He was injured for a while last year, and while today was bad, I thought he looked good Saturday. I'll be concerned if this goes on for a few weeks. He's clearly playing with no confidence right now, once it starts going in, he'll get going. Probably the least of my concerns.
Ehhh, you are a massive pessimist here haha. There was good energy pregame and first half of the first period. Also the on ice intro was much better than the generic crap last yrThe crowd wasn't that excited. Leafs fans are the most boring opposing fans I've ever encountered
But it was kinda dead from the start. Even now sitting in the parking lot there isn't the same crazy vitriol there usually is. The pregame hype video was trash. The fancy led lights they were talking about were just cheap led puck lights zip ties to the rails lol. It was just super dead everywhere around the arena. Probably the most dead game I've ever been to.
My thoughts exactly. We weren't sharp at all, but I didn't see a lack of effort.
He has enough talent that even when something is off he's gonna have games like on Saturday. Especially against mediocre teams. But even in games when he's been collecting points, the little things he's doing out there are just off and have been going back a while.
2nd goal was bad, but he settled in fine after that I thought. Not a super game, but not horrible either. Just meh imo.
I didn't watch the third but for a home opener, against your new coaches former team, with a rookie a goalie in net it was pretty piss poor execution.
