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Speculation: What is this team identity?

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Dekes For Days said:
Our offensive generation in the playoffs against Columbus and Montreal was equal to or better than it was in the regular season those years, even though Columbus was the best defensive team in the league. Our conversion was limited those years, but that was by a mixture of top tier goaltending, injuries to top converters, puck luck (like Matthews hitting the most posts in the playoffs that year, despite only playing 1 round), a 5 month break before playoffs, etc., not by "being easy to defend against".
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Dekes For Days said:
Oxford dictionary wasn't wrong. You were.
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Ok, we'll stay with Oxford.

ex·pla·na·tion
a statement or account that makes something clear.

Does the bolded in your first post not sound an awful lot like an explanation to defend or justify the limited conversion the Leafs experienced while failing to win the series they were participating in ? Perhaps we should do a poll?
 
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HockeyVirus said:
So you are throwing out 4 months of sample size and complaining about 3 weeks where we had multiple new players come in and try to find their fit with the team? Also in that time, Matt Murray comes back from injury and has 2 pretty meh games and a decent 3rd one. Also in that time frame, the Leafs face all the top offenses in the league in the Oilers(x2), Sabres(x2), and honestly just a pretty brutal schedule as far as the quality of the teams.

Have they been their best the past few weeks no IMO. But also you can pull a sample size to fit any narrative you want. Take your own advice and be better
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Sigh.... what was posted and what you are interpreting that was wrote are two different things, try reading for comprehension.
 
egd27 said:
Does the bolded in your first post sound an awful lot like an explanation to defend or justify the limited conversion the Leafs experienced while failing to win the series they were participating in ?
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No, it's just a list of things that actually contributed to our limited conversion in those years, in response to it being attributed to something incorrect by the individual I replied to.
 
Dekes For Days said:
No, it's just a list of things that actually contributed to our limited conversion in those years, in response to it being attributed to something incorrect by the individual I replied to.
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Got it.

It was not an explanation, just a "list of things" to illustrate what "actually contributed to our limited conversion".

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egd27 said:
Got it. It was not an explanation, just a "list of things" to illustrate what "actually contributed to our limited conversion".
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I mean, you can call it an explanation if you want. That part was never disputed, and you seem to care a lot about this.
 
HockeyVirus said:
I swear this is the only team that can be top 5 all year, top of the league defensively all year, go out and acquire a bunch of players known for their ability to play in physical games and then say we have no identity. Reading this thread you'd think we were barely holding onto the last wildcard spot.

This is a symptom of not watching other teams I think. Our fan base thinks other teams play perfectly in every situation and never have breakdowns. They think teams are throwing bone crushing body checks every shift for 82 games.

Anyways, the identity of the team is pretty simple. Defensively responsible team that can score. Our depth players all have 1 of 2 qualities. They are either defensively elite or physical or both. Our defense are all shutdown defenders first outside of Rielly. And our core up front now has ROR giving us the ability to create matchup nightmares regardless of who we play.
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Yep this is not the soft , no defense, run and gun rush team from 5 years ago. Back in 17-18 you could call the leafs a soft, off the rush scoring, offense-first ,porous defensively team with a bandaid defense corps. Our forward depth had very little physicality/grit/two-way play/lunch pail mentality except Kadri, bozak, and hyman. We had soft ass, loser ass old ass Marleau, and one dimensional « 30-goal scorer » and defensive liability JVR as our veterans/leaders up front:laugh:

Remember when the leafs blueline had Ron Hainsey, Tyson Barrie, Travis dermott, Roman polak, Jake gardiner, Nikita zaitsev, and Martin Marincin as regulars :laugh: now that’s a legit bad defense.

Our d now is far superior.
 
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