Post-Game Talk: LEAFS WIN 4-2: Hey Jets is there anything better than losing to the Leafs

[TMLAM34]

Terrible goaltender interference call. Bertuzzi should have gotten the goal there. But overall solid road game. No early Stanley Cup parade in Winnipeg I guess.

 

[Tarmore]

Appleton at the end making a fool of himself.

This is the type of actions that should be a disciplined with a fine.

A cross-check from behind on a player engaged with anther player. A serious recipe for injury.

 

[DarkKnight]

Benoit just continues to impress as well. A couple more "think again" hits, also showed some offence acumen a few times. If the puck goes into the boards, a Leaf leaves with it, almost every time. Room to grow, he may top out as an effective shutdown 4 D man.

 

[weems]

Benoit just continues to impress as well. A couple more "think again" hits, also showed some offence acumen a few times. If the puck goes into the boards, a Leaf leaves with it, almost every time. Room to grow, he may top out as an effective shutdown 4 D man.

He's been very good.
He had 1 turnover last night but in general he's hardly turned the puck over (11 giveaways total, 9 in defensive end thru 33 games played).
He's actually the only defencemen on our team with a positive takeaway to turnover number at 12 takeaways vs 11 giveaways.
His skating isn't even that bad and when he's moving forward, hes actually shown some nice pace when entering the zone.
He literally finish's every single hit to the point it starts to become extremely annoying for the opponent.
Makes tons of smart low risk passes, is positionally strong, clears the crease and will stick up for teammates.

It's still early and he needs to continue playing like this but it's starting to look like he's equally as good as someone like Schenn and possibly even better.

 

[TMLAM34]

Benoit has been fantastic. Ideal third pairing defenceman. Tre should be working on extending this guy. Love the grit he brings on the blueline.

 

[Dekes For Days]

Good win. Nice to go into the break on a high.

Totally called Reaves scoring. Hopefully it doesn't give Keefe any bad ideas.

That goal waived off was beyond ridiculous. And if they're just going to default to "yeah but the ref was emphatic at the time!" to stay with what's very obviously the wrong call, what's the point of video review in the first place? Clown show league.

Congrats to Matthews on his 40th goal and point #600 in his career. He's going to go down as the best Leaf in history.

 

[Optimist]

So who got the belt? I've seen pics of Tavares and Reaves sharing it. And now I see a pic of Benoit with it.

 

[Havoc]

Light work.

Leafs in 4

 

[DraftSchmaft]

I love the saves but I'm hoping for the day we don't even need them (What I mean by this is you want the opponent to earn their goal through their own skill and hard work, not because we sucked)

Leafs shouldn't need big saves to win the cup. We just need no softies. The Edmonton win streak could have been us if you remove softies.

The only reason we would need big saves is due to the Lil-Brodie-Gio soft play along the boards and around the net. Faux top 4

The first half of the season has shown me what I need to know in order to grab the cup this year:

Clean up the soft play in the top 4

No freebie goals for the opponent.


From my perspective thats it. Hit that checklist and the cup is yours

 

[JT AM da real deal]

Well played road game .. survive 1st with tending/D and then take over 2nd and 3rd .. sad for Jets as they have almost no skill but a hard working team .. my daughter at game in da Peg said Leafs started to get their legs in 2nd and took over play .. better team won as per Jet fans .. great to see Sammy make a couple more 10-bellers to boost his confidence .. and solid games from Benoit and McCabe .. Gio and Brodie oh boy oh boy .. nice to see Reaves get rewarded with beauty tip by taking da net .. and nice for JT to get off da shnide .. and those of us who like Jets as our #2 team in league great to see them move forwards towards playoffs .. now a week off for da BS all-star stuff .. gave my tickets away as can't stomach that crap

 

[egd27]

Leafs shouldn't need big saves to win the cup.

Can't recall any team winning a cup without a number of big saves throughout the playoffs.

 

[Divine]

The Leafs own the Jets.

Seriously, Leafs beat them 5 straight games. The Jets haven't beaten the Leafs since 2021 and it's 2024. They might not even get another chance until 2025.

As a side note, it would be very favourable to the Leafs to fall into WC1 and go through the Metro in the playoffs. I wouldn't mind that happening.

 

[Sypher04]

I said the leafs would be in good shape for a playoff berth if they could get 8 points in the final 8 games before the ASG, they got 9, and will like be holding the last WC spot when the break happens.

I personally always look at it by point percentage. As far as I’m concerned we are 3rd in the Atlantic.

 

[Gary Nylund]

I personally always look at it by point percentage. As far as I’m concerned we are 3rd in the Atlantic.

PTS% is indeed the only sensible way to look at it IMO. I also look at regulation PTS% as I'm more interested in how well the team is playing hockey than how successful we've been at scoring gimmick points.

