Its not your fault
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Domi had the 2nd most even strength assists next to McDavid, lucky for us you put that on the internet for all to see.
Post-Game Talk: Leafs Blowout Kings 6-2
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To be fair he just came off an illness. It's not like he's barely a fourth liner. In the 7th year of a large contract and for the most part his numbers have been solid, and he does have 2 goals already this year. Nobody likes the "11" in his salary but he's a useful player still.
therealkoho
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Heavy thunder along the boards at SBA last night with a chance of a blowout.
Some great performances, some solid goaltending, some excellent positional play complete with sharp offence. It's the kind of game that makes you believe.
1st Star Mitch Marner. Uncanny vision, talcum powder soft hands, sees things way before they happen.
2nd Star William Nylander great wheels all night and a maximum effort, his playmaking looks like its fully blossomed, if his faceoffs get better, maybe he is a centre?
3rd Star Oliver Eckman-Larsson we've found our PP QB and he's looked real comfortable with Jake.
Honourable mentions
The 4th line, we actually have a real 4th line that does all that great 4th line stuff
Bobby McRocketman(thanks Bonsey)
The D as a whole, not perfect by any means but it was better than what we've been used too, that's for sure!
34 broke the egg, 11 again! another solid game, 91 just missed potting 2, 89 first back a couple of times isn't shy with the physicality
They started well and kept it going until that little let down in the third. On to the next.
Some great performances, some solid goaltending, some excellent positional play complete with sharp offence. It's the kind of game that makes you believe.
1st Star Mitch Marner. Uncanny vision, talcum powder soft hands, sees things way before they happen.
2nd Star William Nylander great wheels all night and a maximum effort, his playmaking looks like its fully blossomed, if his faceoffs get better, maybe he is a centre?
3rd Star Oliver Eckman-Larsson we've found our PP QB and he's looked real comfortable with Jake.
Honourable mentions
The 4th line, we actually have a real 4th line that does all that great 4th line stuff
Bobby McRocketman(thanks Bonsey)
The D as a whole, not perfect by any means but it was better than what we've been used too, that's for sure!
34 broke the egg, 11 again! another solid game, 91 just missed potting 2, 89 first back a couple of times isn't shy with the physicality
They started well and kept it going until that little let down in the third. On to the next.
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weird stats do happen. Domi is a solid player so whatever I'm not trying to bash him. Point is that Nylander hasn't been suffering the past few seasons. And when Tavares gets dropped it will be because of age not chemistry. Tavares has always played the coziest of styles for his linemates including speedy ones like Nylander. As well as his old linemate Matthew Barzal who I would bet money has made similar comments to Nylander.Domi had the 2nd most even strength assists next to McDavid, lucky for us you put that on the internet for all to see.
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HamiltonNHL
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Yes.
His slap shot is quite useful compared to Rielly
And he’s faster than Rielly.
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OEL has looked very good thus far, at both ends of the ice.
He's already taken over point duties on PP1, and is showing good offensive instincts.
Having said that, the Leafs' PP always seems to end up back at the Big Four + Rielly sooner or later, so we still have to see what happens this year.
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The Leafs PP has been historically good with Rielly. Except for in the playoffs. Plus it's crazy to put the blame on him when he is playing with 4 11 million dollar players.
I am fine with OEL taking over, but until they crash the net a little more, his shot is going to be just a 50 foot unscreened save.
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I apologize for littering this thread with old school HF memes lol.. it’s been a long day. If it helps, it’s personally making me chuckle.
...it was probably the unforced errors as last man back occuring multiple times. Hoping he's over it, but I can't recall a D ever fanning pucks as often as Lilj.
notDatsyuk
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You are assuming that Nylander hasn't "been suffering" with Tavares, and that Tavares will be dropped only because of age. If you've watched the games, you could have seen that they have both produced despite their different styles, and small sample size that it is, these last two games, and most of the odd times they were separated (over the last two years in particular) have shown that Nylander at least performs better away from Tavares.
It's not a knock on Tavares that their styles don't compliment each other, but there is certainly evidence that it is a fact.
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He did look pretty awful in the last playoffs and was noticeably overwhelmed, however he also appeared injured to me and his mobility definitely seemed hampered. Believe he was also on the ice and well out of position when Nick Cousins eliminated the Leafs in 2023
He was also playing with Joel Edmundson, and one thing you can't say about Joel is that he's an effective puck mover. And Boston knew that.
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agreed, he just seems incapable of making the quick plays in tight space that even depth players throughout the league these days can make. it feels fairly grim.
yup, still lots to prove as a group. Way too early to be handing out the Jack Adams.
I will say though, what I find encouraging is how we've shown up in every game for the most part. A mid week game against a hungry LAK group with a former Leaf in the cage and a handful of GTA players in the lineup is such a fitting script for a let down game. Not to mention the fact we've got players battling illness. Going back even further to the Pens game, it was almost as if Dubas was intentionally trying to trolling us by putting a kid in net to play his first NHL game on our home opener which just so happened to also be a Saturday night HNIC game. It was almost as if he knew we were going to trip over ourselves. I wonder where he got that idea....
Point being, historically, we never really struggle to show up against those top tier teams. We tend to struggle in games exactly like the ones I listed above. Ones where we lack a desire to play with intention or a purpose. Even in our 1 loss this season, we were very much the better team.
Again, I am trying not to get too ahead of myself, even though I know I probably have already. But it is really hard to deny some of the positive things we are seeing from this group. Results aside
INJECT THIS INTO MY VEINS!!!
4 a year * 5y, 3 up front annually July 1 conditional upon denouncing the Sens in a funny instragram post. Do we have an accord?
notDatsyuk
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Sounds similar to what Nylander was caught saying during the playoffs.
This was a classic Leafs trap game. The Kings were fresh off a clown game where they gave up 8 to the Sens, it was a backup who briefly played for the Leafs in Rittich, in Toronto, after a couple of big wins. We lose this game 4-1 so regularly that you can set your watch to it. Was very nice seeing the boys blow 'em up instead. Things to learn from the game, but it was a big win and a relief as a fan.
McMann is a real player, he's got goalscoring IQ and plays physical. He and Knies are the pieces that might take this forward group from being a big4 to being truly elite.
McMann is a real player, he's got goalscoring IQ and plays physical. He and Knies are the pieces that might take this forward group from being a big4 to being truly elite.
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Said to my son after the 1st goal Berube doesn't know the team ... he should call time out. He will learn quickly.
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