Pre-Game Talk: Leafs @ Habs

[egd27]

Please no more Playoff Freddy. I hope he stays injured. if Freddy plays 1st round... There's almost no point in watching he just finds ways to lose when it matters. I have had his back since day 1 against all the haters, after this season and now that he's UFA. enough is enough. pass the reigns to Campbell and see how it goes.

Playoff Starts
Campbell (29 years old) - 0
Rittich (29 years old) - 0
Hutchinson (31 years old) - 3

Yea, with that kind of experience how could you not be confident?

 

[Leaftors]

The saddest part about this is that this is good news for the Habs on the ice, not bad.

Yup, exactly.

 

[Rants Mulliniks]

Playoff Starts
Campbell (29 years old) - 0
Rittich (29 years old) - 0
Hutchinson (31 years old) - 3

Yea, with that kind of experience how could you not be confident?

Strangely two of the last 5 Cups have gone to teams whose goalie had zero NHL playoff experience.

 

[Bomber0104]

Playoff Starts
Campbell (29 years old) - 0
Rittich (29 years old) - 0
Hutchinson (31 years old) - 3

Yea, with that kind of experience how could you not be confident?

Really, trotting out Campbell over a healthy Andersen for Round 1 is one of those "so crazy it just might work" type of ideas.

Not my cup of tea personally and I doubt that's Dubas/Keefe's either.

At least if they fail with Andersen again they can safely absolve themselves of at least some of the blame and then not re-sign him.

Failing with Campbell on the other hand...

 

[egd27]

Strangely two of the last 5 Cups have gone to teams whose goalie had zero NHL playoff experience.

And their ages were when they won them?

 

[zeke]

Strangely two of the last 5 Cups have gone to teams whose goalie had zero NHL playoff experience.

Not even that strange.

Since the cap, Ward and Niemi also won with zero playoffs experience.

Quick and Fleury and Crawford won on maybe their 2nd tries iirc?

 

[BertCorbeau]

Really, trotting out Campbell over a healthy Andersen for Round 1 is one of those "so crazy it just might work" type of ideas.

Not my cup of tea personally and I doubt that's Dubas/Keefe's either.

At least if they fail with Andersen again they can safely absolve themselves of at least some of the blame and then not re-sign him.

Failing with Campbell on the other hand...

On the flip side starting Andersen in the playoffs after a month of a half of no game action is a pretty risky idea too. Particularly considering Andersen struggled a bit when healthy this year and last, and has not had a great playoff track record to date.

IMO Keefe will run the hot-hand to start the playoffs. I only see Andersen starting if both Campbell and Rittich struggle in these remaining games. I imagine all three goalies have a short leash at this point.

 

[wingman75]

What’s with the 8pm start?

My guess is to capture the lead-in crowd from the Sens v Canucks game that starts at 530pm. This game is not on NBCSN so it had to be a Rogers decision.

I prefer 7pm. Growing up out east I do no miss the old 9pm HNIC start times in the pre-double-header days.

 

[BertCorbeau]

Wait this starts at 8pm?

 

[BertCorbeau]

What’s with the 8pm start?

Allows fans of the Jays to catch Springer's debut

 

[AvroArrow]

Anything that's not a 7PM start is lame.