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Everyone needs to watch the clip again with Matthews and Nylander ripping Marner.
Focus on Bertuzzi.
“I’m out boys!”
I still recall what both ROR and Schenn said last season in the locker clear-out interviews
Everyone needs to watch the clip again with Matthews and Nylander ripping Marner.
Focus on Bertuzzi.
“I’m out boys!”
To each and every one of you that came out with nonsense like "it's only game 1" or "they did the same last year" or "you're just overreacting" after that debacle in Boston last week:
Last night was for you.
Last night was why there was such a reaction.
It wasn't just 1 game. It's been several years of the same lifeless patterns & habits, that we all should have seen coming from miles away.
Yes it was Matthews that was barely able to use his left leg to skate off. He was shuffling. I am surprised that more people aren't pointing that out. He probably had his ankle frozen and it wore off ...that would be my guess.
I feel sorry for Nylander. He is one of the few players that tries to do shit.
It's weird to blame Dubas when we currently have the worst team of the Matthews era and he is not here.
To each and every one of you that came out with nonsense like "it's only game 1" or "they did the same last year" or "you're just overreacting" after that debacle in Boston last week:
Last night was for you.
Last night was why there was such a reaction.
It wasn't just 1 game. It's been several years of the same lifeless patterns & habits, that we all should have seen coming from miles away.
That is what happens when you paint yourself into a corner cap-wise, dump all your picks trying to get over the hump and then bail before the downswing.
New GM also inherited 2 star players with a few weeks to move before NMCs kicked inThe team used 6 picks at the draft and had 20 million in cap space to start the season...
The team used 6 picks at the draft and had 20 million in cap space to start the season...
Wasn't drafting and developing guys supposed to be the way this was going to work? Draft good players on their ELC that we can bring in on the cheap to augment our team given how much was devoted to the top 4. Somewhere, Dubas deviated from this plan and traded picks like candy. To start drafting now is a little late for this iteration of the Leafs but we have to start somewhere I guess.
This is really disheartening to see. So much promise and so little results in the playoffs. The chances to screw this up were really low and somehow Dubas managed the feat.
How many were first rounders and how many spots did they have to fill with that 20 million praytell?
Go to the Pittsburgh board if you're just here to continue to wear blinders about how badly Dubas screwed this team up.
New GM also inherited 2 star players with a few weeks to move before NMCs kicked in
Agreed. That being said, I'm ok with keeping Nylander as part of the core moving forward based on his past playoff performances.
Marner on the other hand is not worth what he'll be asking for. I said in the past that we should hold on to him until Tavares' contract expires and re-sign him, but I think Treliving needs to seriously explore moving him this off season.
The culture of meaningless games and scheduled losses and all those uncompetitive traits came back to haunt them last night. You simply cannot flip a switch and expect to kick it into a special winning gear when you carry around such bad habits over 82 games, over 8 years. No team ever has a 1.000 winning percentage but the low floor, no show games being papered over with a cram session offensive push. Those habits never pay off in hockey. Just bad country club culture coming back to bite them.
When you have Keefe saying stuff like "We got respect in the handshake line" and after yesterdays Mitch glove throwing that its "a good sign they care"....I don't know how anyone...especially Tre could be fooled into thinking he was worth an extension.There have been so many quotes from different sports including hockeh that goes along the lines of...
"practice hard so the games become easy"
"heart is what separates good from great"
"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe."
"practice like you are playing the game; games become natural"
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'”
"good habits are only built as part of your natural instinct if done continuously"
"work ethic in everything leads to disciplined life and performance because its part of your life you don't have to think; you just do"
etc....
The culture that was nurtured by dubas was the biggest cancer as far as I am concerned. It will take time to undo this
There have been so many quotes from different sports including hockeh that goes along the lines of...
"practice hard so the games become easy"
"heart is what separates good from great"
"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe."
"practice like you are playing the game; games become natural"
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'”
"good habits are only built as part of your natural instinct if done continuously"
"work ethic in everything leads to disciplined life and performance because its part of your life you don't have to think; you just do"
etc....
The culture that was nurtured by dubas was the biggest cancer as far as I am concerned. It will take time to undo this
When you have Keefe saying stuff like "We got respect in the handshake line" and after yesterdays Mitch glove throwing that its "a good sign they care"....I don't know how anyone...especially Tre could be fooled into thinking he was worth an extension.
The extension is just to avoid Keefe being a lame duck. He is a lame duck, and they will fire him after the Leafs lose this year, but it keeps up appearances.
He's not here, but most of his mistakes and/or the consequences of them are.Doesn't look good for Domi/Bertuzzi, they were expected to be playoff warriors and are coming up short.
It's weird to blame Dubas when we currently have the worst team of the Matthews era and he is not here.