GDT: Leafs vs Nucks

[Nineteen67]

They gave to win at least two of the games against their peers Van, Det, Minny, Pitt and there should be no excuse for not beating Vancouver tonight. That may have been the worst period I’ve seen a team play this year.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Friedman: "Edmonton won't make a dumb deal"

I guess there's a first time for everything

 

[mapleleaf979]

Treliving's additions tonight:

Domi fighting to help a teammate
Burtuzzi looking engaged
Gregory scoring the go ahead goal
Klingberg with no terrible plays, yet
Reaves with his best game as a Leaf

LOL Reaves best game as a Leaf.

 

[Strangle]

I'm denying that the possiblity of a fight presents a significant psychological and physical price to NHL players in this era, or enough of a price to deter them from making clean hits.

It’s not ‘a fight’ it’s a promise that there will be more and more often. It’s a test of will. It’s a challenge and an answer.

You don’t know anything about what you’re trying to say here. And I don’t mean that disrespectfully at all. I can admit when I’m ignorant, you should be able to as well. We are all adults here (presumably).

If you’ve ever read the novel ‘Enders game’ there is a scene in there where the kid (Ender) kills another kid in the shower who was bullying him.

When the authorities ask him why he didn’t stoop kicking him, ender says ‘I wasn’t trying to win this fight. I was trying to win all the future fights too.”

The point being that once he did that, he just won every hypothetical future fight with the kids who were picking on him. Because now those fights won’t ever happen.

I’m sure I can keep giving anecdotes for you that you’ll have trouble understanding or making the connections with, and I’m not going to keep trying.

But I have no issue saying that I’m right and you don’t know much about how this works.

I’ll leave you with one more, the leafs sens playoff series in the early 2000’s. Sens beat the leafs in the regular season all the time, probably as talented or more talented than Toronto was. But Toronto threw them off their game, made them change how they played, neutered their skill by beating them up physically and intimidating them.

This is just how humans work.

 

[Shooter2x]

It's sad people truly believe other players not named Reaves played soft because Reaves was allowed to play.

The most reasonable explanation for whats occurring today is they respect Reaves and take some responsibility for how soft they were playing after seeing him getting punished via benching.

 

[93gilmour93]

Friedman: "Edmonton won't make a dumb deal"

I guess there's a first time for everything

 

[Bomber0104]

He doesn’t play tough. He has no impact on anyone’s behaviour, he’s just the worst forward in the NHL and that’s it. Reaves is irrelevant and will no longer be on the team or in the NHL shortly.

Not gonna lie, a part of me kind of wants him back with the team at some point just to see people like you rage more on HFboards

 

[horner]

Klinkberg best game so far
Bertuzzi is really cranking it he has been snake bitten
Domi is playing relaxed now
Sammy so far calm in the net

4 th line looks really good

 

[Nineteen67]

It's sad people truly believe other players not named Reaves played soft because Reaves was allowed to play.

The most reasonable explanation for whats occurring today is they respect Reaves and take some responsibility for how soft they were playing after seeing him getting punished via benching.

I think it has more to do with getting called out by the coaches, management, the media, and current anf former players.

 

[Strangle]

It's sad people truly believe other players not named Reaves played soft because Reaves was allowed to play.

The most reasonable explanation for whats occurring today is they respect Reaves and take some responsibility for how soft they were playing after seeing him getting punished via benching.

This is the connection my brain came to as well.

I’m sure there’s a correlation here, but it’s not the one people are saying it is.

This feels different

 

[The Hanging Jowl]

I wonder how Reaves felt about the Giorano fight. I lost some respect for Reaves when the Marchand hit went down, ill say that.

Exactly 3 weeks from tonight is when we have home ice against Boston. He said he couldn't do anything about it because they had last change. Dec 2 will be the night I decide whether I appreciate him on the team or not.

 

[Mr_Fun]

I think it has more to do with getting called out by the coaches, management, the media, and current anf former players.

I just found it a bit ironic that our toughest game is without our toughest player. I don't think anyone said or implied that players were soft because of Reaves.

 

[garce]

Couldn't agree more. I love subtlety. Nothing's worse than a comedian explaining their jokes or an author explaining their allegory.

