ULF_55
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Nylander will begin playing for that $11.5mm next week.
It is good to know you won't hold him accountable for that contract.
As you said:
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It is good to know you won't hold him accountable for that contract.
As you said:
notDatsyuk
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Yes, one lucky pass to Matthews and one excellent play by Matthews got him two assists.
In not much more than half the ice time Nylander had three goals, and you might admit that without him, none of those goals would have happened.
ULF_55
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I'm sure there are tonnes of good plays made every game.
There are not as many Ovechkins, Stamkos, ... and Matthews around to finish those plays.
Oates, Backstrom, marner benefit.
Make those same passes to Engvall and ...
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Racer88
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The timing of the good plays vs bad plays is also very critical
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Marner in mid season form has never been the problem. No one has ever been pushed out of a shinny game.
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they are not a ton of playmaker doing it more than backstrom, marner, thornton
Like ovy, matthews and cie benefit of backstrom, marner and cie...
Jonathan Cheechoo already got 56 goal and won maurice richard trophy playing alongside. Did Thornton benefit of Cheechoo or tue reverse?
put Matthews, ovy and whatever with engval and they don't score as much...
Great player will still be great player but for surw if you put 2 great player together, you will get better result...Its true for marner, true for Matthews and true for everybody...
ULF_55
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No one hates playing against the Leafs in playoffs.No one hates playing against Nylander
Our top guys are just Beta Chokers.
It is always fun playing against the Leafs in playoffs bc opposing teams won all but ONE series
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Run it back for 8 years by signing another regular season darling
Like I always said, if our boys play for any other teams, we would all be laughing at them for choking and the MGT for still believing and running it back without any changes.
But bc they play of the Leafs, we end up supporting them and hoping this is the year as they learned their lessons from past playoffs, as they are right there, they are close and just need a few bounces to WIN……..a round.
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Fresh take.
Tavares got Riellys 'A'.
Marner is sharing his 'A' with Rielly.
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Okay. Didn't realize that they were sharing. Yeah that's fine, I thought Rielly got stripped of it.
If he takes anything around 12 on a contract extension, he will earn back a lot of public good will. Hope that happens.
Got that from the Amazon series. Never realized it till watching that episode, lol.
Leafs just need to win the Cup and all is good.
Or at the very least not have someone credible like Ray Ferraro stating ‘looked disinterested in Game 7’
The same is true the other way. Outside of Nylander and possibly Domi which players on our team are teeing it up perfectly like that for Matthews on his first goal. I’d say probably no one. What makes guys like oats, backstrom and Marner great players is that they consistently know how to get the puck to their goal scorers. And that’s why the star goal scorers loved them and wanted to play a long side them. It’s not as sexy as goal scoring but being able to set guys up perfectly is an art in itself.
McMann for example is not making the other of those plays Marner did.
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Matthews didn't miss a beat playing with Domi instead of Marner. Does that mean Domi's a great player too?
Marner's a fine player, especially during the regular season but let's be real here, if he didn't have the best goal scorer in the world to pass to, his point totals would be substantially less than they are and the same applies to Oates and Backstrom.
He did much more than that....Matthews produced 2x more per 60 with 3 million Domi than he did with 11 million Marner.
Hate to break you the news:
26, 27 year old Matthews 5v5 with Marner last two seasons:
2023: 539 mins, 1.33 g/60
2024: 720 mins, 1.55 g/60
27 year old Matthews with Domi:
2024: 206 mins, 3.19 g/60
22 year old Matthews 5v5 with 40 year old Marleau
2018-2019: 432mins, 1.8 g/60
22 year old Matthews 5v5 with Kasperi Kapanen
2018-2019: 591 mins, 1.52 g/60
22 year old Matthews g/60 5v5 was better with Kapanen and 40 year old Marleau than it has been with Marner the past 2 seasons.
Its actually possible an argument could be made that Matthews is actually a better goal scorer without Marner.
Honestly, it doesn’t matter if MM makes AM better or AM makes MM better.
Fact is that both of them being the Dynamic Duo choked in playoffs and only managed to lead the Leafs to ONE playoff series win in 6yrs(going to put the first 2 yrs as learning lessons).
Are you really happy that playing in the first round is good enough.
The number ONE objective for Leafsnation should be winning the Cup, whether they do it with our current core or a whole bunch of David Kampf and Engvall should not matters as long as they win the Cup.
I just don’t understand why MGT and Fans continue to support the notion that let’s bring the core back as they will eventually do it. What excuses or reasons can you possibly have that give you hope that our beta chokers will finally do it?
Even themselves know they don’t have excuses any more. Keefe is a problem, now we have Coach B, our defense been a problem, we now have a pretty solid top 4, depth scoring, we have a few more guys that can score 20 goals, the fact is that no team can win in the playoffs by scoring 2 or less goals throughout a series. No teams can win if their top 3 AAV forwards combine for like 10% or 20% or 30% of all goals scored. Our top guys need to dominate a playoffs series and not be a passenger looking for others to lead.
Fact is that both of them being the Dynamic Duo choked in playoffs and only managed to lead the Leafs to ONE playoff series win in 6yrs(going to put the first 2 yrs as learning lessons).
Are you really happy that playing in the first round is good enough.
The number ONE objective for Leafsnation should be winning the Cup, whether they do it with our current core or a whole bunch of David Kampf and Engvall should not matters as long as they win the Cup.
I just don’t understand why MGT and Fans continue to support the notion that let’s bring the core back as they will eventually do it. What excuses or reasons can you possibly have that give you hope that our beta chokers will finally do it?
Even themselves know they don’t have excuses any more. Keefe is a problem, now we have Coach B, our defense been a problem, we now have a pretty solid top 4, depth scoring, we have a few more guys that can score 20 goals, the fact is that no team can win in the playoffs by scoring 2 or less goals throughout a series. No teams can win if their top 3 AAV forwards combine for like 10% or 20% or 30% of all goals scored. Our top guys need to dominate a playoffs series and not be a passenger looking for others to lead.
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Mlse is all about money and selling Beiber jerseys
Keep the cash flowin
Run it back
