Pre-Game Talk: Toronto @ Edmonton - Saturday 7PM - HNIC

[PROUD PAPA]

I think we are going to be looking at a wild card spot by the break. The way they are playing and can't score I can see them getting very little from this trip. Everyone thinks they were cruising. Ottawa 4 points behind and we are a half dozen points from missing the playoffs which to me isn't a certain.

If they keep playing like they have the last couple months and our goalies don’t stand on their heads it certainly is possible. Personally I’d be okay with missing if it meant getting away from the hopeless core because if they run it back again with a hefty raise for Marner I’m tapping out anyway.

 

[Leafs98]

Tough game to start the turn around but hopefully they get back to winning more than they lose soon. Reserve points are fading.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

I think we are going to be looking at a wild card spot by the break. The way they are playing and can't score I can see them getting very little from this trip. Everyone thinks they were cruising. Ottawa 4 points behind and we are a half dozen points from missing the playoffs which to me isn't a certain.

Yeah we're squarely in the mess of a playoff race that is the Eastern Conference. A barely above .500 January with every loss being in regulation will do that. Maybe the team will prove us wrong but right now I'm prepping for a continued freefall in the standings.

 

[Leafs98]

I think we are going to be looking at a wild card spot by the break. The way they are playing and can't score I can see them getting very little from this trip. Everyone thinks they were cruising. Ottawa 4 points behind and we are a half dozen points from missing the playoffs which to me isn't a certain.

a game over .500 will likely gurantee a wildcard the rest of the way. And lots of teams play each other and hard to pass in a straightline. But yeah, they need wins bad. They were +1800 to miss the pkayoffs before losing 3.

 

[Fogelhund]

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[Evilhomer]

Yeah we're squarely in the mess of a playoff race that is the Eastern Conference. A barely above .500 January with every loss being in regulation will do that. Maybe the team will prove us wrong but right now I'm prepping for a continued freefall in the standings.

The Leafs go through these cycles every season. When everyone thinks they are done, they roll off four or five wins in a row and the bandwagon fills up again. I imagine it will be no different this time around. At the same time, teams like Ottawa and Tampa will cycle through 3 or 4 game losing streaks. Remember a couple of weeks ago when everyone was stroking Montreal's knob? Then they promptly rolled off 4 losses in a row. At the end of the season, it will be Toronto, Florida and Tampa in the top three spots in the Atlantic.

 

[MilkofthePoppy]

I have a bad feeling about this one.