GDT: Hurricanes @ Leafs - Battle of the Goaltending titans

[Burnie97]

Bert is gonna finish the year with 18 pts and get 20 in the playoffs
Book it !

If that happens they're probably in the cup final so I'll take it.

 

[notbias]

When 3 players are behind your own net and leave a guy alone in front, that isn't a system issue, that's a lack of defensive awareness. When both defensemen are in the same corner with one opponent and leave the front of the net wide open, again that's nothing to do with rotation, that's bad on ice decision making. Same as when you're playing Overtime 3-3, you head down the ice on a 3-1 and blast the puck a foot wide of the net leading to a breakaway the other way. These are bad errors and terrible situational hockey play.

Not sure why these concepts are so difficult to understand, I mean Keefe pretty much said the same thing during his post game conferences.

In the scenario where two D are in one corner, who is supposed to be there and who isn't? Those are the questions I want answered.

It's not all just about the end result for the coaching staff...

 

[Leaffan1991]

Brodie has to go. He's been awful this year, I think he's done..
Rielly needs a better partner and that 5 million cap would be of better use for a younger better D man

 

[ClarkSittler]

Bunting vs. three Leafs...

Guess who gets the puck...

Don't worry, that was just a rotation error.

 

[Carltons Cup]

Brodie on the PK

Lol

 

[PeteBestondrums]

Sadly is there any hope for a Cup in the next five years with this team?

I think someone has to have the balls to admit this current structure won't work and cut bait with Marner and ideally, Tavares.
Don't think that's in MLSE plans however.

 

[saffronleaf]

good to see ovi score

 

[TMLegend]

Hopefully the Leafs can get one early here.

 

[therealkoho]

so these losses, last night's and the one to Ottawa and the 9-3 to Buffalo and if they lose this one to Carolina, they don't matter right? since they're regular season games?

Playoff regular season it just doesn't matter to too many of these guys. They take nights off whenever they feel like it, despite all the post game rahrah they spout, yeah they're a team alright

 

[Racer88]

There wasn't enough offense in the the playoffs... not saying it was the right team constructed... just this problem didn't start until this year.

I will give you that this year the team is even worse then last year.
They are actually laughable. I’m no Dubas fan but I dislike what Tre has done just as much.
We are squandering what could have been an awesome rebuild. No success under Dubas and it looks like Treliving is going to be even worse

 

[DarkKnight]

Great kill to set a tone.

 

[PeteBestondrums]

Brodie has to go. He's been awful this year, I think he's done..
Rielly needs a better partner and that 5 million cap would be of better use for a younger better D man

Schenn should have been retained instead.

 

[Gary Nylund]

so these losses, last night's and the one to Ottawa and the 9-3 to Buffalo and if they lose this one to Carolina, they don't matter right? since they're regular season games?

Every game matters, playoff games for sure matter more though. Like game 3 against Florida for example, that was way more important than any regular season game we played, probably more important than how we played in the entire month of February.

So these losses, what I would say is that in terms of gathering points, they don't mean much to me, I just don't care. In terms of projecting our chances in the playoffs based on how badly we're playing, that's another story. Still lots of time to turn it around but it's been a pretty crappy season so far.

 

[Cleetus]

Hopefully the Leafs can get one early here.

Unfortunately some posters here don't want that to happen they just want to prop up a failed gm dubas it's so bad

 

[All Mod Cons]

Bench Robertson for that turnover

 

[saffronleaf]

noticed some weird in arena sound for end of pk

 

[All Mod Cons]

Why doesn't Tavares pass very often?

 

[1specter]

This team is going nowhere in its current iteration. Not even enjoyable to watch these days

 

[Hellcat]

There wasn't enough offense in the the playoffs... not saying it was the right team constructed... just this problem didn't start until this year.

2019-20 - Leafs were 27th in GA
2020-21 - Leafs were 7th in GA
2021-22 - Leafs were 18th in GA
2022-23 - Leafs were 5th in GA (Sammy stood on his head all season)
2023-24 - Leafs are 20th in GA

They have been up and down under Keefe, to say the problem didn't start till this year is not accurate.

 

[saffronleaf]

bertuzzis hands are hard as diamonds

 

[DarkKnight]

Holmberg has had a couple nice shifts.

 

[Carltons Cup]

noticed some weird in arena sound for end of pk

That would be Keefe's stomach growling for a hot dog

 

[leafs in five]

canes could get called for a hook or hold every shift

 

[DarkKnight]

What a shelf! Sweet pass.

 

[Metroid]

What a shot. Goalie didn't even move lol