GDT: Leafs at Tampa 7pm

[Stephen]

To me its a"results oriented business" ..

Last year Leafs finished with 115 points with Campbell, Mrazek and Woll and Kallgren and lost in round #1.

This year the Leafs have 107 points with 2 games to go with Samsonov, Murray, Woll and Kallgren and headed for the same opponent in round #1.

Clearly better?

For me the clearly better will be based on the outcome of the upcoming playoff series. If its another bitter disappointing outcome for Leaf Nation and early exit, there is no "Clearly Better" when the end results are the same. If the Leafs win a playoff round for the first time in 19 years then "clearly better" can be confirmed in a head to head comparison.

Sammy is the cream of the crop in net, but Murray is a trainwreck the way Campbell and Mrazek were but just different.

The team is going to finish with fewer points but they did drop a bunch against some weak competition, so I'd say it's a mark against consistency of effort and focus vs ability. The team we are finishing the 2022-23 regular season feels like the most substantial Leafs build in this era. But the 2022 team probably had more finesse ability and footspeed which is noticeably worse without Engvall and Mikheyev's counter rush capability.

 

[Spargon]

Please Matt Knies change your number. 23 just don’t feel right.
Here’s some suggestions:
#66 #77 #17 #27

1. His number not making you feel good is irrelevant he doesn't care. Always funny when fans act like they have any say in someone's number.
2. If you were any kind of Leaf fan you would know 17 and 27 are retired.

 

[stats1]

If I’m Dubas I’m calling up the league and tell them to make sure they keep an eye on any crap. Tampa are one of the dirtiest teams in the league. Perry, Kucherov, Maroon just to name a few. I’d love for someone to TKO Kucherov with a clean hit and see how he responds. Sick of seeing him going after Marner every time they play. Could’ve sliced his leg with his skate lifting up. Dirty POS

 

[9Iron]

Howdy Ho's

Not really caring whether we win or lose this game, but I don't want a blowout win or loss. Any kind of close game is fine. Hope this makes sense.

 

[authentic]

But seriously how was that not a suspension on Sergachev? Disgraceful hit

Atleast now we got Schenn to knock some sense into them

 

[fahad203]

If I’m Dubas I’m calling up the league and tell them to make sure they keep an eye on any crap. Tampa are one of the dirtiest teams in the league. Perry, Kucherov, Maroon just to name a few. I’d love for someone to TKO Kucherov with a clean hit and see how he responds. Sick of seeing him going after Marner every time they play. Could’ve sliced his leg with his skate lifting up. Dirty POS

Didn't we get some people with attitude for that reason?
Dubas needs his own team to fight back, not rely on the league

 

[Anthrax442]

Any stream link? I'm in Florida, tsn ap doesn't work

 

[RunItBackAgain]

First game Woll plays against an actual playoff bound NHL team in his career. Should be fun

 

[horner]

Are they also going to do surgery on Marner so he doesn't miss games after this stuff? An eye for an eye doesn't work out too well when we lose stars

We didn't do anything last yr and TB played like that ?
Now we have the players to give back.

 

[fahad203]

Matt Knies looks alot like a young Luke Schenn

First game Woll plays against an actual playoff bound NHL team in his career. Should be fun

How dare you speak like that about Buffalo Sabres?

 

[notbias]

Any stream link? I'm in Florida, tsn ap doesn't work

DM'd

 

[TimeZone]

Lmao @ that call

 

[egd27]

Somewhat telling how many posts there are worrying about Tampa bullying the Leafs.

 

[93gilmour93]

I took Tampa 11 seconds to do something stupid

 

[stats1]

Didn't we get some people with attitude for that reason?
Dubas needs his own team to fight back, not rely on the league

Yes respond for sure on the ice. But if they see any crap like that Kucherov leg swing, that’s suspendable due to it being attempt to injure

 

[TimeZone]

Lmao, let's just hope these clowns aren't officiating a week from now, two abysmal calls.

 

[Racer88]

The refs into the game right away

 

[stats1]

Somewhat telling how many posts there are worrying about Tampa bullying the Leafs.

It’s not bullying it’s the fact TB are dirty. TB isn’t going to bully the Leafs

 

[9Iron]

LOLrefs already. wtf

 

[Menzinger]

Game management lol

 

[Pete2000]

17 and 27 are non starters and I think 66 is close too

Okay #77 it is

 

[fahad203]

Yes respond for sure on the ice. But if they see any crap like that Kucherov leg swing, that’s suspendable due to it being attempt to injure

Kucherov swings at you, you swing back at Kuch. He's one of their star players, if he wants to take that chance, he should be on the losing end
Should work to our advantage

 

[egd27]

It’s not bullying it’s the fact TB are dirty. TB isn’t going to bully the Leafs

semantics

 

[stats1]

f*** these refs

 

[Maple Leaf]

Does water freeze in tampa?