Post-Game Talk: Leafs win 7-6 in OT

[LeafChief]

 

[Brown Dog]

 

[Drytoast]

Let's get Peter Ing on the phone!

I'd take Allan Bester over Sparks.

And Bester was a hobbit.

 

[Leaf Fans]

Exciting game!

 

[hockeyes]

Take the two points and run.

I wouldn't even know where to start on the defensive issues, Babcock really needs to start earning his paycheck and get it sorted.

 

[Ratboy]

We are not a bubble team, man.

SPARKY SUCKS

 

[Havoc]

Babcock has more patience than us but I don't think he keeps Hainsey on the top pair much longer.

As we have seen with Ennis, Babcock will give you a chance. In the end he does what's right.

 

[LeafChief]

 

[RoadWarrior]

Auston has 8 points in 3 games...then John...guys...we're lucky as ****.

Who are Crosby and Malkin?

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

We won't win every game like this. We need the defence to be better, and Sparks needs to step up or get out.

 

[Stephen]

Every team that wants to actually win a cup.

Exactly. Unless they start scoring 9 goals a night on demand, they will need to tighten things up, significantly.

 

[Gallagbi]

Didn't marleau steal and pass the puck to rielly?

Matthew stole it, Marleau made a basic outlet under no pressure.

 

[67Cup]

Do you think Jonas Enroth might still be available?

 

[GodEmperor]

Is it me or has Sparks looked always scared out there in an NHL game. He has the talent but you need the mind and that killer extinct to be great, especially if you are a goalie because it's such a mental game.

I just dont think he has it. he looks like a deer in the headlights

I said it back here and people didn't really respond too well to it

https://hfboards.mandatory.com/thre...ced-on-waivers.2550039/page-18#post-150113287

And I personally played the position for a while and studied it quite closely, I'm not saying this as some advanced goaltending god or anything like that, but I'm saying from a good baseline understanding he looks AWFUL.

 

[LeafChief]

 

[Melo Meds]

Honestly Babs played Kap with Auston and Marleau, that's more than I can ask of him, if he brings up Johnsson with Naz and demotes one of Leivo or Brown, he's doing very well in my books.

Lots of people on here have been calling for a Kapanen promotion for some time now. He’s too stubborn at times. Having Ennis up there never made any sense. He’s at best a fourth liner or a 13th forward.

 

[PromisedLand]

2 worst goalies in the NHL


Future captain of the Leafs with game winner

I think you mean future captain with a steal and then making a pass to a d-man that scored a goal

 

[The Kessel Run]

Matthews has 8 points in 3 games but he should feel shame because he will never be better than Barkov AINEC.

Flukey start for the poor man's Kuznetsov.

 

[Eternal Leaf]

Every game with Sparks in net is going to be like this. Horrible.

But Matthews and Tavares were dominant.

 

[MattySnipes]

Garrett Toskala

Call him what you want but at least he didn't quit on the team and made some key saves in the game I thought he played really well to start the game when we weren't really in it and then once we woke up he wasn't really that good but when we needed him he was there I'm glad he got the first win of the Season out of the way.

Time for Dallas.

 

[Mitchy]

8 points in 3 games for Auston "Overrated" Matthews.

 

[ChurchOfMatthews]

Do you think we can trade Garrett Sparks for Curtis McElhinny?

I'd even throw in Ennis

 

[Confucius]

Pajama boy has arrived.

Happy we got him. Seems Isles fans are happier with Lee as their captain as well (if you believe some of the garbage on the mainboard).

Win-win for both teams!

That boy has some serious Jam

 

[Raym11]

He can sit as long as he wants
Locking up Marner and Matthews is a MUST

Matthews looks way better as the guy carrying the puck. When Nylander is playing he has possession more often than AM. What i'm trying to say is Nylander as good as he is with Matthews, changes the dynamic of the line and holds Matthews from that next gear. Let him miss 20 games whining about his salary.

 

[BigGulpsEh]

doesn't feel the same without coke and hookers.

That’s my motto in life

 

[SeaOfBlue]

6 goals against is a team effort for sure, but both EN goals were crap.

One was tipped and the other was a really good shot by Kane that Zaitsev should have been challenging him on.

It is never a good game when you give up 6 goals, but a lot of those were poor plays by the defense or really good shots by Chicago that Sparks really could not have done much about. Tips, screens, shots that went top corner, etc. Maybe he could have been lucky and saved one or two of them, but none of them were anywhere near to the crap Andersen gave up yesterday.

Although this just gives more fuel to the fire to the Sparks haters, even though if McBackup was in this game we probably would have lost. Some of the saves Sparks made, McBackup would not have. And pretty much all of the goals Sparks gave up, McBackup was not going to save either. Maybe if he got lucky.