GDT: Game 32: Avs vs Leafs | 7 PM MT | December 22, 2016 | Rebuild a Thousand Years Long
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Cousin Eddie
You Serious Clark?
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tigervixxxen
Optimism=Delusional
landy92mack29
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Thread title is accurate, going back to 2008 I was sure the team would have turned it around and been a league power by now.
tigervixxxen
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This isn't to sound hostile but more serious question, what about what they were doing in 2008 lead you to believe they were on the right path?
UncleRisto
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There was an article about Varly shopping bikes for Christmas but it didn't make the cover.
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WarriorOfGandhi
Was saying Boo-urns
the accumulation of elite young talent like TJ Hensick, Ryan Stoa, and Kevin Montgomery
Skip2myBordyloo
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Not so much the right path, but the right path in the face that the team was atrocious without Sakic. Raycroft-Budaj tandem was the worst in the league. Players like Smyth - Hannan - Hejduk - Tucker - Laperreire had played their best hockey and we're starting to age, it was essentially the sign of the rebuild coming.
Granted with Stastny- Stewart- Wolski- Galiardi coming up I thought there were some building pieces there that would accelerate the rebuild maybe have it last maybe 2-3 years.
Duchene has played 8 seasons with us and we're still at the bottom, I just assumed things would have gotten better by now. We're definitely the Hawks of the early 2000's, problem is I don't see us making a push anytime soon either.
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The Leafs are going to puck a lot of rubber on net once again but man is their shooting game deceptive. On paper one would think that how did they not win but once you see the games it becomes crystal clear, they shoot weak hopeless shots every chance they get.
Still that is much better than the Avs strategy of not shooting at all. Maybe the puck just magically goes into the net itself
Still that is much better than the Avs strategy of not shooting at all. Maybe the puck just magically goes into the net itself
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Babcock's line-up selection is to blame here imo. The guy tries to roll 4 lines so he'll put Nylander on the 4th or Kadri on the 3rd which then sometimes becomes the 1st....the problem is that guys like Nylander/Kadri/Marner are generating chances and rebounds for mediocre players on their line that can't bury those chances. So that's why their conversion rate is so low imo, I'm a Leafs fan second and it really frustrates me to watch the Avs lose with a bad corsi and then tune in to see the Leafs lose with a good corsi because they have 3rd and 4th liners wasting chances and because their setup strategy is impatience. They'll wildly throw it on net without trying to move the puck laterally as much as other teams do. Oh and they have generally little net presence as we saw in the last game against us though our dmen did a great job that game of beating up on any Leafs player around the net.
dahrougem2
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The Leafs fire a ton of pucks on net without the requisite bodies to go to the net, save for a couple.
Unless they build a team like the 2012 L.A. Kings, these attempts will be futile. Shoot all you want, they won't matter
Unless they build a team like the 2012 L.A. Kings, these attempts will be futile. Shoot all you want, they won't matter
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tigervixxxen
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Varly is starting tonight so I guess any shot we had at bearing Chicago tomorrow just went out the window.
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I'm going to guess that Varly gets both as long as he doesn't crap the bed tonight.
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I simply want to hear the AVs in-house entertainment folks play "You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch" whenever the refs call a penalty on the AVs tonight.
A win would be welcomed but I don't want to ask for too much.
A win would be welcomed but I don't want to ask for too much.
dahrougem2
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The Avs in-house entertainment folks suck. They seemingly play the same stuff over and over again at games.
I thoroughly enjoy the Dallas guys
tigervixxxen
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Don Corleone
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Oh wow. I guess I understand as coaches are desperate to get wins. Won't matter much as the half of the team has mentally checked out weeks ago. Now its just play a game, maybe score a goal, try not to get hurt, wait what happens at the trade deadline and of course get paid.
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