Post-Game Talk: Lazy effort. Full 60 minutes required

[Carltons Cup]

This is what happens when you don't show up.

Burn the tape. On to the next one.

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[LastOne2100]

Oh well. We were bound to lay an egg some time. Buffalo on the calendar pretty much guaranteed this would be the game.

However, the fact that Holl continues to get ice time is completely baffling.

 

[stickty111]

Leafs and Buffalo. Due for a strinker.
Liljegren was the best player on the ice. If he sits again in favor of Holl or Lyb, someone should lose their jobs.

 

[Stolie the Goalie]

Did Tavares play tonight?

 

[crump]

Burner

 

[Voodoo Child]

Every time Buffalo has beaten the Leafs this year they’ve played them the same way - fast forecheck + tight up the middle, they block shots, box out the middle and hassle the point.

It’s very boring, ugly hockey and Buffalo plays it. No team can do that for seven games but the Leafs can’t adapt to that why?

Matthews could have had a few but his decision making was terrible tonight - passing off to Bunting in the first few minutes of the third only down one.

Speaking of non factors - Bunting hasn’t done anything to move the needle in a few weeks now.

Mitch had his worst game in a loooooooooong time. JT has his worst game in about two weeks. Willy was fine.

Holl has all the tools to be a dream - a 6+ 200+ right shot with some offensive talent, but not as much as he thinks and he does NOT seem to like playing in the corners or clearing the net.

Lyubushkin is better than Holl, but not by nearly enough.

Kampf had his worst game in a while as well, it was okay when he was on that little ‘heater’ he was on, but he got pulled apart on the Buffalo PP.

Brodie has been on the wrong end of a lot of goals lately, time to start lot managing players.

There was no need to play matchmaker with the D - keep Liljegren and Gio together, both looked fine separately.

Kallgren made some okay saves but he spends a ton of time not knowing where the puck is, and that third goal he was beaten clean can’t happen. He’s earned himself the inside track for the backup job next year, but there’s a lot to work on.

I wouldn’t mind Blackwell getting a small bump, he’s speedy and tenacious.

Nice to give Abruzesse some games but he’s nowhere near ready, falls down at least once a shift. Look at a guy like Robertson; that’s what a near ready prospect looks like.

I can sort of Understand their pov- even I’m having a hard time keeping invested with the playoffs clinched since December, but that was unacceptable.

 

[Maplebeasts]

If this team actually tried against bad teams we'd have home ice up to the cup final on lockdown. It's really annoying.

 

[wingman75]

Pathetic. Doesn't really matter in the big picture.
But it does take away from a lot of the good they have done recently.
PP on a horrendous run of late as well... as is the PK.

When our good players are not good, our average players are completely exposed.

 

[PromisedLand]

Tavares and Holl WTF they do on ice is beyond me.

Trailing in the game and Keefe keeps putting Holl on ice is one of the DUMBEST coaching tactics ever

 

[zeke]

Please end this pain Keefe.

 

[BTP]

Buffalol TV feed commentators trying to make it seem like we are their arch rival LOL.

christ

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Special teams is concerning, to say the least.

 

[saffronleaf]

better team won

 

[makbeer]

what happened to Campbell? Why would he be sitting for 2 games in a row with so few games remaining when he needs to find his game.

 

[IrishInOntario]

Gross loss, but fully expected. Just had a feeling the boys would be disengaged tonight and would play sloppy.

Full credit to Buffalo, they were, by far, the better team head-to-head this year. 3-1 season series, with three, 5-2 wins. Nothing we can do but too our cap.

Hopefully, the boys show up for the next one and look like they care! Shitty loss, but what are you going to do?

Regroup and try to play better on Thursday.

 

[MarMarSab3]

Tavares is the best 3C in hockey, unfortunately he makes 11 million

 

[wingman75]

Buffalol TV feed commentators trying to make it seem like we are their arch rival LOL.

christ

I think we are... for them. Let them enjoy it. They just won their cup!

 

[Incognito]

Not sure why we seem to love getting beaten by the dumpster fire ass Sabres so much this season, but it’s both weird and annoying.

 

[Captain14]

They have always been bush league telecasts…forever! Now you have Rob “too many blows to the head” Ray as the color man. They are so brutal.

 

[ClarkSittler]

We're not gonna win them all, but I really hope we get home ice in the playoffs, I think it might come in handy, especially if we play the Bruins and their team of NHL refs.

 

[Stephen]

Whole team was consistently brain dead from puck drop. Makes sense considering what a party it was last week.

 

[PromisedLand]

Every time Buffalo has beaten the Leafs this year they’ve played them the same way - fast forecheck + tight up the middle, they block shots, box out the middle and hassle the point.

It’s very boring, ugly hockey and Buffalo plays it. No team can do that for seven games but the Leafs can’t adapt to that why?

Matthews could have had a few but his decision making was terrible tonight - passing off to Bunting in the first few minutes of the third only down one.

Speaking of non factors - Bunting hasn’t done anything to move the needle in a few weeks now.

Mitch had his worst game in a loooooooooong time. JT has his worst game in about two weeks. Willy was fine.

Holl has all the tools to be a dream - a 6+ 200+ right shot with some offensive talent, but not as much as he thinks and he does NOT seem to like playing in the corners or clearing the net.
Lyubushkin is better than Holl, but not by nearly enough.

Kampf had his worst game in a while as well, it was okay when he was on that little ‘heater’ he was on, but he got pulled apart on the Buffalo PP.

Brodie has been on the wrong end of a lot of goals lately, time to start lot managing players.

There was no need to play matchmaker with the D - keep Liljegren and Gio together, both looked fine separately.

Kallgren made some okay saves but he spends a ton of time not knowing where the puck is, and that third goal he was beaten clean can’t happen. He’s earned himself the inside track for the backup job next year, but there’s a lot to work on.

I wouldn’t mind Blackwell getting a small bump, he’s speedy and tenacious.

Nice to give Abruzesse some games but he’s nowhere near ready.

to the bolded. that is what worries me. There isn't a game this season that I can recall where Leafs played well against fast forecheck, solid netural zone coverage by opposition

Blues did with easy and Sabres have done that against the Leafs too in pretty much all the losses (outdoor game was meh anyway).

pissing away 2 points against bottom feeders hopefully doesn't come back to bite them on their ass

 

[Leaf Rocket]

Be this:


Instead of:


ONTO THE NEXT ONE!

 

[57 Years No Cup]

 

[Carltons Cup]

The Matthews line was -2

They certainly laid an egg tonight.