Post-Game Talk: Leafs hand Vegas a free win - 4-3 OTL

[The Podium]

It’s telling they never go on long winning steaks despite all the talent (talking 7+ games) like other contenders. The brain farts and inconsistency effort wise have always prevented that.

They went 12-2 last November….

 

[Racer88]

NOT the restaurant. Mr. Sub is much better.

On that I agree 100%

 

[Teeder Keon]

Get off your lazy ass and go build me some subways!

One of the truly best and underrated bands ever for the first 5-6 albums

 

[The Podium]

What are you talking about

How is it embarrassing that the best team in the league is better than us? They are literally the best team in the league…

 

[Teeder Keon]

It doesn't, but we are on an upswing compared to the tire fire of last week. Lots of season to go!


Well I hope not, I can only skate in a straight line and stop 50% of the time!

I can tell you’ve never played

 

[meefer]

The entertainment value here after a loss is priceless. Be well everyone.

 

[BrannigansLaw]

NOT the restaurant. Mr. Sub is much better.

My dad worked as a Subway sandwich “artist” when he was young.

He told me he wouldn’t feed that shit to his worst enemy. He literally never brought back food from there. Only bacon strips. It’s all processed/borderline expired trash.

How they can advertise “eat fresh” and people somehow seem to like their food I will never understand

 

[The Podium]

What's frustrating about fire drill Rielly is even though Liljegren made two boneheaded mistakes that cost two goals against, he still looked like the less panicked between the two.

Rielly is just running around out there on defensive coverage like he has no idea where to go, and on a 2 on 1 he wants to do everything.

I keep seeing Lilly get blamed for 2 goals, I may have missed one of them

Serious question, other than the 2nd goal which was his fault?

 

[mcleex]

Marner running around in OT like a chicken with its head cut off, tires himself out and then let's the guy skate to the net

 

[Fonzieleaf]

Sky is not falling but it’s kinda sad that a team that has only been in the League 5 years is so much better then us

Lol they were better than us their first year in the league

 

[Gabriel426]

That's a take...

Pretty much and when AM scored, he loves it here....

 

[Community]

PP1 is a must. We need an actual shot option on the point not someone who just dishes easy passes to Matthews/Marner on the half walls. Any 3rd pair D can do that.

You can make an argument Lilly should be on PP1, but you're crazy if you think Holl would do as well on the PP as Rielly.

 

[Stephen]

They got outshot by 11, and it took an OT goal against the third string Leafs goalie to see the end result.

They earned the win, but was hardly a decisive effort

The only real signature shift where the Leafs looked like they were fully in control playing the way they want was the cycle shift that resulted in the Marner goal with Roy breaking his stick. After that the Leafs seemed to be playing a bit more Vegas type hockey with the chip and chase which they aren't really built for.

 

[blue stick]

OT goal was a Morgan moment, caught standing still thinking it was offside or something. Got a point, move forward

 

[Tak7]

Meh. 3rd game in 4 nights while Vegas was rested, and the Leafs still played fine for the most part.

Everyone would've signed off on 5 of 6 points before Saturday

Thought they were crap until the Marner goal - Kallgren was the only reason that was a close game up until that moment.

After the Kallgren save on Carrier, I would have taken a point then.

 

[LaPlante94]

he's the defenseman, it's literally his man.

He was with his man on the boards and Matthews had the puck. That was Marners man

 

[Stephen]

I keep seeing Lilly get blamed for 2 goals, I may have missed one of them

Serious question, other than the 2nd goal which was his fault?

Oh my bad, I thought it was Liljegren who misplayed the bounce off the boards on the Roy goal to start the game. That was Sandin.

 

[NinjaKick]

4 goals 20 shotsI am proven right AGAIN Kallgren is trash

this is the opinion you get when you watch the stat sheet and not the game

 

[Tlo1]

Sorry I mean triangle. Reilly has to defend the middle. There's no man on man there, his man wasn't even in the play.

Nailed it! Reilly doesn’t need to play man on man when the immediate threat from the turnover is down the middle. He has zero hockey IQ.

 

[BrannigansLaw]

They went 12-2 last November….

Yes but they don’t go on those very long streaks. They’ll rattle off a 5 or at most a 6 game win streak. You never see them go on a 8-9 game streak.

It’s not a shot at the team and it doesn’t really matter. Just an observation I thought was interesting when comparing this team to other contenders.

 

[LaPlante94]

Please watch where he is again , should never have been at the blue line with a loose puck

He was on his man, Matthews was on the puck and Marner went for a skate wide and let his man just easily cut into the middle?

 

[notdoneyet]

You cant win consistently in this league with AHL goaltending

Good goalies make those kind of great saves when needed.
They only had 20 shots in goal.
I dont blame kallegren he is only a minor league goalie. I blame dubas for trading for a goalie who has injury issues the last three years. Dubas mistake was not having an adequate backup if murray went down again.you would have thought dubas would have learned from his mrazek debacle

 

[BrannigansLaw]

You can make an argument Lilly should be on PP1, but you're crazy if you think Holl would do as well on the PP as Rielly.

Alright you might have me there with Holl

 

[Tak7]

What's frustrating about fire drill Rielly is even though Liljegren made two boneheaded mistakes that cost two goals against, he still looked like the less panicked between the two.

Rielly is just running around out there on defensive coverage like he has no idea where to go, and on a 2 on 1 he wants to do everything.

Pretty incredible how awful he's looked on 2-on-1s for several years now.

Take the pass, leave the goalie the shot. He tries to take away both, and ends up stopping neither.

 

[The Podium]

He was with his man on the boards and Matthews had the puck. That was Marners man

Technically Matthews man was Marners man when they crossed over, Marner lost Matthews man on the transition but Reilly could’ve seen the defensive breakdown and shift towards the middle of the ice.

Pretty much poor defensive play by all 3