Pre-Game Talk: Sunday guaranteed: Toronto Maple Leafs vs Vancouver Canucks

[shaner8989]

We will lose guaranteed

 

[stuart5035]

God we need a pissed off hockey team, an anger born of the reticule of their power play. Nothing less

 

[zeke]

Realistically;

what a fragile psyche our Leafs fans have

Fixed that for you.

 

[makbeer]

This is the most Leafs game to lose ever. Haha.

 

[Alamo Leafer]

They'll be out of shape, so they'll e grabbing, pulling & holding our players all night long resulting in abnormally high number of PP for us, UNFORTUNATELY

 

[TMLAM34]

We’ll probably lose.

 

[CelticDruid]

Demko in net and nothing is guaranteed.

I'm more concerned with the Leaf players getting COVID-19, with all these different strains flying about.

 

[Contenderorpretender]

I hope to good this game ends in a blowout for us. The perfect confidence builder, the type to get the pp rolling again.......but it can also be a remake of the David Ayers zamboni game. One the leafs should easily win but just find a way to f*** it right up. Here's hoping for the latter.

 

[napoleon in rags]

What happens if they lose?

"Wait 'til next year!'

 

[napoleon in rags]

This team definitely has both a high ceiling and a low floor in terms of what you can expect from them. Usually they show up for the big ones but the gimmies are anyone's guess.

I'm not confident. That in itself is an indictment.

 

[3blizzard4]

If this team without Matthews looks as lost as it did Thursday we are in trouble. If the likes of Tavares, Marner and co. need Matthews --- then my friend we haven't assembled a team. We have assembled a one man team and god help us.

 

[81Leafs50]

Let's hope the Leafs use this game to get some PP magic going.

 

[stickty111]

Realistically;

what a fragile psyche our Leafs have-the utterly embarrassing power play is an anvil around their neck and affects everything. They need to fire Malhotra yesterday (regardless if it’s his fault). The media circus has to become “they are__for___” since the change. That restart button has to come first, now

and Jack Campbell’s warts are showing, players must be thinking “hmmm, he’s always been a backup?”

What a double whammy! Buckle up

Wait, wasn't the fans movement of "grit and toughness" supposed to solve this issue of fragility. Were those gritty toughness fans wrong?

 

[Rude Dog]

Enjoy the ride. Leafs are getting out of the North. Won’t be easy.

 

[Twine Tickler]

Well we are playing a team that doesn’t want to even play anymore, and the majority of their team has been infected with a deadly virus. So all the makings for a patented leafs meltdown. Can’t wait

pessimism aside. We absolutely have to shatter them in this game. Realistically there should be no excuses not to win big here

 

[rimshot]

Wait, wasn't the fans movement of "grit and toughness" supposed to solve this issue of fragility. Were those gritty toughness fans wrong?

Wait! What? A fan movement is now responsible for the product on the ice? I thought the GM and coaching staff were in charge of that. I stand corrected.

 

[Stonehands1990]

If this team without Matthews looks as lost as it did Thursday we are in trouble. If the likes of Tavares, Marner and co. need Matthews --- then my friend we haven't assembled a team. We have assembled a one man team and god help us.

We looked dynamite in the other games 34 missed. Let’s back it up a bit here

 

[rojac]

Wait! What? A fan movement is now responsible for the product on the ice? I thought the GM and coaching staff were in charge of that. I stand corrected.

There are an awful lot of HFBoards posters who think fans are lot more important than they actually are.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

We looked dynamite in the other games 34 missed. Let’s back it up a bit here

We didn’t even look that bad tbh. A few critical mistakes ended up in the back of our net, but we weren’t truly out of it until the Hyman penalty.

 

[123offtheglass]

Jinx thread.


Hurry somebody make an offering to the hockey gods...maybe a nice rum or tequila.

Say no more

 

[123offtheglass]

I feel really bad for Vancouver.

That said, I expect the Leafs to absolutely blow this team out of the water, and if this doesn't get them out of their power-play funk I don't know what will.

 

[Confucius]

Wait! What? A fan movement is now responsible for the product on the ice? I thought the GM and coaching staff were in charge of that. I stand corrected.

It would be great to have a team selected by the fans, just use the GM to keep within the rules. In this day and age it's possible, the only real problem would be secrecy as everyone would know what we are doing. The majority in an audience setting is seldom wrong.

 

[Byron Bitz]

Also eh uh, a 100% guaranteed win for US They are covid beaten, not played, not trained, not ready, weight loss (hughes), covid, others (like the Lost others)... we WON!! This gezame is already over and hasn't even started. This is the ONLY game this season where this is truzue. We WILL WIN THIS GAME AND GET 2 IMPORTANT POINTS: The other team, is not ready to even play. They will make mistakes, be poor, and lose. It's not only their own fault, but other thangs too. Lets see what the score will be. I predict: A 8-1 win for the maple leafs.

Shouldn’t the David Ayers game have been a 100% guaranteed win? The 5-1 lead over Ottawa? The 4-1 lead over Boston in game 7. What you see as a guarantee, I see as another potential embarrassment.

 

[Subway Schenn]

Jack needs to battle through the 'slump' and play well in this one. I'm sure he will. Fingers crossed the rest of the team shows up.

On paper this should be a big W, with or without Auston/Willy.

 

[Bellefour20]

Like I said in the Jets post game thread, this game has the potential to be this season's zamboni driver game. The way the have played for the last 10+ games, they will earn it.