Post-Game Talk: Leafs begin season with a WIN. 6-5 in the shootout

[MSZ]

 

[DarkKnight]

LMAO Sammy is always good for the post game quotes thats for sure

Love that, own it.

 

[bax]

Treliving on the phone looking foe D

He better be

 

[DarkKnight]

Let's spend some money on it, ya? And not the suites?

Inexcusable. Absolute joke, a skill team, figure it the f*** out.

 

[kevsh]

The Leafs are nothing if not entertaining.
AM looks like he's got his scoring touch back, so there's that too.

But ugh, that was ugly. No way we should have even had to go to OT/SO. This is a team we should be hell bent on beating up & burying every time we face them.

 

[Brown Dog]

 

[Jojalu]

First star - Papi

Second star - Brodie (2 beautiful assists)

I heard Brodie was done!

 

[bax]

Matthews was engaged all night. Jumped right into that scrum too instead of picking up sticks for everyone. It’s gonna be a fun year if he keeps this up.

 

[Ianturnedbull]

wtf happened? I left this game.

damn.

glad they won.

 

[MarMarSab3]

Bertuzzi Matthews Nylander
Knies Tavares Marner
Domi Minten Jarnkrok
Gregor Kampf Reaves

Reilly Liljegren
McCabe Klinberg
Gio Brodie

Would be interesting

 

[Buds17]

That game was a bit more adventurous than I typically prefer them to be. Aside from that, I'll absolutely take a Matthews hatty, a Gregor goal and Klingberg's assists in the Leaf debut for each and a victory over a divisional rival led by the Core Fo(u)rwards.

 

[PromisedLand]

Simmons is officially TRASH

 

[DarkKnight]

Looks like hockey…

https://x.com/TicTacTOmar/status/1712275548653621412?s=20

 

[Rob Brown]

Simmons is officially TRASH

We've known that though

 

[MilkofthePoppy]

Everything I love and hate about this team on display for 60 minutes.

 

[WillyC]

Auston wants his Rocket back

 

[Larcos_Unal]

This type of game doesn't scream 'we're ready for playoffs' lol, but a W is a W.

*As stated previously, this D will not win you 4 rounds
*Sammy needs to get off the vodka
*Knies looked more like Chad Kilger than Chris Kreider
*Minten ain't ready, no sense trying to force it
*Hoping we continue to see the Matthews of two years ago, I missed that dude
*If Mitchy could find a way to start a season on time it'd be real swell
*Under any circumstance, you always enjoy the hell out of beating the Habs

 

[Teeder Keon]

 

[Lightsol]

Simmons is officially TRASH

 

[kk87]

For all the questions and unknowns with this team, so much of the team will come down to which version of Matthews we get. The difference between "good top line centre" last year, and "indisputable top 2 player in the league" from two years ago is staggering.

Really looks like he's got his mojo back. Such a good sign.

 

[Larcos_Unal]

Inexcusable. Absolute joke, a skill team, figure it the f*** out.

Damn, did Dubas steal the ice crew too?? That rascal...

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Love that Gio has made a flying tackle his signature move.

 

[Budz]

Lol - pretty much what I expected.

Poor first period. No legs, bad ice and rust.
Then dominated 90% of the game. Mistakes just went in. Cream rises to the top.

Good:
Matthews release - looks healthy
4th line was great
More physical team didn’t back down
Willy looks elite
Klingberg looked good on the PP

Concerns:
Lines 2/3 lacked chemistry
Bertuzzi is not a match on the top line either.
Klingberg/Brodie/Gio/Lily all had rough nights in the d zone.
Break outs in general were poor
Sammy looks out of shape and was swimming in crease even when they didn’t score
Domi

 

[keonsbitterness]

wtf happened? I left this game.

damn.

glad they won.

You were not elite tonight.

 

[thewave]

Matthews was engaged all night. Jumped right into that scrum too instead of picking up sticks for everyone. It’s gonna be a fun year if he keeps this up.

He keeps jumping into it and playing like that, you would think we need to hand him the C