Post-Game Talk: Leafs Lose 7-3

[notbias]

just to bring some positivity to the thread... I thought McCabe had a pretty solid first playoff game.

 

[PromisedLand]

ah its just the Regular season Burn the tape and move on!, oh wait!

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo

its already too hot. Ozone layer is being depleted with all the tape burning by the Leafs this season

 

[stickty111]

Jarnkrok-Matthews-Marner
Tavares-O’Reilly-Nylander
Knies-Acciari-Kerfoot
ZAR-Kampf-Lafferty
Next game

Also Liljegren should play. His puck moving is needed on the backend

 

[saffronleaf]

I wouldn't disagree with giving Samsonov another start because it would be putting alot of responsibility on Woll to play really well and help get the Leafs a win. However if Samsonov has another really bad game then Keefe may have to roll the dice and give Woll a shot.

at that point it's all over anyways maybe sign one of those university of toronto kids and let them play

 

[HamiltonNHL]

But I think I said that every year.

 

[Nineteen67]

Tampa got a few gimmes due to soft defensive play, but they did do a good job of clogging up the neutral zone and picked up several turnovers.

I can’t say the Leafs will change their game plan and do something different.

 

[Trapper]

So basically Tampa played like half the game with 10 skaters and won.
The Leafs always find something new.

 

[Stephen]

We played like absolute pig shit. Deserved to lose.

They won’t play that badly again. Tampa didn’t even look good, we were f***ing embarrassingly bad.

Just show up for f***ing once and play properly you win this series.

If we lose this series I’ll take next year off.

Honestly, I expect a much better effort for Game 2 but have this same effort penciled in for Game 4 at the latest assuming it’s not an elimination moment. They will let us down again in no snow fashion before this series is over. If any team can have multiple trap games in a 7 game series it’s Our Toronto Maple Leafs. I’m not saying this out of anger. I just expect it.

 

[Havoc]

ZAR / Lafferty / Acciari / Kampf / Kerfoot .........We'd be lucky to get 1 goal summed across all 5

I think Jarnkrok degenerates to more of a 10-12 goal scorer / 82 games playing among these 5 too. He needs someone



Knies has to play. Not enough skill in the lineup. I don't understand why he didn't start game 1.

 

[All Mod Cons]

in other words they aren’t a team.. just a collection of players.

Yes. I think that's all they've ever been since day one of Dubas. There's never any thought into how to actually build a team. Just a collection of players. Look at this deadline for the biggest example of that. Who the f*** adds half a dozen players at the deadline?

 

[glue]

This core just can’t handle pressure, Sammy not good and Keefe is not a good enough coach…and that pressure just went up immensely as if they lose game 2, this is a series sweep for Tampa.

 

[CabanaBoy5]

Everything that could go wrong for us to lose G1, happened.

-Start poorly with little energy
-Shaky goaltending, ton of rebounds
-Poor reffing...those calls on Kampf and Schenn...blatant shafting the Leafs
-Poor coaching...not optimal lineup decisions, no in-game adjustments
-Terrible defence...Gio and Holl abysmal, Rielly and Brodie awful
-Two goals with mere seconds left in the first and second period

Just win the next game and we will have recovered our equilibrium. Lose the next game, and that will probably be it for us.

 

[Nineteen67]

With Bunting‘s likely suspension will Knies draw In?

 

[IPS]

Yes. I think that's all they've ever been since day one of Dubas. There's never any thought into how to actually build a team. Just a collection of players. Look at this deadline for the biggest example of that. Who the f*** adds half a dozen players at the deadline?

Lol so how does one upgrade to a team from a "collection of players"?

 

[AvroArrow]

Everything that could go wrong for us to lose G1, happened.

-Start poorly with little energy
-Shaky goaltending, ton of rebounds
-Poor reffing...those calls on Kampf and Schenn...blatant shafting the Leafs
-Poor coaching...not optimal lineup decisions, no in-game adjustments
-Terrible defence...Gio and Holl abysmal, Rielly and Brodie awful
-Two goals with mere seconds left in the first and second period

Just win the next game and we will have recovered our equilibrium. Lose the next game, and that will probably be it for us.

I just pray to god that we don't get f***ing Chris Lee next game. Anyone else.

 

[MSZ]

I just pray to god that we don't get f***ing Chris Lee next game. Anyone else.

No, they will give you Graham Skilliter.

 

[Teeder Keon]

This game is on Sheldon Keefe. And no you can't change my mind. It was absolutely bad coaching, line up decisions. Can't adjust, can't coach on the fly and can't run his bench efficiently even with last change. Cooper schooled Keefe right from the get go when Keefe was trying to play catch up and cooper already caught him off guard. Meanwhile Holl was an absolute PYLON when Tampa scored their first goal (Holl was a pylon the entire game btw).

