William Nylander

[thewave]

Willy is playing half speed disinterested Hockey. Wth is with Holmbergo on the line though. Wth is that.

 

[JT AM da real deal]

When Matty laid da soft pass up da middle to create da 2 on 1 Willy saw d play from where he was on ice .. I could see his face drop from my seats .. he had a choice to make it that moment .. and he made da wrong choice for da team .. he could have raced back/dove and taken shot/pass away from Sens Cozens .. but no he pouted and skated back at normal speed .. this is exactly da type of decisions a Cup contender doesn't make .. Willy had da ability to do it but chose not to .. this core group will never be a TEAM .. Willy thinks he is far better then Mitch and Matty and lacks heart .. Matty doesn't care and is slow .. and Mitch does not have da straight away speed to play playoff hockey .. these guys all have critical FAIL components to their games

 

[The Shadow]

Willy talks about how much he wants to win but doesn’t show it. I don’t see that desperate level of playoff hockey.

 

[hamzarocks]

Another overpaid bum like 16 and 34

First he underproduces in the regular season but his fanboys here give him a pass b/c of his goals

Now come playoffs he has 6 in 5 but only 1 goal (for the goals crowd) and is not producing enough and people still defend him.

Just b/c he's the best usually of 16, 34, and him come playoffs doesn't mean he is close to delivering the value we need.

 

[ACC1224]

Willy talks about how much he wants to win but doesn’t show it. I don’t see that desperate level of playoff hockey.

Yep, the give a shit meter was a little low last night.

 

[ACC1224]

Another overpaid bum like 16 and 34

First he underproduces in the regular season but his fanboys here give him a pass b/c of his goals

Now come playoffs he has 6 in 5 but only 1 goal (for the goals crowd) and is not producing enough and people still defend him.

Just b/c he's the best usually of 16, 34, and him come playoffs doesn't mean he is close to delivering the value we need.

Careful, I mentioned yesterday that they need more goals from him and people lost their minds.

 

[hamzarocks]

Well, isn’t that the case for your whole core then? At least Nylander created two goals out of nothing in game 5 which forced OT - what did the first line, except Knies, do? I don’t see you in Matthews and Marner’s thread spewing this nonsense, so it’s quite obvious what you’re trying to do?

You mean in game 4. He was oretty good game 4.

Game 5 he and the rest of the squad were shutout

 

[GoonieFace]

No one was good last night.

 

[KAWAIlllI]

You mean in game 4. He was oretty good game 4.

Game 5 he and the rest of the squad were shutout

Ah, my bad, thanks for the correction

 

[KAWAIlllI]

Careful, I mentioned yesterday that they need more goals from him and people lost their minds.

Is this Don Cherry btw?

 

[ITM]

Willy talks about how much he wants to win but doesn’t show it. I don’t see that desperate level of playoff hockey.

But by example, he’s degrees above the other two.

 

[ACC1224]

But by example, he’s degrees above the other two.

Not this year.

 

[Tie Domi Esquire]

Billy Bystander playoff stud!!!

 

[ULF_55]

Need goals.

That's all.

 

[yubbers]

Willy is just a lazy player. Anyways has been.

 

[arso40]

I hope the same people in this thread you know who you guys are are also in the marner thread doing the same thing loool which I know your not

 

[GoonieFace]

Billy Bystander playoff stud!!!

It looks like they were 1:30 into the power play already. Not easy to catch a guy who can actually skate from behind at that point. The optics didn’t look good, but he looked gassed

 

[BraveCanadian]

But by example, he’s degrees above the other two.

That is the never ending false narrative from Leafs fans but it isn’t true.

He’s a liability defensively while they are both well above average, and they have both out produced him offensively over their careers.

 

[ITM]

Not this year.

I think in kind with Marner but above Matthews.

Matthews should be - should be - a horse given his size and skill and situation. Nothing about his play conveys a want to battle.

It looks like the first goal was a screen but worse, like he was afraid to get hit by the puck and moved at the last second.

And if he’s injured, his sense of self-preservation is going to be that much more heightened.

 

[Tie Domi Esquire]

It looks like they were 1:30 into the power play already. Not easy to catch a guy who can actually skate from behind at that point. The optics didn’t look good, but he looked gassed

Yeah right. He's not battling in the corners, he's not winning races, he can't backcheck? There is no excuse, he's a loser.

 

[ITM]

That is the never ending false narrative from Leafs fans but it isn’t true.

He’s a liability defensively while they are both well above average, and they have both out produced him offensively over their careers.

No, the narrative that’s stretched is the appeal to “Leafs fans”.

What Nylander seems to have been is less a liability offensively. I think his engagement is highly underrated. And his playoffs performance over the last five years, better than Matthews and Marner.

What’s overrated is this tired idea that Matthews is unassailably superior. His role and his role alone has undermined our trajectory. He is the defacto 1C and now the C and in 14 games to clinch a second round opportunity, he’s lead us where PRECISELY?

The common denominator of our inability to proceed, according to position, contract and deferred to leadership is Auston Matthews confusing and constant disappearing act.

I get McDavid’s characterization in a different light. Even if Marner is a perimeter player, he can make the pass to the 1C that’s supposed to attack the net. McDavid does it. Matthews doesn’t.

That’s not Nylander’s expected role. And the way teams work, you can bet you’re bottom dollar in the club and those who get a look at the comfortable apathy from deadline acquisitions, see enough and decide they can’t follow a leader who can’t lead because it appears that he’s not willing to pay the price.

 

[Willchel Marlynder]

Willy is just a lazy player. Anyways has been.

He looked unbelievably lazy last game. All he does is try to hang on to pucks and skill his way into creating. Someone needs to tell him he needs to actually move. f***ing skate for Pete sake.

 

[stickty111]

• ⁠Game 1s: 4 G and 1 A in 9 games

• ⁠Game 2s: 3 G and 6 A in 9 games

• ⁠Game 3s: 3 G and 4 A in 9 games

• ⁠Game 4s: 5 G and 8 A in 10 games

• ⁠Game 5s: 2 G and 5 A in 10 games

• ⁠Game 6s: 3 G and 3 A in 7 games

• ⁠Game 7s: 2 G and 2 A in 5 games

Nylander's stats by each game in the playoffs

 

[notDatsyuk]

Nylander has brought nothing this series after about Game 2. Terrible playoffs for him.

He was pretty much the only reason we made it to OT in game 4, but game 5 wasn't very good.

 

[notDatsyuk]

It looks like they were 1:30 into the power play already. Not easy to catch a guy who can actually skate from behind at that point. The optics didn’t look good, but he looked gassed

I don't suppose there's any value in pointing out that Matty made the bad pass and Mitch doesn’t have a clue about playing a 2-on-1?

All four goals were exclusively Willy's fault.