GDT: Round 1 - Game 7 | SERIES TIED | Leafs Vs Habs - May 31, 2021 @ 7:00 pm EST

[Bomber0104]

yea bluejay avatar guy spouting about crosby's 3 first round exits.

Oh yeah, Blue Jay avatar guy was trying to lecture me just yesterday on how to be a good fan.

I guess that means comparing all-time greats to our choke artists.

 

[Cpt Maple Leaf]

Start from scratch again minus Dubas, Keefe and Shanahan.

I have just about had it with the fancy pants analytics. f***ing hit someone out there and play a physical game, it's the playoffs ffs, but we have a bunch of danglers and figure skaters...

 

[Willchel Marlynder]

Dubas, Keefe, and Malhotra need to be fire right after the game

 

[sxvnert]

Getting shutout by price is beyond pathetic.

 

[Gallagbi]

Yeah we're done

 

[fahad203]

It shoudl be Matthews out there for 2 mins
Why is Simmonds out there?

 

[Leaffan1991]

Beautiful power play. So
Much urgency!

 

[LastOne2100]

Best chance of our power play went to Montreal. Classic.

 

[Optimist]

No f***ing plan on that powerplay whatsoever!!!!

 

[The Kessel Run]

I'm not entirely convinced that Hyman's hands are any better than mine.

 

[ThrowDemTongs]

Just got up. Obviously not the result I was hoping for!

I still believe in them!

GO LEAFS GO!!!

 

[All Mod Cons]

Dubas should only get another last chance if he calls out Marner, accepts he overpaid and his team-building philosophy around selfish entitled young unproved players was wrong, and send marner packing

If he tries to defend and stick with him, then fire his bitch ass and bring in a real GM

Everyone who supported Dubas said that he deserved one more year after the Columbus debacle. He's had that extra year.

 

[leafsfan5]

Lmao they’ve completely given up


Trash ass team

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Next PP I want:

Bogosian
Dermott
Engvall
Mikheyev
Andersen

 

[DarkKnight]

Engvall looks like a ECHL player tonight.

 

[LeafsMonster]

3 goals on carey price...yeah i dont know about this one.

Thankfully we've all been here before. Its easier to move on after a game 7 loss now compared to *that* game 7 loss.

 

[ruaware41]

The difference between the Pens duo and the Leafs duo -- and even the Oilers duo -- is that they had a killer instinct and mental toughness to persevere. The same with the Blackhawks duo (Kane and Toews) -- they just had the "it factor" and a superior ability to rise to the occasion.

Evaluating Matthews and Marner -- at this point they still have major flaws that show up in meaningful games. Matthews is an elite shooter but when the opponent attacks his space, he vanishes. He doesn't have the acceleration, jump, intensity and fight in him, to just grab the puck and dominate the way a Crosby, Malkin, MacKinnon, etc. do. In the playoffs, Matthews turns in Patrik Laine -- floats and looks for chances to use his shot. Sorry, that doesn't cut it in a Game 7 for all the marbles.

Marner continues to dance and dangle but has nothing to show for it, because the lanes clog up in the playoffs and the other team's D is all over you. The only way you defeat that is to up your intensity and focus, the way young Crosby and young Patrick Kane did. I know it sounds cliché, but these kids need to "want it more."

They don’t have the foot speed to offset when the games get tighter nor the explosive skating strength to be able to create space when in tight. All those players you mentioned have one of those 2 things.

 

[TMLegend]

Way too much individual play going on.

 

[Semantics]

Marner averaged almost 25 minutes a game the first six games.

Spezza, one of our best forwards, averaged 11:30.

Nylander, our best forward, averaged 17:45.

I put a huge amount of the blame on Keefe for this loss. It's Mike Babcock all over again, but in reverse. You HAVE to make adjustments, line combinations that worked during the regular season are not guaranteed to work in the playoffs.

I don't care at all if Matthews' line was playing well defensively. You aren't paying Matthews and Marner 11M each to be defensive forwards. You have to put them in a position to provide the value they're paid to provide.

 

[TMLeafer]

Not like you had 15 minutes to plan that PP out.

 

[Gabriel426]

Marner has been ass, but there are a buncher of other issues as well. What has Reilly brought to this series in his offensive role? What has Anderson brought to this franchise lately? What has Mikheyev done to warrant keeping him? How about Dermott.

A lot of these guys have flat sucked lol.

None of them are getting paid the 7th highest salary in the league.
You can't expect someone like Mik to carry the team.
Marner and also AM just disappeared this series.

 

[Gallagbi]

Everyone who supported Dubas said that he deserved one more year after the Columbus debacle. He's had that extra year.

There was never a question he earned more than the CLB series

 

[Transplanted Caper]

The leafs need to hire John Tortorella to coach the leafs. He rewards players who preform well and benches useless slackers he throws the player who screws around under the bus

Torts would be catastrophically bad, here. Vancouver times a million. He wouldn't be able to help himself.

 

[joeyjojojrshabadoo]

Spezza can hold his head up high. Played hard and at a high level all series. The rest of this team should be ashamed but they won't be. They'll be on Xbox Live and posing for photos in GQ in a week and be relieved of all the stress that they had when they were supposed to be doing their job.

 

[DarkKnight]

Yeah we're done

How can we appear so defeated? This is unreal to watch, against this crap team.