Pre-Game Talk: Caps @ Leafs - Last game before the break

[ACC1224]

I only got to see the highlights and it was Pheonix Copley with the loss.

Too busy with NFL to pay too much attention to games outside the Leafs/Coyotes one.

I don't know of any other team in any other sport that I dislike more than the Patriots.

 

[Joedoggy]

Look at the bright side....they will have plenty of time to heal up with the allstar break

 

[Budsfan]

 

[Cor]

The break can't come soon enough for us.

 

[Drytoast]

Everything we do from this point forward is academic until this team learns to stick up for itself and play as a unit.

By that I mean when I see Kadri getting gang piled and the only person on the ice coming to his aid is Tavares...we have deeper problems then points and the playoffs

 

[Nineteen67]

Wilson coming to town. Should be lots of fights

 

[Budsfan]

The 3M line

 

[shaner8989]

We have 8 forwards with 1 goal in the last 10 games (and more). 3 of those forwards only have 1 goal in the last 20+ games. Mix that with a big time reduction in save percentage/goaltending quality... This is one massive cold streak.

The only 2 forwards producing well are Marner and Tavares.

EDIT: Lindholm 1g in 38 games. Brown 1g in 32 games. Nylander 1g in 20 games. Matthews and Kadri 1g in 13 games. Marleau 1g in 12 games. Kapanen 1g in 11 games.

That is absolutely putrid and unacceptable. This team is either garbage or in one of the biggest slumps ever.

 

[Drytoast]

He could put Marner with tavares and Matthews with Nylander and Rielly none of this matters if the way to beat the Leafs is to lean on them because they don't have any push back.

Team needs truculence to compliment and fight for our talent..

 

[shaner8989]

Oz and marincin. Echl level

 

[LeafFever]

Marner and Matthews together at practice. Maybe Mike reads this board.

 

[Nineteen67]

He could put Marner with tavares and Matthews with Nylander and Rielly none of this matters if the way to beat the Leafs is to lean on them because they don't have any push back.

Team needs truculence to compliment and fight for our talent..

They don’t have those guys. So they do all they can do.
Hopefully Dubas is taking notes, if not, I sure hope Shanny is.

 

[taurine330]

Babcock Finally Puts Marner With Matthews!

Marner with Matthews.

Check out all the new lines below:
Hyman-Tavares-Kapanen
Marleau-Matthews-Marner
Brown-Kadri-Nylander
Lindholm- Gauthier -Holl

Rielly-Hainsey
Dermott-Zaitsev
Marincin-Ozhiganov

Andersen
Sparks

 

[Nineteen67]

Ovie not playing, right? Taking his suspension

 

[LeafFever]

Babcock Finally Puts Marner With Matthews!

Marner with Matthews.

Check out all the new lines below:
Hyman-Tavares-Kapanen
Marleau-Matthews-Marner
Brown-Kadri-Nylander
Lindholm- Gauthier -Holl

Rielly-Hainsey
Dermott-Zaitsev
Marincin-Ozhiganov

Andersen
Sparks

It only took 3 years!!!
That Mike is a genius. Who would of thought of that?

 

[Al14]

The Caps are in a funk as well. They'll likely be missing Ovechkin, with him sitting out his 1 game suspension for skipping the All Star event.

So, my bet is that they look like Stanley Cup champs and stomp on our Leafs. I hope I'm totally WRONG!

 

[supermann_98]

The 3M line

Is this real life? Matthews and Marner on the same line?

 

[LeafFever]

That is so selfish of Ovie to be suspended a game due to that with the East so close.

 

[Cor]

Ovie not playing, right? Taking his suspension

He can either sit out Wednesday or on Feb 1st against CGY (their first game back after the break)

It would make sense to sit out Wednesday IMO, but who knows.

 

[ACC1224]

Ovechkin can choose which game to sit? Thought it would have been the 1st game after the break?

 

[LeafFever]

What will happen is we will get a big boost and score a lot of goals in this game and then have a week off with no guarantee Marner/Matthews stick together.

 

[zeke]

oh hey Matthews-Marner might play together for the first time in....

....THREE YEARS.


THREE YEARS before our elite coach decided it might be worth a looksee.

and the best part is that you know inside his head that Babcock still considers the Hyman line to be the first line.

 

[tom leafers]

This will be the Caps 3rd in 4 nights, and on the 2nd half of a B2B. We have to take advantage of that. If we come out lazy were screwed.

 

[Buds17]

Still haven't dropped three in a row. Defeated the Caps in the previous meeting. Lines changed up again. Would be good to go into the break on a winning note. Not a fully healthy lineup, but the ingredients for a big effort should be there and will be needed.

 

[Nineteen67]

He can either sit out Wednesday or on Feb 1st against CGY (their first game back after the break)

It would make sense to sit out Wednesday IMO, but who knows.

I think he said it would be Weds, but I can’t find anything. They play Tuesday so it make sense.