Post-Game Talk: Leafs Lose 4-3

[meefer]

Well, I needed a few minutes to relax after that.

Galchenyuk was pretty good.

Enjoy your night folks. I'll be the guy watching the walls melt.

 

[Future]

Freddy is really making it hard for me to defend Freddy...

Why do you feel the need to defend him? Serious question. It’s not like he’s won us a cup, or even a playoff round. Where’s this coming from?

 

[Alamo Leafer]

We traded Lehtonen for a goalie, Let's use him and sit Freddy until his healthy. Cause now it just seems we let Lehtonen go when we could've tried him out.

I really don't believe Freddy's issue is his groin tbh. It's most likely more between his ears not his legs.
Even if I am wrong, at this point, I really couldn't give a flying F anymore.
He's been killing this team for a while now. He needs to be shipped out yesterday.

 

[Rondo Hatton]

So when is it on Dubie and Keefe? Or are they immune?

It's on them when, come Thursday against Ottawa, we see Freddie Garbage in net

 

[29Potvin]

He dose look lost out there and zero confidence i really don't envy him not one bit right now extremely tough situation to be in.... can only imagine what's going through his mind in these games !!!

Could you imagine if we had fans??Fred would of demanded a trade already

 

[Mats13]

This team is pityful. They are so not what I expected them to be.

Effort was there, but so many board battles lost. Hard to win when you are deflecting 2 in on your own net, and giving away gifts.

Are you seriously blaming the skaters for this? It’s all on one player. No more excuses

 

[Wafflewhipper]

On a positive note - I think Galchenyuk looked really solid out there. Competed hard, made quick decisions, flashed his skill. Could be a player for us if he can find some consistency.

I though lots was good but Andersen spots 3 goals and they battled to get a couple. 18 low danger scoring chances and he chokes out the good effort. I want Andersen gone or minimum on injured reseve. Just not playing

 

[57 Years No Cup]

To many overrated players on this team

Our starting goalie isn't good enough to play on the Sabres
Our franchise 1C can't transition to being a playmaker to save his life and is irrelevant right now
Our captain is 2 years away from LTIR level bad

Keefe has also been subpar the past 7 games with his coaching decisions and game strategies.
We are in serious trouble. Kept trying to force the puck into the slot and get chances around the net with it not working. We got 26 shots I think, but the focus was to get a in tight goal despite the flames playing the slot/front net well.

Exactly this. They are back to trying to walk the puck into the net from behind or beside it. Too afraid to go to the middle a little farther out..

 

[DarenX]

Poor Freddy, I'm not gonna burn him at the stake like most on here but Keefe needs to make the tandem official. A little competitiveness between the two could help Freddy, I don't think it will make any difference for JC.

Freddy could still have a lot to offer with less starts and more fire under his ass.

Unless Dubas can pull a rabbit out of his ass and find a legit replacement, I would keep him and use him as backup if he still can't produce as a duo. I wanna see Freddy relatively rested for a playoff series before I completely turn on him.

 

[Wafflewhipper]

Could you imagine if we had fans??Fred would of demanded a trade already

He’d be booed right out of town

 

[glue]

Freddy still trying to figure this out

 

[rumman]

I predict Lucic gives Holl a beat down tomorrow, he had better keep his head up.........Oh, and someone take Anderson to the optometrist...........

 

[Cor]

 

[frizzer1]

With Matthews’s wrist not improving this team can’t win this year.
So I hope they don’t make any trades and just play it out.
Then the big question after goaltending is what to do about Tavares’ contract.
If they are stuck with it there is no way they can get enough depth with a flat cap.
They may end up wasting Matthews/ Marner’s years here.
What a shame.

 

[Bloomberg]

I really don't believe Freddy's issue is his groin tbh. It's most likely more between his ears not his legs.
Even if I am wrong, at this point, I really couldn't give a flying F anymore.
He's been killing this team for a while now. He needs to be shipped out yesterday.

I don't think he'll be back next season unless he takes a significant pay cut. So for the rest of this season, if we can't trade for a better goalie, might as well hang on to Freddy and hope he finds some form after a long break

 

[Dave92]

Campbell would definitely be the starter if he wasn’t injured. I think Keefe was stuck between a rock and hard place tonight as well.

