A1LeafNation
Good, is simply not good enough!
- Oct 17, 2010
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We are heading for "we should have made the playoffs"“We should have won that game”
Is that our dressing room banner this year?
We are heading for "we should have made the playoffs"“We should have won that game”
Is that our dressing room banner this year?
I don't know why some get upset when it is suggested that guys like Eichel and Draisatl have both been playing much better than Matthews this season.
Matthews hit the post and literally broke up a breakaway with his backchecking in the third. Can we find a different scapegoat?
This team is killing itself though. They all just about rolled over and died when those goals went in. Flukey crap that normally gets saved, but three in a row just destroyed them and there was no fight. Game was done when they wasted that 5on3. They spent the first 80 seconds farting around before realizing they needed some urgency.
Great game from JT, he’s back and putting the team on his back. Good to see that one of the big guns is dominating. I’ve criticized JT lately and he’s been excellent. Marner’s looked very good. Matthews was quiet but fine. Mikheyev was great, rest of the team was bleh.
That was a puck luck game, but the boys have to make their own puck luck at this point. Can’t afford to lose to flukes and they need to find some mental toughness somewhere, they’re so ****ing weak when any adversity happens.
I can't decide if they are too lazy or too stupid defensively.Am I being too critical if I suggest so many Leafs players are just too damn lazy?
Jekyll & Hyde. We'll see which one makes the appearance. Tonight both made one.Well, I wouldn't take any win for granted with this team right now. Oilers could easily win that game. Our team is not great.
JT is quiet like Jumbo Joe. The team wasn’t motivated tonight and haven't been for a long time. Babcock can’t motivate them, Keefe can’t motivate them.
Need a captain who can say the **** that gets coaches fired now a days.
thanks for the insightful commentary I really appreciate it
Yea, doesn't look good. I don't see this team ever stringing a really good stretch together. I really don't. Too bad, I really thought this team was really good just being held up by Babcock.
They easily could've lost the Vancouver game and easily won this one. These games turn on a handful of key moments.
But the fact that we are always at the mercy of a break or two is discouraging. It is the mark of mediocrity. We should be putting a stranglehold on a game like this in the third period, not pissing it away in a 3-minute span with sloppiness.
I don't believe it is. They are capable of doing it. The standings also aren't that unfavourable. I wouldn't count out these guys just yet.still think we need to give keefe more time before arriving at conclusions, but yea the season is over.
I don't know why some get upset when it is suggested that guys like Eichel and Draisatl have both been playing much better than Matthews this season.
I don't believe it is. They are capable of doing it. The standings also aren't that unfavourable. I wouldn't count out these guys just yet.
If I need to define what heart means in terms of sports or competition or battle, then I suggest you do so research yourself. Lotsa material out there. I’m using heart in the same way as any rational sports fan or educated person would in relation to competition or battle.
Haha can only hit the post on a 5v3....if that's all he has this team is in bigger trouble then I thought...11.6M$ my friend, invisibleMatthews hit the post and literally broke up a breakaway with his backchecking in the third. Can we find a different scapegoat?
This team is killing itself though. They all just about rolled over and died when those goals went in. Flukey crap that normally gets saved, but three in a row just destroyed them and there was no fight. Game was done when they wasted that 5on3. They spent the first 80 seconds farting around before realizing they needed some urgency.
Great game from JT, he’s back and putting the team on his back. Good to see that one of the big guns is dominating. I’ve criticized JT lately and he’s been excellent. Marner’s looked very good. Matthews was quiet but fine. Mikheyev was great, rest of the team was bleh.
That was a puck luck game, but the boys have to make their own puck luck at this point. Can’t afford to lose to flukes and they need to find some mental toughness somewhere, they’re so ****ing weak when any adversity happens.
You expect him to be perfect every night? I hope you hold others to that standard.Difference maker all right. He was out goaltended again.
Agreed. You could tell this team really got over its loser mentality when, in game 7 against Boston, they coughed up the lead 3 times and finished the game by squandering a 3rd period lead by giving up 4 unanswered goals.
Such win. Much heart.
You guys are never happy.
This team plays hard for 50 minutes and loses, you all whine and complain.
This team plays hard for 4 minutes and wins, and you all whine and complain.
It's a lose-lose battle
well they must have been doing something right because they put up 100 points last year and would have beat the Bruins in the playoffs if their goalie showed up.They've been losers for almost a full year
Because they both get paid allot less AND Matthew's supposedly took a discount to sign for only 5 years.I don't know why some get upset when it is suggested that guys like Eichel and Draisatl have both been playing much better than Matthews this season.
Not good enough. Sure he was awesome against Vancouver, but tonight he was garbage. 3 goals on 3 shots in less than 3 min. None were screened or difficult. He was beat clean. Not good enough.You expect him to be perfect every night? I hope you hold others to that standard.