GDT: Toronto @ Nashville - 6pm

[Jojalu]

3 hours west, and I would only recommend going to Memphis in the day time. Even night RedBird games are out of the question.

I have been to Beale St plenty of time at night.

It is very well policed. I wouldn't wander too far off of it but I stay at a hotel about half a mile up the road and walk down and up all the time.

 

[ACC1224]

Anytime you question Keefe it's "Record / winningest coach" etc etc but he's been outcoached in every single playoff series.

Different sports but I guarantee the Dubasite's wouldn't have fired Dwayne Casey and he had post-season success and won coach of the year but they felt they needed a major shake up and gave the reigns to Nick Nurse.

The reality is that Keefe has a matured group of superstars that are better versions of themselves than what Babcock had before and they pushed the team to new heights. Dubas has generally improved the D core with guys like Brodie and now McCabe.

I'd actually be texting Keefe if I was Dubas at this point and basically say "pick 12 and 6 and stop this BS"

I don’t understand why those few never have an opinion, don’t think for themselves. Everything is exactly how the team does it until they change it and now that is the right way to do things. It will be the same as soon as Keefe is inevitably let go.

 

[WTFMAN99]

I don’t understand why those few never have an opinion, don’t think for themselves. Everything is exactly how the team does it until they change it and now that is the right way to do things. It will be the same as soon as Keefe is inevitably let go.

I probably have too many opinions on too many things but I don't get the inability to look at what you're seeing on the ice at times and say "Yea, X is a big f***ing problem this year"

 

[ACC1224]

I probably have too many opinions on too many things but I don't get the inability to look at what you're seeing on the ice at times and say "Yea, X is a big f***ing problem this year"

Insecurity I assume. If you never have an opinion you can never be wrong

Can we assume the same lineup?
Guessing Woll starts but same 11/7 as last night?

 

[notbias]

We can root for the same team but wish for changes. I like Keefe and I've seen and talked him to in the AHL days he's good but even I question some of his tactics.

We all at the end of the day just want wins if anything the cup.

I think Keefe is a good coach but yes, he makes mistakes or has questionable tactics, and he is not immune from criticism.

It just seems like a portion of the fanbase is rooting against the management and coaching staff, and that means the team, just so they can be proven right.

 

[notbias]

Anytime you question Keefe it's "Record / winningest coach" etc etc but he's been outcoached in every single playoff series.

Different sports but I guarantee the Dubasite's wouldn't have fired Dwayne Casey and he had post-season success and won coach of the year but they felt they needed a major shake up and gave the reigns to Nick Nurse.

The reality is that Keefe has a matured group of superstars that are better versions of themselves than what Babcock had before and they pushed the team to new heights. Dubas has generally improved the D core with guys like Brodie and now McCabe.

I'd actually be texting Keefe if I was Dubas at this point and basically say "pick 12 and 6 and stop this BS"

Not sure why the 12 and 6 is even an issue at this point. We are going to see playoff lineups at some point soon, but with ROR out, we can't see anything.

12 and 6 allows for the most mismatching of forward and D groups to see who looks good together and who doesn't.

You have to look at it from a coach's eyes too since this is a small sample size, just because a pairing scores/gets scored on in the 20 minutes they played together doesn't mean they are a good/bad pairing... I am sure they are looking at things in much more detail than we are.

The 12/6 will get sorted with ROR coming back I think, but this stretch has allowed for a lot of shuffling to get ideas of who plays well together.

This is all without Knies too, who will likely cause us to switch up the lines again.

 

[WTFMAN99]

Not sure why the 12 and 6 is even an issue at this point. We are going to see playoff lineups at some point soon, but with ROR out, we can't see anything.

12 and 6 allows for the most mismatching of forward and D groups to see who looks good together and who doesn't.

You have to look at it from a coach's eyes too since this is a small sample size, just because a pairing scores/gets scored on in the 20 minutes they played together doesn't mean they are a good/bad pairing... I am sure they are looking at things in much more detail than we are.

The 12/6 will get sorted with ROR coming back I think, but this stretch has allowed for a lot of shuffling to get ideas of who plays well together.

This is all without Knies too, who will likely cause us to switch up the lines again.

Players hate it and most coaches do too.

Rielly said in his interview with Siegal it wasn't enjoyed, too much change.

Noodles, Johnson and O'Dog all said they hated it and it's hard to get a rhythm going with it.

Obviously a big piece in ROR is not around right now but we're more than capable of icing 12/6 until he comes back and some guys that you think will be in the bottom 6 can still get playing time and gain chemistry with one another, that doesn't go away.

