Series Talk: ECSFs Discussion - All The Smoke Edition - Panthers Tied 3-3

[barkovcanfinnish]

Knies will play. It’s Berube trying to psych out Maurice and company.

I think he’ll play but it’ll be one of those things where he’ll probably play limited minutes.

He definitely got hurt last game.

 

[ge2655]

Who plays for them is not important.
It's who PLAYS for us that matters.

 

[Felidae]

Goes into what went right for the Leafs in game 6.

Apparently we had like, 3 chances around the spot area the entire game, and they blocked a ton of our shots.

Also, I did not realize how much Ekblad f***ed up on the 2nd goal. Too slow to catch a simple uninterrupted pass by Forsling

 

[pantherbot]

Goes into what went right for the Leafs in game 6.

Apparently we had like, 3 chances around the spot area the entire game, and they blocked a ton of our shots.

Also, I did not realize how much Ekblad f***ed up on the 2nd goal. Too slow to catch a simple uninterrupted pass by Forsling

1st goal, and yes that was an epic f*** up that happens maybe 1 out of 1000 of those types of passes. Hate that they scored on that.

 

[Gentle Man]

Who plays for them is not important.
It's who PLAYS for us that matters.

Unfortunately Chucky is playing

 

[zeroG]

I think what really hurt our game was missing the net wildly.

It’s hard to forecheck when the pucks are essentially assisting the Leafs breakouts

hey, i know verhaeghe missed 10 of his 14 shots but we have some other players out there! seriously, though, i'll amend my last post - if TOR packs it in again, we need to 1) get it past first defender AND 2) get it on net.

back to verhaeghe, he's looking like a eunuch in a whorehouse again. (seemed to wake him up last time i said that!)

this has been an interesting series with the drama and adjustments. i have the same feeling before g7 of the final last year, which is "not great". but it's a blank slate when the puck drops.

 

[Panteras]

You brought up 61% faceoff saying no wonder they won.

We've been struggling with faceoffs all series, yet we won 3 games. So faceoffs won made a negligible difference at best. It's not the reason we lost.

I knew about the blocked shots for game 6. I knew that was a notable factor so there was no point in questioning your point because I agreed with the blocked shots part.

I was highlighting the faceoff percentage because you made it sound like that was a big reason we lost. Whilst I responded implying that faceoff struggles for us have been an issue all series, yet here we are going to game 7.... So if we won three games with faceoff struggles, perhaps it isn't that big of a deal...

If you think losing the faceoff and blocked shot battles in Game 6 isn’t why we lost, because that’s been happening all series, then fair enough. Point taken.

Just to clarify though, when I said “and blocking shots,” I wasn’t suggesting it only happened in Game 6. I meant it’s been a trend all series, just like faceoffs. So I was adding to your point.

What threw me off was your response: “yeah I know, that’s why I didn’t bring up blocked shots.” But if knowing something means it’s not worth mentioning, then why bring up faceoffs? You said you knew both were happening, so by that logic, you wouldn’t have commented at all. That’s why I joked, “so you didn’t know about faceoffs?”, because your reasoning didn’t quite add up. Just pointing out the inconsistency.

 

[Gentle Man]

For the record, we won face offs game 5 and was incidentally our 6-1 game