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Our team is soft as butter. Pretty painful to see Matthews basically start crying when asked how he felt about getting out scored 20-0 by the Bergeron line.
The big, heavy, physical Bruins team is also full of skill and highend talent as the Bergeron line is demonstrating can play the game anyway they want, while the the Leafs can really only lay the game one way as its built on speed and skill and lacks size and toughness.
If you contain the speed by disrupting the rush you have all but eliminated the Leafs and their greatest ability.
The big, heavy, physical Bruins team is also full of skill and highend talent as the Bergeron line is demonstrating can play the game anyway they want, while the the Leafs can really only lay the game one way as its built on speed and skill and lacks size and toughness.
If you contain the speed by disrupting the rush you have all but eliminated the Leafs and their greatest ability.
It’s more of a mental issue. The Bruins have been playing with a pack mentality you see with teams like Vegas while the Leafs are approaching it as an individualistic way. The Leafs are characterized by their high end individual talents who play a softer skill game while the Bruins to a man are playing the same blue collar, disrupt, grind it out game.
Our team is soft as butter. Pretty painful to see Matthews basically start crying when asked how he felt about getting out scored 20-0 by the Bergeron line.
Lmao. He gave an honest answer instead of a bull**** mindless typical 'oh we just gotta focus on getting pucks deep and get the next one'. **** DOES happen. What was he supposed to say?
Dude I never said anything about what he said. I said it was painful because I didn’t like seeing Steve Simmons make him cry. That’s exactly what happened, check the tape, his eyes well up, his voice cracks and he drops the brim of his hat over his eyes.Lmao. He gave an honest answer instead of a bull**** mindless typical 'oh we just gotta focus on getting pucks deep and get the next one'. **** DOES happen. What was he supposed to say?
Ah. There's some whining going on that it shows he's not a good leader somehow. Nvm my previous post.Dude I never said anything about what he said. I said it was painful because I didn’t like seeing Steve Simmons make him cry. That’s exactly what happened, check the tape, his eyes well up, his voice cracks and he drops the brim of his hat over his eyes.
Tired of reading about how our fragile team will be run out of the building, annoyed even more with myself for my own timid fear of that happenning.
I added up the weights of all 18 Bruin skaters, grand total came to 3616 pounds/18=200.8 pounds. For our Leafs that total came to 3547 pounds/18= 197 pounds. Take away the distorting data of giant Chara and these teams are virtually identical. More revealing even was the fact that 7 Bruins came in at 186 pounds or less (Krejci, Krug, Marchand, Pastrnak, Debrusk, Grzelcyk, Heinen) while Toronto only had 3 (Brown, Kapanen, Marner).
Did the same with height: Bruins totalled 1312 inches; Leafs 1315 inches-again allow for Chara and we are taller on average.
So I am even more pissed off with that tepid game 1 performance after seeing these numbers. I expect nothing else than our Leafs to come out with fire in their eyes, steely determination, knowing there is no tomorrow on Saturday (losing game 2 pretty much guarantees that). We should run them over with our speed and skill and depth. Pay the price! I want to see you, Tyler Bozak-launch yourself recklessly along the boards at a yellow and black sweater, I want to see you Nylander do the same, I don’t need to see Rielly, Gardner and Dermott jumping out of the way of hits in our zone, hit back. Use your height and size Matthews to obliterate someone, same goes for you Hainsey with your size. Connor Brown, hit something!
I expect nothing less, and I expect game 1 to be nothing but a blip chalked up to opening night jitters in an enemy barn as we skate them into the ground with a masterful display of skill and grit.
Please shut up all these so called experts and analysts predicting our demise, really tired of it, this is our time!
This is Not our time if they take out 1 of our big three!!!!
I'm tired of guys that say we don't need a tough guy. Have you seen how many times they went after Marners head??? Thats the ticket take out Marner and they win the series easily!!
It's developing right before our eyes . please enough with we don't need Martin because we certainly do. But some people think Martin is useless If Babcock has any brains Martin will be back in the line up!
SERIOUSLY if you haven't seen the Bruins targeting Marners head over and over there is no help for you, stick to your inches and centimeters in player sizes! If Hainsey is the best we have to stick up for Marner might as well give it up now!
Must be why there's such a long history of skilled players performing better with a guy like that in the lineup, eh?Which is what? The swagger and confidence a guy like that instils helps the skilled players stay even keel and play their game.
Actually when the Leafs are playing well, they are excellent at puck retrieval and winning battles along the boards. Admitting their speed helps. So I think it's a fallacy they can't play physically or they certainly aren't soft. The don't have their regular season record by having such a large hole in their play that would've been exposed during the regular season.
Admitting the Leafs haven't played well in the past two games. I haven't seen their defence core be so bad this year. The bigger issue to me is that Babcock can be out coached when the game is on. His incessant line changing and matching lines have the players more worried about getting off the ice than playing hockey when there are on the ice.
Realistically the Bruins are a better team, and going into the series, logic would say the Leafs were the underdogs. Maybe the Leaf have the same fate that the Wings had in the 90s. Lost playoff rounds even when they were favourites before winning some Cups.
And we have Tim Cheveldae in net!If we're using the 1993 series against Detroit as an analogy, the Bruins are definitely more of the Pat Burns Leafs. The Leafs are more like the young Red Wings, though it was Detroit that jumped out to the 2-0 lead in the series.
I don’t think they lack size but lack toughness. A guy like Auston Matthews has the pounds and size to play a heavy Barkov type game to easily wreck guys like Krug on the Bruins but his finesse style doesn’t make use of his frame as a weapon.
Marleau is a big body but compared to a Rick Nash he’s extremely hesitant to use it to wear down the opposition. JVR has been more physical than normal but he’s still more on the gentle giant, passive end of the power forward spectrum.
Really?The issue in this series has been mental fragility, not physicality. And people who champion a focus on skill has never said you need to have that resilience.
Must be why there's such a long history of skilled players performing better with a guy like that in the lineup, eh?
Oh wait, there isn't.
Our team is soft as butter. Pretty painful to see Matthews basically start crying when asked how he felt about getting out scored 20-0 by the Bergeron line.