Andersen gave up shit goals, could have easily been pulled for Campbell but if the Leafs failed to come back and lost, he has to go back to Andersen tomorrow who will lose another.

If the coach dressed a backup he can't use in the game that's dumb.

Andersen should have been pulled after the 2nd goal, if Jack absolutely had to start tomorrow Hutch should have been backup tonight. Because if Andersen got hurt tonight and Campbell played Hutch would just end up starting tomorrow.

 

[NK94]

Here's a question - in those games when have we received above average goaltending (let's say .910?)

Maybe one?

Andersen had an .889 SV% in his win against Winnipeg, so uh... that's zero. Lmao.

 

[Eric bungay]

Could you imagine if we had fans??Fred would of demanded a trade already

Holy poop if we had fans in the buildings he would be done ...but in saying that it would make the situation that much harder on Andy too.. wow I don't envy his situation at all !!!

 

[PromisedLand]

I would agree that this is the correct move but I think Dubas will feel tremendous pressure to do something. I’m not sure if Dubas will survive the purge if the Leafs go nowhere in the playoffs

I think Dubas gets couple more years IMO; until Matthews is a pending UFA. If Leafs don't accomplish much by then he is toast. He should not be renegotiating any contracts with Matthews, Marner or Nylander moving forward. He has till the 4th year of Matthews' contract IMO; if Leafs do not see any improvements he is fired along with Shanahan.

The cap allocation is a f***ing JOKE; and here we are...... not sure how much the new US deal will help with the cap either with owners probably wanting big chunk of HRR to offset covid losses.

Dubas is safe for at least couple years no need to make any panic moves.

Jumbo, Simmonds and Spezza although good additions are not the ones who gonna take us deep in playoffs.

- Jumbo is a known playoff choker
- Spezza probably feeling heat as he left dallas and they went to cup finals last year
- Simmonds is a crystal ball

if the 4 guys making 50% of the cap cannot take us to promisedland no one else will.....

 

[therealkoho]

The Good: They can be a really good team when they want to be, hopefully this 3 game skid(I thought it was virtually impossible for this to happen twice this year) will motivate management to address the problem. They could use a forward with some offensive gifts, and a Dman what else is new?

The Bad: They still lose composure occasionally and get sloppy, even with NHL top 10 goaltending the sloppy play makes winning a lot more difficult.

The Ugly: .778 no matter whose fault it is, this is not a number an NHL goalie should be near, the GAA is creeping up to the 3:00 mark, his positioning, his mobility is getting worse and not better. They cannot continue to let this ride, the record they've built up should be good enough to get them to the dance even if they played a little under .500 like going 12 - 14 to finish up the season, so they cannot afford any more 3 game skids and in reality really need to avoid even losing two in a row

 

[hockeyes]

There was literally no reason for the skaters to even try tonight, everyone watching knew Andersen was going to let in the first shot the second the game was tied. I cannot believe people like Dubas and Keef are paid big money to make these terrible decisions. Andersen is done, he is complete trash and they wouldn't even get a 7th rounder for him. But sure, lets keep trotting him out there and pumping his flat tires.

 

[123offtheglass]

Of course, now Jack is in the worst possible position with more pressure than he should have.

How so? If he still wanted to be a starter in this league, this is a brilliant opportunity for him.

Good backup goalies gotta live for these moments, this is his.

 

[hamzarocks]

Wouldn't have said this before Matthews injury, he'll get back how he was playing.

He has never played at that level for a sustainable period of time. Its a mirage, every year he starts like a top 3 player in the league then falls down to a top 10ish player. He doesn't have the ability to drop 60+ assists like Draisaitl and Mcdavid. When his shot and by extension goal scoring is not going for him he can't keep up with those two.

 

[Griffin76]

Is it really this over the last 7? Or did we at least lose in OT or a SO?

Leafs - 1-6-0 for 2 pts.
Opposition - 6-0-1 for 13 pts.

 

[Ports]

That's true but he can stop putting the same goalie in the net and refusing to ever pull him.

What have his options been ? Campbell has been hurt. So his starter and backup are both hurt and he has no confidence in the other guy. This is on Dubas for not trading Freddie.