 

[PromisedLand]

This fanbase is puzzling... not "I hope we win", it is hoping for failure so the person who knows way more than you gets fired because you think you know best.

instead of labelling fans may be try and understand their pov. will serve you well also in life

 

[HockeyVirus]

I see the usual folks lost their minds last night over a game where the Leafs were clearly the better team.

I never want to see Murray in a Leafs uniform again, but the rest of the roster played very well. Everyone makes mistakes you need your goalie to sometimes steal a save and bail you out. Last night every decent chance was in the net.

Oh and we need our PP to stop sucking ass... Means taking Rielly off of it IMO

 

[Gary Nylund]

instead of labelling fans may be try and understand their pov. will serve you well also in life

I think you're grossly overestimating the average quality of posts in here. There's some good stuff for sure, but sometimes the amount of garbage you need to sift through to get to the good stuff boggles the mind and I'm pretty sure that trying to "understand" it all isn't going help you or anyone else in life, not even one little bit.

 

[notbias]

Players hate it and most coaches do too.

Rielly said in his interview with Siegal it wasn't enjoyed, too much change.

Noodles, Johnson and O'Dog all said they hated it and it's hard to get a rhythm going with it.

Obviously a big piece in ROR is not around right now but we're more than capable of icing 12/6 until he comes back and some guys that you think will be in the bottom 6 can still get playing time and gain chemistry with one another, that doesn't go away.

Let's just for argument's sake, they think the lineup for game one should be:

Knies - Matthews - Marner
Kerfoot - ROR - Nylander
Bunting - Tavares - Jarnkrok
Lafferty - Kampf - Acciari

Maybe they want to stack the top 6, or maybe they want to spread it out, but this is just giving an example. Also, Knies would not be playing 20 mins a night in this scenario just for when someone says "there is no way he will be playing in the top 6", this is probably the best spot for him to thrive and allows us to spread out the talent.

You need placeholders for ROR and Knies.
ZAR can fill in for Knies, so now we have ZAR - Matthews - Marner as a line until the last 3 games.

Placeholder for ROR? Maybe Holmberg? So our second line is now Kerfoot - Holmberg - Nylander.

I just don't think it is as simple as people think to start getting chemistry for the lines.

Having said that, I think they will start playing 12-6 when ROR comes back, and have a placeholder for Knies shortly because I agree they need to start getting some chemistry, I just don't think it is that simple currently.

 

[ULF_55]

Anytime you question Keefe it's "Record / winningest coach" etc etc but he's been outcoached in every single playoff series.

Different sports but I guarantee the Dubasite's wouldn't have fired Dwayne Casey and he had post-season success and won coach of the year but they felt they needed a major shake up and gave the reigns to Nick Nurse.

The reality is that Keefe has a matured group of superstars that are better versions of themselves than what Babcock had before and they pushed the team to new heights. Dubas has generally improved the D core with guys like Brodie and now McCabe.

I'd actually be texting Keefe if I was Dubas at this point and basically say "pick 12 and 6 and stop this BS"

Keefe doesn't really have a long enough NHL career to really know how good he is.

It would be like putting him in charge of the Scotty Bowman trained powerhouse Red Wings and letting him run it into the ground, but giving him an out before he had to take them through the tough times when they lost several HOF players.

 

[Suntouchable13]

If we go 12-6, and with Woll starting I think we win.

 

[3blizzard4]

Both teams played last night. Preds though got spanked hard by the Kraken.

I think Leafs take it easily.

 

[PromisedLand]

I think you're grossly overestimating the average quality of posts in here. There's some good stuff for sure, but sometimes the amount of garbage you need to sift through to get to the good stuff boggles the mind and I'm pretty sure that trying to "understand" it all isn't going help you or anyone else in life, not even one little bit.

I am actually kinda not cool by how some posters sit on high horse and think other posters' posts don't matter or are of lower quality than theirs.

In general, if one believes that then there is an ignore button. In general, that poster who i quoted always finds a way to diss other posts as soon as it paints both dubas and keefe in bad light.

that said, if people don't like those kinda posts they can always use the ignore button. I mean whats the point of this board if you only want to see posts that confirm your own biases. If that gives you pleasure then thats fine don't expect everyone else to be like that

 

[LeafalCrusader]

Both teams played last night. Preds though got spanked hard by the Kraken.

I think Leafs take it easily.

Preds were in the afternoon and haven't traveled. Leafs should still take it if Woll can give them a .900 save percentage and the boys play like they did in Carolina though.

 

[ACC1224]

I am actually kinda not cool by how some posters sit on high horse and think other posters' posts don't matter or are of lower quality than theirs.

In general, if one believes that then there is an ignore button. In general, that poster who i quoted always finds a way to diss other posts as soon as it paints both dubas and keefe in bad light.

that said, if people don't like those kinda posts they can always use the ignore button. I mean whats the point of this board if you only want to see posts that confirm your own biases. If that gives you pleasure then thats fine don't expect everyone else to be like that

Not to mention the brain dead “you want them to lose so you can be proven right”.
Dumbest sentiment on this board, no one wants them to lose.

