Hopefully my terrible prediction balances the Hockey Gods appetite for proving small humans wrong.

Every damn time with him lol

 

[Zybalto]

 

[BertCorbeau]

Back to our regularly scheduled frustrations

 

[thusk]

I think you'll see the opposite. Most of the rest of the league has been standing still for two weeks. I think Matthews and Marner will probably light up Carolina and Chicago this weekend because they will be much sharper.

and player who didn't play for 2 week will be hungry
vs
player coming from the final, it will be hard to come back focus as fast

I don't know how many time every year we saw a team playing a emotionnal game and be flat the next one and we talk about a regular seqson game. Multiply that X 1000, and you will get the kind of hangover 4 nation tournament bring. I just expect energy level could be low

 

[BrannigansLaw]

Hope we get them back tonight for horse face Staal’s hat trick snapping our win streak.


Wings winning too means we need to cut out the 3 game losing streaks in general

 

[PanniniClaus]

I am foreseeing some serious coasting from our best players. Hopefully Stolarz has his A plus game.

 

[ThrowDemTongs]

Matthews hat trick pls

 

[leafsfan5]

5 years ago to the day.....

 

[crump]

Mitch looked wiped. It’ll take a few days I think.
But here is #3 AHL scoring leader (#1 in goals) ready to pitch in….

 

[Racer88]

This game is exactly five years to the day that Carolina beat the Leafs with David Ayres called to net in the most unusual emergency situation.

Coincidence? I've learned not to believe in coincidences. The NHL is trolling the Leafs.

Thanks for that painful reminder

 

[therealkoho]

This game is going to look like a dogs breakfast compared to what we just watched over the last two weeks.

Don't be so sure, I watched Philly and Oilers this afternoon. It wasn't a dog at all, not a masterpiece either, but some great plays, some great saves a couple of heavy hits. Oiler PP was a bit of a scramble, but a decent game.

Hoping the Leafs use their legs for 3 periods, it's the only way to knock off the Canes.

 

[DarkKnight]

If Berube plays these two more than 18 minutes tonight, he's a bit of an idiot there to be honest. These guys are cooked. And any hero here saying suck it up, would be the first guys to call it in to their boss. The NHL really messed up having a final Thursday and then back to backs. Whole season has been embarrassing schedule wise, is it AI assisted, because it is so uneven and stupid.

 

[LaPlante94]

If Berube plays these two more than 18 minutes tonight, he's a bit of an idiot there to be honest. These guys are cooked. And any hero here saying suck it up, would be the first guys to call it in to their boss. The NHL really messed up having a final Thursday and then back to backs. Whole season has been embarrassing schedule wise, is it AI assisted, because it is so uneven and stupid.

Matthews has played 1 game this week and Marner 2. We play Chicago tomorrow which should be an easier game so I don't see why Berube wouldn't play our best players 18-20 mins today if it's a close game. Depending how much Marner drank after the win on Thursday maybe he's not feeling 100% but some of the other players who won have looked fine today.

 

[keonsbitterness]

If Berube plays these two more than 18 minutes tonight, he's a bit of an idiot there to be honest. These guys are cooked. And any hero here saying suck it up, would be the first guys to call it in to their boss. The NHL really messed up having a final Thursday and then back to backs. Whole season has been embarrassing schedule wise, is it AI assisted, because it is so uneven and stupid.

They could have re-started the season tomorrow or had the 4-N final on Wednesday.

 

[MSZ]

Don't be so sure, I watched Philly and Oilers this afternoon. It wasn't a dog at all, not a masterpiece either, but some great plays, some great saves a couple of heavy hits. Oiler PP was a bit of a scramble, but a decent game.

Hoping the Leafs use their legs for 3 periods, it's the only way to knock off the Canes.

I watched the first half of the Edmonton game, McJesus looked uninterested and slow, and his stats matched the eye test: zero points, -3

 

[13pacheco31]

They could have re-started the season tomorrow or had the 4-N final on Wednesday.

They could always give them a bit of a break tomorrow. Carolina is the tougher match up

 

[Leafs98]

I wonder if Team USA got to know of Matthews mysterious upper body injury.

 

[13pacheco31]

I wonder if Team USA got to know of Matthews mysterious upper body injury.

Probably

 

[ULF_55]

Been so long I forgot Matthews is in a scoring drought.

 

[thewave]

I wonder if Team USA got to know of Matthews mysterious upper body injury.

Would have to of, or at the very least the doctor would know.

 

[DarkKnight]

They could have re-started the season tomorrow or had the 4-N final on Wednesday.

I don’t know why it wasn’t Wednesday, the three day break was unnecessary. Anyways, they’re playing, just hope Berube doesn’t over play them down the stretch.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Win tonight, load management tomorrow.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Why call up Steeves just put him on the fourth line? Christ's sake he should be on the third. Move McMann up to line two, Steeves to line three, and banish Holmberg to the fourth line. You already know you're getting nothing from Pontus offensively, at least put McMann in the top six because you know you're going to get offensive flare with the same and better intangibles you'd get from Holmberg. And Steeves gets a chance with better skilled players.