Post-Game Talk: Leafs beat Connor Hellebuyck 4-3, end 3 game skid in OT

[Sniper99]

BTW, a shout to out to y'all who said after the first goal that we had no chance of winning so you were going to watch a movie or something instead. You missed a great game but I hope you had a nice evening.

the Fake fans you mean? the "guaranteed loss" guys? The "another loss" in the 1st period guys?

turn in your jerseys and other apparel and bobbleheads ladies.

 

[egd27]

if it wasn’t him, it would have been a goalie pull and much worse

I think you missed the intent of the post

 

[MattySnipes]

Those don't look like hockey playing mechanics. It's like he learned the game training in outer space.

He did the same move against Sabres albeit that one was nicer bc there was a move before he pulled that off.

Amazing skill.

 

[ponder]

The boys deserved that win so f***ing hard. Completely dominated, high danger scoring chances were 20-5, if Helle wasn’t playing out of his mind that’s a blowout victory.

Love that they faced a goalie playing crazy well but still found a way to win. Outstanding compete tonight, loved it!!

 

[IrishInOntario]

Not looking forward to playing the Jets in the playoffs.

We always have the lesser goalie in the series. Ever single time.

Lesser goalie than the defending Vezina winner?... Welcome to every other team in the league's issue.

That's like Jets fans not looking forward a series because they don't have a goal scorer as good as Matthews.... Nobody does.

This is a reasonable point if we're playing Thatcher Demko or David Rittich, but Helle is legitimately the best guy out there (Vasy being the argument). You're almost never going to have the better goalie when you play those teams.

Your elite forwards (who you pay a fortune to) need to be better than their elite goalie. Period.

 

[All Mod Cons]

Not sure what you mean? He won tonight.

We lose because of Freddy. We win despite of him.

The buzzwords of agenda and narrative seem quite fitting.

 

[zeke]

 

[93LEAFS]

Why would we give props to the weakest performance on the team tonight?

Holl or Veasy's was weaker.

 

[zeke]

We lost because of Freddy. We win despite of him.

The buzzwords of agenda and narrative seem quite fitting.

It's a simple narrative - he's the 2nd best goalie most every night, so both those are usually true

 

[Stephen]

Holl or Veasy's was weaker.

Vesey was pretty good early on. Holl looks like the clock struck midnight and he's turning back into a pumpkin. Worried about his game.

 

[MattySnipes]

Great observation before goal.

 

[93LEAFS]

It's a simple narrative - he's the 2nd best goalie most every night, so both those are usually true

Which goal should he have stopped tonight? Because all were very difficult stops at best.

 

[McSnypsky]

Those don't look like hockey playing mechanics. It's like he learned the game training in outer space.

Arizona is pretty far out

 

[Aashir]

Holl or Veasy's was weaker.

Vesey started off strong, with that cut to the net which was stopped but afterwards he just went 80%. He pulled his 1 play and that’ll keep him in the lineup

 

[tmlms13]

High danger chances were 20 - 5

Ridiculous that it took OT to win

 

[Rants Mulliniks]

If we had Helle we would be a team to be feared.

Anyone have the high danger chances for that game? Had to be very lopsided.

LOL. Got posted right above me as I typed. I suppose 18 of those were Nylander?

 

[Martin Skoula]

We need a Kreider clone as insurance to accidentally-on-purpose fall on Helle a couple times if we draw them in the playoffs.

 

[All Mod Cons]

It's a simple narrative - he's the 2nd best goalie most every night, so both those are usually true

Meh. It's a narrative. He was by far the better goalie tonight. Hellebuyck let in 4 goals. Andersen only 3. He deserved the win. He played very very well.

 

[Teeder Keon]

I'm a huge Rielly fan but nobody skates like Bobby Orr. You know better than that, come on now.

I know wink wink
But he does have his style and similar
But no worries
The best player in the history of our game
Number 4 Bobby fuk In Orr
No questions
Mike drop

 

[Warden of the North]

Lesser goalie than the defending Vezina winner?... Welcome to every other team in the league's issue.

That's like Jets fans not looking forward a series because they don't have a goal scorer as good as Matthews.... Nobody does.

This is a reasonable point if we're playing Thatcher Demko or David Rittich, but Helle is legitimately the best guy out there (Vasy being the argument). You're almost never going to have the better goalie when you play those teams.

Your elite forwards (who you pay a fortune to) need to be better than their elite goalie. Period.

Obviously.

But I'm referring to the past as well.

Rask, Korpisalo, Holtby.

We never have the upper hand in net.

 

[IrishInOntario]

If we had Helle we would be a team to be feared.

Anyone have the high danger chances for that game? Had to be very lopsided.

The Leafs and half the other teams in the league would be awesome if they had the defending Vezina winner.

 

[93LEAFS]

Vesey started off strong, with that cut to the net which was stopped but afterwards he just went 80%. He pulled his 1 play and that’ll keep him in the lineup

He also made a terrible read which basically left two high-end skaters behind him in the zone on the rotation with Holl, which directly led to the 2nd goal.

 

[ACC1224]

We lose because of Freddy. We win despite of him.

The buzzwords of agenda and narrative seem quite fitting.

He was fine tonight. They didn’t win because of him, they won because they were the far better team. If not for big ears that game is a blowout.

 

[Steve776]

Seven games left against the Jets. This is going to be an interesting series of series'.

 

[Aashir]

If we had Helle we would be a team to be feared.

Anyone have the high danger chances for that game? Had to be very lopsided.

He only makes like 6.5 or something right. We’d just have to not sign someone like vesey and Barabanov or trade engvall, in either case that’s make us amazing
We’d have at worst a top 2 forward core
We’d have at worst a top 2 Dman core
We’d have at worst a top 1 Goalie tandem

it wouldn’t be fair