CantLoseWithMatthews
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Babcock's tried nothing and he's all out of ideas27th in goals scored since December 1st.
It's unacceptable, anyone who thinks otherwise is incredibly delusional.
Babcock's tried nothing and he's all out of ideas27th in goals scored since December 1st.
It's unacceptable, anyone who thinks otherwise is incredibly delusional.
If babcock wants to run a dump and chase system then Nylander, Marner are not built for that. Hell even Crosby, Malkin and especially Kane are not built for that.
Change the system or change the personnel.
If you find Auston Matthews boring to watch, you're just watching wrong.
Matthews has been disappointing but the real story is the damage he's doing to the entire team. Matthews is a top 10 talent but our offense overall should be easily top 3 and somehow it's been in the bottom 5 for weeks
At least Willy escaped demotion it seems. Marner is down to the 4th line because he had a bad game and isn't a veteran, which is all it takes for Babcock to want to destroy you. It's not a shock nobody does anything offensively anymore. The young players are terrified Babcock will ruin them, and the vets are completely carefree and lackadaisical because they can do whatever they wantagreed. he's killed it all.
poor nylander I hope he gets to escape babcuck and play on a team that appreciates him.
Thats just his coaching style. Id say he's definetly more than annoyed with his team, he's just not gonna broadcast it to us. I know im in the minority but changing the lines arent going to do shit, id find it concerning if Marner, Nylander etc are so dependant on line combinations that they dont have the inherent talent to score no matter who is on there line.Riiiiight.
It certainly shows in games. He's so pissed that he goes with the exact same lines and system. As long as the other team doesn't score 4+ on us, it's all gravy
At least Willy escaped demotion it seems. Marner is down to the 4th line because he had a bad game and isn't a veteran, which is all it takes for Babcock to want to destroy you. It's not a shock nobody does anything offensively anymore. The young players are terrified Babcock will ruin them, and the vets are completely carefree and lackadaisical because they can do whatever they want
Unfortunately, I'm not a film editor - I'm sorry I can't compile a bunch of clips for you to prove my point.okay, show me the matthews highlight reel from last night.
Except Babcock didn't change systems for no reason, it was a counter measure to what the opposition were doing to the Leafs. Everybody knows the Leafs love to attack with speed as its their best weapon, so any good opposition coach would defend against that by clogging up the middle of the ice, call it neutral zone trap, left wing lock, or any other such defensive positioning you like that prevents the Leafs speedy forwards from getting up a head of steam and coming at them in waves, unopposed up the ice. Disrupt the Leafs attack and you neutralize Leafs greatest advantage, its basic defending for dummies 101. Not Babcocks call blame the opposition coach for that one.
So Babcock tells his players if there is a wall of defenders in front of you preventing you from gaining and skating the puck into the Ozone, to put the puck into the zone, away from the goalie behind the row of defenders and use your speed to go chase it down to regain possession in the Ozone again.
What Babcock is trying to prevent was all the costly mid-ice giveaways and high grade scoring chances against that were happening when a Leaf tried to skate and dangle on a rush attack by himself through an entire team waiting for them at centre and lose the puck and the other team pouncing on turnovers and going in and scoring on Anderson. So by dumping it in, even if you lose possession the other team has to bring the puck back 200ft from your own net and not just from Centre ice in at odd man advantages.
Babcock knows full well better than anyone playoff hockey is tight checking and lower scoring and that teams put even more effort into defending, so this was inevitable that the opposition would block the rush attack and force dump and chase tactics on them and that the generally soft/small but skilled forwards of the Leafs are no real match to big heavy built teams to win puck battles in their Dzone. So Leafs forwards better get use to being blocked and forced to dump it in and win those puck battles now in the regular season and not think its something they can switch on in the playoffs.
Hyman, Komarov, Brown etc are the forwards best suited for this to get the puck back for the skilled forwards on an aggressive forecheck after its dumped in by their linemates. That is why Babcock likes and feels he needs one of these workers on every line, because he knows he has a bunch of players ill equipped to hit and check and win 50/50 puck battles in the Ozone behind the icing line.
It would be naive to believe a line stacked offensive line of JVR/Nylander -- Matthews -- Marner would have someone on it equipped to charge fearlessly head first into the zone and go get the puck against big/strong defenders, win the board battles and get out front to Matthews for scoring opportunities. Babcock is not naive and knows just like you point out, he has numerous players that are not built to play physical and battle to regain dumped in pucks. So he sends in his few puck hounds, tells them to "go fetch", that he has on the roster and uses them more than many other players who can't do what they do. Plain and simple.
exactly. he's an elite zone entry machine but all he can do is dump it in out of fear he'll make a mistake and end up dragging Martin and Moore/Gauthier around the ice for the rest of the yearexactly. he always has some stupid seniority excuse. oh, yea, komarov and bozak are trash? too bad, send willie or mitch to the fourth line.
willie must be playing so scared. one mistake and the cock will unleash his wrath on him.
No way that gets overturned
The team looks really slow. Babcock has succeeded in coaching the offence right out of this team.
Wow they were flying and managed to only get 2 goals. Man we are in trouble.Stop following the narrative.
They were flying tonight and lost due to a giveaway and a miscue/bad backcheck.
Wow they were flying and managed to only get 2 goals. Man we are in trouble.
Stop following the narrative.
They were flying tonight and lost due to a giveaway and a miscue/bad backcheck.
We didn’t win. Period. Not sure what your watching but the leafs haven’t played exciting hockey in a month and our record proves it.You talk like there isn't another team on the opposite end. We played well enough to win this game, and tonight's game was exciting as a Leafs fan.
We didn’t win. Period. Not sure what your watching but the leafs haven’t played exciting hockey in a month and our record proves it.