GDT: Toronto at Canes - as if HFB didn't have enough going on today

[Lempo]

Apparently the first time since 1991 when a Toronto player was -6. And technically it wasn't a Toronto player tonight either.

 

[TheBigLetowski]

A lot can happen in 17 seconds apparently

I tell my wife that.

 

[Unsustainable]

 

[Blueline Bomber]

For those who are interested. I don’t think he got the Staal stats vs. the Leafs correct, but he breaks down our goals and what we did right and the Leafs did wrong. He also gives a lot of credit to RBA, basically saying that the adjustments he made after the team had a terrible start led to the quick response and echoed through out the rest of the game.

I like his rant about Jackson Blake as well (starts at 10:16)

 

[AD Skinner]

I didn’t watch this video but I think a lot of the adjustments probably boiled down to “stop whiffing on slappers at the point and letting them walk right in for breakaways”

 

[Blueline Bomber]

I didn’t watch this video but I think a lot of the adjustments probably boiled down to “stop whiffing on slappers at the point and letting them walk right in for breakaways”

Yeah, he basically said "If a player gets 3 breakaways against you in the first 9 minutes, you're doing something wrong." But mentioned that, while they weren't prepared to start the game, we started the 2nd and 3rd on time, scoring very early in both of them.

 

[cptjeff]

Games like this are a reminder that a lot of what happens in a hockey game doesn’t conform to analysis and is borderline random. We don’t really know what we’re talking about and that’s the fun of it all.

I mean, the postgame from the players was clear- they also thought they were playing like shit early in the first. But humans have the capacity to correct their mistakes. It's not so much random as them working very non-randomly to get their shit together.

 

[tarheelhockey]

I mean, the postgame from the players was clear- they also thought they were playing like shit early in the first. But humans have the capacity to correct their mistakes. It's not so much random as them working very non-randomly to get their shit together.

Funny enough, the Toronto postgame interviews said the exact opposite — that they were on top of their game early but sat back and got sloppy and gave the game away.

People make narratives. It’s what we do.

 

[Canes]

Jordan Staal hat trick?

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[Lempo]

People make narratives. It’s what we do.

“The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.” ― Terry Pratchett, The Globe