Do the leafs need to stop being victims?

[hamzarocks]

Leafs organization gets hated around the league.

Suspensions we get absurd games for pur players

Penalties we get screwed by opposing teams

The NHL is fine with anything on the ice that isnt a head shot. Leaf players (domi, gregor bert) need to start playing up to the role of a villain

1. Snow showers to the opposing goalies consistently.
2. Celebrate every goal like its game 7 of the SCF
3. Nothing wrong with chopping stick out of a players hands.
4. Diving to draw penalties
5.. Other douchy moves, be willing and active doing so --> Call a time out left in a blowout win.

Leafs need to be the villains and not victims anymore

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[Niagara Bill]

This is garbage stuff. You need to defend your team mates first...you need to be passionate, you need to sacrifice for the team, you need to play your tole and contribute.
Bunting moves only wake up the other team. It does nothing when you are trying to dominate.

 

[hamzarocks]

This is garbage stuff. You need to defend your team mates first...you need to be passionate, you need to sacrifice for the team, you need to play your tole and contribute.
Bunting moves only wake up the other team. It does nothing when you are trying to dominate.

How come other teams buntings get to troll us and when we respond our guys get suspensions and shitted on?

We are tired of the Tkachuks, Greigs, Marchands etc doing these cowardly pest tactics.

Time to embrace them and go back at other teams same way they go at us

 

[Commander Clueless]

So you're saying we need some truculence?

 

[mcleex]

When Darko called out the refs everybody loved it. It's time for the Leafs to do something similar rather than take it up the ass year after year

Call out the refs, DOPS, Bettman. Nice guys never win plain and simple

 

[Maple Leaf]

When Darko called out the refs everybody loved it. It's time for the Leafs to do something similar rather than take it up the ass year after year

Call out the refs, DOPS, Bettman. Nice guys never win plain and simple

They will turn into bunting
The boy who cried wolf

 

[Commander Clueless]

They will turn into bunting
The boy who cried wolf

Instead of letting Bunting walk, we should have gotten more Buntings.


They can't Bunt us all!!

 

[Niagara Bill]

How come other teams buntings get to troll us and when we respond our guys get suspensions and shitted on?

We are tired of the Tkachuks, Greigs, Marchands etc doing these cowardly pest tactics.

Time to embrace them and go back at other teams same way they go at us

Tkachuk, Marchand will also beat the crap out of you, any time of the game. We have no one who would do that. And do not say Reaves, he does poop.

So you're saying we need some truculence?

Well said Burkie

 

[Racer88]

Leafs organization gets hated around the league.

Suspensions we get absurd games for pur players

Penalties we get screwed by opposing teams

The NHL is fine with anything on the ice that isnt a head shot. Leaf players (domi, gregor bert) need to start playing up to the role of a villain

1. Snow showers to the opposing goalies consistently.
2. Celebrate every goal like its game 7 of the SCF
3. Nothing wrong with chopping stick out of a players hands.
4. Diving to draw penalties
5.. Other douchy moves, be willing and active doing so --> Call a time out left in a blowout win.

Leafs need to be the villains and not victims anymore

Sign me up

 

[TMLBlueandWhite]

So long as people continue to pay for crap it will always be profitable to sell it.

Speaking of which... This team already has enough of what made my grandfather's barn smell so special. They're knee deep in it.

Do we really need to invoke a victims mentality?

Blame the refs. Blame Bettman. Blame the full moon.

This is a team that has failed to make any meaningful progress in years.

Yet we're supposed to believe all these failures are because of referee bias? That if officiating was fair Toronto would've won the cup by now? Hypotheticals are rarely convincing.

Especially when they're as lofty as this one.

Let them have their victimhood. A loser mentality they can cling onto at night in order to sleep better. ML$Epr will just spin this same way they do everything else anyway.

You could grow roses in what they're selling.

 

[colchar]

Penalties we get screwed by opposing teams

They assess penalties? And here I thought that was the refs.

3. Nothing wrong with chopping stick out of a players hands.

Except the resulting slashing penalty.

4. Diving to draw penalties

Or getting one themselves for diving.

 

[Antropovsky]

So you're saying we need some truculence?

Snot is the 2020's... Term. Truculence is so 2010.

 

[Hockey 4 Life]

The only two players that should be safe on this roster is Matthews because we can't replace him and Reilly because he should be the actual leader of the team. Everyone else should be availible for the right price regarding picks or players. They aren't a very good team and they are soft. Shanahan and keefe also need the boot as well. Tre has only had 60% of a season so he should have a little leeway.

 

[al secord]

Rielly is not Swedish for 'take a clapper on our empty net and suspend me 10 games for responding accordingly. '

- Brian Burke

 

[Nineteen67]

The only two players that should be safe on this roster is Matthews because we can't replace him and Reilly because he should be the actual leader of the team. Everyone else should be availible for the right price regarding picks or players. They aren't a very good team and they are soft. Shanahan and keefe also need the boot as well. Tre has only had 60% of a season so he should have a little leeway.

