GDT: Wings @ Leafs 7:00pm on CBC, NHLN, Sat Jan 7th

[glue]

Man what has happened to Matty sheesh

 

[Leaf Rocket]

that wasn't a bad PP. better than the first two lol

 

[93gilmour93]

I'd like to see Liljegren/Sandin get more PP time.

That should be permanent on PP2

 

[Teeder Keon]

Hellberg got it right between the horns

 

[Mr_Fun]

I've tried everything under the sun. My phone just won't let me quote.

 

[BackPassChampions]

I dunno why....matthews has been doing this slapper stuff.

Could be one of or both;

1. Trying to include more than just a wrist shot to his game.
2. Wrist is not 100%.

 

[Racer88]

Matthews sure loves to miss these days

Remember when he used to be able to hit the net

 

[Remu]

The Monkey Paw curse. 60 goals but the wrists turn to dust.

 

[therealkoho]

I dunno why....matthews has been doing this slapper stuff.

You mean the no look turn around slapper thing he's been doing from the blue line that hasn't burned him yet but definitely will?

 

[Aashir]

Hope no one missed that cheap shot on bunting that even the announcers didn’t bring up

 

[therealkoho]

Hope no one missed that cheap shot on bunting that even the announcers didn’t bring up

Just those guys wearing the vertical stripes

 

[HolyCrap]

Remember when he used to be able to hit the net

Pepper ridge farms remembers.

 

[Dave92]

The Monkey Paw curse. 60 goals but the wrists turn to dust.

His wrist is fine.

 

[thewave]

Matthews is broken.

 

[Wendelstache]

Matthews sure loves to miss these days

did they hire phaneuf as shooting coach?

 

[Burnie97]

Matthews be lucky if he gets 40. Just isn't happening this year. Something is off. Has to be.

40 to 50 is still amazing and I'd rather a cup but the shot doesn't look right.

 

[Leaf Rocket]

Could be one of or both;

1. Trying to include more than just a wrist shot to his game.
2. Wrist is not 100%.

My thought is he's been just nursing an injury and yea his wrist shot has been kind of non-existent for sure. he's been more defensive though so maybe he just focused on that and post-season.

 

[horner]

No, u suck

I expect alot more out of our team , especially coming of a game where we sucked.
Maybe you don't.
Through a period and a half we had 4 shots with having 3 pp.
Detroit had 20 hits we had 9..
We weren't ready to play the game again.

We are finally playing better

 

[Mr_Fun]

For whatever reason, I just have a bad feeling about the 3rd

 

[HockeyVirus]

Think Matthews is feeling the pressure of his new contract? He was asked about it a million times and everyone knows even though he isn't UFA he will be signing a new deal this offseason

 

[thewave]

Think Matthews is feeling the pressure of his new contract? He was asked about it a million times and everyone knows even though he isn't UFA he will be signing a new deal this offseason

Nobody pays 15% for a goal scorer that can't score. He better get going then.

 

[Dave92]

The Leafs losing instantly every time they start Matthews and Rielly in 3v3 is making more sense as the season goes on.

 

[horner]

My thought is he's been just nursing an injury and yea his wrist shot has been kind of non-existent for sure. he's been more defensive though so maybe he just focused on that and post-season.

From the beginning of the season he has been trying alot more slap shots witch to me aren't as good as his wrist shot.

 

[leafsfan5]

Matthews be lucky if he gets 40. Just isn't happening this year. Something is off. Has to be.

40 to 50 is still amazing and I'd rather a cup but the shot doesn't look right.

The issue is to get a cup you likely need him playing at or close to his best. Especially since we’re going through an absolute gauntlet due to the stupid divisional format

 

[therealkoho]

I'll tell you what, this game is a great character building kind of game. It's not that often they not only have to play the Wings, but the guys is stripes too. Thank goodness it doesn't happen all the time.