Post-Game Talk: Thats all she wrote.

[tp71]

I suspect if there was a deal out there that made sense, Lou would've made it. It's not NHL 19 where you can turn Buffalo into a cup contender in "one day" of trades.

It's not? Well there went my plan.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Plekanec did come on strong in the latter half of this series. He was middling tonight but honestly that puts him in the upper half of our players tonight. He won’t come back be he had a decent series, which is more than you can say for some of our supposed core players.

 

[fahad203]

I'd love to have Plekanec back.

Only UFA I have a remote interest in bringing back

Same here. I have no interest in Moore, JVR, Bozak, Komo and Polak

They can all play somewhere else

 

[Tlo1]

1 goal lead going into the 3rd was the players. To give up 4 goals in the 3rd! That's on the coaches!!!!

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

Make your own list if you would like.

Anderson kept you in the series and saved your bacon to reach game 7. The D core and forwards failed to probably backcheck and protect him. Hardly his fault because the D in front of him was as stable as a wet noodle.

he was good in our wins, but terrible and generally a big reason for our losses. Overall he was bad

 

[dubplatepressure]

McDonagh sure would have helped.

But I'm sure the Leafs have something better than that planned, which is why they didn't make the deal, instead letting a rival Eastern contender that was already better on defence get him...right?

Didn't you hear? We didn't have the pieces to trade for him. Unless you hate Dermott, Kapanen and/or Lilygren.

 

[Willchel Marlynder]

If the big 3 (or should I say Marner and his sidekicks) all signed contracts this year it would go:

Marner 9M
Nylander: 4.5M
Matthews 4M

 

[Sniper99]

i'd love to know how andersen is our #1 star and Marner is only a second honorary mention

I'd love to know how Ron Hainsey was in the honorable mention. Can replace his dopey *** with Dermott. What a smart dman he is and a great future he will have.

Edit Had to get the asterik's in. The Whiskey took over my keyboard.

 

[Semantics]

**** off. Andersen is the only reason we made it to 7

You're right, if it weren't for Andersen we win the series in 6. He was unacceptably bad in games 2 and 7, and bad in game 1 too.

Leafs fans need to stop coddling the goalies. .887 in a series is not NHL caliber goaltending, there's just no world in which that's acceptable. And his regular season numbers were just average, so don't give me this "we wouldn't have made the playoffs without him" bullshit.

 

[Future]

The Hyman love here is amazing to me. Solid guy that works his ass off but he shouldn’t be anywhere near Auston Matthews and that was abundantly clear in the playoffs.

I don’t want to be too critical but I’m absolutely sick of seeing him fumble the puck and fall on the ice. He can’t make plays, plain and simple.

That’s fine. Put him in the bottom six. Let him work his ass off and do what he can for the team. But he shouldn’t be anywhere near our number 1 centre who clearly needs talent to work with.

 

[BrannigansLaw]

Andersen had such a bipolar series. AMAZING desperation saves, and far too many softies.

I'm not giving up on the guy because he has flashes of pure brilliance, but I'm really hoping Sparks pans out just in case...

This what Andersen is; a goalie who seems impenetrable one minute and then a goalie who lets in baffling softies the next. He is not a big game player, mentally weak

 

[keonsbitterness]

Bull****.

Their save percentages were nearly identical in game 7.

 

[dubplatepressure]

1 goal lead going into the 3rd was the players. To give up 4 goals in the 3rd! That's on the coaches!!!!

I chuckle at statements like this.

 

[PromisedLand]

that's right gardiner you did. you get 5.5 million dollars a year to put up at least a reasonable effort and not suck; if i sucked as much at my job i would be fired

 

[Mkdaman1818]

 

[ThewThew]

Marner is so damn good. Best player for us this series.

 

[Nineteen67]

Speaking for myself. Not disappointed because we lost disappointed in how we loss. Wasn't looking for the kids to lead us, shouldn't be an expectation. Was looking for our vets too but only Marleau showed. JvR and Bozak where invisible this game but Bozak looked engaged in the series as a whole. Kadri and his red mist. Gardiner was a -5, that is not acceptable.

Yes we are a young team, but a young team that should be headed to the second round of the older players didn't disappear.

A 20 year old was our best player in Marner. That accolade should be going to Kadri, Reully or Andersen.




Team will be great in a few years.

I actually thought Bozak played well with out the puck tonight. But, yes, it would be nice if they scored.

 

[frizzer1]

Mitch Marner was their best by a mile....he didn't get many opportunities playing with checking centre Plekanec but he still is dangerous every time he gets the puck and he competes like Hyman..
Hyman played an excellent series but he is miscast by Babcock....he belongs on the checking line..not the scoring line..

 

[Coachcorner]

Matthews played ok playing hurt. He had some chances.
Our otha suckas like kadri, marner etc MARLEAU played real physical and skated hard ass tight. Marleau scored two goals tonight almost at age 40, he our great one. Kadri was treal physical again too.

Too bad gardiner (and I rarely diss players) played his worst game tonight... he was very awful in the first period. Ok in the second and worst again in the dirty third. I mean the man had time in the first period but still made erras.....
He should be better next season. Our otha suckas played real cool, Polak and all. They hard as ass.

Babcock showed reg.season who's the boss. He truly controlled everybody ass. Threw them around and bounced on em like eminem.

 

[Daisy Jane]

I am a Canucks fan. I have no bias here. Except maybe wanting Tanev moved to Toronto but I'm just soaking it in from a distance. Once things settle and emotions are resolved you guys will find out whats right. A D man would have helped whether that be Tanev, Green, or some other older d man with upside who could help stabilize the load and help insulate the kids. Zaitsev cost you guys like 2 games early on. He was on the ice for nearly every goal against.

preaching to the choir, dude. i was banging that drum from last year
all i get told was "well we have the puck all the time." Pittsburgh this, Pittsburgh that "Defense is over-rated."

and then i ask "well what happens when we don't have the puck."
well games like this happen. that's what.

 

[Stu]

If the big 3 (or should I say Marner and his sidekicks) all signed contracts this year it would go:

Marner 9M
Nylander: 4.5M
Matthews 4M

Do you deliver the drugs that you are on right now? I sure could use some.

 

[DavePoulin4PM]

Tonight:

Jake Gardiner -5
Roman Polak +3

 

[Le Cobra]

Andersen .896 series save %

LOL

Reimer’s was .923 in the 2013 playoffs. Just sayin’.

To be fair to Freddie, his save pct was .915 last year’s playoffs

 

[MSZ]

Man I miss the days this team had a pair of balls. Roberts, Sundin, Tucker, Domi, Corson, Belfour, Cujo; those were guys you went to war with in the playoffs. They may not have won, but they never folded like these pathetic scrubs

I missed those guys too. But even they had troubles in game 7s on the road.

They lost to NJ 5-1 and Philly 7-1 in those game 7s.

Also 6 shots on goal all game(remember that one?)in an elimination game in NJ back in 2000.

 

[Warden of the North]

You're right, if it weren't for Andersen we win the series in 6. He was unacceptably bad in games 2 and 7, and bad in game 1 too.

Leafs fans need to stop coddling the goalies. .887 in a series is not NHL caliber goaltending, there's just no world in which that's acceptable. And his regular season numbers were just average, so don't give me this "we wouldn't have made the playoffs without him" bull****.

Kadri being suspended for 3 games in the middle of the series also didnt help matters

 

[hockeyes]

Andersen finishes with a sub .900 save percentage and people want to pretend he is the only reason they made it to the 7th game? Granted, Rask was just as bad if not worse, he unfortunately had a team that can clear their zone better than 20% of the time and limit shots.