Daisy Jane
everything is gonna be okay!
- Jul 2, 2009
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It's safe to say when the Leafs move their feet and play hard they win, out shooting an opponent 40-24 you will win more than lose!
i would give Robidas the benefit of the doubt over Gardiner every day of the week.
Robidas can still lead by example by sitting in the press box. Good teammate and all. He clearly is rusty after rehabbing his broken leg. He missed a few pre season games. He could use the time to ease into the lineup.
they looked good against the super speedy avalanche.
Not really.
Giving up a breakaway to Duchene with the game on the line was not "looking good." The unforced giveaways in our own zone were not "looking good."
Just because you win the game doesn't mean the mistakes didn't happen. Franson and Phaneuf together is asking for a lot of trouble.
I would think Gardiner will draw back in Friday. Wouldn't surprise me if Panik sits and they go 7 d.
Let's hope.
We were losing in the corsi department until the second half of the game. Colorado, a notoriously bad corsi team was playing their second of back to back games.
The win was not that impressive, and I hope others realize this. Everyone is so high after a win and then its trade everyone mode when we lose.
Things are the same as last year as far as I can see.
Back to back is no excuse, not this early in the year with such a young team.
I actually like our start better than last year. Then we were winning games but only cause our goalies were stealing them for us. We just barely lost to MTL, could be 3-1 right now.
Of course it's early and we could lose the next 6 in a row. But give credit where credit is due, the win over COL was a very good game!
I can't imagine giving the Leafs the excuse of looking bad because they played the night before. Yuck.
We have the most back to backs this year anyway... teams won't get sympathy from me for that.
It's early but the Leafs have played 3 solid games, winning 2 of them and losing one, and one major stinker. Hopefully the stinker is not something we'll witness too many times.
Let's hope.
We were losing in the corsi department until the second half of the game. Colorado, a notoriously bad corsi team was playing their second of back to back games.
The win was not that impressive, and I hope others realize this. Everyone is so high after a win and then its trade everyone mode when we lose.
Things are the same as last year as far as I can see.
Don't like the idea of Phaneuf-Franson vs Detroit, it will be exploited. Colorado is a fast team, but they are basically the Western version of us, terrible if you look at advanced stats.
I also would never do the Gardiner-Reilly pairing again. I'd go with -
Gardiner-Phaneuf
Reilly-Franson
Percy-Polak
and give Robidas the Friday game off as part of the back to back and then sit the weakest link on Saturday (if there is a weak link)
One problem, Who plays right defence? Leafs are committed to play Dion on the Left side this year.
I would take Franson on the right side over Gardiner on his off side anyday.
What if you simply moved Phaneuf back to his right side for a game?
I don't like any of Robidas-Franson-Polak with Dion.
What channel (Rogers in the GTA) is it on? I searched the on-screen guide on my PVR so that I could set it to tape but, according to that, the game isn't being broadcast.