Pre-Game Talk: Behold, the Era of Sabourin to begin tomorrow

[therealkoho]

Dubas officially a dinosaur, can we please get a younger GM with even thicker glasses

WE WANT CHAYKA! WE WANT CHAYKA! WE WANT CHAYKA! WE WANT CHAYKA! WE WANT CHAYKA!

 

[Warden of the North]

Interesting statistic:

7 of the 12 forwards are 6’3” or bigger

I dont know what fancy stats you're using but the eye test tells me Dubas only acquires weakling smurfs

 

[therealkoho]

I would love to see

Marner-Matthews-Nylander
Thornton-JT-Hyman
Mikheyev-Kerfoot-Engvall
whoever

Until Robertson and Simmonds get back obviously

yeah no don't want Willie Ny anywhere near those guys right now, once he shakes off the coma he's been in then yeah no problem

 

[Cor]

No Sabourin.

 

[stickty111]

No Sabourin.

Good decision

 

[SeaOfBlue]

No Sabourin.

Engvall is now a full time player.

 

[The Iceman]

There is no evidence of this. Hopefully he gets only 4 mins or less.

In fairness a player needs more than 90 seconds a period to prove his worth.
Everything is cyclical and maybe Dubas brings back the snarl and forces others to match our toughness LOL.
No harm playing Sab over Barabanov and his 7 minutes. At least Sab brings an element.

 

[stickty111]

In fairness a player needs more than 90 seconds a period to prove his worth.
Everything is cyclical and maybe Dubas brings back the snarl and forces others to match our toughness LOL.
No harm playing Sab over Barabanov and his 7 minutes. At least Sab brings an element.

The element is only useful if the player is an NHL player which he isn't.

 

[Warden of the North]

No Sabourin.

Good. Definition of a scrub.

 

[BertCorbeau]

Welcome back Joe. Hopefully that Matthews' line will continue to roll and Hyman can help get the offense going on the JT line.

Soup-Kerfoot-Engvall is a solid third line.

That leaves Vesey-Spezza-Boyd on the fourth line?

 

[stickty111]

Welcome back Joe. Hopefully that Matthews' line will continue to roll and Hyman can help get the offense going on the JT line.

Soup-Kerfoot-Engvall is a solid third line.

That leaves Vesey-Spezza-Boyd on the fourth line?

That is corrrect.

 

[BertCorbeau]

Vesey's going to have to show some spark on the forecheck. He's solid defensively, but hasn't shown much offensively, and in order to make an impact lower in the lineup he really needs to be more disruptive and tenacious, and win those battles.

Glad Keefe is seeing this.

 

[ShaneFalco]

Welcome back Joe. Hopefully that Matthews' line will continue to roll and Hyman can help get the offense going on the JT line.

Soup-Kerfoot-Engvall is a solid third line.

That leaves Vesey-Spezza-Boyd on the fourth line?

Gotta disagree on the third line - they're not providing much if anything

 

[Leafs1991]

Hyman should help the 2nd line but Slow Joe will hurt the 1st line.

Agreed. He wasn't good those first few games.

 

[Leafs1991]

On paper our Leafs should sweep this 3 game series against Ottawa who are the undisputed worst team in the NHL managing only 7 points after 16 games.

In reality however Ottawa has already beaten the Leafs once this year, so taking the Sens for granted and looking past them would be a big mistake.

I think Ottawa came out hot and Leafs did underestimate them a bit in the first game. They will be fine this time I think.

 

[LeafChief]

Vesey needs to figure it out or he's going to be on waivers and on that taxi squad quite soon.

 

[Advanced stats]

Hogberg in for Ottawa. I want a touchdown!


He's sporting a .859 save percentage on the season with a 4.4 gaa

 

[Alex1234]

Hogberg in for Ottawa. I want a touchdown!


He's sporting a .859 save percentage on the season with a 4.4 gaa

There's no way you don't beat us by a TD even with 23 Sabourin on your roster
Hogberg is that bad lol
Best offense vs worst D

 

[Advanced stats]

There's no way you don't beat us by a TD even with 23 Sabourin on your roster
Hogberg is that bad lol
Best offense vs worst D

Sabourin isn't even in...Keefe is just playing mind games to keep everyone motivated.

Honestly with Muarry being a question mark even before the season, I'm surprised you guys didn't sign a cheap veteran back up for stability

 

[BertCorbeau]

If Hoberg is in, no excuses to not show up tonight. Opportunity for the Tavares line to break out of their slump. Also a prime chance for Matthews to get back in the goal column.

 

[NikoEhlers]

If Högberg is playing, then put in Hutch and give fred a rest

 

[glue]

I don’t think Vesey is useless, I don’t even think Martin Marincin is useless.

I do think that Vesey hasn’t performed at the level we thought he would, putting him in the position that we did. To which it seems the coaching staff is wearing thin with giving him those opportunities. I am all for putting a guy in against his old team. Good morale booster for him and I’m sure for the room.

 

[CanadasTeam]

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