GDT: Round 2 Game 3 Baby! 6:30pm (rolls eyes) - Leafs vs Florida - The BWO presents Florida with the Leaf Nation Road Show

[thewave]

Someone got a picture of Dubas on his cell browsing zip recruiter.

 

[Divine]

Keefe needs to take a page out of Maurice's book and start counting the number of powerplays on his fingers

Somehow Florida has not commited a single infraction this game, despite being the second most penalized team in the NHL

 

[v00d00daddy]

Probably intent to use him a lot in the 3rd

We’ll see. Could also be Keefe has had enough of him tonight

 

[Maplebeasts]

If this team loses the series you fire Keefe, trade Marner and put the fear of god into the rest of the core players that are left.

 

[Wendelstache]

Only Willy creating chances out there?

In games like this I expect Matthews/JT/Marner to go full Draisatl

 

[57 Years No Cup]

Yeah so they're not getting goalie'd, the core is just no-showing for yet another playoff game.

Bob is so good that he's next level goalie-ing them to causing them to not even bother to shoot.

He's that good.

 

[Fogelhund]

If guys like Matthews, Marner, Nylander and Tavares cannot elevate their games, at important moments like this, this iteration of the Leafs doesn’t deserve success. I’m not going to blame Dubas or Keefe here. To win, your best players need to be your best players and lead you to success. So far, they haven’t and aren’t. Two shots combined between the four of them so far. This isn’t acceptable. If you don’t have the will to win, you don’t.

 

[Mess]

Woll doing a good job keeping the Leafs in this.

Leafs big guns better show up in the 3rd as they've been nearly irrelevant in this game so far.

 

[Menzinger]

 

[Dragao6]

Conclusion is this team is crap.
We always ask is it the coach, players etc what is it?
Coach was changed , supporting player are allot better so it’s the big boys that aren’t winners
Will be fun to see all the changes in the summer

I don’t beleaf!

 

[tmlms13]

Could be indicative of his performance today?

He has been atrocious today. He has given the other team more goals than chances he has had in the offensive end.

No that's what you do turesday night vs Columbus in mid February.

 

[PromisedLand]

Do we go full nuclear and move both Matthews and Marner? Would essentially be a rebuild in 1 offseason. Prob can get 2 top 5 picks ++++

Step 1: tell dubas to f-off and fire keefe (the culture they have built and fostered is a LOSER culture)
Step 2: Hire competent management team
Step 3: Let the new management team come in and clean house

 

[notbias]

Right before our goal bunting high sticked barkov

That was a pretty obvious hold and one Morgan didn't need to take

They're not calling stuff unless it's obvious. Don't make it obvious

I agree... just Bennett obviously can't make a clean hit, you'd think they would have picked up on that by now

 

[Jmo89]

when the guys that our supposed to lead this team look they have given up, its time for f***ing changes

Marner changed my mind a bit this year because I thought he would bring the intensity of his regular season to the playoffs. I was naive and bamboozled again.

Maybe they gut this one out and the team goes on a run, but I doubt it. It's looking very unlikely they'll ever win anything meaningful with both Matthews and Marner.

I also think Keefe is a horrible coach and am hoping he's gone at seasons end, but he can't be blamed for everything.

 

[egd27]

13 sog with your playoff lives on the line

 

[Stephen]

If finally getting over the round 1 hump didn't unlock a new level in their play, why keep them? If anything it made them worse

It's like they won their personal cup last Saturday and in vacation mode. The Panthers are playing for keeps. Our supporting cast is playing for keeps. And you have two guys dancing around playing small, unaware and completely unproductive. I've seen more offensively impactful play out of 64 than 34. This is unacceptable. Coddled choke artists.

 

[rocketman588]

Murray dropped big bucks on Schenn and Jarnkrok to get him in the game.

The way we win the cup is when David Ayers starts next game because Murray is "injured" in warm ups

 

[Leaf Rocket]

It doesn't matter if Reffing is bad or not, personally think its been fine.

The performance from our top players are just:

 

[TiMo15]

This is how they show up in the game when they are down 0-2 in the series. Pathetic effort by the super star.

 

[notbias]

Step 1: tell dubas to f-off and fire keefe (the culture they have built and fostered is a LOSER culture)
Step 2: Hire competent management team
Step 3: Let the new management team come in and clean house

Step 4: Don't make the playoffs for another 10 years

 

[CabanaBoy5]

When Kampf is your best player, followed by Lafferty and Acciari, you know this team is in trouble. I am so disappointed in the EFFORT of Matthews and Marner. You can give them the benefit of the doubt when they were younger, but in basically an elimination game to have 1 shot a piece on net is really dismal. They better have a great third period.

 

[TorMapleJays]

Just win the period.

 

[Tlo1]

Jarnkrok it’s ok being useless all f***ing playoffs but don’t take out our last hope in net please

 

[ULF_55]

Matthews, Marner, JT has been asleep...Nylander is only one that's ok.

Unacceptable.

Should have made Nylander a center.
They've had years to invest in that.
Sigh.
Wasted years.

 

[IPS]

If guys like Matthews, Marner, Nylander and Tavares cannot elevate their games, at important moments like this, this iteration of the Leafs doesn’t deserve success. I’m not going to blame Dubas or Keefe here. To win, your best players need to be your best players and lead you to success. So far, they haven’t and aren’t. Two shots combined between the four of them so far. This isn’t acceptable. If you don’t have the will to win, you don’t.

Not gonna blame Dubas yet this core has done this for 7 years straight in the playoffs and he's made no changes to it


Ok man