GDT: Hurricanes @ Leafs - Battle of the Goaltending titans

[Burnie97]

Lol bieska is right... best part of cbc

 

[notbias]

Thank you Bieksa.

Sounded pretty dumb... but they set him up with a snippet and not the full interview.

Keefe said a lot more outside of that snippet about Kampf.

 

[9Iron]

Bieksa with the walk off homers here. LOL

 

[Carltons Cup]

Keefe has no spine to bench a top 6 forward

 

[DarkKnight]

As usual Bieksa is on point

What did he say?

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Keefe is a grade A buffoon's ass

Hippo ass, IMO.

 

[notbias]

Keefe has no spine to bench a top 6 forward

You all just complained when he didn't put them out with 20 seconds left in a period... now you want him to bench them? This fanbase is funny.

 

[Craig Button]

Oh the womens league.

I forgot about them.

Did they release the Teams names

 

[Dragao6]

Unfortunate we’re hoping for losses to get this guy fired!!

 

[LeafsFan89]

Sounded pretty dumb... but they set him up with a snippet and not the full interview.

Keefe said a lot more outside of that snippet about Kampf.

Yes. But I think the point is that if you want to send a message, you do it with the top players who are the leaders on this team.

 

[Craig Button]

You all just complained when he didn't put them out with 20 seconds left in a period... now you want him to bench them? This fanbase is funny.

What????

 

[BrannigansLaw]

Bieksa sounding like a genius making the most obvious points. No shit sitting Kampf won’t do anything.

You all just complained when he didn't put them out with 20 seconds left in a period... now you want him to bench them? This fanbase is funny.

Yes, I do. Then he can get fired hopefully right after.

 

[Burnie97]

Oh the womens league.

I forgot about them.

Did they release the Teams names

I think it's great actually. Hope it works out.

Pretty cool little girls also now have something to aspire too.

 

[notbias]

Yes. But I think the point is that if you want to send a message, you do it with the top players who are the leaders on this team.

The guys who are scoring?

Are they making the same mistakes that Kampf has been?

Not sure the top half of our roster is to blame for our team right now.

 

[keonsbitterness]

Pizza is good even if the game isn't.

 

[Craig Button]

I think it's great actually. Hope it works out.

Pretty cool little girls also now have something to aspire too.

When does their season start

 

[PromisedLand]

Keefe has no spine to bench a top 6 forward

Cooper sat Kucherov. Point and Stamkos on bench for the entire period because they sucked the first 2 periods.

Leafs do not have any accountability

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Keefe is officially on the hot seat

He’s not.

He’ll be fired as soon as a suitable replacement is available

 

[9Iron]

What a joke, we dominated that game last night and with any ECHL goaltender we easily win. This is team is delusional.

 

[DarkKnight]

Yes. But I think the point is that if you want to send a message, you do it with the top players who are the leaders on this team.

It sends a message there are different standards for different people. It also says he doesn't have the guts to do it with everyone. I don't think he should have benched Kampf to "send a message", because really it just confirms his own weaknesses as a coach.

 

[TMLegend]

I've been on the fence with Keefe for a while, but I'm really starting to lean towards that he's gotta go. The Kampf thing, keeping Samsonov in yesterday, His continued inability to make adjustments, getting out coached frequently, won't discipline the stars ever no matter how poorly they're playing. They seemingly never start on time or put together a good 60 minute effort.

Ideally you'd change the personnel, but it's easier to get rid of Keefe. I think he's gotta go.

 

[All Mod Cons]

I wish Bieksa would actually coach the Leafs. I agree with him most of the time. Breath of fresh air.

 

[BrannigansLaw]

Cooper sat Kucherov. Point and Stamkos on bench for the entire period because they sucked the first 2 periods.

Leafs do not have any accountability

We are soft in every aspect of the game. Even when it comes to personnel decisions. It’s a disease.

 

[Nineteen67]

He’s not.

He’ll be fired as soon as a suitable replacement is available

Yes he is, and he’s acting like it. If he loses this game more of the media will be on him.

 

[notbias]

There needs to be some accountability. David Kampf is going to be a scratch tonight. In my opinion, he just didn’t do a good enough job in some of those moments I am talking about as a guy that we really rely on in those positions, especially when we are playing with leads.

He is a really important player for us and will be important for us. He has been good here in the last little while, but there have been too many of those types of things. A guy like him — who we have come to really trust and rely upon — needs to be able to come through and lead the way for us in that department.

It is unlike you to punish players like this for their mistakes. What is the difference this time with Kampf?

Keefe: It is not specific to Kampf. You go through it, you try to be patient, you try to trust your guys, and you try to give them opportunities to go back out and do right. But the tolerance for the same types of mistakes that are happening when we are in positions of late is going to be a lot less. It needs to be a lot less if we don’t see improvement. That is the reality of it.

The other side of it: We have a young guy in Holmberg who has played well for us and hasn’t played for a while. He will get an opportunity tonight.

Is the scratching of Kampf a message to the group?

Keefe: I guess you could call it a message to the group. There is going to be less tolerance for that. We have to get better in this area. That is it.

In particular, members of our leadership group — as David is — we trust to lead the way for us. The expectations are higher. Kampf, specifically, has to be a leader on that line. He has to be a leader in those types of situations where we are in control of the game.

It is obviously not just him. It is the guys that we really rely on to be good in those areas, whether you are the top guys who produce a lot of offense — we need those guys to be good in these areas as well, of course — but for someone like Kampfer, in particular, that is his job. That is his primary job and focus when he is on the ice. When he strays from that, he opens up opportunities for others to take his minutes.

This sounds like a lot more than just one isolated incident...