Post-Game Talk: Wild beat Leafs 4-3 in shootout

[HogTown06]

Can't win them all I guess. Especially missing one of your best players and having to play the refs...

Screw them, one ref even got an assist...

 

[LeafalCrusader]

I’m happy with the point and the comeback. Now onto to Winterpeg.

Hope Woll is good to go. Please no Hutchinson

 

[MSZ]

Wow, they've only been there 12 times in 21 years?

Yes these teams met each other only once a year before the 2014 season.

 

[Ciao]

Jason Spezza is the ultimate Leaf.

 

[hockeyes]

As a team the Wild are real unlikeable.

I usually watch the away feed, gives more perspective on the team the Leafs are facing. The Wild commentators entire analysis boiled down to repeating "drag the Leafs into a physical game" so yea, that is usually code for take so many liberties you'll get away with most.

 

[Rude Dog]

This team looks so much different without Marner. Hope he is back soon. Great game Spezza and shootout moves by Mathews and Kaprizov.

 

[al secord]

At this point, I've completely erased Spezza's Ottawa tenure from my memory

 

[justloveleafs]

Sure there is a poliical ploy,but DUBAS andKEEFE CANNOT keep showing the team, that they are displaying a lazy seems to be crack pipe slob, instead of lilly...

Holl is trash now...

FUGG OFF DISPLAYING A SLOB...

Play the best players, we could have beaten them easily\

Play one bad apple and see what u get...

And your attempt to display Holl was a disaster...

He got a bit of money and is ready to collectd food stamps

Your whole team sees it, and so do I.

 

[MSZ]

At this point, I've completely erased Spezza's Ottawa tenure from my memory

The Alfie-Spezza-Heatley line still gives me nightmares.

 

[Menzinger]

At this point, I've completely erased Spezza's Ottawa tenure from my memory

Funnily enough, I think most of the league has as well outside of Sens fans themselves.

Especially of he ends up working for the team after he stops playing (which I think is likely). He's going to be known as a Leaf foe the foreseeable future

 

[BrannigansLaw]

The reffing in this game was a disgrace. They couldn’t have tried harder even if they wanted to to hand Minnesota that game.

Lost in the skills comp. Sucks to lose but at least we got a point with everything against us.

 

[2 Slick]

I feel bad for Campbell. Got rocked to end the period, his teammates didn’t do shit, and then took the L in the shootout in a game he stood on his head for

Leafs played good for like six minutes at the end of the second period, were dominated in the third period, gave up nearly 25 shots. People here will try to window dress it up because they've been so dominant lately, but I'll call it like I see it. Leafs were trash this game, hung Campbell out to dry.

 

[TheScandal89]

Does anyone know if Spezza was legitimately hurt in OT? Hoping the guy will get to 1000 this season, I can't see why we wouldn't bring him back again next season though

 

[Folignos Helmet]

I thought it was a pretty good game, playoff style, good to see the boys roll with the physicality of the Wild. Horrible missed call at the end, but what can you do, hope for better reffing in the playoffs, but given the tendency for whistles to go away need to get used to it.

 

[al secord]

The Alfie-Spezza-Heatley line still gives me nightmares.

Ritchie Spezza Anderson. Check mate

 

[stickty111]

Great fight to come back in the game. Not really mad.

 

[MSZ]

Does anyone know if Spezza was legitimately hurt in OT? Hoping the guy will get to 1000 this season, I can't see why we wouldn't bring him back again next season though

Keefe said Spezza should be fine.

 

[Captain14]

seemed like holl was just always being forced to give it up. were they specifically targeting him or something?

I agree, he is really shaky, but he is 6-7 on the depth chart. That’s what you are going to get out of him especially when he partner is playing just as bad. Muzz, Reilly and McDermott all had brutal giveaways, the Wild failed to capitalize on those.

 

[ThatGuy22]

There were some nightmare games in Minnesota in the 1980's against the likes of Bobby Smith, Dino Ciccirelli, Neal Broten, and Brian Bellows.

None of those were in st paul

 

[ottomaddox]

feels bad man...

 

[stickty111]

Don’t blame Keefe for sending out Kase. Dubas has computers making those kind of decisions

Ignoring the completely unneccesary silly shot at Dubas, Kase was 7-15 in the shootout. It was a fine decision.

 

[34]

The Leafs are 4-8 all time in St. Paul including this game.

Yeah, they got f***ing smoked again tonight.

 

[Michael HOMERUNing]

Ignoring the completely unneccesary silly shot at Dubas, Kase was 7-15 in the shootout. It was a fine decision.

It’s not a shot at anyone. The game is trending towards analytics. Part of that is running the algorithms and going with the results. I actually think it’s good for the game. Takes the emotion and bias out of decisions like that

 

[RoadWarrior]

Joey Anderson didn't look very good in his early shifts and from that point Keefe kept him off the ice. Too bad, I was hoping for more from him. Is there another option from the Marlies? Seney seems to be a very energetic little player. Maybe he's a better choice.

Alex Steeves and once healthy Nick Robertson. Seney could fill in but he’s more AHL than the other two.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Keefe being diplomatic about that BS non-call on Foligno running Campbell. I doubt he cares much about the fine, but God knows these thin-skinned zebras would go out of their way to call nothing for us if Keefe really laid into them and their incompetence.

Hate when posts get deleted and my post gets bumped to the bottom of a page instead of near the top.