GDT: Leafs@Flyers 7PM SNO (8:08 puck drop)

[Throw More Waffles]

And everyone hit everyone else as hard as they could. This sport isn't for you. Try curling. Less traumatizing.

No they didn't. Stevens had BY FAR the worst reputation at the time for hitting people that hard.

It's possible to acknowledge that it was a different time, while saying Stevens STILL pushed it too far.

 

[Man Bear Pig]

The good old days. Maybe the anti-fighting pansies can direct towards the NBA now. Good clean air getting punched out nightly.

I boxed for a long time. You wanna watch fighting? I suggest you watch, you know, fighting. UFC or boxing or whatever. I dont wanna pay $100+ to watch Colton Orr play. You wanna fight? Join beer league. Plenty of goons around.

 

[Al14]

0-0 Tie after 1 period! Both teams sucked!

 

[Morgs]

Oh Babs. I hate that a love you.

 

[PromisedLand]

I don't even know what is this team's identity anymore

 

[Cleetus]

Yes but I'm sure he has no input into Mourinho's coaching

true I just wasnt sure if he was part of the leafs

 

[Daisy Jane]

And everyone hit everyone else as hard as they could. This sport isn't for you. Try curling. Less traumatizing.

Learn history, also. They burned men, women, children, priests, and everyone else for heresy.

oi. curling is tough, dude.
no curling smacktalk

 

[BertCorbeau]

Not a bad period. Controlled the play for the most part. Gotta keep battling for the puck. When you're struggling offensive you just need to put the puck on net, get to the dirty areas, and put it in .. Doesn't have to be pretty.

 

[Cleetus]

I don't even know what is this team's identity anymore

get dominated, more polak, more hyman, rinse and repeat!

 

[weems]

Leafs team speed has been MIA for awhile.

 

[ToMaLe]

Wonder if Hyman gave the same look to Matthews after his 3 early giveaways.

I love the kid, but it hasn't been a good start for him

no he probably gave him a different look as he is not used to it, Matthews is.

 

[IPS]

Another period of god awful hockey that makes my eyes bleed.

 

[CelticDruid]

Leafs have morphed into a crappier version of the Lemaire era Minnesota Wild

I was thinking the same thing.

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

I don't even know what is this team's identity anymore

play slow, play wrong

 

[Blanche Blanche]

I don't even know what is this team's identity anymore

Leafs : Im a peacock Babs..!! You gotta LET ME FLYYY!!!

 

[Superstar]

Penalty on Hyman looks like a dive...Hyman must be superman...puts his stick on the player's thigh and he goes flying forward towards the ice.

 

[Al14]

Get that loser hyman off the line already, my god.

Or what? You'll huff and puff and blow the ACC down.

He is on the line where Babcock wants him. Get use to it!

 

[CelticDruid]

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED lol

 

[Alerion]

Props to all you guys that can handle watching this drivel. I'm hitting the hay.

 

[Mr Hockey]

Leafs team speed has been MIA for awhile.

look quick to me?

 

[Mikeyg]

Wonder if Hyman gave the same look to Matthews after his 3 early giveaways.

I love the kid, but it hasn't been a good start for him

Listen mrs. hyman, its not that your son is bad, he just doesn’t have the brain, talent, or hands to play in the top 6.

 

[Gallagbi]

Skate backwards and angle the guy off, pinch him into the boards? Or execute what he was trying to do successfully?

You're talking about the play where he steps up at the redline, right? Where he's between Simmonds and Patrick, steps up well and intercepts the pass in mid air, but 2 Flyers swarm him.

 

[ErnieLeafs]

No they didn't. Stevens had BY FAR the worst reputation at the time for hitting people that hard.

It's possible to acknowledge that it was a different time, while saying Stevens STILL pushed it too far.

Stevens was a banger, in a game full of them. People tried to do the same thing he did every night. Many were successful, others weren't. It is what it is.

 

[keonsbitterness]

Yes but I'm sure he has no input into Mourinho's coaching

I got that!

 

[Man Bear Pig]

The puck support from the forwards is terrible.

I'm trying to figure out what the strategy is. Because it looks like Babcock has the forwards just above the red line with the dmen well behind the blue line. You play a 1-3-1 or a 1-4 at the redline defending that and you'll prevent that pass 90% of the time. I'm losing so much faith in Babcock, he's got a speedy team with skill playing a style that suits a heavy team with puck movers on the backend. This doesn't suit this roster. It's insane at this point.