Post-Game Talk: Leafs give one away to the Wings - Lose 4-2

leafsfan5

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Berube needs to figure out how to get this team to score more. It's ridiculous we've went from being a top 2 offence to this by only losing Tyler f***ing Bertuzzi

"Teaching them how to play defence" doesn't help when they suck at scoring goals and have in the playoffs for multiple years now
 

likecheese

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I guess if you split up the lines to try to spread out the offence a little, you'd be at risk of jeopardizing that goal-a-game even strength juggernaut.
 

Mr_Fun

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Just dogs**t breakdowns on 2 of the goals. Berube must be going everything he can from not cuffing some of these guys upside the head.
 

LeafalCrusader

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I was told we'd score a bunch tonight.

Would you say we'd score a plethora of goals?

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Leafsfan74

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Outworked for the first two periods.

Acceptable third but it's tough to win when chasing the game every night.

Last 10-15 games have been a mirage as Leafs goaltending has bailed them out higher than average.

Marner had a strong game, except for a couple of old bad habits. He had his wheels tonight.

Leafs are going to have to accept that they need secondary scoring and/or major tinkering with the lines. Same old story, near impossible to fulfill with top heavy contracts.
 
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BraveCanadian

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Someone not named Marner Matthews Nylander or Tavares really really really needs to chip in for this team.

And for the love of god stop playing around the outside between the point and the corner when you're trying to tie the game. It has been my experience that the puck needs to be moved in the direction of the net for a goal to be scored.
 
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Aashir Mallik

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Goals 2 and 3 against were literally given away. Literally. Given. Away.
I guess, but we didn’t play any better than them, in my eyes to give a game away you had to be the better team like the devils to us

I can’t remember the last time we truly outplayed a team, and we haven’t been playing any good teams either
 
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wingman75

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Outworked for the first two periods.

Acceptable third but it's tough to win when chasing the game every night.

Last 10-15 games have been a mirage as Leafs goaltending has bailed them out higher than average.

Marner had a strong game, except for a couple of old bad habits. He had his wheels tonight.

Leafs are going to have to accept that they need secondary scoring. Same old story, near impossible to fulfill with top heavy contracts.
I thought they were excellent in the second until they quit on the last shift.
 
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LaPlante94

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We can say offence is an issue but we're getting really good looks that were put in the back of the net in previous years. Idk how may times they got to try and go five hole when shooting before trying something different.
 

Aashir Mallik

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Someone not named Marner Matthews Nylander or Tavares really really really needs to chip in for this team.

And for the love of god stop playing around the outside between the point and the corner when you're trying to tie the game. It has been my experience that the puck needs to be moved in the direction of the net for a goal to be scored.
They could also step up

Excluding Marner, this is the worst season of nylander in the past 3, the worst since rookie Matthews, and Tavares is just back to being mid.

Those guys are keeping us out of the top 10 in scoring, the depth is keeping us out of the top 5
 

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