Post-Game Talk: Utterly Rittich-ulous Leafs Lose 6-3

[Mess]

"Big save" Dave must be an ironic nickname.

During this 5 game losing streak Leafs goalies have a combined .869 sv%.

 

[egd27]

Melodrama. We have a good chance of winning a round and some chance of winning another round after that.

And after that?

 

[NK94]

This is how I console myself...
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It’s the story of the season. This is a good team getting sunken by bad goaltending. Nothing more.

 

[Thissiteisgarbage]

Callapse time. 2014 style. Both times after the franchise loaded up on useless elements while ignoring talent.

Can we agree to make this a "Dangle Free" zone? The mere sight of that obnoxious moron makes my skin crawl....

 

[Koolboss]

Glad not watching this garbage anymore, thank Dubas

 

[Bluelines]

I am just warning people now that if you don’t want to read negative comments, then I strongly suggest you don’t bother reading this one.
This team is so Jekyll and Hyde. Play like champions for one stretch and then play where they could not beat a junior team other times. I doubt that we will finish first, and I can’t see us finally winning a first round playoff series.
Something else I want to point out. In a game between Carolina and Tampa Bay a few nights ago, a Tampa player levelled a Carolina player, and look who the Carolina player was that stood up for his teammate, Jake Gardiner. To me it’s obvious it is coming from the very top that our players are not to respond with any type of physicality toward the opposing team no matter what happens. When Gardiner played for us he would never have done something like that, yet here he is doing it in Carolina. More often than not I find myself thinking this team is gutless.
That is my rant for now!

With a chronic back issue that at the beginning of this year people thought it would have ended his career.

 

[NK94]

This team has completely changed how they play from a year ago, despite the gongshow we're being treated to right now, again. Top teams go through bad stretches too, Cup winning teams go through bad stretches, and they actually have goaltending that can steal some games during that time. Toronto hasn’t stolen a single game with goaltending this year, and I have never seen that before, ever. Even bad goaltenders can steal games here and there over the course of a season.

Unless one of Campbell, Andersen, or Rittich want to be a part of the solution rather than the glaring problem, they’re stuck.

 

[Bluelines]

Melodrama. We have a good chance of winning a round and some chance of winning another round after that.

If the playoffs started Sunday, we are already down 0-2 to the 6th placed team in our division ... SIXTH PLACED TEAM ... if we cant beat a 6th place team, how do we beat teams that actually qualify for the playoffs?

 

[NK94]

With a chronic back issue that at the beginning of this year people thought it would have ended his career.

He’s still poor defensively like he’s always been and that chronic back issue is why he’s been missing numerous games again. Let’s not go for revisionist history with him too shall we?

I feel Gardiner had to do something there after that brutal suicide pass.

 

[egd27]

With good goaltending, and a lineup that plays players who can skate and make plays, this team wins most games.

Apparently only if you play the game 1000 times. When you just play it once, it seems to be a different story.

 

[Bluelines]

He’s still poor defensively like he’s always been and that chronic back issue is why he’s been missing numerous games again. Let’s not go for revisionist history with him too shall we?

I'm not saying he's a better option than what we currently have, just he seems to have found, ironically, a spine in Carolina.

 

[BrannigansLaw]

Can we agree to make this a "Dangle Free" zone? The mere sight of that obnoxious moron makes my skin crawl....

He’s like the Leafs fan version of Gilbert Gottfried.

 

[NK94]

I'm not saying he's a better option than what we currently have, just he seems to have found, ironically, a spine in Carolina.

Gardiner was also the one that set Necas up with the suicide pass. Good on him for jumping in but yeah Jake, look that one off.

 

[Gary Nylund]

And after that?

My thinking was let's get that far first, and then we'll see. If I had to set the odds now it might be something like this.

Slight favourites in the 1st round, so maybe 55% or something like that to get to round two.

2nd round, maybe 50% to win. So that's about 27.5% to get to the 3rd round.

At that point we'd re-evaluate (actually we'd be doing that after every game) but without knowing any more then we know now, we're likely to be underdogs in this round depending on who we play of course. So let's say 11-12% or so to win 3 rounds and get to the final.

