No assumption, he said it out loud.
Not easy to come in as a rental and perform. He also was playing hurt from what I remember. He's a fantastic player just didn't fit in here. He's doing decent in Nashville all the power to him.
The broken finger didn't help that's for sure
Remember reading years ago how little or how few dead line accusitions actually make much of a difference . Especially none role player types . Always in the back of my head its a mistake to throw capital on rentals .
The GWG against vs Edmonton, Mcdavid the best player in the game... Was literally about to fall on the goalie, he was screening him so well. Allowing the Edmonton player to score.
But excelling in his captaincy role and new coach. Anyone surprised? Wasn't Bertuzzi excellent before the Leafs too?
If that is the case...why doesn't he get the forwards to play a system that will help our D? Why not bench a star to prove your point about being careless? I get the D is bad...I can see it too but you can't just go into each game letting the players zoom around without any kind of system to default to.
Does anyone else think that Bertuzzi looks like he's on roller skates out there? He looks like he is playing an inline skating hockey game compared to everyone else...it's kind of funny to watch. He still gets where he wants to go...just with style.
But you have no issue with what Niedermayer did with his stick prior the elbow from Domi? If memory serves correctly, doesn't Nidermayer give Domi and vicious cross check to the mouth the previous game, also earlier in the game.....didn't Neidermayer take a baseball swing at Domi while he slide into the net and tangled up with Brodeur?
Don't get too excited - Leafs penalty kill is bottom 10 in the league. As a different poster pointed out, his advanced stats on the PK aren't even good. Think Nylanders PK stats might even be better. Kovalev could have been given a regularly shift on the PK too, but just because he's on the PK doesn't mean it's a good think. Just means the coach doesn't know what he's doing.
Are you referring to this Kucherov kick where Marner reacts like a 5 year old, flaring his nostrils, about to throw Tantrum?
Matthews was miles ahead of everyone last night but agreed they both were the 2 best players on the team but marner wasn’t in the same room as matthews and no one else was even on the building as them
He will never bench marner or matthews so it doesn’t matter marner at most will miss a shift matthews nothing but he’ll bench Willy inna heartbeat honestly he needs to go we need a coach with balls
That is very true and I would do it too .. my point was you can't have a high octane breakout with that D core .. you have to move to wingers back on boards to help out on wall digs and puck retrievals .. and you need your Cs to give support to both D and wingers before breaking out .. basically a 5 man back D .. my guess reason he doesn't do it is because he has little faith in Mitch, JT, Willy and a couple others in our end on wall .. and JT flat out can't make C coverage anymore .. certainly against faster teams like Avs, Oilers and Flames he has been struggling mightily .. and it will get worse form him against Canucks who may be fastest team .. bottom line this team is massively handicapped by a completely inadequate D core (which in my opinion is bottom 5 in league right now)
