Pre-Game Talk: Toronto Maple Leafs @ Edmonton Oilers | TUE OCT 29 9PM (EST)

[Tyler Biggs*]

Leafs beat Pens. Habs lose. Bruins lose. Wings lose. It's a nice view from the top!

 

[Elimanator]

Does Edmonton start with a "C" ?

Does that mean we are going to lose against Calgary

 

[Center Ice Scrum*]

If we can shut down Eberle and RNH this game, we should be able to handle the Oilers. Dion can beat the crap out of RNH all game long and Rielly + Franson should be able to take care of the Eberle line. If our D can hold off their offense, then this has the possibility of being a blowout in favor of the Leafs.

Hoping Kule will be back next game, same with Lupes and Fraser.

JVR - Kadri - Kessel - #1A line with nifty mittens and crazy snipers. And SPEED that can't be matched by the Oilers D
Lupes - Bolland - Clarkson - #1B line we can throw out against the Oilers RNH line.
Raymond - McClement - Kulemin - Offensive black hole/ shutdown line.
McLaren - Smith - Ashton/ Bodie - 4 mins of fame line

Phaneuf - Gunnar
Rielly - Franson
Gards - Fraser
Ranger

Reimer
Bernier

 

[Tyler Biggs*]

It's just a matter of time before the Leafs start playing like they did in the playoffs. They need to play a rough and tumble game to be successful, that is their identity.

 

[Tyler Biggs*]

Leaf fans inside the ACC need to be louder. That is all.

 

[false bobo]

Leaf fans inside the ACC need to be louder. That is all.

Leiweke needs to call them out publicly.

 

[HockeyGuy82]

I think Reimer will play, and he will make sure he does better then Bernier did last time. Not that Bernier did that bad. And if Bernier goes in, he knows he has to do better. We will win this one.

 

[Asif16*]

RNH taken out after clifford hit.

We may face a even weaker team now with Hall and RNH gone...

 

[Penalty Kill Icing*]

RNH is back btw.

 

[Daisy Jane]

I hope that the Leafs take advantage on the the western road trip - because it seems at times going out west really put the skids on our season. if we can do 2-1 that sets us up lovely for our tough Eastern Battles.

 

[Suntouchable13]

I hope that the Leafs take advantage on the the western road trip - because it seems at times going out west really put the skids on our season. if we can do 2-1 that sets us up lovely for our tough Eastern Battles.

Win against Edmonton and Vancouver, lose to Calgary.

 

[Asif16*]

Win against Edmonton and Vancouver, lose to Calgary.

Never seem to win against the canucks though. They have our number

 

[Daisy Jane]

Win against Edmonton and Vancouver, lose to Calgary.

I really hope we beat Calgary - (i mean I'm confident in it) but if we had to lose one - I'd rather lose to Edmonton (and smash Vancouver). I don't want to go to work thursday, if we lost.

 

[SteveV*]

I think Reimer will play, and he will make sure he does better then Bernier did last time. Not that Bernier did that bad. And if Bernier goes in, he knows he has to do better. We will win this one.

Have to go with Reimer.


As an aside, nice to see some of the bloom coming off Saint Dallas, the wonder boy.

 

[Leaf Rocket]

As long as we don't play as ****** as last time we should be fine. I know it should be an easy game however we always take teams for granted and screw us over.

 

[goonx]

Tampa looking dangerous now

 

[Duffman955]

Tampa looking dangerous now

Why is that?

They can barely beat Buffalo and Florida. BTW thats 50% of their wins this season from those 2 teams.

 

[TheLeastOfTheBunch]

Win against Edmonton and Vancouver, lose to Calgary.

Leafs will win all 3

 

[Sokil]

It's just a matter of time before the Leafs start playing like they did in the playoffs. They need to play a rough and tumble game to be successful, that is their identity.

if they're not playing it, how is it their identity?

 

[ponder]

I hope we come out hitting and fighting right away. We're a pretty big, intimidating team, while Edmonton are pretty small and soft, we need to use that to our advantage. We have a tendency to play down to the level of bad teams that are defensively weak but somewhat talented offensively, so hopefully we don't do that against the Coilers.

 

[Hurt]

That was weird. Anyways, please keep your posts about hockey. That's what these boards are about, not philosophy of life.

 

[crump]

I would never do just that.

Sounds like Kulemin and Lupul could play Tuesday.

 

[FlareKnight]

Edmonton seemed to be a negative turning point before. I hope we play a better game overall against these guys.

Be nice if we had a few bodies like Lupul in the lineup as well.

Figure after the last game Reimer will get his crack at these guys. Just have to find a way to win and hopefully Kessel's hot streak keeps on going.

 

[TML 13]

Edmonton seemed to be a negative turning point before. I hope we play a better game overall against these guys.

Be nice if we had a few bodies like Lupul in the lineup as well.

Figure after the last game Reimer will get his crack at these guys. Just have to find a way to win and hopefully Kessel's hot streak keeps on going.

Kessel plays like he has last two games then he will eat EDM D up. Compared to PIT and ANA it's not as good.

 

[BrannigansLaw]

Leaf fans inside the ACC need to be louder. That is all.

No kidding. Leafs fans in Columbus were louder during a loss than Saturday night's crowd.

What the heck happened to the ACC? Maybe I'm just being nostalgic but I remember the building being A LOT louder during regular season games (I'm talking early 2000s). Now it's like people are afraid to cheer.

It seriously sounds like a library in there until the game is almost over and only if the Leafs are winning by that time. It's quite pathetic and embarrassing really.