 

[Sypher04]

PTS% is indeed the only sensible way to look at it IMO. I also look at regulation PTS% as I'm more interested in how well the team is playing hockey than how successful we've been at scoring gimmick points.

Does the nhl website track regulation points percentage? Not sure I’ve ever seen it.

 

[usernamezrhardtodo]

She is to sports TV what Coliacovo is to sports radio, except worse.

I hate Corrado even more than them both. He looks like he is going to vibrate right out of his seat when he is on a panel...too much energy and he yells instead of talking.

 

[Clark4Ever]

Great road effort by the whole team to finish on a positive going into the break.

If Samsonov has truly gotten over the hump, that would be significant for us in the second half of the season.

 

[Clark4Ever]

Reminds me of Reaves first few games of the season where he sky rocketed to fan favorite.

Unrealistic to be a regular occurrence but hopefully he can find a middle ground moving forward instead of hitting rock bottom

I think he needs to be deployed strategically to be effective. Save him for the heavier grinding teams and sit him against the faster free flowing teams.

Things better than beating the Jets.

in no particular order

Coffee
tea
beer
Wine
Water
Toilet paper
Butt wipes
Bidets
Doughnuts
Biscuits
Cookies
Crackers
Crossdressing
Wet dreams
Dreams
Snow
Petterrsson Diving
Traffic
Crosby crying
Crosby whining
Diarrhea
Sick calls
The flu
Coughing
Curry
Not living in Winnipeg
Not playing for Winnipeg
oranges
Applying aftershave after shaving pubes
Paper cuts

I can go on

 

[ULF_55]

Benoit just continues to impress as well. A couple more "think again" hits, also showed some offence acumen a few times. If the puck goes into the boards, a Leaf leaves with it, almost every time. Room to grow, he may top out as an effective shutdown 4 D man.

As they say, it takes longer for defensemen.
Realistically, that's because of young, inexperienced defensemen can be exposed, while young inexperienced forwards can be sheltered, supported by 2 line-mates.

Benoit - 170 games
Liljegren - 178 games
Timmins - 94 games
Lagesson - 81 games

Lagesson will be 28 soon, but I've liked the few games where he's straddled the line from clean to dirty. I doubt he's in their plans, but neither should Giordano or Brodie be in their plans, although perhaps Brodie on a extremely friendly deal, playing lower in the line-up.

If Benoit continues to develop, this could be a home-run player.

 

[Arzak]

Great night!

Matthews with 40, what a beast !!!

Reaves doing what we hoped for half the season.

Keep it going. Jets sh/t themselves good, seeing them play you wonder how they got near the top of the league.



On the side note, its still fire Keefe

 

[yubbers]

Sad I missed that one. Looked like a fun game from the highlights.

Fun side story....I was leaving the Dodger at Yonge and Isabella was quite tipsy....Kelly Hrudy was there and I said 'Healey...love ya man' as I walked out.

Realized this morning it was Hrudey. LOL

 

[Arzak]

As they say, it takes longer for defensemen.
Realistically, that's because of young, inexperienced defensemen can be exposed, while young inexperienced forwards can be sheltered, supported by 2 line-mates.

Benoit - 170 games
Liljegren - 178 games
Timmins - 94 games
Lagesson - 81 games

Lagesson will be 28 soon, but I've liked the few games where he's straddled the line from clean to dirty. I doubt he's in their plans, but neither should Giordano or Brodie be in their plans, although perhaps Brodie on a extremely friendly deal, playing lower in the line-up.

If Benoit continues to develop, this could be a home-run player.

Yeah, it was 300 games or something like that when I heard it. I would guess 240 will do. Either way still potential for improvement.

The difference is, as a forward, you need to be fast and deceptive. You can pretty much do that from the get-go. As a D you are learning patterns and tendencies of the forwards you defend and that takes time...

 

[Gary Nylund]

Does the nhl website track regulation points percentage? Not sure I’ve ever seen it.

I look at Hockey Reference for pretty much everything.

I am confused by the fact that they have 2 columns for regulation.
1 - RPt% which if you hover over it is described as "Points percentage counting no points for OT loss, and any shootout game as a tie. i.e. pre-2000 situation".
2 - RgPt% which is described as "Points percentage in regulation time only".
These sound the same, but they're not and it's not clear to me what the difference is. I hate these gimmicks for a number of reasons, and this sort of confusion is one of them.

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[Gary Nylund]

I hate Corrado even more than them both. He looks like he is going to vibrate right out of his seat when he is on a panel...too much energy and he yells instead of talking.

It's just weird that the people on the broadcast are so bad, would be interesting to know how it happened that such poor choices were made.

 

[Thornbury]

I hate Corrado even more than them both. He looks like he is going to vibrate right out of his seat when he is on a panel...too much energy and he yells instead of talking.

I think he perfectly demonstrates that when you don't have anything of substance to offer, talk loud in the hope it may help your credibility. How did Corrado get the gig in the first place?