Ahhh yes, the dreaded 7th year slump.
No fan thinks of the Leafs as an "NBA starting five". Your "radical changes" are just misguided and counterproductive, and there has to be a better reason to make "radical changes" than just "experimenting" out of impatience.
This team, right now, is actually playing worse than they ever have in the Matthews era. We decided that we wanted some of those "radical changes", and all it did was make us worse. Surprise, surprise. Thank god for our core and goaltending carrying us and our special teams, or we'd be in real trouble.
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Over the past 6 years, our 1st unit has been one of the best units in the league. Edmonton's 1st unit has been a bit better, and you could maybe argue Tampa's by a hair, but that's about it. This year, the 1st unit is producing at a similar rate as the past 6 years. What's changed is that our 2nd unit has really fallen behind. I agree that we need it to be better, and that might mean changing the coach or players on it, but what's certainly not going to help is focusing on the wrong unit and players. A team is 20+ players. The solution to everything isn't blaming the 4-5 of them that are doing their job.
Nobody does nothing with regards to demonstrating accountability for top players and staff then the Leafs either. In Toronto you can take nights off, weeks off. Flip off the media asking legit questions, blame the fans and the same fans can't grasp why we don't win.
See.. You've identified an issue, but you're still pointing at the wrong players, even though it's been explained pretty clearly to you. Those top players make one of the best PP units in the world, including this year. It's the second unit dragging our overall results down to the middle.
I can't blame Reaves. They signed him to a ridiculous contract and when there are not many takers, why go looking for a fight and risk taking one on the beak like Miller did against Schenn.
How many minutes does our 2nd unit get on the PP compared to PP1. Is there a reason why PP1 needs 60million dollars on it? Seems like an entitlement issue to me or accountability.
The 1st unit gets around double the amount of time as the 2nd unit.
It doesnt have 60 million on it. Even with all our highest paid players combined, it's 54m. And they actually haven't been together all that much this year, with the Matthews injury, and the Tavares injury, and Rielly being moved around and having his PP time cut down. Of our 221 total PP minutes, that group of 5 has only been together for 32 minutes. That's less than 15% of our time.
They have made changes and tried different combinations. They've also tried to boost the second unit with Nylander and Marner, which helped the second unit get some of the few goals they have. But you also need secondary offensive depth (and the coaching) to step up. Destroying what's working in an attempt to boost what's not can easily just leave you worse off overall.
It's a combination of the second unit players, the coaches, and Treliving. The coaching doesn't seem great, the second unit players should be able to do better than this, but we also don't have many alternatives to try because Treliving was more concerned with spending cap and roster spots on useless players like Reaves instead of offensive depth.
I'm sorry, did I just read that the combination of the second unit players, the coaches, and Treliving are to blame for our impotent PP?
Yeah I just want to see where it goes haha. I don't mind firing Savard and burying Reaves at this point. Mo to pp2 seems like a good choice.
Same thing against Boston in the playoffs last year with the PP issues - it was all Treliving and the 2nd unit's fault that they went 1/23
Don't blame you at all bro. That level of delusion is legitimately entertaining.
Same thing against Boston in the playoffs last year with the PP issues - it was all Treliving and the 2nd unit's fault that they went 1/23
Don't blame you at all bro. That level of delusion is legitimately entertaining.
Not even gonna lie it's probably half of the reason I still come here nowadays. Any actual honest hockey talk seems secondary nowadays.
He needs to go so you can bring up Minten or Grebenkin etc. A more worthy player.
Blaming the things that are actually responsible. What a crazy idea, eh?
I don't think anybody is blaming Reaves for his PP contributions. People are blaming Treliving for wasting cap and roster spots on useless players like Reaves that are incapable of contributing to a PP, which limits the alternative options we could have to try and fix the 2nd PP unit.
