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How Much Better is this Team with Berube New Personnel

Taking a penalty is an automatic goal against for this group. I don’t know what the hell is going on with it. Easy answer is to blame Lambert and his scheme, but I think the personnel wears a lot of this too. The PK has been on a decline since 2021-22.

21-22 82.1% 8th ranked
22-23 81.9% 12th ranked
23-24 76.9% 23rd ranked
24-25 78% (and dropping fast) 16th ranked

They need to turn the penalty kill around and fast. Since December 21, half a season worth of games so far (33), we have a 29th ranked PK clicking at 71.1%. That’s unacceptable.
 
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Jimmy Firecracker said:
Taking a penalty is an automatic goal against for this group. I don’t know what the hell is going on with it. Easy answer is to blame Lambert and his scheme, but I think the personnel wears a lot of this too. The PK has been on a decline since 2021-22.

21-22 82.1% 8th ranked
22-23 81.9% 12th ranked
23-24 76.9% 23rd ranked
24-25 78% (and dropping fast) 16th ranked

They need to turn the penalty kill around and fast. Since December 21, half a season worth of games so far (33), we have a 29th ranked PK clicking at 71.1%. That’s unacceptable.
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Savard happened. Nobody will fire people or hold anyone accountable in Toronto. Don't rock the boat or the gravy train stops
 
thewave said:
Savard happened. Nobody will fire people or hold anyone accountable in Toronto. Don't rock the boat or the gravy train stops
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PK has been 3rd in the league since Jan 6th, that kinda illustrates just how bad they were from Game 1 till then.

EDIT I meant to say PP was 3rd in the league.
 
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Hellcat said:
PK has been 3rd in the league since Jan 6th, that kinda illustrates just how bad they were from Game 1 till then.
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We are now 16th on the PK and 19th on the PP. I didn't know we were 6th since Jan6. That's a lot better. Wonder what it is the past 10 games.
 
thewave said:
We are now 16th on the PK and 19th on the PP. I didn't know we were 6th since Jan6. That's a lot better. Wonder what it is the past 10 games.
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I think he has it backward.

I believe their PK has been the third worst since Jan 6th. If it's middle of the pack overall, that suggests it was pretty good before that.

There isn't much to get excited about. The PK sucks, the PP still isn't great and continues to fail at key times, the team gets outplayed five on five and isn't very good six on five anymore (I think there were a lot of late game tying goals last year).
 
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Our problem has always been scoring goals in the playoffs so we got a coach who neutered our offense. If the teams unsustainable goaltending didn't prop them up would they even be in a playoff spot?
 
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GlitchMarner said:
I think he has it backward.

I believe their PK has been the third worst since Jan 6th. If it's middle of the pack overall, that suggests it was pretty good before that.

There isn't much to get excited about. The PK sucks, the PP still isn't great and continues to fail at key times, the team gets outplayed five on five and isn't very good six on five anymore (I think there were a lot of late game tying goals last year).
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I thought they said Saturday night since Jan 3rd we were 3rd in PP and 30th in PK? TBH I kinda tuned the game out at a certain point, I could have that wrong I was not really paying close attention.
 
Over the last 4 seasons starting in 2021-22, going in order to the current season:
-3rd in conference, 4th in conference, 5th in conference, 5th in conference (currently)
-115 points, 111 points, 102 points, 101 point (pace)
- +62 goal differential, +57, +40, +16 (pace)

Since fully coming back from the lockout and playing full 82 game seasons, the team has slightly slid every single year in each of those categories.

Yet I feel the same way this year I have every year....the Leafs have a slight chance to win the cup, it will take luck, but it still is possible if injuries and 'puck luck' go their way.
 
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Don't know how much is on Berube and how much is on this core. On one hand, the analytics for this team under Craig are horrific. Our offence has wilted and our defence has not been good enough to make up for it. The team looks like chicken's with their heads cut off out there. Doesn't seem there's any real gameplan, and if there is the team isn't following it.

On the other hand, this core has had teams with strong underlying metrics in years past and they still accomplished jack-shit. Plus as outlined by mjd above, the team has been declining over the past 4 seasons in a lot of categories. Is this the result of the core getting old, or terrible GMing and Coaching from Treliving and Berube?

I don't want to really let the core off the hook. No matter the analytics or the supporting cast around them, they've failed time and time again. Berube may just be next in a long line of scapegoats that allow the Core Five players to avoid accountability.

The personnel on this team leads me to believe the Leafs should be performing much better than they have been. Are the poor metrics a result of Berube's system not matching with the players on the roster or is it on the players who on some level reject Berube's gameplan and don't execute it?
 
hullsy47 said:
Berube was hired to put square pegs in round holes
Not sure what else to say
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Berube was hired because he was the biggest name, it is what Treliving does, he signs whoever has the most hype.

Reaves, OEL, Domi, Bertuzzi, Tanev, Pacioretty, Klingberg, and I am sure there is more...

If someone was good 5 years ago or is tough, Treliving wants him.
 
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