Heard he got benched, and I'm sure he deserved it (he's kind of a lazy player after all but with a ton of skill) so I wanted to see how he did tonight. From the looks of it, he constantly got the puck into the O-zone, cycled and created a few chances, while the top-line consisting of yours gods, did squat. Matthews been great so far and can't be good every game ofc, but I was listening to Ray Ferraro (ugh, hes hard to listen to), and whenever Nylander did something good it didnt get a mention, but as soon as he lost a puck you got to hear it a few seconds later. Ray NEVER, at least in the 2 periods I watched, said anything about either Matthews or Marner, or JT for that matter, but they were completley awful this game. For example, in the 5vs3 PP, Nylander got shit on when the Leafs didn't create anything, but not Marner or Matthews that had the puck 24/7. In the scenes before the PP, when Toronto got their PP's, he implied that the Flames player was not happy with the penalty that was called on him when he tripped Nylander, "not happy at all, weak penalty", but when Marner went down for no reason by the boards, and Lindholm was even more infuriated than the other Flame, he said squat. Don't you people recognize this?
It's quite clear that the media have decided who to blame, and that seems to always be the case in your city and with your journalists.
It's easy to look at Nylanders game and see flaws, but I had hoped that more people following teams etc had better knowledge than letting play-by-players or experts color their judgement like they do in Toronto.
) however, last few games he's shown a lot of things I do not like and I am feeling more open to a move than I ever have.
