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I love Mitch sets up the winner and a Hugh shot block to preserve the win. We better resign him.
Player Discussion Mitch Marner, Part 3758391849
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Glad Mitch salvaged an otherwise bad night with a great heads up pass to Knies on the game winner. Kids had a rollercoaster of a 72 hours I imagine, can't blame him too much.
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IMO that depends on how he performs in the rest of the playoffs and what his ask is, but plenty of time to think about that once the playoffs are over.
My main takeaway from tonight's game is that it's a good thing that Nylander will be a Maple Leafs for many years to come. Unlike Matthews and Marner, he showed he really wants to be here by committing to the max term and what a game tonight. That 1st period, just wow. That has to be one the all time great single period playoff performances in Maple Leaf history and it came in such a huge game. Nylander showed he can do it all, and most importantly, that he rises to the occasion when the pressure is on the biggest moments. What a player!
I'll give Mitch credit. It's not 13mil worth, but he's absolutely been a huge positive. Especially compared to getting caved in last year.
If Matthews finishes I think Marner looks a lot better. Now of course, Marner needs to compensate for Matthews lack of finishing ability and finish something himself, but I've been mostly happy with is play outside of game 5-6 against Ottawa.
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Not the worst game, but it wasn’t that great either
He made a great play to knies no doubt, has a couple good and bad plays mixed throughout.
I do however expect more from him
He made a great play to knies no doubt, has a couple good and bad plays mixed throughout.
I do however expect more from him
I honestly wish Carolina beats Washington. Carolina always comes across as a team to me that Marner would both light the lamp against and for. I can imagine him fitting in pretty well with their core.
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Tkachuk tried to take his knee out in the dying seconds. Absolute garbage. Pinto got 42 games for gambling but that is fine
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Yep. This was crazy.
Outside that Marner needs to be way better or we are cooked.
I think it’s time to break up the line, just spread the big boys out. Give Matthews, Domi and put Marner with McMann and Holmberg and have three scoring lines.
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You should try reading his other anti Marner diatribes, the dumbest stuff you'll ever read.
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Some things can be argued for and against. The one thing that can not be argued against is the lack of production in playoff elimination games. This also applies to round 2 games as well simply because we have seen him fade Vs FLA prior as well. Last night was a comical joke effort. He was a liability and Matthews was trying to make it work and then went down the shitter too.
AM MM need split up. 100% a valid observation and argument.
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Would help if his sniper linemate could snipe occasionally, he's getting plenty of looks.
Like the boys on leafs nation said we’re not paying 13 mil for shot bloccing and he had a key segment to close out the win for us but needs to be much better then he was today we have much higher expectations for him atleast I do
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That’s not the case and it hasn’t been all year we can complain over and over about the same thing or we can change the way we perform on that line or break it up cause right now we have 2 lines we love and we actually could have 4 with one switch let’s see if the coach gets it
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He was horrible against Florida 2 years ago, so far so good this time so that's a positive for sure. As I've said from the start, I don't want to criticize anyone, I hope they all play great and I'm not giving out any grades until the playoffs are over.
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That doesn't even make sense, so he's going to suddenly snipe on another line? Hes getting chances, that's all that matters line construction wise, it's on him to finish and it doesn't change on another line. You're going to change the second line? You want him on a third line? That's just dumb.
If your confused on the message I was conveying the second line and the third line are keepers currently Matthews hasn’t been scoring with marner all season and marner is a better scorer than Hes showing he usually scores more away from Matthews swap him and domi we’ve seen that Matthews and domi with bertuzzi worked Knies is a way better version of that and put marner with bobby and holmberg where he’ll get secondary matchups and become a nightmare for Florida to match their baccend against you get it?p.s of course the dinosaur @ACC1224 is gonna like your rebuttal lol never cease to amaze me that guy
No them being passengers at the most important time is dumb you think opportunities is all that matters? This is the nhl playoffs there’s no participation ribbons being given out it’s a results oriented business my friend
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Marner with Holmberg. Man that's a great answer. Gross. And weaken your top line defensively for matchups. Again, he isn't going to suddenly find the net with Domi the way he's playing, he's getting a ton of chances, so what you're arguing doesn't jive with generation. Now if he wasn't getting the puck, you'd have a point, but I don't think a pass from Domi or Marner in a prime spot really affects his shot.
Rielly was really bad in the regular season let's see if he continues his better play.
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