Goaltending

[Taylor Halls Teeth]

Samsonov had a bunch of brutal starts last year and was still .919% at years end. Tonight was just one of those games. Maybe he can be improved upon for an acceptable cost but its not a priority right now, especially when Woll might be that guy.

 

[BigBlu]

Coaches/management need to stop screwing around and deluding themselves. Woll is our best goalie . Full stop. ainec

 

[RunItBackAgain]

Coaches/management need to stop screwing around and deluding themselves. Woll is our best goalie . Full stop. ainec

For about a 5 game stretch at one point last year when Samsonov was openly playing through an injury, yes he was.

 

[colchar]

Coaches/management need to stop screwing around and deluding themselves. Woll is our best goalie . Full stop. ainec

Yeah let's anoint him as the starter now with his whole eleven games of NHL experience.

 

[BigBlu]

Yeah let's anoint him as the starter now with his whole eleven games of NHL experience.

Yes

 

[Kiwi]

It's one game

Samsonov was shaky but the entire team looked unfocused defensively

Woll was always going to get plenty of starts because those two are a bit of a tandem so let's give both guys a chance to bed in and worry if we need to a few months into the season rather than games

 

[Peasy]

No need to jump to woll right away. Give samsonov the next one to see how he responds.

 

[Gilmour1996]

How many games has he played this season with the full team in front of him? Thank the coach for the players being rusty...he'd rather play AHLers than regulars in preseason. We should have dressed the full lineup for the last 4 preseason games.

 

[Notsince67]

Pulling for Sammy but I guessed last year that by the end of this year, it will be Wolls net and I'm sticking with it.

 

[ToDavid]

Meh, not really a great game to evaluate Sammy. He certainly wasn’t a star but it was a weird game. He would go stretches without any action and then get hit with either a brutal defensive breakdown or a random bounce/tip.

In the long run your goalie needs to cover some of those defensive breakdowns and get some of those bounces but none of the goals last night were overly concerning.

 

[RunItBackAgain]

How many games has he played this season with the full team in front of him? Thank the coach for the players being rusty...he'd rather play AHLers than regulars in preseason. We should have dressed the full lineup for the last 4 preseason games.

At least we didn’t pull everyone in 2 weeks early, tell everyone how ready we’d be to start the season, stress how good our D game was going to be, and then give up 8

 

[shaner8989]

Our team gave up 22 shots. That’s damn impressive. The goalies job is to battle and make saves. Don’t give a shit if that a breakaway or a screen. Make a f***ing save.

 

[RunItBackAgain]

I’ve seen overrating of prospects and I’ve done it myself but you all are going to be woke tf up about Woll. @ me in May

 

[All Mod Cons]

I’ve seen overrating of prospects and I’ve done it myself but you all are going to be woke tf up about Woll. @ me in May

Yeah I think everyone is way too high on Woll to be honest. Same thing happened with Robertson. Runaway train.

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

I hope Woll plays in game 2.

You don't lose the starting job because of 1 game, no matter how ugly that game was especially when you win it, and as ugly as that game was he did win it.

 

[WTFMAN99]

You don't lose the starting job because of 1 game, no matter how ugly that game was especially when you win it, and as ugly as that game was he did win it.

I don't think he lost the starter job at all, just early in the season, get both their feet wet and go from there.

 

[Buds17]

I'm thinking against Chicago in Game #3 or when opposing either of the Florida based teams following that for Woll's first start of this new season.

 

[The Iceman]

Leafs have a chance with clean health to properly expose a young goalie to the rigours of the NHL.

Not throw him to the wolves, not to annoit him as a starter.
Play a limited number of games, and allow Woll to slowly be introduced as a successful backup goalie.

DO NOT GIVE HIM the Carter Hart treatment.

 

[jamo27]

holy shit guys...

goal 1 - Brodie blows a tire and a breakaway ensues
goal 2- three on one defensive breakdown
goal 3 - complete fluke tip in
goal 4- completely screened.
goal 5- Lily gifts a great scoring chance.

And Sammy is garbage..... wtf.

 

[kevsh]

Sam is the man until he proves he isn't up for it.

And given this team's habit of rough to mediocre starts to the season - and that was a very rough game last night all around - I'd give him the benefit of the doubt until at least this team finds its groove.

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

holy shit guys...

goal 1 - Brodie blows a tire and a breakaway ensues
goal 2- three on one defensive breakdown
goal 3 - complete fluke tip in
goal 4- completely screened.
goal 5- Lily gifts a great scoring chance.

And Sammy is garbage..... wtf.

He had a garbage game, 5 goals on 24 shots, 792 save% but that doesn't make him garbage.

It's 1 game, granted a very VERY bad game but a game he still won.

He does owe them though because they did bail him out.

 

[1specter]

I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the only goalie who has won a playoff series for the franchise in almost two decades. Besides, it could be worse, he could be Jack Campbell or Stuart Skinner.

 

[Fogelhund]

He had a garbage game, 5 goals on 24 shots, 792 save% but that doesn't make him garbage.

It's 1 game, granted a very VERY bad game but a game he still won.

He does owe them though because they did bail him out.

His team let him down... like didn't you just read how the goals were scored? Jeez.

holy shit guys...

goal 1 - Brodie blows a tire and a breakaway ensues
goal 2- three on one defensive breakdown
goal 3 - complete fluke tip in
goal 4- completely screened.
goal 5- Lily gifts a great scoring chance.

And Sammy is garbage..... wtf.

I just posted the same... I believe that Goal 4 was partially tipped as well... anyway, the team really put him in a bad spot multiple times... of course you'd like the goaltending to be better, but it's one game, we were a tire fire in front of him, and it's early in the season. In the end... we won, after a brutal defensive effort all around.

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

His team let him down... like didn't you just read how the goals were scored? Jeez.

I would like him to have at least goal 3, arguably goal 4 definitely goal 3.

A 792 save% is never going to be good enough regardless of how the goals were scored.

They stole him one last night and that's OK, that will happen over 82 games.

But now he owes them one.

 

[Maple Leaf]

need better defenders