Craig Simpson is just bland and unremarkable not terrible but not good in any way after all the years he’s been employed I don’t remember him saying anything funny or insightfu, blah

 

[The Hanging Jowl]

I accidentally heard Ron McLean at the beginning of this intermission and I feel dirty. Gotta remember to hit that mute button on Saturday nights.

 

[Strangle]

Exactly 3 weeks from tonight is when we have home ice against Boston. He said he couldn't do anything about it because they had last change. Dec 2 will be the night I decide whether I appreciate him on the team or not.

Maybe it’s not even reaves, maybe McCabe drops Marchand and reaves backs him up by dropping lucic?

 

[WTFMAN99]

Robertson-Domi-Jarnkrok I would not touch this 3rd line for the entire season. They have chemistry after 2 games.

Well outside of tonight, they've given us a point per game.

Still time.

 

[The Hanging Jowl]

Craig Simpson is just bland and unremarkable not terrible but not good in any way after all the years he’s been employed I don’t remember him saying anything funny or insightfu, blah

Yeah, no argument, I was giving my love for Jim Ralph. He's the perfect colour man. Talks when needed. Has interesting comments. Shuts up otherwise. That's the job. Some of these guys just don't get it. You're the gravy. The play-by-play guy is the meat and potatoes.

 

[Mr_Fun]

Yeah, no argument, I was giving my love for Jim Ralph. He's the perfect colour man. Talks when needed. Has interesting comments. Shuts up otherwise. That's the job. Some of these guys just don't get it. You're the gravy. The play-by-play guy is the meat and potatoes.

Jim is a gem.

Keep it rolling....

 

[The Hanging Jowl]

Maybe it’s not even reaves, maybe McCabe drops Marchand and reaves backs him up by dropping lucic?

My genuine hope is Reaves takes the suspension by throwing at Marchand before the puck drops so he doesn't have time to turtle. I'd take that for the team if it was me in his position for what he did to Lilly (which was dirty af BTW and I'm not interested in other opinions - he knew exactly what he was doing).

 

[Martin Skoula]

Not gonna lie, a part of me kind of wants him back with the team at some point just to see people like you rage more on HFboards

Whatever gets you off man, different strokes for different folks.

 

[fahad203]

Tavares has been a beast

 

[Strangle]

My genuine hope is Reaves takes the suspension by throwing at Marchand before the puck drops so he doesn't have time to turtle. I'd take that for the team if it was me in his position for what he did to Lilly (which was dirty af BTW and I'm not interested in other opinions - he knew exactly what he was doing).

Oh I would love that so much.

And the rest of the team just escalating every time Boston tries to respond. Until Boston just gives up trying

 

[ThrowDemTongs]

It’s not ‘a fight’ it’s a promise that there will be more and more often. It’s a test of will. It’s a challenge and an answer.

You don’t know anything about what you’re trying to say here. And I don’t mean that disrespectfully at all. I can admit when I’m ignorant, you should be able to as well. We are all adults here (presumably).

If you’ve ever read the novel ‘Enders game’ there is a scene in there where the kid (Ender) kills another kid in the shower who was bullying him.

When the authorities ask him why he didn’t stoop kicking him, ender says ‘I wasn’t trying to win this fight. I was trying to win all the future fights too.”

The point being that once he did that, he just won every hypothetical future fight with the kids who were picking on him. Because now those fights won’t ever happen.

I’m sure I can keep giving anecdotes for you that you’ll have trouble understanding or making the connections with, and I’m not going to keep trying.

But I have no issue saying that I’m right and you don’t know much about how this works.

I’ll leave you with one more, the leafs sens playoff series in the early 2000’s. Sens beat the leafs in the regular season all the time, probably as talented or more talented than Toronto was. But Toronto threw them off their game, made them change how they played, neutered their skill by beating them up physically and intimidating them.

This is just how humans work.

Too much word. Just say nerds get stuffed in lockers.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Football's the worst for commentators that never shut up BTW. It's unbearable at times

To be fair, there's so much idle time in football. The colour guys need to talk or else it would be dead air. Romo might be over the top, but you can learn a lot from him. Greg Olsen has probably been the best

 

[MSZ]

Craig Simpson is just bland and unremarkable not terrible but not good in any way after all the years he’s been employed I don’t remember him saying anything funny or insightfu, blah

At least we no longer have to listen to Jim Hughson calling Leafs games. Especially on a night like tonight involving Vancouver.