Post-Game Talk: Leafs lose again to poverty franchise

[The Legend]

No intensity to the Leafs game tonight. I’ll never understand why that happens.

Coyotes commentators were praising how intense the leafs were playing (particularly in the O Zone).

 

[IPS]

Matt Murray regressing to his norm.

This Senators fan is so obsessed with our team it's not even funny.

 

[MoreMogilny]

Garbage game overall. Frustrating when we should be closing the gap on Boston but instead they keep winning game after game and we drop these steaming piles of shit on the ice. Seems like we are destined to line up against Tampa again.

 

[Aashir]

What did Marner do tonight? He was invisible just like Matthews. Also, another reminder that Justin Holl is not an NHL caliber player.

Over the course of the year. Marner has been our best playmaker, nylander our best goal scorer

Put them together and tell Tavares and Matthews to f*** off till they get their shit together

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Just run Rielly at LW at this point.

absolutely would try it.

 

[francis246]

Believe it or not, the fortitude of a team when not facing a serious opponent is still important to maintain. They don’t put themselves in a position to close things out when they should. Says a lot about the franchise.

Someone else put it in this thread. Arizona has beaten The Leafs, the Avalanche, and the Bruins in their last 10 games

 

[2 Slick]

Imagine getting swept in the season series against a team that is only kept afloat from profit sharing from teams like the Toronto Maple Leafs, getting handed tens of thousands of dollars from pointless fines that were gifted to them courtesy of the Toronto Maple Leafs to pay for a shitty peewee league arena to house a shitty team that no one cares about. That’s… embarrassing.

There’s absolutely no chance this team does anything in the first round, absolutely none.

Goaltending has regressed back to Toskala levels as expected.

That’s what happens when you smother all of your money into four guys and half of them are invisible for most of the season.

 

[Aashir]

He is on pace to score 38. That's 2 fewer than when he was a rookie. Why this doesn't get more attention surprises me.

Because…..defence

He’s been horrid, lead fans won’t admit it

 

[stickty111]

Arizona vs the Leafs
Bad refs
Bad defense
Stars didn't show up
Structure wasn't good

At least Gary can celebrate a cup win today

 

[leafsfan5]

He is on pace to score 38. That's 2 fewer than when he was a rookie. Why this doesn't get more attention surprises me.

He better be doing a huge magic trick and have his shot suddenly appear come playoff time because it's not there right now and hasn't been all season

We've won in spite of it but we'll need him to be a bigger difference maker if we want to make noise in the playoffs. The fact he's not ripping wrist shots all game is concerning

 

[Notsince67]

Matthews line was a defensive shit show and does Matthews practice at winning a faceoff?

 

[Mr_Fun]

Kind of called that at 3-3 with about 8 minutes left. I just knew someone would look for something that wasn't there and it would cost us. Against my better judgment, I'll give Reilly a mulligan because it was his first game back.

 

[BertCorbeau]

Garbage game overall. Frustrating when we should be closing the gap on Boston but instead they keep winning game after game and we drop these steaming piles of shit on the ice. Seems like we are destined to line up against Tampa again.

In fairness Boston is at an unprecedented pace ..

 

[The Legend]

Team was looking ahead to Colorado .. sleepy Christmas week game.

Puck was bouncing and Arizona just grinded one out .. frustrating since they beat the Leafs earlier in the year and the Leafs' didn't respond. Arizona hasn't been a punching bag this season, especially at home.

A wake up call hopefully for their next game.

Funny enough the Coyotes have beaten the top 3 teams in the NHL 4 times now (Leafs x2, Hurricanes, Bruins)

Coyotes also just beat the Avs at home, no?

 

[PromisedLand]

Coyotes commentators were praising how intense the leafs were playing (particularly in the O Zone).

their go to phrase was " one of the best at working down low" and this was when the bottom 6 was working the o-zone

 

[stickty111]

Because…..defence

He’s been horrid, lead fans won’t admit it

I'll just guess you are just emotional after a loss which is fine.

 

[dubey]

Matt Murray regressing to his norm.

This Senators fan is so obsessed with our team it's not even funny.

Does Ottawa still have a hockey team?

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Yeah obviously Leafs lost. Arizona has the Leafs number, nothing to be done about it.

 

[Gabriel426]

I guess we might have goalies problems.

For real, how the heck did they lose to a team that they contained to only had 2 shots on goal in the first period.

 

[2 Slick]

This Senators fan is so obsessed with our team it's not even funny.

I mean, are they really wrong? Both of our goaltenders have been absolutely mid for the past few weeks.

 

[stickty111]

Coyotes also just beat the Avs at home, no?

Sure did. Losing to them isn't embarrassing but still you'd like to win

 

[MoreMogilny]

In fairness Boston is at an unprecedented pace ..

They are but nothing is slowing them down. Maybe they are peaking early, but their group is led by some aging veterans and they seem fully focused on dominating every minute out there.

 

[Al14]

It's good to know the refs can identify high sticking when our Leafs commit that infraction!

FU Refs!!!

FU Bettman!!!

FU U.S.A. NHL teams!!!

 

[francis246]

He is on pace to score 38. That's 2 fewer than when he was a rookie. Why this doesn't get more attention surprises me.

Because it’s normal for players to have a down year. Scoring 60 is not f***ing normal. He isn’t going to do that every year. We got spoiled with his 60 goal season now we expect that every single time. It’s completely unrealistic. There’s a reason why it only happens like once every 5-10 years.

 

[horner]

Matt Murray regressing to his norm.

When ever the teams sucks people blame the goaltender ever time.
The 4th goal he should have had.

Our team has sucked the last 5 games.