GDT: Leafs @ Flames - 9pm TSN

[LastOne2100]

We look awful. Truly painful to watch these last couple of games.

Love the response to Dubas going all in on them.

 

[leafsfan5]

Matthews bobbles it again

It’s so depressing watching his game right now

 

[Cleetus]

All Bunting does is poke check, get in front of the net do something useful. He's not creating space for Matthews and Marner at all. He's no Hyman.

nope not even close to Hyman

 

[Torontonian]

Nothing clean, nothing easy for Toronto, everything is either a mispass or a bobbled puck.

 

[SoftDumpNtheCorner88]

7 Dman in angled Holls getting WAYYYYY too much ice time.

If he isn't being showcased and stays after TDL. Ill be strongly considering joining the fire Keefe train.

 

[Legendary]

demote Mathews to the fourth line. enough is enough

 

[Confucius]

Matthews literally playing like he’s forgotten how to score….

Took a lot of shots but none seemed dangerous

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Matthews bobbles it again

awkward.

 

[Mr_Fun]

We look like we have a new identity -- slow.

 

[notdoneyet]

Put marner back with jt and oreilly
Matthews is not very good right now don’t know whats wrong but something is for sure

 

[MarnerElite]

They can keep up with eachother... slow players are no use on a fast players line if they show up in the offensive zone minutes later.

Problem is that when they get caught in the offensive zone (or even in our own end), if that 3rd forward isn't very good defensively either, we're basically always chasing opposing forwards(in fact that's what going on most of the time with those guys)..I like to have 2 speedy guys with 1 slower one so they can make up a bit.

 

[Notsince67]

All Bunting does is poke check, get in front of the net do something useful. He's not creating space for Matthews and Marner at all. He's no Hyman.

Lately he has been playing with no awareness of where his linemates are going

 

[Gabriel426]

barring the shorty, the team is playing well and controlling play. From the time I started watching, only one odd man rush against but a few for us, thats an improvement.
The boys got this. Just need to continue to put pressure on and chances will come.

 

[PromisedLand]

Ya to the unemployment office

I wonder how much EI would Dubas be able to get? isnt it like 80% of the salary you got fired from or something

 

[Subway Schenn]

Messy start (again) but settled down for the most part after that I thought. A much better period than any of the 3 last night.

 

[Tak7]

Took a lot of shots but none seemed dangerous

What's happened to that explosive release? That zip that the puck was flying off his stick with last year just doesn't seem to be here this year.

 

[rocketman588]

It's ok guys

Still drunk from the concert two days ago

 

[9Iron]

Matthews, the master of fumble and stumble.

 

[SoftDumpNtheCorner88]

Signing Bunting to anything higher than 3.5m is a huge mistake.

He'll be a third line player on another team.

This team hasn't earned any "buddy contracts" here.

 

[Confucius]

We look like we have a new identity -- slow.

Speed is no big deal until we lose it. Lol!

 

[therealkoho]

I really like looking at different forward combos every other shift.

Seems that way

Keefe is probably telling them if you don't want to play together than nobody will playe together

It's an old Scotty Bowman thing, that came from the old timers

 

[rocketman588]

I wonder how much EI would Dubas be able to get? isnt it like 80% of the salary you got fired from or something

He's getting non renewed so that'll save the tax payer cash

 

[LeafalCrusader]

Slower not tougher

 

[Amadeus]

We look rusty and just seem like we're off positionally. Also, structurally I think we're getting back to taking boneheaded risks in the offensive zone to try to keep the puck in.

 

[Mitch nylander]

It will take a while for this group to mesh. Well we look rough again tonight, it'll take time.