GirardSpinorama
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You say that as if making it to the second round is easy. You'd think a leafs fan would know better.
Toronto Maple Leafs are surprisingly underperforming
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Nothingbutglass
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Why do you keep bringing up other teams in a Leafs thread? Its off-topic. Start a thread about those teams.
Sidney the Kidney
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Injuries (or running into opponents with injuries) is often a part of any successful run. No team wins a Cup going through 4 healthy opponents.
TheNumber4
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Cap stuff. They squeezed as much as they could have out of Kadri for a good price. At some price point obviously, the value isn't there and only desperate GMs like Treliving will bite.
One thing I have noticed is now much slower they appear to be. They once were a fast team but this season they are much slower.
Can’t get bounced in the 1st round if you don’t make the playoffs. Saving the fans from another let down.
brentashton
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COVID was a pandemic. It affected everyone on the planet some way. Why would the Leafs have benefited more than others if the pandemic didn’t take hold on the planet?
Mr Positive
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They got rid of him because he was a reason they couldn't get out of the first round because of his untimely suspensions. The fan pressure to move him was big.
The screw up was the return. Getting a D made sense but they didn't need Barrie. Barrie is good but wasn't a good complement to their D.
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TBH I am not sure that's true.... IMO that move was one in a series whose goal was to set Babcock for failure, and give Dubas a reasonable excuse to replace him with his man... Barrie made a lot of sense because he was exactly the type of D-man Babcock did not like.
Colorado has nothing to do with this thread. The Leafs problems are based on the fact that they don’t want to play a low event game. Marner exemplified the mindset of this team just last game vs Anaheim. Up 3-1 in the 3rd and he wants to make a pretty play instead of chipping the puck into the corner. Gets picked off and Anaheim scores on a breakaway. This team cannot shut a game down and think that they have to score to put a team away. Checking gets tighter in the playoffs, the offence dries up and they can’t play their game. Just such a predictable team.
First round: Kuemper injured and didn't play in game 3 and game 4
Second round: Girard injured in the same game as Binnington. Kuemper carried eye injury sustained in first round. Series was tied at that point
Third round: Girard still injured. Kuemper injured and only play in 1 period. Kadri injured and missed most of game 3 and all of game 4.
Fourth round: Girard still injured. Kadri missed game 1-3. Burakovsky (known Lightning killer since his Washington days) missed game 3-6. Kuemper was almost blind the whole series.
Divine
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It’s obvious Girard and Kuemper weren’t as important to the Avalanche as Point/Rinne/Binnington/Draisaitl&Nurse are to their respective teams. I mean the Avs walked from 3 of the 4 guys you mentioned in the off-season, so they couldn’t have been that important. No chance any of the players on the other teams were being walked away from.
The Avs could outscore their problems. If Mackinnon/Rantanen/Makar was injured, maybe it would have been different.
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Kennedys
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It's hard to play well when people put shambles in your brain
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This team is going to turn it around and go on a ridiculous run, I can feel it.
Doesn't take away from the fact that they shouldn't be struggling to beat bottom feeders, and it doesn't change the fact that they are not good in the playoffs.
Doesn't take away from the fact that they shouldn't be struggling to beat bottom feeders, and it doesn't change the fact that they are not good in the playoffs.
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SnipeShowJB11
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One thing that gets ignored about how Toronto turned it around in November last year.
jack Campbell has 3 shutouts and like a 0.950+ save %. That is what really propelled them. Do they expect similar results with Samsanov?
jack Campbell has 3 shutouts and like a 0.950+ save %. That is what really propelled them. Do they expect similar results with Samsanov?
SoundAndFury
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Was anyone expecting it with Campbell? It's not the thing you expect, period. It's not the only way to improve either. You can expect Rocket Richard winner to start scoring goals, for example.
