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Post-Game Talk: Leafs at The Powerhouse | 2/10/19 - 7 PM - NBCSN

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3 Stars of the Game

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You guys beat the Leafs and Boo'd Tavares!?
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Machinehead said:
Baseball is far and away #1. New York City is the mecca of baseball. Then throwball. Then basketball. Hockey is definitely 4th.

That said, most New York sports fans follow the Rangers. Hockey either has a religious following or it's not very popular at all. New York has this weird middle ground where hockey is just a normal part of the sports culture.

I also think the Rangers are closer to the Knicks than you would think, just from my observations.
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This is right on.
 
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The S5 said:
First star is clearly Georgi, but Skjei might have had one of his best games all year. That kid needs to learn to bring that every night.

Leafs fans crucifying Babcock, Sparks, Matthews, refs, the guy selling beer, Sparks' mom.
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Skjei has looked pretty good for a while now. I know some of the metrics aren't kind to the pair, but Skjei and McQuaid seem to work well together.

Speaking on McQuaid, I actually like his game more than I expected to seeing him play every night.
 
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out shot by alot. yikes. love quinn saying we "defended well" lol guys clueless. 56 shots !!! that defense last night was a tire fire. yeesh.

defense last night aside, this team is alot better than almost all here believe. right now, with a few better players, we would be in or around the playoffs.

13 had another solid game. someones going to get a very good player.

77 had a tough night. happens. benching him was quinns "method" because he had 7 d dressed. but when 44 plays bad, he plays more. lol. quinn.

georgie played great. hes out played hank a few times recently. dudes for real and he stopped everything he saw.

this team is NOT a bottom 5 team at all. after 36 and 13 are gone, sure ill buy that then but right now, even with that ATROCIOUS defense, this isnt a bottom 5 team.

i dare say if we had oh lets say less shattenkirk and a legit 1st pair dman instead and one high end forward, we would be a play off team today.

we are stuck in the dreaded middle. still say well get that 5-7 ish pick come draft day.

beating the laughs is always good. such a cocky bunch and their fans....
 
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Guys, I have no idea if this was already discussed but a good bud of mine who follows quite a bit of hockey informed me of a couple Sportsnet guys talking about shot count discrepancy in last night's game. In 2 screenshots taken in the first period the shots drastically change for the leafs, the time stamps are 8:06 and 8:19. Something doesn't add up and I'll try to add the screenshots on here...

8:06 - TOR 7 NYR 3
8:19 - TOR 18 NYR 4

Yet TOR finished with 22 shots in the period. (meaning they only had 4 for the remaining 8 mins of the first)
 

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Unpredictable1 said:
Guys, I have no idea if this was already discussed but a good bud of mine who follows quite a bit of hockey informed me of a couple Sportsnet guys talking about shot count discrepancy in last night's game. In 2 screenshots taken in the first period the shots drastically change for the leafs, the time stamps are 8:06 and 8:19. Something doesn't add up and I'll try to add the screenshots on here...

8:06 - TOR 7 NYR 3
8:19 - TOR 18 NYR 4

Yet TOR finished with 22 shots in the period. (meaning they only had 4 for the remaining 8 mins of the first)
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The counter was off on Sportsnet then.

Toronto was credited with at least 15 shots in the first 10 minutes of the game.

And yes, Toronto did only have 4 additional shots over the last 8 minutes of the first period.
 
I didn't get to watch the game but there appears to be a huge discrepancy between the Leafs shot location/amount and a lot of people saying we played well defensively and kept 'shots to the outside'.
Were we good defensively and the shot location charts really don't tell the story, or did Georgie just stand on his head and we got pretty lucky?
 
Riche16 said:
Surprised not more votes for Hayes... most of the game he was toying w the Leafs.

When he ragged that puck for like :30 secs on the PK... went to his backhand surely he would put it off the glass and HOPEFULLY out of the zone and then he reversed and went back behind the net, everyone in the arena was in shock... including all 5 Leaf players trying to catch him.

