Post-Game Talk: Leafs Lose 2-0 To Pittsburgh

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[2 Slick]

All of their wins are low scoring close games

That's their true problem, they can't score goals this season. Godly goaltending from Campbell has bloated their record. Without him, they'd be under .500%... no one can dispute that either.

The Leafs sit near the bottom of the NHL is goals per game on average. Pretty much says the whole story. Zero secondary scoring.

Kerfoot, 2 goals, Engvall, 1 goal, Simmonds, 1 goal, Ritchie, 0 goals... they need help offensively.

 

[Mr_Fun]

It was a really nice try out there tonight. I like it when they try.

 

[HamiltonNHL]

we lost but did we out Corsi them ?

 

[123offtheglass]

Leafs top PP unit is a combined 45.5m, Penguins top PK unit tn was a combined 10.1m, 13.6m if you include Jarry

They got dominated, sucks to see.

 

[Confucius]

.935 save %, not good enough Soup, can you step it up? LOL, just joking...

At least we weren't blown out, wasn't a bad game to watch.

 

[Optimist]

How could this team not create any space with a 5 on 3? I don't get it.

 

[Varan]

That's literally what they did during their 9-1 run...

3 2-1 games in a 10 game span isn't "learning". learning is doing that when it matters, aka the playoffs

this game reminded me way too much of games 5-7 vs. MTL from last year

 

[Aashir]

We need to switch the lines too

nylander and Tavares reek
Matthews and Marner think they are playing pond hockey

split Tavares and nylander up tmrw and make 3 lines
tell Matthews and Marner to f*** off with this fancy pass crap or be split up

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Why on earth were the two pairs switched??

Please put Marner back with Tavares.

 

[leafsfan5]

3 2-1 games in a 10 game span isn't "learning". learning is doing that when it matters

How does game 19 of the regular season matter? Your point makes no sense

 

[makbeer]

Clean outworked in this one. Not good enough.

And yeah ZERO even strength (non-EN) points for the Big 4 in 3gms since Keefe switched them back for no real reason.

Kyle, call Keefe into your office bud.

 

[PromisedLand]

Name one another player that makes one of the highest AAV in the league, gets most PP minutes and hasn't scored even 1 goal on the PP in the last 80 odd games almost a full season.

It is mind boggling how bad Marner is on the PP with his muffin shot

 

[Confucius]

How could this team not create any space with a 5 on 3? I don't get it.

twice this season no less. At least this one was 9 seconds short of the full 2 minutes. Unlike the last time.

 

[Jojalu]

That's their true problem, they can't score goals this season. Godly goaltending from Campbell has bloated their record. Without him, they'd be under .500%... no one can dispute that either.

The Leafs sit near the bottom of the NHL is goals per game on average. Pretty much says the whole story. Zero secondary scoring.

Kerfoot, 2 goals, Engvall, 1 goal, Simmonds, 1 goal, Ritchie, 0 goals... they need help offensively.

This has been discussed in other threads and already shown that this is not a Leaf thing.

Take the top 4 goal scorers of every team, then the rest of the team and the split is almost the same league wise.

It's almost been a quarter of the season so I don't know if the Leafa will be a high scoring team.

But they have shown they can play low scoring games and win so I don't know what the issue is

 

[Nineteen67]

They go to NYI tomorrow, who are looking for their first win in their new building, and then out west.

 

[Legion34]

Meh i thought the leafs were the better team. Hit 4 posts. Both goalies played really well.

it happens

 

[PromisedLand]

we lost but did we out Corsi them ?

oh am sure the expected bullshit per 60 game was won the the leafs.

Leafs have been the expected stanley cup winners since dubas took over didn't you know? it is the expected BS that matters not actual events that happen on ice

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

They go to NYI tomorrow, who are looking for their first win in their new building, and then out west.

Isles are dealing with Covid issues, so hopefully the Leafs take advantage

 

[ECanuck]

You can't win all of them. BUT if we got one goal would have lifted some frustration. I was like, surely one is going to go in right?

 

[Doublerum1975]

Leafs played fine, got unlucky with some posts and Jarry played well. But man, that 5 vs 3 PP was horrendous considering it was crunch time.

Need to shoot more so frustrating

 

[Confucius]

Name one another player that makes one of the highest AAV in the league, gets most PP minutes and hasn't scored even 1 goal on the PP in the last 80 odd games almost a full season.

It is mind boggling how bad Marner is on the PP with his muffin shot

Well he can't shoot and everybody was asking him to shoot more. The thing that blows me away is how often we shoot wide from 25 or less feet. My word this is the NHL.

 

[leafsfan5]

Matthews not shooting when Jarry was on his ass was surprising, did he not realize? He could've roofed it

 

[Brown Dog]

Not going to sweat it. File this one under "can't win em all."

Would be nice to be getting more offense, though, especially in terms of secondary scoring.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Matthews not shooting when Jarry was on his back was surprising, did he not realize? He could've roofed it

Probably would've hit the crossbar anyway