Post-Game Talk: Big money boiz bounce back (4-2 over the Wild)

[Tall Morty]

You get the basketball tonight

I’m honoured

 

[supermann_98]

It would have been a travesty to lose this game. I mean, look at that Minnesota team ... yikes.

Karma for that tampering move they pulled with Parise.

Anyway, the best possible thing about this game other than the win was that the impossible happened. Babs finally made a line adjustment, one 95% of HFboards TML boards has been screaming for, and whadaya know? It worked like a charm.

He should leave the lineup card to us and just worry about running practices

 

[OVO16]

Marincin better not effing play tomorrow

 

[ponder]

Took care of business - we’re the much better team, and it showed.

Glad to see Babs finally make a much needed adjustment. It’s been so clear every game that Kappy has no chemistry with JT/Marner, plus he looked uncomfortable at LW. Swapping him and Moore was an obvious move, and it worked. Most coaches make this adjustment in 1-3 games IMO, but this was still an improvement for Babs. Last year we got the majority of the season with Nylander in the bottom 6, and previously we had MUCH too long stints of Komarov getting major minutes, and Zaitsev on the top pair. So I guess I should just be happy that Babs made an obvious adjustment in less than 20-40 games

 

[Ratboy]

Tavares with a wicked slapper.
Good to see Marner with a goal and two assists. Freddy with a crappy first goal (not even sure how he fell down) but was ok afterwards. The marincin holl pairing is way too slow.

Minnesota sucks really bad so let's use this as a feel good game moving forward.

Go Leafs Go!

Ps next game can we have a GDT?

 

[Pyrophorus]

woooo we're good again

For one period.

 

[LeafingTheWay]

Marincin better not effing play tomorrow

Why!? He played great tonight.

 

[Pyrophorus]

Dallas/Minny going for LaFreniere/Byfield

Prefer them going there too.

 

[Pyrophorus]

Why!? He played great tonight.

It was only Otta...err....Minny.

 

[OVO16]

Why!? He played great tonight.

Cant tell if you're being sarcastic

 

[MJ65]

Enjoy the highlights

 

[Once]

Kappy is having himself a sophomore slump. He looked more comfortable on the right side again.

 

[Ratboy]

Cant tell if you're being sarcastic

The plan is still on to shoot marincin into the sun, assuming NASA agrees to it.

 

[OVO16]

The plan is still on to shoot marincin into the sun, assuming NASA agrees to it.

The day Marincin is no longer a leaf the day I celebrate as equally as I would winning the Cup.

 

[LeafingTheWay]

Cant tell if you're being sarcastic

Not being sarcastic. I like his game today, and have so throughout this season.

He's the whipping boy on this team. It made sense last year when he played like garbage, but he's given us exactly what we wanted for a bottom-pair D this year.

 

[Leafs at Knight]

- I think Tavares led the way as we took over in that second period. Marner followed that up with some magic. Moore helped that line immediately.
- Matthews was good defensively, but didn't look quite as dynamic as we like to see him. Johnsson was around the puck a lot, but he also killed a few great chances (two flubbed passes and stepped right into Matthews when he could have sprung Nylander). Willy had flashes but no finish.
- Third line was rather mediocre. Kerfoot had a strong first half, less so in the second half. Mikheyev was quiet, and Kapanen was flat out bad again tonight.
- Fourth line looked solid for most of the game, but got to have a minus for falling asleep towards the end there.

- Rielly had the most quiet 4-point game I've seen in a while. Really didn't like him or Ceci defensively. Again.
- Muzzin was really good. Barrie was mostly good, but had a few misjakes.
- Marincin was ok at best, Holl I didn't really like.

- Andersen was good, but whatever happened to his puckhandling?

Kudos to Babcock for finally changing up the Tavares line.

Disagree with Rielly. He looked really good, probably his best game yet. Skating around the o-zone freely like he would a lot yesterday.

 

[MattySnipes]

so far Matthews is first among forwards in cf% and scoring chance%. In terms of offense he's a bit worse than last year, but is miles better defensively

Yes, impressive. Check it out.

Matthews, Nylander, Mango have been great based on those metrics. Nice to have elite talent that can play at 5v5.

 

[Cleetus]

The day Marincin is no longer a leaf the day I celebrate as equally as I would winning the Cup.

one can simply not get rid of the Marincin he is a leaf till retirement

 

[LeafingTheWay]

Disagree with Rielly. He looked really good, probably his best game yet. Skating around the o-zone freely like he would a lot yesterday.

Rielly was amazing today offensively, but meh defensively.

That's just his playing style though, similar to Brent Burn's playing style.

 

[Not My Tempo]

I just want to say the Muzzin-Barrie pairing is perfect.

 

[Polaris1010]

The plan is still on to shoot marincin into the sun, assuming NASA agrees to it.

Free Marty!

 

[Maple Leaf]

Free Marty!

The plan is to shoot marincin onto Mars, Martian marincin​

 

[Polaris1010]

I don't know why people on this forum keeps crapping on the goalie.

On the first goal, no one covered the shooter, no one covered the Minnesota guy in Andersen's face screening him.

Yet he always gets the blame.

Watch the damn replay.

 

[Ratboy]

The plan is to shoot marincin onto Mars, Martian marincin​

I like this even more

 

[Eye Test]

Anyone have marincins stats for the game? He was awful