Post-Game Talk: Leafs win game 3 5-2

[notdoneyet]

That third line of Tampa is pretty good though.

Another excuse

 

[Da Cool Rula]

playoffs is about winning games. full stop. theres no badge for outplaying another team and losing.
i literally give 0 f***s how they do it, as long as they do it.

GO LEAFS!!!

Well said brotha

 

[BudForLife]

 

[Da Cool Rula]

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100% bro

 

[HamiltonNHL]

first star 100-%

 

[ShaneFalco]

Just wanted to come here and say I love Kampf!!

and lamp!

 

[Enniskillen]

Haven’t seen open ice hits even like this clumsy one since forever in Leafs playoffs games. And his pass was Marneresque.

 

[Alkalinesky]

Great game. Win on Sunday and come home to finish this out. It may be a pipe dream (I still think this goes to 7) but it would be pretty sweet to wrap this up in 5.

 

[crump]

Haven’t seen open ice hits even like this clumsy one since forever in Leafs playoffs games. And his pass was Marneresque.

Boosh's Corsi numbers I don't think are great, but he is a hi value event player. I don't know what stat will tell you how he hits like that then gets in the oppositions head about coming down his side of the ice. His penalty, then pass out of the penalty box, he just seems to make impactful plays. The first game of the series was the same. He's a warrior, and battles. We need him in there.

 

[Leaftors]

We lost that game all year. Won it when it mattered.

 

[Gary Nylund]

I'm critical of Campbell but he had a good game. Keep the ball rolling soup!

Understatement of the year.

Great game. Win on Sunday and come home to finish this out. It may be a pipe dream (I still think this goes to 7) but it would be pretty sweet to wrap this up in 5.

Anything could happen. This series has been pretty close to dead even and the reason we're up 2-1 is that our goalie has had a slight edge on theirs so far and I wouldn't count on that continuing (though I sure hope it does).

Huge game tomorrow!

Boosh's Corsi numbers I don't think are great, but he is a hi value event player. I don't know what stat will tell you how he hits like that then gets in the oppositions head about coming down his side of the ice. His penalty, then pass out of the penalty box, he just seems to make impactful plays. The first game of the series was the same. He's a warrior, and battles. We need him in there.

Great post! There's too many people who worship stats to such a degree that they're unable to acknowledge anything that the stats don't show, and there is a ton that the stats don't show.

 

[ACC1224]

Goaltending like that can take this team pretty far.
Great effort all around.

 

[Jarqui]

Im tired of hearing
Tavares has to get going hes dragging willy down
Both tavares AND nylander are sucking
NEITHER one are contributing anything right now
No excuse for either one playing against 5-6 dmen and third line of tampa

Tavares is leading both teams with 65% faceoff win%. He's been on the ice for 1 goal against - they're not lighting him up and he's not lighting it up. Really small sample size - not enough games to conclude too much. But it is not all bad nor no contributions.

 

[Brobust]

Matthews needs to be way better defensively next game. This was his worst defensive performance of the season, IMO.

 

[Jarqui]

Goaltending like that can take this team pretty far.
Great effort all around.

Tampa Bay players and coach were complimentary of Campbell's fine play

 

[ACC1224]

Tampa Bay players and coach were complimentary of Campbell's fine play

I thought it was going in as well.

 

[hamzarocks]

Mikheyev/engvall/kapmf making up for Nylander+JT no showing

Those 3 are playing like they make 20M collectively not the 4.5M or so they make

Obviously 16 and 34 have dominated but those three contributions are a big part of the reason it's 2-1 leafs and not 2-1 Tampa.

If 88 and 91 get it going leafs can win this in 5.

Still see it being leafs in 7 if those two stay asleep

 

[SprDaVE]

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[Cynical]

The second line is the Micheyev line and the 3rd line is the Tavares line. They need to figure out something with Tavares because he doesn't look good. You may need to split some time with him on the 4th line for portions of the game with Spezza moving up.

 

[CelticDruid]

Nylander Matthew's Marner

Miky Kamp Engvall

Bunting Tavares Kase

Kerfoot Blackwell Spezza

 

[demonslayer]

Tampa Bay players and coach were complimentary of Campbell's fine play

This is the kind of save Freddy could never make, If this went in we would have lost the game and probably the series right there.

 

[francis246]

Great game. Win on Sunday and come home to finish this out. It may be a pipe dream (I still think this goes to 7) but it would be pretty sweet to wrap this up in 5.

I think they can do it in 5. Tampa looks tired mentally, they aren’t engaged from the start.

We should have had a few more goals to be honest. Marner with his rebound shot and his post and Matthews with his break away shots. If one or two of those go in for us next game it’s not even close!

Though I think keefe needs to keep the forecheck going even when we are up. We were running 1-2-2 in the neutral zone and allowing Tampa to back us up and Tampa’s entries were on point each time. You can’t do that for 6 minutes every game in the 3 period and hope that it’s going to work.

 

[Tarmore]

I seem to recall reading somewhere that you can actually burn a lot of calories sitting on the couch as long as you're fidgeting and whatnot. I would say a game like tonight is a pretty good non-workout, workout.

Same as playing e-sports. good for working out the heart not much good for anything else.

 

[Tarmore]

in a sense that goal came from nowhere.

???

It was on a 3 on 1 rush.

It did not come from nowhere. lol

 

[Cap'n Flavour]

We lost that game all year. Won it when it mattered.

?? The Leafs we're pretty good at defending third period leads in the regular season, and some of the notable collapses came in the Kallgren era, which will hopefully stay a distant memory...