Barzal vs. Matthews

[McFlyingV]

Tavares didn't have Patrice Bergeron and Zdeno Chara glued to him every second he was on the ice in his series. Bergeron also went on to absolutely smother Stamkos and Kucherov in the following series (funny we don't hear so much about that). Then there was the presser from Babcock in which he suggested that Matthews was not close to 100%.

It sucked to watch, but it was a huge challenge for a second year player to take on the guy who is universally regarded as the best shut down center in the league over a 7 game series. Not to mention Zdeno playing his best hockey in about 5 years. The huge positive is that it'll only make him better in the long run.

Gotta love these false narratives. Matthews didn't even play half of his 5 on 5 ice time against Bergeron. Thats only looking at the games Bergeron did play. Lets not forget Bergeron missed game 4 as well.

Matthews played a total of 26:25 out of his 103:41 ice time in the series at 5 on 5 against Bergeron. He flat out sucked and it had little to do with Bergeron. Deal with it and move on. He'll be better next time around.

 

[Michel Beauchamp]

So change it to the rarely seen "Everybody Hates Them"...

I did not go through the whole thread, but I would bet that "Everybody Hates Us" rears up its ugly head somewhere.

The only votes against Matthews here are from the well known Leaf haters on HF here.

This is not remotely close.

Case proven...

 

[spiny norman]

Closed.