If we get that far, then we're guaranteed to win in the finals of course so we can start planning the parade (as if plans won't have already been made at that point).

 

[Gary Nylund]

And after that?

My thinking was let's get that far first, and then we'll see. If I had to set the odds now it might be something like this.

Slight favourites in the 1st round, so maybe 55% or something like that to get to round two.

2nd round, maybe 50% to win. So that's about 27.5% to get to the 3rd round.

At that point we'd re-evaluate (actually we'd be doing that after every game) but without knowing any more then we know now, we're likely to be underdogs in this round depending on who we play of course. So let's say 11-12% or so to win 3 rounds and get to the final.

If we get that far, then we're guaranteed to win in the finals of course so we can start planning the parade (as if plans won't have already been made at that point).

 

[Thissiteisgarbage]

He’s like the Leafs fan version of Gilbert Gottfried.

Gotfried can be funny and likeable, however.

 

[gtforepro]

Somebody should go through all of these and see what our deserve to win % has been vs. our actual win total.

We've lost a lot more games that we should have won than the other way around...

 

[Gary Nylund]

"Big save" Dave must be an ironic nickname.

During this 5 game losing streak Leafs goalies have a combined .869 sv%.

Ironic today, iconic after he leads us to the cup with a .946 SV%.

 

[baton elevated]

It's easy to see why our PP sucks. There is absolutely no movement except from the point to point and a bit of half boards. Teams don't have to do much against it to defend ( just stay glued to a leaf). I like how teams defend us on the PP, they constantly attack our point men and be disruptive but we are killing penalties we give the point way too much space. This has driven me crazy for years. I would hire a coach solely on this fact, aggressive on the puck not watching it . Pat Burns was a master at it.
Lastly, when did we become one of the slowest teams in the league. We have no speed going through the neutral zone or crossing the blue line. Speed kills and this team doesn't have it. All our warts are being exposed (please inject a heart here).

 

[Brown Dog]

The goaltending has been brutal lately but we're not that far removed from Jack Campbell being lights out since coming back from injury. And really, since coming here last year he's been mostly outstanding.

I think people are giving up on Campbell too quickly after this latest stretch of bad play. He's still our best option by far.

 

[Bluelines]

They mentioned last night, for Sunday nights game, the Leafs were the largest away favorite in the NHL since 2006. Some people won some good cash Sunday night.

 

[Bluelines]

It's easy to see why our PP sucks. There is absolutely no movement except from the point to point and a bit of half boards. Teams don't have to do much against it to defend ( just stay glued to a leaf). I like how teams defend us on the PP, they constantly attack our point men and be disruptive but we are killing penalties we give the point way too much space. This has driven me crazy for years. I would hire a coach solely on this fact, aggressive on the puck not watching it . Pat Burns was a master at it.
Lastly, when did we become one of the slowest teams in the league. We have no speed going through the neutral zone or crossing the blue line. Speed kills and this team doesn't have it. All our warts are being exposed (please inject a heart here).

Heck everyone one know the puck is going to Austin, use the guy as a decoy until they stop cheating towards him.

 

[hotpaws]

"Big save" Dave must be an ironic nickname.

During this 5 game losing streak Leafs goalies have a combined .869 sv%.

so are you trying to say Campbell and Dave aren't going to be our 1a/1b next season ? maybe they can be our 1b/2a or will they be our 2b/3a ?

 

[Bluelines]

The goaltending has been brutal lately but we're not that far removed from Jack Campbell being lights out since coming back from injury. And really, since coming here last year he's been mostly outstanding.

I think people are giving up on Campbell too quickly after this latest stretch of bad play. He's still our best option by far.

The 11 game streak is a fluky mirage, he is not that good of a goalie, actually no goalie in the history of the NHL has ever been that good of a goalie. We caught lighting in a bottle. If he can be around .917, that is reasonable IMO.

 

[NK94]

The goaltending has been brutal lately but we're not that far removed from Jack Campbell being lights out since coming back from injury. And really, since coming here last year he's been mostly outstanding.

I think people are giving up on Campbell too quickly after this latest stretch of bad play. He's still our best option by far.

Campbell has a career .917 SV% and even with his poor play lately, he still won them at least two of those games. His poor 5 games don’t erase his larger body of work.