Post-Game Talk: Leafs Lose 3-1

[hamzarocks]

Can't think of a forward who didn't kill everything they touched tonight

Talking more so about the 5 games this year. Him and Simmonds have been our worse offensive zone players. Problem is Simmonds is our only tough vet, and he won't be scratched with him also serving as a potential fighting spark plug. Joe is injured it appears. Vesey does more harm than good on the ice right now. Giving him time off, and having him compete with Anderson/Engvall could be the spark needed for him to up his performance.

 

[Sniper99]

Man, this forum is too much. It's like some people here expect this team to be 56-0? We were the better team for most of the game and all the bounces went against us. I can accept loses like this. Why are people bitching?

cause everything is the refs fault but forget we didnt do **** all till Matthews goal.

 

[francis246]

No, but lack of scoring from other guys that are not Willy, Matthews, Marner, and JT is concerning. Same shit happened against Columbus. Same shit is going to happen this playoffs too in May.

I can get behind that. Our secondary scoring has been awful!

 

[Stephen]

Weren't you big on the Sabres cast-off in Bogosian during TBs cup run?

I liked it when Tampa added Bogosian. I liked it when the Leafs added Bogosian. Doesn't mean adding any unproductive Buffalo Sabre is a sure fire method for success.

 

[Critical13]

We pretty clearly outplayed Montreal in the opener.

All this tells us is not to read so much into one game.

It wasn’t fun but come on, we’re still the best of the North division.

I'm not sure how you can say that but either way, I like your spirit! We need more of it.

 

[ThrowDemTongs]

I thought we were "Sires"

No twerking thanks.

Sounds like something a sucka would say

 

[Kelly]

Yikess

Credit to the Oilers. Shut us down all night.

Brutal call on Muzzin didn't f***in help either.

 

[Budz]

We no longer have a rush. We are worried about zone entries and circling for 2 minutes in O Zone. I believe our strategy is to put them to sleep and try low % point shots in traffic. There is zero offense or creativity.

Reffing was egregious again.

Vesey still sucks

Still need to juggle first 2 lines. Thornton.

Thornton is not top 6.

Gross, just gross.

 

[Nineteen67]

McDavid wasn’t very noticeable outside of a few 1 on 1 rushes. Thankfully the Leafs have Holl and his long body and strong skating defending against him.

 

[Gallagbi]

Credit to the Oilers. Shut us down all night.

Brutal call on Muzzin didn't f***in help either.

Not sure if it was them or us to be honest. A lot of stupid plays by the Leafs tonight

 

[Stanley Sumdae]

It really is a shame that you don't get a goal for passing the puck around the offensive zone for a couple of minutes at a time. Because we would be 5 and 0!!!!!

 

[The Beyonder]

I mean I think it's fair. We're 3-2, falling behind already in the division, and really we've only played 2 good games of the 5.

Not time to lose it mentally, but I can understand some of the doom and gloom.

You're panicking? After 5 games of 56, after a game where we lost because we were unlucky? We're going to lose some games, that's just reality.

Why are people so polar here? If we win, we're the best team in the division; if we lose a tight game (where we were clearly unlucky), it's mass hysteria. There's no in between with fans here.

 

[Aashir Mallik]

I thought Toronto competed hard and deserved a win. A few crazy unfortunate bounces, this could have been a 5-2 win.

Refs absolutely boned us

We say this all the time. “Oh if it weren’t for the bounces”, but when do we actually get those bounces, we certainly don’t help ourselves either by trying to create favourable ones, and instead always pin it on this excuse this team needs to get their head out of their asses but then again they always do, the promptly shove their heads back in after a good performance or two

 

[Stephen]

I mean I think it's fair. We're 3-2, falling behind already in the division, and really we've only played 2 good games of the 5.

Not time to lose it mentally, but I can understand some of the doom and gloom.

I wouldn't characterize the Leafs falling behind in the division. Canada isn't exactly full of flawless powerhouses.

 

[ToneDog]

40 mil on 4 forwards, that's what you get. The team is filled out around them with a ton of junk.

Funny that the only ones who can't see this are KD, Shanny and a few spin doctors on this board.

 

[MattySnipes]

Well a pretty sloppy, ugly game. Puck bouncing all night long. Couldn't generate anything much to be honest. It was like that both ways. I thought Oilers just got that one extra bounce.

Guys definitely didn't have their legs tonight. Matthews, Kerfoot and Mikheyev were the only guys who showed up. Team has played a lot of hockey and with the attention to defense and containing McDavid they just got put to sleep.

On nights like this you would like to see Simmonds drop the gloves or a big check. He had some nice chances too dont get me wrong, hopefully Jumbo is okay too.

It's okay, we're seeing them 3 more times soon. I expect a better game.

 

[Nineteen67]

Leafs had 2,0,2 HDSC per period according to natural stattrick.

 

[Critical13]

I don't get the point of Vesey, Spezza or Kerplunk. Or even Thornton, Barabanov and Lehtonen to be honest.

It makes sense that you wouldn't get the point of Brabanon or Lehtonen - they are averaging about 3 mins of ice time per game right now lol.

 

[Gallagbi]

McDavid wasn’t very noticeable outside of a few 1 on 1 rushes. Thankfully the Leafs have Holl and his long body and strong skating defending against him.

Agreed, outside of those 3-4 rush chances and the 3on1 open net he set up it was a quiet night.


Man, I wish our stars' had that type of a quiet night.

 

[hamzarocks]

cause everything is the refs fault but forget we didnt do **** all till Matthews goal.

I mean neither did the oilers. We had some nice pp chances. Oilers didn't look good at all either with very few chances. The game was a boring snooze fest where both sides made sloppy plays and couldn't control the puck. The oilers had 14 shots through 2 periods, which was terrible. Leafs played a solid 1st possessing the puck often but not being able to find shooting lanes/overpassing. 2nd the Oilers won the period by limiting leafs chances and playing a very conservative game, and the third was even before the penalty. This game looked more like 2 lottery teams than 2 hopeful cup contender

 

[Tairy Greene]

No need to overreact, we werent necessarily even outplayed. Just a dull lifeless game that was ultimately decided by a terrible reffing call. Just move on and win Friday to split the series

 

[LastOne2100]

No, but lack of scoring from other guys that are not Willy, Matthews, Marner, and JT is concerning. Same shit happened against Columbus. Same shit is going to happen this playoffs too in May. There is a ton of junk around these top 4 forwards.

Dubas and Co. didn't leave enough dollars for anyone other than the top 4. What did you expect?

We've filled out roster with 4th liners and aging sunsetting players.

The pandemic breaking the cap certainly didn't help.

 

[Superstar]

cause everything is the refs fault but forget we didnt do **** all till Matthews goal.

How come the Oilers didn't get a phantom penalty against them leading to a Leafs game winning PP goal? Or a cheesy call like the one against Marner?

 

[Dale Gribble]

 

[AcerComputer]

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