Dekes For Days
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Nothing has said that. Only you.It still clearly does.
Nothing has said that. Only you.It still clearly does.
That wide open cage is pretty bad but he played a good game last game better than the rest of themI guess you’re still putting together the plus/minus chart from last night
Holy crap why didn’t he just shoot it into the open net. It’s stuff like that why he isn’t worth his contract let alone a bigger oneFormer Leafs Defenseman Blames Mitch Marner for Power Play Struggles
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As Carlo Colaiacovo points out, however, with a wide-open cage, Swayman completely out of position, and the defender not in-line to block the shot, Marner opted to pass it off instead of putting the puck in the wide open cage. While he collected 3 assists in the game to give him a team-high 10 points on the year, it's situations like this that drive the city and its fan base nuts.
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With a struggling power play, simplification is of the utmost importance, but the Leafs seem more content with whipping passes around then firing shots towards the net. With the likes of Marner, Auston Matthews, William Nylander, John Tavares, and Morgan Rielly among others, it's unacceptable to have just 3 power play goals to start the year and 10 goals in their last 35 regular season contests, going back to February 27th.
you'll need to start including "points from the blueline" in your line combo points per 60 comparisonsReddit fan posted this from yesterdays powerplay - Marner electing to pass on this opportunity instead of shoot:
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Because it wasn't as simple as the misleading freeze frame makes it look.Holy crap why didn’t he just shoot it into the open net.
Looked worse liveBecause it wasn't as simple as the misleading freeze frame makes it look.
Because it wasn't as simple as the misleading freeze frame makes it look.
Marner is a talent, without a doubt and if this league did not have a salary cap everyone would want him on the Leafs, but we have a cap, and all fans know that we need Cale Makar type more than Marner type under our system. Even if he just walks, the 10m ìf handled right can enhance this team.I mean he obviously should have shot it but it was good (imo) that he set up 2 goals* over the course of the rest of the game
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Signing UFAs with the $10m would be fine if they were a contender and were filling in a couple of pieces. Where the Leafs are, they’d be wasting money and even worse, time.Marner is a talent, without a doubt and if this league did not have a salary cap everyone would want him on the Leafs, but we have a cap, and all fans know that we need Cale Makar type more than Marner type under our system. Even if he just walks, the 10m ìf handled right can enhance this team.
Feels like there's 1 Makar type in the league and I think the Avs are going to keep him. There's some really great D, not sure you're getting any for Mitch at the moment, but Makar-type is pretty rareMarner is a talent, without a doubt and if this league did not have a salary cap everyone would want him on the Leafs, but we have a cap, and all fans know that we need Cale Makar type more than Marner type under our system. Even if he just walks, the 10m ìf handled right can enhance this team.
Live, you can see that the goalie is already moving over, and that side of the net would not all be open.Looked worse live
Not only is that not true, but getting rid of Marner doesn't get you a Makar. It gets you overpaid mid-tier UFAs that provide less impact than Marner.Marner is a talent, without a doubt and if this league did not have a salary cap everyone would want him on the Leafs, but we have a cap, and all fans know that we need Cale Makar type more than Marner type under our system.
If it looked worse live there would be extensive footage posted not a no context, meaningless still frame.Looked worse live
You could fill a book with all the dumb things posted.plus/minus from the blueline