That was sick
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That offsides call on the same PK was bullshit too.
 
mike14 said:
I didn't get to watch the game but there appears to be a huge discrepancy between the Leafs shot location/amount and a lot of people saying we played well defensively and kept 'shots to the outside'.
Were we good defensively and the shot location charts really don't tell the story, or did Georgie just stand on his head and we got pretty lucky?
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To me it looked like the leafs were shooting indiscriminately. As though they were told Georgiev is a sieve. I guess they didn’t have a scouting report.
 
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egelband said:
To me it looked like the leafs were shooting indiscriminately. As though they were told Georgiev is a sieve. I guess they didn’t have a scouting report.
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They had a lot of shots on the PP....outside of that just average IMO for the Leafs . We also had some good chances /missed shots on Sparks . Plus we should have had at least one more PP chance ,missed the instigator on Hyman . Plus was another one or two calls I thought could have been interference calls in our favor . We could have scored 2 more goals easily....Leafs are a bad club defensively and bound to bow out of a tight playoff series early . Can they score ? YES...but they are not good at stopping them and also quite soft . I would be bumping Marner /Matthews at every chance if I played them...in their face!
 
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mike14 said:
I didn't get to watch the game but there appears to be a huge discrepancy between the Leafs shot location/amount and a lot of people saying we played well defensively and kept 'shots to the outside'.
Were we good defensively and the shot location charts really don't tell the story, or did Georgie just stand on his head and we got pretty lucky?
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The Leafs had a crazy amount of high danger chances on their 4 power plays, Georgie was incredible on the PK.

At 5v5 though, the Rangers did a pretty decent job of keeping the chances to the outside. The game was pretty even at 5v5, the Rangers were arguably the better team.
 
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MattMartin said:
I want to vote for every fan that booed JT. That was really awesome of you guys/gals. I hope we never have to repay the favor, meaning, finding out your franchise player was a ****ing Judas.
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You obviously don't remember Scott Gomez signing back with the Devils.
 
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Webster said:
Our Captain next season...he'll be a great mentor for the kids :nod:

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That's why I want to keep Zuccarello. He's not worth trading for a pick if he wants to stay here himself, like Hank. Kids need veterans to guide and help them become successful in this league. Well, at least most kids and the coaching staff is not the whole part of the puzzle. Not only that, he's a fan favourite and a locker room favourite. And every time there's some off ice event, like the team golfing together, a lot of players are talking about Zuke and somehow most of the video will be about him messing around with his teammates.

He always works hard, he has skill, he's smart and he's very likeable. He eases the tension from the pressure they have on their shoulders to perform. That's a very good combination for a veteran to keep on a rebuilding team. If you never have a "NYR core", what is the team culture? How do you grasp it? You need roots for a tree to grow, to sound like some confucian old man sitting under a tree. Please don't become like Edmonton and suck for a decade, because suddenly you develop a losing culture and can't get out of the hole.

Look at Detroit, Yzerman was a huge part in creating that legacy. NYR needs that Yzerman, or a combination of such, to show the young guys just how hard the veterans work and help them get accustomed to a professional hockey life, with many temptations.

And oh, Zuccarello has signed team friendly contracts every time, for this team trying to win the cup, yet he has himself been perhaps a bigger part of a winning chance, then the money he left for the table for. He was one of the guys who chose to not be traded when NYR announced the rebuilding strategy. Several good players left.

If he wants to stay, he stays, he's not only earned it, it's incredible how you not think he's not worth keeping, for yet another lottery ticket.
 
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bl02 said:
Glad tho there is some reality vs what we experienced in the dark ages of the early 2000's. Being 7 points back we would be looking to do whatever we could to make the playoffs lol. Has to tell me we are going in the right direction
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Those years struggling to "just sneak in" to the PO's with no real shot and trading away futures. Never made any sense. Not as if they were concerned with ticket sales. SMH
 
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