Line Combos: You sold Connor Timmins to me and I bought it, but...

[wingman75]

Probably Timmins’ worst game as a Leaf.

Overall I would say very true. His last shift was great though, a couple good reads. Ended on a high note.

 

[Ianturnedbull]

Anyone who attempts to blame others as a basis for a thread title should take a hammer to their router and perhaps look at raising tulips.

Way to take the high road.

 

[rumman]

Timmins has a pretty unique ability to generate offense while looking completely sub NHL.

Try him on the w8ng, useless at defending……..

 

[Stephen]

Try him on the w8ng, useless at defending……..

No I don’t think he would work on the wing. He seems to see the ice very well from the blueline, quite deadly on puck placement and distribution. But completely blind to risks coming the other way too.

 

[Macallan18]

No I don’t think he would work on the wing. He seems to see the ice very well from the blueline, quite deadly on puck placement and distribution. But completely blind to risks coming the other way too.

like many offensively minded d-men.
He is very young in terms of actual nhl experience.
Let hope he can be molded and trained to play better d, because no on can teach the offensive skill he has.

 

[Stephen]

like many offensively minded d-men.
He is very young in terms of actual nhl experience.
Let hope he can be molded and trained to play better d, because no on can teach the offensive skill he has.

Yeah I have time for the development time hypothesis… I mean a guy like Holl was solidly AHL caliber well into his mid 20s. So a guy like Timmins could use more reps and definitely mature. But man is Timmins rough on defensive awareness…

 

[Buds17]

An offensively-inclined RHD becomes something a bit more ordinary when moved to the wing.

 

[DarkKnight]

He has very little trade value at this point. He looks worse than last year, such a liability in our end, his offence just doesn’t offset it. Amazing how soft he is too for his size.

 

[rumman]

He has very little trade value at this point. He looks worse than last year, such a liability in our end, his offence just doesn’t offset it. Amazing how soft he is too for his size.

Yet posters here love the guy, yeah he’s got some offence, but there’s more to the game that offence imo……..

 

[DarkKnight]

Yet posters here love the guy, yeah he’s got some offence, but there’s more to the game that offence imo……..

He makes Barrie look like a defensive dynamo.

 

[ACC1224]

He makes Barrie look like a defensive dynamo.

He's struggled a bit, no doubt but it doesn't seem to have made much of an impact......yet.

 

[GoonieFace]

Yet posters here love the guy, yeah he’s got some offence, but there’s more to the game that offence imo……..

Timmins- Dubas acquisition, he’s terrible but it’s ok
Klingberg - Tre acquisition, he was terrible (although injured), worse signing of the century

 

[ACC1224]

Yet posters here love the guy, yeah he’s got some offence, but there’s more to the game that offence imo……..

Like Owen Nolan and ACC1224 before him, never doubt a Thorold boy.

 

[rumman]

Like Owen Nolan and ACC1224 before him, never doubt a Thorold boy.

It’s all making sense now……..