Preds were in the afternoon and haven't traveled. Leafs should still take it if Woll can give them a .900 save percentage and the boys play like they did in Carolina though.

Yeah this is a tough one to predict.
Guessing it will come down to the goalies and capitalizing on mistakes like last night.

 

[IPS]

I am actually kinda not cool by how some posters sit on high horse and think other posters' posts don't matter or are of lower quality than theirs.

In general, if one believes that then there is an ignore button. In general, that poster who i quoted always finds a way to diss other posts as soon as it paints both dubas and keefe in bad light.

that said, if people don't like those kinda posts they can always use the ignore button. I mean whats the point of this board if you only want to see posts that confirm your own biases. If that gives you pleasure then thats fine don't expect everyone else to be like that

I don't wanna ignore or block out anyone's opinion. I don't get triggered reading opposing opinions, that's what makes discussion.

But this whole "you're not a real fan and you clearly want the team to fail if you question Dubas/Keefe" isn't even really an opinion, it's just a vessel some posters use to shit on poster's for having an opinion.

 

[WTFMAN99]

I don't wanna ignore or block out anyone's opinion. I don't get triggered reading opposing opinions, that's what makes discussion.

But this whole "you're not a real fan and you clearly want the team to fail if you question Dubas/Keefe" isn't even really an opinion, it's just a vessel some posters use to shit on poster's for having an opinion.

I like when people have a different opinion and can articulate their thoughts well, I enjoy that discussion.

There are some people on here such as Dekes where I finally had to just put them on ignore because the interactions were quite frankly, stupid.

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Woll ?

 

[1specter]

Road game, b2b, against a desperate team in the fight for a WC spot. Leafs have also been pretty bad in Nashville for a while now. Really wish they hadn't blown last night's game

 

[MSZ]

what is Keefe's fav line up and fav joint?

We barely have any 7-11s here.

In Hong Kong they have about 1000 7-11 stores, and HK is much smaller than GTA.

 

[Stephen]

I don’t understand why those few never have an opinion, don’t think for themselves. Everything is exactly how the team does it until they change it and now that is the right way to do things. It will be the same as soon as Keefe is inevitably let go.

I’m actually curious to see if certain fans are more connected to the team itself or the coaching/management project and what happens if those entities were to go their separate ways.

I find the more you follow a team over the years you do realize that above any star player, coach, manager, it really does boil down to the laundry, as Jerry Seinfeld put it.

 

[Altair]

Sire they all finna bout to bounce. We in this Thang hard tonight. Leafs will crush em. You gotta believe it after all. WE'RE GREAT AND WE'RE THE LEAFS!!

Imagine how many the nose finna bounce in tonight..... like ........ many many

The nose is the new hurricane Carter, the new Master of disastor the new Mexicon killa hill figga. And he is bout HIS game.

 

[HamiltonNHL]

MAPLE LEAFS (43-20-9) at PREDATORS (36-27-8)​

6 p.m. ET; NHLN, BSSO, SNO, SN NOW​

Maple Leafs projected lineup

Calle Jarnkrok -- Auston Matthews -- Mitchell Marner

Michael Bunting -- John Tavares -- William Nylander

Alexander Kerfoot -- Noel Acciari -- Sam Lafferty

Zach Aston-Reese -- David Kampf

Jake McCabe -- TJ Brodie

Mark Giordano -- Justin Holl

Morgan Rielly -- Luke Schenn

Timothy Liljegren

Joseph Woll

Matt Murray

Scratched: Erik Gustafsson, Conor Timmins, Ilya Samsonov, Wayne Simmonds

Injured: Jake Muzzin (neck), Victor Mete (upper body), Nicholas Robertson (shoulder), Ryan O'Reilly (broken finger), Carl Dahlstrom (shoulder), Bobby McMann (knee)

Predators projected lineup

Philip Tomasino -- Cody Glass -- Matt Duchene

Kiefer Sherwood -- Tommy Novak -- Luke Evangelista

Yakov Trenin -- Colton Sissons -- Cole Smith

Egor Afanasyev -- Mark Jankowski -- Rasmus Asplund

Ryan McDonagh -- Dante Fabbro

Tyson Barrie -- Jordan Gross

Jeremy Lauzon -- Cal Foote

Kevin Lankinen

Juuse Saros

Scratched: None

Injured: Mark Borowiecki (upper body), Filip Forsberg (upper body), Ryan Johansen (upper body), Juuso Parssinen (upper body), Alexandre Carrier (upper body), Roman Josi (upper body)



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