Bottom Line: Keefe was TERRIBLE!!!! I can write an essay on how bad Keefe is. Since picture is worth a thousand words I'd do that instead of writing a novel

Hey Promised Brotha ….
I agree with everything you’ve honestly and correctly have pointed out … you are so right ..
I will only add .. that the players have to bare the on ice responsibility for the overall , team effort out there ..
I’m glad that a lot of Leafers and yourself remove that “ reffing “ albatross.. the players and coaching don’t deserve that out .
I pointed out earlier .. the 3rd period was my biggest disappointment and concern.
You have to have pride to win that period in all areas of the ice , weather you score or not .they were down 2 d , others were hurting , they were a physically beat team , but they gutted it out , we didn’t , that’s not a good sign at all .
Imagine if the game was reversed , we would be on our heals and sweating bullets as fans knowing our history of outrageous losses .
But we came out so dead agsin and uninspired again .
So brotha , I can’t argue with your points at all ..
We really need to change this , don’t know how with this Coach .
Completely over brains every little detail over and over and tries to be the brightest bulb ..way to hard , and stubborn as a mule , not Good attributes unfortunately.
But I really want to make sure that we can’t let the players off here as well ..
Not acceptable as a group , knowing and living the awful past , and pray life they did once more .
Cheers brotha
GLG
It’s damn frustrating indeed ..

 

[notbias]

So basically Tampa played like half the game with 10 skaters and won.
The Leafs always find something new.

We played like half the game with 4 players on the ice...

 

[HellasLEAF]

The Tampa Bay Lighting, rode roughshod, over Toronto.

It wasn't even close. They dominated in every aspect of the game.

The Leafs were down in the first 2 min. Never in this game.

The veteran savvy Lighting on cruise control tonight. Controlling the Leafs and the officiating.

 

[WillyC]

They played scared while Tampa played with tenacity right from the puck drop.

 

[fahad203]

Everything that could go wrong for us to lose G1, happened.

-Start poorly with little energy
-Shaky goaltending, ton of rebounds
-Poor reffing...those calls on Kampf and Schenn...blatant shafting the Leafs
-Poor coaching...not optimal lineup decisions, no in-game adjustments
-Terrible defence...Gio and Holl abysmal, Rielly and Brodie awful
-Two goals with mere seconds left in the first and second period

Just win the next game and we will have recovered our equilibrium. Lose the next game, and that will probably be it for us.

So what you are saying is we can only go up from here?

 

[pcruz]

For me:

The game was lost before we played.
Why play ROR with JT and Willy. It’s a waste. It makes match ups easier for Coop.

34
91
90
Down the middle.

I’ve said all year but no one believes me. Rielly has the worst contract in the team. I hope he sits next game.

Marner is not suited for playoffs. 3 points, but garbage 5v5. Soft plays and give always galore.

Our coach is stupid

Need better goal tending

I don’t blame the refs for the loss, but they were total dig shit. Can anyone please explain how McCaulley saw the go in? Or was it just Perry raising his hands???

The league is a joke.

You're going to be awfully disappointed come game 2 then.

With 58 out, as he should be for that hit, the first line will be

19-34-16

That takes a speedy guy off the 3rd line who may or may not be replaced with a rookie playing his 4th NHL game.
You're not going to have RoR on that 3rd line with nothing around him AND take out the best defensive player of that 2nd line.

88 and 91 are very bad defensively, 91 because of his lack of speed and 88 because of his penchant for cheating up the ice and lackluster backchecking.

The team needs to realize that the bottom 6 are there to give the top 6 a breather instead of relying on them to win games.

Why the f*** Matthews and Marner play 13 or so minutes at even strength is absolutely perplexing.

They are by a good margin the best even strength players on the ice, followed by Pointe, and should be playing 17 minutes at even strength every game.
If that means that Marner hits 25 minutes with special teams, so be it.

 

[3blizzard4]

Cooper: Leafs have 'really grown into a bit of a defensive juggernaut'​

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Hook, line and sinker.

 

[Stephen]

just to bring some positivity to the thread... I thought McCabe had a pretty solid first playoff game.

I love the hit and kind of wonder what momentum would have looked like if he accepted the fight.

 

[Teeder Keon]

The amount of tapes burned by leafs this season is the leading cause of global warming this year

Again , totally agree man …. IT’s Phuqquery all over the place and across the land ..
Sheer Phuqquery at its Leafy finest..
It’s a drug , but not in a good Leafy way …

GLG