Post-Game Talk: Mother's Day Massacre. Series tied 2-2

[saffronleaf]

they weren't greedy at all. very charitable.

 

[mapleleafs34]

Pittsburgh starts Guentzel-Sid-Rust EVERY single game. Why can't we start our best god damn forwards and not over think it.

 

[Jojalu]

There's no way another team had a softer group of forwards than

Kerfoot - Mathews - Marner
Nylander - Tavares - Kase
MIkheyev - Kampf - Engvall


This is what Dubas learned from his mistakes from prior years? How can you seriously tell me thats a group of forwards you wanna go to war with in the playoffs?

What a joke. The coaching staff and management staff ar the softest i've ever seen.

I look at guys like Point/Cirell/Kucherov/Stamkos/Palat/Killorn/hagel/Paul for Tampa out here creating havoc and energy.

My god what a difference

Yet the series is 2-2 with both teams blowing out the other in a game.

Almost every series is 2-2 and did you really think Tampa was going to be an easy matchup and roll over?

100% the Leafs need to show more in Game 5 but I don't find them soft. Too easily complacent maybe..

 

[PromisedLand]

Yeah... Keefe doesn't have the galls to ask Tavares to play left wing. Your coach and captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs

 

[killer1980]

Said it before, this is not a playoff team. Matthews is waiting to sign with another team. I get closer to the boards and corners than Nylander and Marner. The defence is over their heads. They care more about offense than defence. The goaltending is mediocre at best. Thought they could beat TB. Now, I'm not so sure. Oh ya, the coach is useless.

 

[wingman75]

Pittsburgh starts Guentzel-Sid-Rust EVERY single game. Why can't we start our best god damn forwards and not over think it.

Fully agree. Let us dictate... why are we always chasing?

 

[Aashir]

Pittsburgh starts Guentzel-Sid-Rust EVERY single game. Why can't we start our best god damn forwards and not over think it.

Because galaxybrain

 

[Mugzy97]

An ugly loss just means they'll probably be motivated to show up on time in game five.

If Matthews, Tavares and Marner can't find the back of the net, it won't really matter what their effort is. Can't rely on Kampf and secondary scoring to keep them in the series. Guys have to step up.

Tavares 0 goals in 4 games
Matthews has 2 goals in 4 games, both were in game 1.
Marner has 2 goals in 4 games, fine, but still need more.
Nylander, 2 goals, both late when the game was over in game 4.

It's not good enough.

Once again I agree, but the series isn’t over. We need them to take over the next game

 

[57 Years No Cup]

Keefe can't make them compete. The systems and talent is there, it's a question of whether the heart and head is.

That question has been answered for five years straight. Soon to be 6.

And that answer is no.

 

[TorMapleJays]

He punched bogo in the face during the first period

 

[Marshy]

Bench 03 and 91.

These 2 are legit terrible.

Of course 91 is never going to be held accountable. if he plays up to his contract..just imagine that.

 

[mapleleafs34]

Fully agree. Let us dictate... why are we always chasing?

Exactly. Gets the ice tilted right from the get go.

 

[Stephen]

If I was told the Leafs would be 2-2, out-scoring Tampa and have home ice advantage before the series started, I'd be happy with that. A bonus is that Nylander scored twice.

Keefe needs his balls to drop so he can also callout the refs. I think the next game is must win for the Leafs. No chance you force a need to win in Tampa or two back-to-back games in general.

It's not so much where the series is at the moment but how we got there in Game 4. We laid an egg in Game 2 at home, fine. Came out and stole one in Game 3. Then you have to go for the jugular. Laying another egg Game 4 is just a clear demonstration of a lack of killer instinct. We're now in a best of 3. Are we going to play our A game twice?

 

[Cleetus]

So keefe is getting fired?

 

[leafsfan5]

This is 2019 all over again

1-0,2-1 series leads pissed away. How the f*** have they not learned anything

 

[keonsbitterness]

Cooper overplaying his goons late was a ploy to get Keefe to put in Simmonds and Clifford for game 5. Interesting to see if Keefe takes the bait.

Hedman played a near-perfect game. If he wasn't a star, he should have been.

 

[Stinger8]

Should have made a move for Evander Kane. That was a big mistake

 

[Dreakmur]

Moore, Grundstrom, Verhaeghe, Marchment.. all former Leafs draft picks that'd makeup a nice middle 6 right now

Get rid of all the grit!

 

[57 Years No Cup]

"Powerplay is our enforcer"

As soon as i heard those words couple of years ago, I knew Dubas and Keefe weren't gonna cut it

YUP.

 

[DarkKnight]

Random stats, Matthews leads team in giveaways, Nylander has zero takeaways.

 

[rdogg]

I think Phaneuf was a better captain than Tavares.

What a joke of a player

 

[TorMapleJays]

I could care less about nothing goals after the fact, this is my memory of this game…. Show the f*** up Game 5

It looked like Nylander was out partying last night.
Even in the warm ups he looked sick.

 

[Dave92]

I thought Mikheyev was throwing his weight around pretty well, so I looked it up. Despite being one of the lighter Leafs (192 lbs) he leads all our forwards in hits with 15 (Matthews is second with 10).

Yea the 3rd line has actually been ok for that, i said top 9 but really meant top 6. Matthews the past 2 season has been better as well, it's Tavares, Marner and Nylander that just allow themselves to be bullied constantly.

 

[Smif]

And here is why that play by Nylander just eats me alive, that erodes our credibility with TB, they mock us and see how soft we are, it’s just a visual that ruins the brand, it impacts. There are guys on TB that aren’t even capable of doing that, in preseason never mind a playoff game. Bill better come out on fire, he owes his team that.

Unfortunately, he's getting worse for that, not better.

 

[PromisedLand]

Buffalo has won a series more recently than the Leafs.

Yotes have won the series more recently than the Leafs ffs; and that franchise is staring at bankruptcy playing in the college hockey rink for crying out loud.