GDT: Toronto @ Tampa - 7pm - SN

[BrannigansLaw]

I really would like to understand what Laughton was trying to do kicking that puck directly into his crease with Tampa players around? He must have watched Arsenal the other night and thought he could do that too

 

[frizzer1]

It’s comical how over dramatic some Leaf “fans” are with their desperate attempts to criticize the team.

Toronto loses the opening faceoff and someone takes that as ammunition to spout about how bleak the Leafs future is.

This is an old team with no first round picks for 3 years.
Watch this old d in the next few years, especially tanev.

 

[Schennanigans]

Pretty uneventful period offensively. Some good defense. Time to bring it and win the next period.

 

[pdson]

Important game Leafs with zero power plays. What a shocker I tell you.

 

[Lightsol]

Look at that little POS Gourde crashing the net and falling on top of Stolarz in the blue paint. Stolarz paddle down is bascially eye to eye with Gourde standing up and there he is leveraging all his physicality to make something happen, offense or misfortune to the opposition goalie. Why do we never take this approach vs hot goalies at the other end? We can't go a little WWE on them once in a while?

Because the refs would suddenly remember shit like that is a penalty?

 

[notbias]

You can't just call someone up for 2-3 games, who has been waiting his whole life for that opportunity -- nerves and anxiety come into play.

You can't expect to send him down after playing him 3-4 games.
How can he have any confidence in himself and make any play, if he is going to be threatened with instantly being demoted to the AHL.

You need to give him an extended trial on the 2nd Line.

He's had 14 games and has had one good game...

He had 7 this year.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

I really would like to understand what Laughton was trying to do kicking that puck directly into his crease with Tampa players around? He must have watched Arsenal the other night and thought he could do that too

Thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in.

 

[Confucius]

Please start scratching Laughton, net negative player

 

[TheBeastCoast]

Both were overpayments, but overpaying for a good player is much better than overplaying for a festering outhouse of a player.

If Carlo can maintain this level of play I don't think it is an over payment at all. Laughton we just tossed assets into the void for nothing in return.

 

[Stephen]

It’s comical how over dramatic some Leaf “fans” are with their desperate attempts to criticize the team.

Toronto loses the opening faceoff and someone takes that as ammunition to spout about how bleak the Leafs future is.

 

[hamzarocks]

Man leafs just own Tampa

I wish we could play them somehow R1. Im 99% sure we win that in 6 games

I Dont want to lose the division but Im a lot more certain we move to R2 vs Tampa then vs Sens or Habs.

Those 2 teams are pesky and leafs find ways to choke and make their defenses/goalies look great.

Best case scenerio if we win division is we beat sens/habs in R1 and get tamps in R2. Will be a likely ECF run if that happens

 

[Stephen]

Because the refs would suddenly remember shit like that is a penalty?

Take the penalty, you'll feel good about killing it off.

 

[Jojalu]

The Leafs will be 4 points ahead of Tampa with the tiebreaker in their favour. Statistically, the odds of Tampa overcoming that deficit are miniscule.

What?

If the Leafs get a point only tonight they will be 1 point up and it will be a dogfight.

If they Leafs win in regulation I would agree it would take an epic collapse for the Leafs not to win the division. Even if the Leafs win in OT it will be very tough for TB.

 

[fbuford]

He's had 14 games and has had one good game...

He had 7 this year.

7 games playing on the 4th line 8 minutes of TOI per game.

He's an offensive player, put him on the 2nd line, and, see if his offense picks up.
Wait 10 games, and, don't pull him/bench him. Let;s see what he has.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

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[The Hanging Jowl]

Am I the only one that gets scared every time Kucherov is on the ice?

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

 

[ACC1224]

A PP this period would be nice.

 

[PanniniClaus]

Important game Leafs with zero power plays. What a shocker I tell you.

There was one O zone draw where they literally had their player on the wall (44?) drive block Knies and hold the block so they could get the lob into center ice where they went 2 on 2.

I am curious if the league prefers this standard to the tighter rules we have had in the last 10 years?

 

[torontoblood]

When is the last time we've had a guy like that?

Salming maybe? Before that Red Kelly, Red Horner, King Clancy, or Tim Horton(donut guy)

Forget about Bryan McCabe, Dmitri Yuskevich, Tomas Kaberle, Sylvain Lefebvre, Bob Rouse, Dion Phaneuf, Pavel Kubina, Morgan Rielly, Jake Gardiner or Robert Svehla. Leetch in 2004 was very good, but we got him when all his prime years were forever behind him unfortunately.

Leafs enter the zone, get a shot if they're lucky, Tampa recovers and moves it out immediately. Rinse, repeat.

Leafs can’t generate scoring chances and susbtain offensive pressure in the opposing zone. We struggle to cycle the puck and keep the offensive pressure going in the other zone because we can’t win puck battles among the boards. And Until we also have some mobile and competent offensive minded blue liners with accurate and powerful shots from the point( like all great puck moving defensemen with powerplay quarterback abilities) it will be tough to move the puck out of our zone, make quick and efficient zone entries, and create offensive plays. With the exception of OEL and formerly Rielly Our D are purely defensive minded, shutdown, shot-blocking stay at home guys. Tanev, Carlo, and McCabe are defensive workhorses who eat up a lot of minutes against top forwards but we need variety because they are made of the same cloth. Without offensive/puckmoving skill, vision and speed on the blueline, it will be hard for the Leafs to get out of their own zone quickly and safely, and then recover and regain offensive puck possession.

 

[Stephen]

Am I the only one that gets scared every time Kucherov is on the ice?

That’s what a superstar should feel like.

 

[notbias]

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Briere has been given 15 months of probation as part of an ARD program for first-time, non-violent offenders.

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[Lightsol]

A PP this period would be nice.

Can they do that?

 

[TheGreenTBer]

Am I the only one that gets scared every time Kucherov is on the ice?

No, because he's the best winger in the world.

Except for Montreal fans who think it's Demidov.

 

[notbias]

7 games playing on the 4th line 8 minutes of TOI per game.

He's an offensive player, put him on the 2nd line, and, see if his offense picks up.
Wait 10 games, and, don't pull him/bench him. Let;s see what he has.

He has shown nothing in the NHL to think he can keep up or is an offensive player at all...