Post-Game Talk: Leafs lose 7-4. Screw you Aucoin, trolled us.

[CerebralDevil]

Ya Scrivens was bad tonight and Franson with Liles were horrible. Liles coughed up the puck in the middle quite a few times and Franson cannot handle a pass at all!!!

 

[kawi]

If only we killed that penalty...

 

[ECanuck]

Disaster strikes! Meltdown of epic proportions!

 

[legendinblue]

 

[Pi]

Excellent 1st.

Bad 2nd.

Disasterous 3rd.

Get Kostka off the 1st PP unit. He can't handle Kessel's gifts.

Get Franson back in the press box. Komisarek was much better.

I don't know if I should be laughing or crying..

Kessel should have like 5 more points.

Kostka is just unable to raise that puck and put it above a goalie's pad. He is not PP material.

He's a #5/#6 guy. I don't get how he gets PP time even after the fact that we can't even score a 5 on 3 with him on that PP.

Gardiner's confidence will get a huge boost if he's racking up points on the PP.

 

[Lebanese Leaf]

Also, Gardiner played perhaps the worst game I've ever seen him play as a Leaf.

 

[Espher]

Top line really didn't work at all tonight. Second line was super inconsistent.

Kostka should probably be on PP2, if at all. Perhaps PP2 w/ Gardiner, perhaps with Kadri/Frattin, perhaps dat Marlies Unit.

Defence made some derpy plays but the goaltending didn't bail them out on them at all. It was kind of like the last two seasons where the team paid for every mistake. Needs to get better than that on Sat and going forward.

 

[DopeyFish]

I'm still trying to figure out why kostka keeps accepting passes to his forehand on his backhand.... It hurts my brain

 

[theTTC]

Schooled by a team built through the draft.

 

[WillNyeTheHockeyGuy]

Ben Scrivens sucks ass, I never want to see him in a Leafs net again. Even in the two games before tonight he hasn't looked good, I don't know what you guys see in him!

Well, when both goalies suck ass, you play the one who's been better statistically right? Right?

 

[legendinblue]

Who would have thought we can **** it up so badly after the first?

 

[Jerkini]

On the bright side, Kadri and Frattin looked real solid.

 

[GoHardSports]

Sloppy play all around.

-Scrivens was really bad tonight
-Team defence was horrible
-Kotska should not see 1 more second of PP time. Keep him even strength with Phaneuf and put a Gardiner-Phaneuf pairing on the #1 PP.
-Macarthur looked out of place on the 1st line.
-Why the **** did no one back up Phaneuf when he had Carkner all over him?

 

[tp71]

Very sloppy night. I'll write it off to back-to-back nights.

Turnovers, turnovers, turnovers. Everyone was guilty of this, but worst offenders imo were Gunnarsson, Franson, and Grabovski (the guy has to stop fn around with the puck trying to beat 2-3 guys 2 feet outside our blue line).

The Kessel line needs board/net presence big time. Huge oversight by Carlyle.

Both goalies were meh. Wouldn't have made much difference which one got the start.

Kostka needs to GTFO the PP unit. Constantly stopping the puck before shooting on cross ice passes is killing our PP. Kessel needs to stop wasting time passing to him.

Reimer came in cold in the 3rd period and got scored on in the high slot where a goal scorer like Moulson should score. I wouldn't say he was meh. Stopped 7 of 8 and let in a great shot.

 

[Espher]

Also, just quoting myself again here, because.

Since it's impossible for the Leafs to merely have a bad game, expect to see the detractors out in force telling us how the team we saw in the other games wasn't the real team but this one was.

 

[Bravid Nonahan]

The Mike Kostka experiment is coming to a close.

He is a #7 D.

 

[IslandersFan1987*]

Was going to post a joke about the leafs but you leaf fans are more harsher towards your own team. So good game, I guess. And I didn't think the Phanuef hit was that dirty, Tavares turned his back at the wrong time.

 

[bobrules]

our goalie sucked more than their goalie by just a bit.

 

[WillNyeTheHockeyGuy]

Sloppy play all around.

-Scrivens was really bad tonight
-Team defence was horrible
-Kotska should not see 1 more second of PP time. Keep him even strength with Phaneuf and put a Gardiner-Phaneuf pairing on the #1 PP.
-Macarthur looked out of place on the 1st line.
-Why the **** did no one back up Phaneuf when he had Carkner all over him?

Who was on the ice with him at the time? To be honest, the only players I can see standing up for anyone is Grabo and Orr. That's about it really.

 

[Animal]

-Kostka doesn't belong on the power play, doesn't know how to take a one timer from kessel.

-Gardiner is so rusty, made some stupid stupid passes and lost his footing more than once

-frattin and kadri easily our best forwards tonight

-scrivens played like a clown

 

[a a ron]

I guess since we won't go 47-1 we might as well tank...

 

[SeenSchenn2]

YEAHHH!!!!!

Oh wait.

 

[Jerkini]

Who would have thought we can **** it up so badly after the first?

It just goes to show you how badly this team needs a legitimate goaltender. Unfortunately now, all the guys rumoured to be in play have been our best players so can you trade them without opening another hole in your lineup? Probably not.

 

[King Mapes]

The irony is Aucoin cost is the game really

Kadri and Frattin were in beast mode. The rest? Fell asleep. Dion was horrendously bad, Kostka's worst game by far. Just a terrible defensive game and don't get me started on Scrivens.

I hope it was just a back to back factor. Playoffs or Nate. No in the middle anymore

 

[Leaf Rocket]

Watching a leafs game to the last second, win or lose, can be detrimental to health.