Every option should be explored.

 

[leafsfan2point0]

If we look at the stats since Parros took over we have by far the most and longest suspensions of any team in the league.

 

[hamzarocks]

Tkachuk, Marchand will also beat the crap out of you, any time of the game. We have no one who would do that. And do not say Reaves, he does poop.


Well said Burkie

When have Tkachuk or Marchand beat anyone up ever...?

Tkachuk got his ass kicked and turtled on the flames. Forgot who he fought but remember him getting done well

Marchand is the least intimidating figjter ever too. He sucker punched Sedin in 2011 finals who took it for a Power play. He never fights, just does pest like stuff.

Our stars + depth should do the same. No fighter will fighter pur stars either. If they do have to drop the gloves, for pest actions, it will be against other stars who cant fight to save their life (see Stamkos vs Matthews in R1 2023 playoffs)

 

[nuck]

There are no victims... only volunteers. They play how the coach tells them to play and nobody is afraid of the Leafs except when its end to end pond hockey. They just need to act greasy like the opposition does and be prepared to take the odd penalty for it. As Hamza says, most of these other guys never back it up anyway. Since he is on the payroll already, maybe they need Matt Cooke to come up and provide some dirtbag lessons

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[TakeTheBody]

Instead of letting Bunting walk, we should have gotten more Buntings.


They can't Bunt us all!!

Early Bunting? Yes. Diving, whiny Bunting last season? Hasta La Vista.

 

[Leafshater67]

I remember when there was rumours that Sam Bennett may be available and I was praying we would get him. Same with Zadorov. You need a few of those type guys to win along with a total team buy in they do not currently have. That Reilly suspension shows maybe and hopefully things are changing.

Team toughness is more important than having one enforcer who doesn’t play or enforce shit. Having guys like that on your team is huge. Sam Bennett would have been a great fit in Toronto. Instead, he terrorized the leafs in the playoffs.

 

[AvroArrow]

Leafs organization gets hated around the league.

Suspensions we get absurd games for pur players

Penalties we get screwed by opposing teams

The NHL is fine with anything on the ice that isnt a head shot. Leaf players (domi, gregor bert) need to start playing up to the role of a villain

1. Snow showers to the opposing goalies consistently.
2. Celebrate every goal like its game 7 of the SCF
3. Nothing wrong with chopping stick out of a players hands.
4. Diving to draw penalties
5.. Other douchy moves, be willing and active doing so --> Call a time out left in a blowout win.

Leafs need to be the villains and not victims anymore

Take a look at what happens when we decide to be villains, 5 minute majors and full series suspensions, guys getting suspended for 6 games who have 0 history, bottom 5 in penalties drawn, get eliminated from the playoffs in back to back years off of missed penalties.

As long as Jacobs is chairman and Parros is the head of dops, we cannot afford to be the villains.

It is beyond frustrating.

IDC About the Rielly incident from the other day, that's an obvious suspension. But just in general, if we play with an edge it is always called a penalty and suspension, DOPS is tweeting about hearings within seconds of a play being made, it's absurd.

 

[hamzarocks]

Take a look at what happens when we decide to be villains, 5 minute majors and full series suspensions, guys getting suspended for 6 games who have 0 history, bottom 5 in penalties drawn, get eliminated from the playoffs in back to back years off of missed penalties.

As long as Jacobs is chairman and Parros is the head of dops, we cannot afford to be the villains.

It is beyond frustrating.

IDC About the Rielly incident from the other day, that's an obvious suspension. But just in general, if we play with an edge it is always called a penalty and suspension, DOPS is tweeting about hearings within seconds of a play being made, it's absurd.

I think we need to time it better

If we are up big. Go hard, celebrate hard. Every goal go crazy

If we have an Empty Net chance to put game up by 2 or 3 goals, do slappers, michigan, overhyped celebrations

If we are getting blown out, go full shenenigans mode. Ice spray other teams goalies, give some nice love tap slashes to teams on the ankles/shins

The leafs have allowed the media+NHL refs+NHL safety to dictate way to much of our games.

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[PromisedLand]

IMHO Leafs should absolutely embrace the "villain" tag and become one of the dirtiest teams in the league. Good boy hockey has achieved nothing but absolute shit results

The question though is how do we teach Matthews, Marner and Nylander to start playing dirty

 

[LeafGrief]

So you're saying we need some truculence?

Yes. YES. 100% unironically, unequivocally, with utter certainty. We need truculence, pugnacity, and testosterone.

Instead our guys probably get monthly seminars on toxic masculinity.

We are the villains and while that doesn’t mean we need to become moustache twirlers and routine face cross-checkers, the team does need to rally around the identity. Them against the world, they’re held to a different standard and no one is coming to save them.

 

[Commander Clueless]

Early Bunting? Yes. Diving, whiny Bunting last season? Hasta La Vista.

Why not both?

Maximum Bunting!

His only flaw was being a pest the refs didn't like, which is sort of an anomaly.