Racer88
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It’s the entire team. Florida is a much better balanced and committed team. The Leafs are none of those thingsIt's goaltending.
It’s the entire team. Florida is a much better balanced and committed team. The Leafs are none of those thingsIt's goaltending.
I do. Said it since his first year.Anyone else think Matthews wants to head south? I do. Marner wants to be the guy but his high intensity PO games just suck. He can't win.
I dont know what to think other than this was embarrassing
They were the better team for much of this game, but in the 1st the Leafs were taking it to them and again they let that great starting energy get away from them with an early goal in the 2nd. After that the Leafs couldn't bury any of the chances given to them while the Panthers were better able to convert on what was given to them.The Leafs play down to the level of their opponents. Though in this case our luck really just ran out. Florida deserves credit because they really are a great team. Your starting goalie goes down, Knies, refs decide for the first time this year we don't get a powerplay, but yeah, we were probably going to lose anyway.
Just because I'm disgusted at the Leafs doesn't mean I think McCauley deserves a pass though. There's no chance Florida played a perfectly clean game, he has no business being an NHL ref
In that 2/3rds are we assuming Tannenbaum is the 1?Agreed, but I think Dubas is as good as gone. I think he leaves IMO. That report suggesting 2/3rds of ownership isn’t in love with him is probably the nail in the coffin. That’s all the ammo he probably needs to move on to Calgary or Pittsburgh and get a fresh start in a more calm market.
But we need changes, how Liljegren wasn’t in the line up tonight is crazy to me.
Moreover, Barrie you can shelter in Offensive roles and not play him in the dzoneBarrie has offensive upside at least. Defensively, they're about the same. I know I want to say Brodie is way worse defensively, but that really would be recency bias.
O'Reilly invisible since his OT face off win.
Shame on me trusting a big play Dubas addition. His other big play Brodie throwing games away
Should have been traded when he initially turned down the Tavares deal.Marner should’ve been traded two years ago after the Habs series.
That was the moment that confirmed for me this organization wasn’t serious about winning.
We've been middle of the pack or lower in GF since Dubas went 4d chess mode around the deadlineThat now marks 5 straight games where the Leafs have scored 2 goals. The only time they scored more was when Vasi was letting in muffins from everywhere
These guys don't have it. f*** the core, blow this team up
Actually it was the Kessel era where Rogers thought they would've made multiple deep runs so they committed big dollars into the broadcast rights.Sportsnet needs game 5 back in Toronto to help pay for their billion dollar broadcasting fee. Man they screwed up. They assumed Matthews would bring deep playoff runs and Stanley cups into the Toronto market.
One goal game. It's a huge part of what the Leafs do. It's not talked about enough. PPs change momentum.The one thing the Leafs haven't done this season is not get a single pp in a game. Wes again refs a game that he shouldn't and not one pp. Not saying that's why they lost. But that's fckn weird.
I don't know if that's hard to imagine why anymore.Dunno where they go from here. Team is too good to do a full tear down, but they're also way too garbage to do anything but. Mental strength of toddlers, of all the hockey players in the world, how did we end up with the superstars who turn into slugs when it's on the line? And it's not just one of them, it's all of them. This isn't just an issue of a coach, a GM's philosophy, or a captain, this rot runs all the way through.
How did it even end up like this? Is this the legacy of their contracts and the weight of expectations? The immaturity of young stars in a market that treats them like gods and the trappings of fame distracting them?
If we blow it up, Matthews, Marner, and Nylander will all go on to have massive success elsewhere and people will wonder how the hell it never worked here. But at some point, you gotta cut bait.