Pre-Game Talk: Bruins @ Leafs - Saturday HNIC

[MyBudJT]

I’m intrigued by Mikheyev-Kerfoot-Marner. I think they’re all skilled and smart enough to really work well together.

Could also have 3 #1 lines when Tavares is back:

11-34-88
65-15-16
42-91-24
18-33-19

 

[hector morrison]

Matthews 5v5 icetime creeping up now, and his underlying numbers are still amazing.

Among NHL forwards:

5v5 icetime/gp: 14:46 (23rd overall, comparables: Eichel, Kopitar, Seguin)
5v5 stats and league ranking (min 80 minutes played):
CF%: 67.08 (5th overall)
SF%: 66.09 (9th overall)
xGF%: 68.43 (13th overall)

Kinda hate to say it...but ,he needs to be better! Money ,expectations and time in the league. more ice time might increase his numbers.

 

[hector morrison]

I’m intrigued by Mikheyev-Kerfoot-Marner. I think they’re all skilled and smart enough to really work well together.

Could also have 3 #1 lines when Tavares is back:

11-34-88
65-15-16
42-91-24
18-33-19

Kerfoot /Miky are gonna see a better quality of competition now. hope they keep their stick on the ice while playing with Marner!

 

[deletethis]

Kinda hate to say it...but ,he needs to be better! Money ,expectations and time in the league. more ice time might increase his numbers.

You shouldn't hate to say it. Our 10M+ club should be expected to be dominant every night and noticeable each and every shift. The team's fortunes fall on their shoulders. Their contracts are the reason why they will be sharing the ice tomorrow with 8 near league minimum teammates. Surely a group of 8 players making less than 60% of either Matthews or Marner can't be expected to have huge impacts on the team.

 

[MattySnipes]

Anyone else getting tired of all this "sky is falling" junk?
It's October 18th, Stop spazzing out.

But anyways...

Hoping for the good version of the team to show up tonight, they should be rested.

Go Leafs Go!

Game is tomorrow

 

[deletethis]

Will Spezza centering the 3rd line last the entire game?

 

[TheGroceryStick]

I'm hoping spezza looks good.
He knows what this rivalry means.

1g 1a

 

[hector morrison]

You shouldn't hate to say it. Our 10M+ club should be expected to be dominant every night and noticeable each and every shift. The team's fortunes fall on their shoulders. Their contracts are the reason why they will be sharing the ice tomorrow with 8 near league minimum teammates. Surely a group of 8 players making less than 60% of either Matthews or Marner can't be expected to have huge impacts on the team.

The big money brings big expectations (fair or not)...sure the contracts have just begun,but 'game on' boys! They got paid before they won anything,so time to shine...to be fair,i would let the Matthews/Marner pair start now and let them become what we all expect. But likely not till Babs is gone!

 

[Suntouchable13]

You shouldn't hate to say it. Our 10M+ club should be expected to be dominant every night and noticeable each and every shift. The team's fortunes fall on their shoulders. Their contracts are the reason why they will be sharing the ice tomorrow with 8 near league minimum teammates. Surely a group of 8 players making less than 60% of either Matthews or Marner can't be expected to have huge impacts on the team.

You're absolutely right. We go nowhere if those guys don't play up to expectations. Your depth can only carry you so far. We have good depth, IMO, but it only works if the big boys produce.

 

[Twowingcantfly]

Nylander doesn't really have the skillset for that in my opinion, but at least he'll help win faceoffs and enter the zone

Dude I hope JT is watching. He might learn a thing or to about how to play center. Most nights JT looks like he is plowing through mud.

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

Dude I hope JT is watching. He might learn a thing or to about how to play center. Most nights JT looks like he is plowing through mud.

I don't think Tavares will become an elite skater by watching Nylander, but he has been pretty sluggish. Hopefully the time off does him some good

 

[Maple Leaf]

Dude I hope JT is watching. He might learn a thing or to about how to play center. Most nights JT looks like he is plowing through mud.

We have to trade JT before he gets any slower

 

[Twowingcantfly]

Boston gets blown out this game. Speed kills.

 

[hector morrison]

You're absolutely right. We go nowhere if those guys don't play up to expectations. Your depth can only carry you so far. We have good depth, IMO, but it only works if the big boys produce.

Tough balancing act really. Vets,rookies,up and comers ,all wanting to be paid! You might not win it all without the proper depth players,but you gonna win nuttin' without the allstars playin' like they should.

 

[PromisedLand]

Post-Game Talk: - Leafs lose 4-3 in Washington

above is my post in the post game

today Matthews
Maple Leafs confident players will step up with Tavares out

"Somebody is going to get the tough matchups so we have to make sure we play well in our own zone and without the puck especially against their top line," Matthews said."They're really solid and one of the top lines in the League."

So Matthews knows exactly what I am talking about. That is, playing well without the puck.

Matthews reading my posts on HF

 

[Cleetus]

Bleh , been working nights so my days are off.

haha just yanking your chain! lol

 

[TheGroceryStick]

I get babs lines. It's always best to keep lines familiar, in order to build on chemistry even when players are out.

Although... if we are trying to win games.

Mikhayev - Matthews - Marner
Johnsson - Nylander - Kapanen
Moore - Kerfoot - Timashov
Shore - Gauthier - Spezza

 

[PromisedLand]

I get babs lines. It's always best to keep lines familiar, in order to build on chemistry even when players are out.

Although... if we are trying to win games.

Mikhayev - Matthews - Marner
Johnsson - Nylander - Kapanen
Moore - Kerfoot - Timashov
Shore - Gauthier - Spezza

I would do:

Mikheyev-Matthews-Moore
Johnsson-Nylander-Marner (soft line - but hey we have last change and they have no Krejci)
Timashov-Kerfoot-Kapanen
Goat-Spezza-Shore

Matthews line takes on Bergeron line

 

[Cleetus]

We have to trade JT before he gets any slower

yea just make him Captain and there just going to trade him, just came of a 88 point season 47 goals, and a hometown guy what a awful take.

 

[Maple Leaf]

yea just make him Captain and there just going to trade him, just came of a 88 point season 47 goals, and a hometown guy what a awful take.

David Clarkson was also a hometown boy

 

[TheBeastCoast]

6-2 Bruins.

 

[Cleetus]

David Clarkson was also a hometown boy

yea because David Clarkson and John Tavares are comparable in any way??? seriously?

 

[Critical13]

John Tavares is a BEAST who came 3rd for the Rocket last year. All ya'll hating on him after 6 games are going to look like a bunch of Bruins fans fleeing the game 12 minutes before it ends by the end of the season. I'm bookmarking posts left right and centre and I plan on using them.

 

[IPS]

Anyone else getting tired of all this "sky is falling" junk?
It's October 18th, Stop spazzing out.

But anyways...

Hoping for the good version of the team to show up tonight, they should be rested.

Go Leafs Go!

lol it's here for a reason.

Lots of people can see that this team has brought the same energy from the 2nd half of last year.

 

[glue]

Hard to be optimistic with the way leafs have started this year. To me time for the big money boys to actually earn their pay (though I doubt it).