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

[Gallagbi]

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

You get that Joe cost us the Game, right?

 

[garce]

Lol turn away from the HNIC a broadcast and first thing I see is the Saskatchewan genius F^^^

 

[Kurtz]

Predictable loss. Load up on grit and this is what happens. The grit fans have a lot of explaining to do.

Mtl outhit us like 2:1. Joe Thornton isn't exactly grit.

 

[axlrose87]

Did Mitch Marner play today or was he checking his bank statements?
You don’t get paid in the playoffs

 

[fahad203]

Remember, Raptors lost their first game in round 1 in their championship year. Different sport, but still.

They'll come back and win this series. But it's the response

Kawahi would have taken someone's head off in a game if Lowry was taken out
Lowry would have killed someone. That's the bothering part

 

[Griffin76]

6 on 5 really sucked with no threat of a point shot. All they had to do was hang back and cover the other 5 guys and leave Rielly at the point. Thornton was horrendous on the shift that they scored the SH goal. Lost 3 battles including the one that led directly to the goal.

 

[OppositeLocK]

For a roster filled with hometown boys I'm really surprised that there wasn't more tenacity there.

 

[Marshy]

Tough loss.

I'll reserve judgement until I see how they respond in game 2.

Better be more lineup changes than just a Tavares replacement though. Thinking Galchenyuk, Engvall and Dermott in. Sandin and one of Kerfoot/Simmonds out. I'd say Jumbo but fat chance of that happening.

 

[2 Slick]

Marner can never show up when the games matter the most. Lights out good all season, then decides to play his worst game of the year in this one.

Thornton is f***ing useless. Why would ANYONE in their right mind put a nearly 42 year old player that can't move half an inch and hasn't done anything on the powerplay all season on the FIRST powerplay unit?

Outclassed, outcoached, out hit, won more faceoffs and their goaltender was better than ours.

This team chokes every single season. Laughing stock of the entire NHL. NO way this team wins this series. NONE.

 

[DueDiligence]

But they bring grit. We need grit!!!
More grit!!!!

Simmonds and Thornton are old dried up grit.

 

[Dragao6]

With or without Tavares, this team just isn't very good offensively. I'll never understand why Nash was playing over Galchenyuk or why Dubas picked Foligno over Hall

Yes
They been good all season and playing

also don’t get dermott played all season and Samson and boho get the nod?

we lose when it matters that’s the new culture
Contracts get criticized for games that matter not regular season games

well done

 

[Leafsdude7]

If Keefe doesn't just absolutely rip the PP at the presser...

This is absurd. We're going to lose because of "our toughness". Our PP literally lost us the game tonight.

 

[Crosscrease14]

It's only 1 game but you definitely need a big response in the next one

 

[Cap'n Flavour]

only bright spots were nylander, sandin, and cambell.

Sandin? You mean outside of the two goals against he was largely responsible for?

 

[fahad203]

You get that Joe cost us the Game, right?

WHy would Joe even be on PP. that's on the coach and Sandi

 

[Shak19]

Joe needs to remain on the 4th line, thats it.
Nylander should be on the PP1.
Sandin is slow for a puck no footspeed, can't outskate paul byron.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Yeah cause that's the problem

Well yeah. Without Tavares, our secondary scoring is needed more than ever but it's non-existent. At least Galchenyuk can bring something to a PP and he's better than Joe 5 on 5

We don't need massive black holes.

 

[TheRexman]

I’m a 37 year old leafs fan, literally nothing ever changes. One embarrassment to the next. Different personnel same results

I'm 51. You've got a few more years before you reach my saltiness.

 

[Suntouchable13]

Put Brooksie instead of Nash, Gally for Joe, and Engvall for Simmonds. But I don't think teams usually make this many changes in the playoffs.

 

[Menzinger]

They'll come back and win this series. But it's the response

Kawahi would have taken someone's head off in a game if Lowry was taken out
Lowry would have killed someone. That's the bothering part

Folingo fought perry just minutes after the Tavares incident

 

[Third Degree Burns]

Pain. Jumbo cant skate.

 

[TopChedder]

If Price is locked in this series is over, it's simply that easy.

 

[Burnie97]

Well I said Leafs in 5 so there's the Habs win out of the way.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Also once again we aren’t scoring in playoffs. Not panicking yet but a reminder, an offensive player was available at the deadline for cheap and the Leafs went in another direction.

 

[4thline]

Well, 16-0 wasn't going to happen, get that loss out of the way and move on. Rally around JT's injury. Personnel decisions are interesting

 

[RomanianLeafs]

This is all on Keefe..yeah lets make Nash play and dump Galchenyuk who worked his ass an entire season..i dont like this forward lines at all