As a moderate hockey fan, you don't like seeing someone bulllying mathews. Great job leafs. Even though the game was over it was still entertaining to watch when there are some nastiness and a good old school fight. I'll be tuning into some more leaf games for sure.
Post-Game Talk: Leafs lose but earn respect
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Shame they couldn't get 2 points on this back to back but w/e. The effort is their and they'll get back to racking up W's.
KingsHockey24
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It's funny because, Kyle Clifford was good in the Cup years. Obviously the coach trusted him enough to be on the ice and get the assist on a double OT Cup clincher but he honestly played his best hockey his last two seasons in LA.
Martin Skoula
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When he writes speeches he plans out where the parts he grumbles are gonna be ahead of time.
BertCorbeau
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True. Haven't seen a game with this Leafs era where they stood up like that against an opponent.
Their response seems like it could bring them together more .. They clearly valued standing up for their teammate over coming back in the game.
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Muzzin clearly high sticked in the corner when it was 2-1. Not sure how they missed it as the puck was there. They scored a few mins later. Regardless haven’t seen the Leafs give up that many odd man rushes in a few years. More often than not Muzzin was on the ice.
Oh, is it part of **the code** that prevented Matthews from getting mugged by Dubois or Sandin from getting injured?
If he wanted to respond in kind, it didn't work.
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Bettman and his American hockey mafia are eliminating honest fighting. Kinda crazy eh? The hypocrisy of the most violent culture on earth just slays me.
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Pretty exciting finish to this one. Pionk taking out Rasmus really got the juices flowing. Simmonds was a mad man. You have to love seeing that push back. Good on Clifford for fighting as well. Spezza is really the only one to get Pionk, but even he got him pretty good. I agree that we could have seen more from Ritchie. Simmonds managed to find Stanley twice and Clifford found a partner in Dillon. Ritchie should have taken an instigator, he did rough up Dubois and Lowry and they both turned him down, he also landed a pretty good body check on Lowry and Lowry just got off the ice. So, while he should have been more aggressive, he did provide some push back as well. That one was intense.
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we definitely are loving on simmonds and clifford still isn't as spicy as he was the previous time but he's goodKyle Clifford and Wayne Simmonds are some of my all-time favorite Kings. Happy to see them both kicking ass with you guys.
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Its honestly not even the speed or skill, he's surprisingly competent with the puck for what he is, but he's been a huge disappointment physically. All his hits look like they're happening in slow motion and the defense doesn't play scared around him.
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I would like to see Matthews stick up for himself a little more in a situation like that. The other guy is also a skill player and the same size as you. Give it right back, twice as hard. See how he likes it.
82 games in a regular season, I'd be willing to lose one to show the opposition you can't go out of your way to hurt our skill guys
Being bullied is also extremely bad for a teams psyche
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Dubois was wrapped in bubble wrap by Maurice, and he wouldn't fight Ritchie...he only had one shift in the last 10 minutes...bunch of cowards!
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Getting back to normal hockey observations for a second. I notice Muzzin has this annoying tendency to look for the snap shot whenever he has a look and he does that little flamingo kick out. It almost seems like he's playing those opportunities a little too casually, always bugged me for some reason.
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Tbh he was never a huge hitter even in his "prime" LA days. He's more so a "I'm not gonna take your shit and don't mess with my teammates" type of player.
That I would agree with, but you know if Matthews gives him a shot back he's getting an extra penalty. But fine, whatever, take it if that's the only other choice.
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Ritchie just circled around shoving guys with that clueless look on his face.
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It's hard to win when you have to battle the other team and the 2 refs.
