If he only had the balls on the ice he does off, in his post game interview and contract negotiations. Dump him or you will regret it like you are starting to regret the Nylander deal. FFS has anybody in this organization learned anything already?
Yep. Bruins xGA 7.208 vs Leafs 3.04. This game came down to goaltending and it's right there in a nutshell.
So did we.
Saying that the guys with some of the highest cap hits in the NHL can't convert their chances IS isolating the problem. Not sure the word useful here makes sense though, I mean it's not like anything anyone posts here has an impact on anything.
I watched his post game interview this morning and was thinking he isn't saying anything dumb for a change, that's interesting. Then he said something about how they came out strong in the 3rd ...
If it comes down to goaltending, how can you win when you invest you money elsewhere. Yes our goalies suck but as they say, you get what you pay for. A shame the same cannot be said about the core.
You guys need to stop thinking like these x numbers mean anything. I mean Boston scored 5 goals and hit the post about 4 times, doesn't that make you question this 3.04 number even a little bit?
I mean this post in itself shows the isolation isn't even happening. 1 of the core 4 didn't play, the other didn't create offense for himself which is an ongoing problem. Conversion was only a problem for Tavares, debatable Matthews.
We outshot and outchanced them. On top of that, our expected goals were significantly higher than theirs. The difference? Swayman stood on his head. He made key save after key save. Sammy made maybe one or two great saves and no exceptional saves. At this time of year your goaltender needs to make almost every great save and a few exceptional ones in order for you to go anywhere in the playoffs.
We are the better team everywhere except the scoreboard. It starts with culture. They have it, we do not. Lou was building it. Kyle tore it down and here we are.
We hit the the post three times AND we had the stats on our side. Our goaltending is not up to snuff. I'm not sure why this is so difficult to understand.
Conversion has always been a problem for the team as a whole, not just Tavares. Remember that 4 year stretch when the playoffs came down to one deciding game and we managed to score only 3 goals in those 4 games?
If you think that's meaningful there's not much else to say here.
Bruins hit 3-4 posts as well.
Marner is going to ask for near Matthews money again which is laughable. It was sad the first time but at least back then Matthews was paid based on potential. And now that the Leafs are all but admitting that Matthews and Marner doesn't work together, how on Earth would they justify paying $12 million to a small soft winger? So he can setup Tavares? Yeah, I don't think so.
Yes it is a major problem in roster construction for playoff hockey .. regular season hockey it works ok but not in playoff hockey which is 10 percebt faster .. d need to go higher and harder off glass and out .. keep it simple stupid especially when your opponent is faster than you .. we have to play a slower game with a ton of icings .. win draws .. if we try to swing with bruins in a fast uptempo rush game we are dead to rights .. we dont have lines 2 and 3 to play that way
So let me get this straight. You're saying that if you're the Boston Bruins and continue to play like this, you're going to win the Stanley cup? They're not even going to get past the Leafs let alone FLA or TBAY if they continue with these numbers.
