My Three
1st. Mo fo Reelz over the last few games it's the best Reilly's skated all year, it looks like his wrist shot is back nice to see he picked up a goal and an assist, carried the puck out of his own zone as well as made some carries into the attacking zone! He laid the body on a lot. Just a real good performance out of our #1! Hopefully Mo has turned a big corner and continues this high level of play into the spring tournament, it would solve a lot of problems for the team. Maybe this 11-7 is working quietly to give the boy's a step up on the opposition.
2nd. Ilya our stand-up butterfly funny guy. He made some beauties, put up a .941 on the 32 shots he faced. He had to make some big stops even at 4-2 the lead didn't feel safe with the officiating, so much ignored and some chintzy calls especially the calls on BongRip and the goal scoring machine ZAR, the call on Big Mike was a coincidental minors if anything.
3rd. The new guys have brought with them a whole new look physical game, lots of finishing of checks, lot's of real bangers lately, the kind that make other teams sit up and notice, the kind that make the opposition be a little more cautious when entering the Leafs zone, the kind that make opposing dmen look twice when on a puck retrieval. Special mentions for Schenner, Cookie before he had to leave, ZAR, Laff doesn't look fun to play against, Liljegren is starting to push his weight around and steps up anytime he sees a chance, heck even the Captain stepped into Poolparty and rattled him pretty good.
Kampf is showing off some puck skills lately, it will be nice if he starts capitalizing on his opportunities, he has also been improving on his set up's and getting pucks through, so maybe give him some Ozone faceoffs from time to time.
Nylander has disappeared since the trade deadline
Will is producing numbers but is sometimes loafing through a shift here and there. Once they get back to 12-6 I'd like to see them put him together with Laff and Kampf in the middle, crazy speed from the outside on the rush and let Will do the Mitch thing and do most of the puck handling.
the panels won't talk about the refs
How can they not? If they did they'd find the NHL would get them replaced, lots of ex players who'd love the job. The last few weeks has been worse than terrible as to be unprofessional
EK has a history with the head ref on that crew
no touch icing I thought was no touch icing I mean really that is friggin brutal, even with the explanation the puck was covered but the Avs player used his stick to push the goaltender into the net
The refereeing has to be better for a league that generates multi-billions of dollars and it's not.
but I digress, it was solid effort tonight against a top 5 team that skates really well that has a big mobile D thats always active.
GLG
Nice Easter egg maestro you found ….
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thank-you sir I do try!