Post-Game Talk: Leafs lose. Thornton on the first PP unit. Weak. Nice work keefe. Do better.

[Havoc]

Do they deserve the benefit of the doubt?

Well we did predict Price would steal one.

Let it be this one lol

 

[Dreakmur]

Lets be honest, this grit movement made us worse. Skill helps you score, not grit.

Yeah, our skilled players really lit it up tonight.

 

[Victory Avenue]

Why didn't we keep Mikko Lehtonen? KHL superstar, so very stupid not to keep him.

 

[SeaOfBlue]

Dermott should definitely come in for Sandin. I imagine Engvall indirectly replaces Tavares.

Question really is if they bring in Galchenyuk instead of one of the old guys on the 4th line. May have to consider Galchenyuk over Thornton.

Hyman/Foligno - Matthews - Marner
Galchenyuk - Kerfoot - Nylander
Foligno/Hyman - Nash - Mikheyev
Simmonds - Engvall - Spezza

Price is the only thing that worries me. Sucked in the AHL but made some good saves and had some luck today. The Leafs were the better team today otherwise.

 

[Mess]

Ya I was wondering about that... got to give them some sort of breather.... just seemed like desperate coaching

He used his timeout earlier but still it seemed like a desperate move at the end where you could see a player like Matthews was just wildly chopping at pucks and barely moving.

When you have a deep team you have to trust someone other the your core players to play the final 4 minutes of intense action.

 

[AvroArrow]

Marner made some garbage decisions tonight. Shot when he should pass, passed when he should've shot. He needs to be better.

Thornton needs to kindly f*** off. Both goals are on him. I don't understand why he's on the PP, he killed all momentum and made the stupidest turnover for the gwg.

Sandin needs to win that foot race, he had a huge lead over Byron too.

Spezza was pretty bad as well.

We shot ourselves in the foot with all those delay of game penalties. 5 on 5 play I thought we badly out played them, way too many stupid penalties. We absolutely need to win the next game. Refs were great tbh, I thought they did a great job overall. They missed a too many men on Montreal, but overall I was happy with it.

 

[leafsfan5]

I'm getting CBJ flashbacks and I hate it

 

[Gallagbi]

He's always trying to be too cute

I'll take being too cute for his creativity.

Tightening up the basic plays would be great, like making a tape to tape entering the zone instead of a wayward pass that gets cleared or hitting a lowman for a dangerous walkout instead of hitting a stick

 

[francis246]

I’m not sure I can be mad at this one. I knew as soon as Tavares went down we were losing. It’s not fair to have to play after witnessing that, but that’s sports. I don’t think their heads were in it after seeing that. Back at it on saturday, we need Galchenyuk or Robertson in!

 

[djdev]

But SImmonds in ? Mikaheyev in ?

Those guys both sucked. At least Joe will make a pass here and there.
Joe is not the problem, it's his usage. that's on the coach


Simmonds is done

unfortunately that pass will always been to the other team.

 

[IPS]

Who actually finds this team entertaining? No heart, No passion. It’s actually jarring watching this team after watching a few games the last few days

It's getting quite sickening watching pairs like Mackinnon/Rantanen and Kucherov/Point decimate their matchups while our 34/16 pair continues to "run into hot goalies".

 

[BertCorbeau]

Told you that Thornton Spezza Simmonds line is too slow. Put Brooks’ back at centre.

 

[Mitch nylander]

Do we go Campbell tomorrow again?

 

[Aashir]

Probably sick of the Tampa Bay comparisons.... but they did

We shouldn’t even compare a Stanley cup winning team to this team. It’s only game 1, Many overreacted, still think leafs win in 6, but in general, that team had more success even before that cup in a span of 3-4 years than our teams has in 50 years.

 

[ryno23]

I will find 1 bright spot tonight is Nylander. He was dialed in and a beast tonight. I would have been feeding him on the PP vs going thru Marner. He was hot tonight but never took a shift with Matthews to spark something.

if Nylander plays like this that will only help

 

[Gallagbi]

Well we did predict Price would steal one.

Let it be this one lol

He was good, but I wouldn't say he stole this one.

 

[ThrowDemTongs]

Boy Marner really loves playing playoff hockey. Games get tight and he can't be found.

After they lose this series he is the 1st guy I would deal to shake up the team and give them flexibility. He is simply not a playoff player.

Holy f*** bud

 

[BertCorbeau]

Matthews had the effort tonight IMO.. Marner just buckled.

 

[wingman75]

Week off did not help and then Tavares injury... Just a rough game.

Montreal does not scare me in the least. I will be shocked if we lose this series.

Love your confidence. I have none. Serious question: What did you see tonight that makes you think we will win the series?

 

[SeaOfBlue]

Marner made some garbage decisions tonight. Shot when he should pass, passed when he should've shot. He needs to be better.

Has always been a problem with him.

 

[Aashir]

Do we go Campbell tomorrow again?

No doubt in my mind we don’t

 

[6ix]

Galchenyuk better be playing next game. We scratched him for Rielly fking Nash. Keefe’s seat is getting warm.

 

[Rodzilla]

Keefe and Malhorta can f*** right off with putting Joe on the top PP unit, over Nylander. The puck dies on his stick the entire year, and suddenly game one of the playoffs its going change? Thats bad coaching at its finest, losing JT doesn't help but putting Thorton on the PP is just stupidty.

Agreed.
Just wayyyyyy too slow at decision making. Had like 3 turnovers on that PP before that SHG. Nylander also was having a solid game and was sitting

 

[Cap'n Flavour]

Marner has NO confidence in his own shot.

His release sucks, but he shouldn't be reluctant to shoot it in stride. Anyone can surprise a goalie like that.

On the flipside, he took a couple of one-timers... just with no screen and little chance of going in.

 

[tmlms13]

Our entire cap is spent on firepower silly. lirl. This fanbase still hasn't realised Defense is our issue. Hahahaha.

They gave up like 10 goals in 5 games to columbus and 2 tonight.

thats pretty good