Post-Game Talk: Leafs Eliminated.

[The Best Leafs Everr]

We have to build the team from Backend to the front. It always starts with a backend.

 

[supermann_98]

What did you want him to say to them?

Can any of y'all spare some change? I'm unemployed now thanks to all y'all

 

[hockeywiz542]

 

[Nineteen67]

We actually scored 3 goals but somehow the refs could not see what the rest of world saw a puck way over the red line

Unfortunately it was after the play was dead. .

 

[BertCorbeau]

Ya, 1-5 at home. They have to be looking at replacing Keefe. His lack of coaching ability was actually magnified on home ice with last change.

Also his team's motivation and focus

I mean how many times have they been in a tough situation like this? He can't rally their focus? Instead they play scared and can't control the play

 

[BertCorbeau]

He's not wrong.

 

[1specter]

Fixing the D is going to be a tough challenge.

This is definitely being overlooked. The D is old and slow, most of them are UFA and there's not much coming in the pipeline either. The available free agents also kinda suck.

Hopefully can get something back from a Marner trade

 

[Leaffan197703]

it's the coaches job to get the players fired up for game and keefe was simply not capable of doing that.

 

[Americanadian]

I doubt there was respect in the handshake line this year.

 

[authentic]

Don't blame crap on Sammy!!! That's a total opt out!

What? I'm not blaming anything on Samsonov, he outperformed Vasilevskiy in the series. My point is the discrepancy between how he played and Bobrovsky played this series was enough to say that we infact were the better team in the Tampa series because our top guys heavily outscore theirs without having a crazy performance in net, unlike Florida against us who had their goalie steal a quick but close series for them.

 

[Nineteen67]

Nice for him to say that, no they weren’t, not even close.

 

[Future]

The biggest disappointment is Tkachuk, Bennett, and Gudas left this series unscathed.

We need lunatics that will concuss the opposition or run the goalie without a second thought. Pietrangelo has won a cup and he knows what it takes.

That was the x-factor missing from this team. Not sure it’ll ever be there.

 

[LeafGrief]

Three, if not four years in a row now.

 

[BigGulpsEh]

1-5 at home

Scoring 2 goals max in 7 games straight

Embarrassing

 

[Gordy Elbows]

If only opinion polls decided the winners…..

 

[ToneDog]

We have to build the team from Backend to the front. It always starts with a backend.

Maybe the new GM will be better at judging goalies. Matt Murray. Give me a f***ing break Dumbass.

 

[Isaac Nootin]

Fun year. See you guys in September, time for a break from this place.

 

[Bravid Nonahan]

He's not wrong.

I agree with Keefe, and with a different coach they might have won it. I cannot fathom that a different coach couldn't get more out of this team than him.

 

[Doug Prishpreed]

 

[Suntouchable13]

I agree with Keefe, and with a different coach they might have won it. I cannot fathom that a different coach couldn't get more out of this team than him.

Give me a break, we tried Babcock, didn't work. Now we tried Keefe, didn't work. It's the players now. 0 f***ing intensity in most of these playoff games till they were down 0-3, even then it was lacking. Core doesn't have "it".

 

[mikeyz]

Guys, I know you're all upset but I don't think you trade either Matthews or Marner, or if you do you better get a King's ransom. Both are only 25 years old. Think about players who played a lot longer than that before winning. Not everyone can be a Kane or Crosby.

Yzerman didn't win until his 30s. Stamkos was 30. Ovechkin was in his 30s. I think those teams were glad they didn't overreact and move on from those players.

I think things will improve in 2 years after Tavares' contract is expired. But even him, just 13 days ago he was being celebrated for scoring a massive goal to end 19 years of frustration. It's good to keep perspective.

I think there are changes to be made. The coach needs to go. How do we know that a different coach couldn't get more out of this core? I think it's worth a try. There are also certain pieces that just have to go, like Holl and Kerfoot. Bring in Marlies like Steeves and Holmberg.

I get what you're saying, but, at least Yzerman, Ovechkin and Stamkos all went out on their shield in every single playoff round that they lost before they won their cups. Those guys never ever had a series where they didn't score a goal in their early twenties.

 

[Nineteen67]

This is definitely being overlooked. The D is old and slow, most of them are UFA and there's not much coming in the pipeline either. The available free agents also kinda suck.

Hopefully can get something back from a Marner trade

I don’t see how anyone could overlook their woes on D. I said since the all star break that Brodie, Gio and Tavares should have never played a road game because I knew they end up laying like they did.

 

[ToneDog]

I don't think Rangers are a good model, lol.

They shit the bed this year but they are built right.

 

[Kukaruchku]

What? I'm not blaming anything on Samsonov, he outperformed Vasilevskiy in the series. My point is the discrepancy between how he played and Bobrovsky played this series was enough to say that we infact were the better team in the Tampa series because our top guys heavily outscore theirs without having a crazy performance in net, unlike Florida against us who had their goalie steal a quick but close series for them.

 

[MSZ]

1-5 at home

Scoring 2 goals max in 7 games straight

Embarrassing

And only two regulation wins in eleven games.