Post-Game Talk: Mike Smith beats Hutch. Oilers win 3-2

[Confucius]

Well at least McDavid was held without a goal again and Mathews got a great one.

 

[ClarkSittler]

Overall we smoked the Oilers this year, I'll take an OT loss with our 3rd stringer in net.

Would love to play the Oilers in the playoffs.

 

[Dave92]

Time to end the Thornton experiment. Need a young, tough, fast, cheap motivated player from the farm in his place.

He's looks awful. And somehow gets randomly promoted to the top line every 3rd game.

 

[NK94]

The Leafs goaltending has had an overall SV% of .908 within those 82 games. Not too shabby.

 

[Confucius]

Be careful what you wish for, everyone wants Freddy on LTIR but when Campbell can't play this is the goalie you get, first scoring opportunity he sees in 3 on 3 and its in the back of our net. Hutch wasn't awful today but the Leafs limited the chance's he saw.

In saying that, thought we played pretty well. Out played them in the first and third period but we need our special teams to be the difference. 0/18 and haven't scored in the past 8 games now on the PP. Going into the playoffs, the Leafs cant afford to have mediocre special teams, most of the time they are the difference in winning and losing in the playoffs.

We've been limiting shots all season it seems. Strange how that turned around so quick. We used to give up like 40 a night.

 

[Cap'n Flavour]

Well at least McDavid was held without a goal again and Mathews got a great one.

I guess, but Matthews' soft attempt at trying to set a pick on McDavid instead of skating back led to the OT goal.

 

[zeke]

You think he had a chance on that deflection?

A long deflection into the middle of the net? Of course he had a chance. He could have come across with the shot going way wide but did a weird wave and opened himself up.

But whatever. I don't expect much from Hutch. Leafs need to score some for their 3rd stringer.

 

[IPS]

Meh, Leafs should be able to score more than 2 on goalies like Smith. 2 goals in 60 minutes for Hutch is solid. We're also like 0/18 on the PP, which is terrible.

Smith went god mode tonight.

 

[Gabriel426]

Matty can’t do that in OT, if you don’t score, you back Check.
Keefe should had played JT/Willie/Gally more, esp in the 2nd period.
Jumbo needs Load MGT.
Simmonds/Soup/Engvall is a good line, hopefully, once Simmonds gets back to game shape, there will be more crash and bang.
The Dmen needs to shoot more, like a lot more.

 

[Teeder Keon]

Dang nabbit!

Dang Nabbit was a terrific star out of Georgia and had a terrific career as a relief pitcher with the old Dodgers out of Brooklyn and then played his last remaining years in Puerto Rico with one arm and one leg and was blind

 

[IPS]

A long deflection into the middle of the net? Of course.

But whatever. I don't expect much from Hutch.

You're completely wrong for having expectations for a goalie. End of story.

 

[ottomaddox]

Just imagine where this team would be in the standings and our chances in the playoffs, if they had top 15 goaltending all season long.

 

[mcleex]

Why was Jack Campbell injured?

 

[ottomaddox]

Just imagine where this team would be in the standings and our chances in the playoffs, if they had top 15 goaltending all season long.

 

[Cleetus]

A long deflection into the middle of the net? Of course he had a chance. He could have come across with the shot going way wide but did a weird wave and opened himself up.

But whatever. I don't expect much from Hutch. Leafs need to score some for their 3rd stringer.

you Called A shutout for Hutch earlier

 

[tmlms13]

I’ll take 3 of 4 points from Edmonton.

And they took 3 of 4 from us. Didn't get to gain anything on them.

 

[Confucius]

Dear Manny Malhotra and whomever else "coaches" the PP:

Yeah like how did that go so bad? From the last thing you want to do is give us a PP, all of a sudden going to rock bottom.

 

[Indigogo Leafs]

A long deflection into the middle of the net? Of course he had a chance. He could have come across with the shot going way wide but did a weird wave and opened himself up.

But whatever. I don't expect much from Hutch.

Obviously hard to predict how often a goalie would pick that deflection up fast enough, but it certainly isn't zero. You are right...that is alot to expect...the OT 2 on 1 was way more saveaable. Looked like house league lateral movement

 

[Gallagbi]

Why was Jack Campbell injured?

Because God hates us

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

OT OT, there never much love when we go OT.

Getting sick of every tom dick and harry standing on their head in the opposing net pretty much every game we play.

Its an us problem at this point. The difference in quality of goalies who’ve stonewalled us is beyond just mere coincidence or “he just has our number.” This team has an issue with finishing for some reason and making opposing goalies look like prime Hasek. It’s no wonder Dubas is pushing for another forward. Hope he gets a goalie to go along with said forward.

 

[Twine Tickler]

Well I’d say they won’t lose many games when they play like that, but unfortunately they have lost almost every game this year in the exact same fashion. Far too often this team loses games where they should be nursing a 3 goal lead in the 3rd. We are making average goalies look like Vesina Candidates. Stop trying to go top titty every time. Put the puck on the f***ing net. Only thing more frustrating is knowing how EDM got dominated for 120 minutes and walk away with the same amount of points. So incredibly frustrating

 

[Carltons Cup]

I think Jumbo needs a vacation to Robidas Island. Even a week or two vacation would do him and the team some good...

 

[57 Years No Cup]

Be careful what you wish for, everyone wants Freddy on LTIR but when Campbell can't play this is the goalie you get, first scoring opportunity he sees in 3 on 3 and its in the back of our net. Hutch wasn't awful today but the Leafs limited the chance's he saw.

In saying that, thought we played pretty well. Out played them in the first and third period but we need our special teams to be the difference. 0/18 and haven't scored in the past 8 games now on the PP. Going into the playoffs, the Leafs cant afford to have mediocre special teams, most of the time they are the difference in winning and losing in the playoffs.

Bull. Freddie on Robidas Island opens up cap space to sign an alternative. Freddie's done here. Time to accept it.

 

[Gallagbi]

And they took 3 of 4 from us. Didn't get to gain anything on them.

With a Hutch start mixed in, I wasn't expecting more

 

[Gabriel426]

Honestly, I don’t think Smith was amazing. He pretty much just did what good goalies should be doing.
Leafs didn’t attack the net as much after the 1st period-don’t know why.
Matty and JT missed a few shots(missed the net) where they would have scored most of the time.

 

[Teeder Keon]

Dang Nabbit was a terrific star out of Georgia and had a terrific career as a relief pitcher with the old Dodgers out of Brooklyn and then played his last remaining years in Puerto Rico with one arm and one leg and was blind