I want send an apology to Vasy for any doubt I had about him before this game, he made me eat my words which I'm more than happy to do.
In some ways, a win like this is better than a 5-3 win because we just don't get 1-0 shutouts. We are typically good for a boneheaded goal against each game. Glad to see they kept it together and finished out January strong. What were we, 8-2-0 this month, right?
Vasi looked great! Nice to finally have steady goaltending. When I started watching we had Roloson and Garon. :p
When I started watching we had Puppa. Then his back finally gave out from carrying the team, literally. Well the back issues literally. The clowns that followed until we got Khabibulin made Lindback look good.
Cally is never going to score another goal
Kinda hard to score goals and get out of his snake-bitten mode when only getting 12 mins of ice time and no PP time. I've written off this season for his production, it's to the point no matter what he does he cannot find production, he even helped set up Johnson for that breakaway who has been bitten by the same snake as Cally. Then later blocks a shot that sets up Brown who gets robbed, he cannot even get a ****ing assist. I'm so ****ing tired of other fans of teams bashing his contract when they are clueless to how hard he has been playing. It's so fustrating, but at least we are winning and thats most important.
Thats funny i had no idea a safety pin was considered good luck.
Not a perfect picture but good example of a game we have to win. One goal game! On another night it would have been 3-4 goals in the first period. It really energized the Leafs that they were still in the game after our initial barrage but we held them off with Vasy leading the way. I thought the Leafs would suck but they have improved under Babcock.
They still suck. The only reason that game wasn't a blow out is because Babcock saw we were steamrolling them through the neutral zone and then maintaining consecutive shifts of offensive zone time. Once he noticed that, he employed the Detroit style defense he used last year against us. Clog the neutral zone, eliminate passing and speed, and force them to dump and chase. That would have been Cooper's opportunity to change things up as well, but he just sticks to the plan. No changing. If we were playing any other team but Toronto, that would have been a 4-1 loss.
I was telling my dad from the first few minutes of the game, even after Stamkos scored and the shots were like 8-0, that we weren't skating well and we didn't look sharp. It turned out I was right because no one except Vasi played well and we got away with a 1-0 win because the opponent sucks, not because we were good.
They still suck. The only reason that game wasn't a blow out is because Babcock saw we were steamrolling them through the neutral zone and then maintaining consecutive shifts of offensive zone time. Once he noticed that, he employed the Detroit style defense he used last year against us. Clog the neutral zone, eliminate passing and speed, and force them to dump and chase. That would have been Cooper's opportunity to change things up as well, but he just sticks to the plan. No changing. If we were playing any other team but Toronto, that would have been a 4-1 loss.
I was telling my dad from the first few minutes of the game, even after Stamkos scored and the shots were like 8-0, that we weren't skating well and we didn't look sharp. It turned out I was right because no one except Vasi played well and we got away with a 1-0 win because the opponent sucks, not because we were good.
They still suck. The only reason that game wasn't a blow out is because Babcock saw we were steamrolling them through the neutral zone and then maintaining consecutive shifts of offensive zone time. Once he noticed that, he employed the Detroit style defense he used last year against us. Clog the neutral zone, eliminate passing and speed, and force them to dump and chase. That would have been Cooper's opportunity to change things up as well, but he just sticks to the plan. No changing. If we were playing any other team but Toronto, that would have been a 4-1 loss.
I was telling my dad from the first few minutes of the game, even after Stamkos scored and the shots were like 8-0, that we weren't skating well and we didn't look sharp. It turned out I was right because no one except Vasi played well and we got away with a 1-0 win because the opponent sucks, not because we were good.