ErnieLeafs
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He and other Toronto media also steal from another board I'm on regularly.
Pm me a link to this other board, please.
He and other Toronto media also steal from another board I'm on regularly.
No accountability. They can call anything or nothing and change the severity of what they call at any point.One would think marginal calls will be let go tonight but officials never fail to surprise.
Thanks Feschuk! Don't expect the small minded folks to take it too well though.
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I liked this one too!
I stopped reading after he said to load up the lines..Pure stupidity. After 30 years its not the dumbest thing i've read(usually young kids who are new to the game think of simple stuff like that). Imagine Matthews, Willy and Marner and the best one along the wall fighting for the puck is the pretty boy Swede while the other 2 are just waiting for it(because that's what they usually do majority of the time)..And it's out of the zone with B's dominating now in our zone. This isn't hard to predict because if you don't think Babcock has tried that in practice(to see how it would work) and he didn't like what he saw, then i don't know what to tell you. That's not some imaginative stuff or anything, it's been tried and it does not work most of the time.
That reporter is the same guy that basically ran Phil Kessel out of town, wasn't it? He was the one Phil called idiot for getting all the blame for the loss or something.
No you're right.
Why load Matthews up with JT/Marner in the last 2 minutes of the game when you're trailing by a goal? Awful, awful, awful idea!! I mean all 30 other teams in the league who do it truly have no idea what they're doing.
Remarkable how ahead of the curve Babcock is. You stick with your matchups no. matter. what. If Bergeron comes on the ice in the last minute, you take your best player off, no. matter. what.
No you're right.
Why load Matthews up with JT/Marner in the last 2 minutes of the game when you're trailing by a goal? Awful, awful, awful idea!! I mean all 30 other teams in the league who do it truly have no idea what they're doing.
Remarkable how ahead of the curve Babcock is. You stick with your matchups no. matter. what. If Bergeron comes on the ice in the last minute, you take your best player off, no. matter. what.
I hate the “never laced up” agruement. Looking back, the majority of the people I played hockey with growing up didn’t have some magical knowledge that a casual fan wouldn’t have.
My best friends dad has been around hockey his entire life. Played in the OHL, and has coached AAA for years now. He absolutely hates it when teams play 4 Forward and 1 D on the power play. Why? Because a forward isn’t used to creating offence from near the blue line. The analytics indicate that 4 F 1 D is the way to go and the fact that it’s been adopted by so many teams probably shows this to also be true. Just because my friends dad has “laced them up” doesn’t mean his opinion means anything.
I hate the “never laced up” agruement. Looking back, the majority of the people I played hockey with growing up didn’t have some magical knowledge that a casual fan wouldn’t have.
My best friends dad has been around hockey his entire life. Played in the OHL, and has coached AAA for years now. He absolutely hates it when teams play 4 Forward and 1 D on the power play. Why? Because a forward isn’t used to creating offence from near the blue line. The analytics indicate that 4 F 1 D is the way to go and the fact that it’s been adopted by so many teams probably shows this to also be true. Just because my friends dad has “laced them up” doesn’t mean his opinion means anything.
I hate when the default position from the homers is to defend everything Leafs. These passive aggressive clowns aren't capable of rational thought.
Pierre McGuire, who is not a dummy, also criticized Babcock's PK system last week. He even offered an alternative PK system that is very successful in the game today.
Ray Ferraro had similar criticisms of the Leafs penalty kill.
It's not a good thing to have a closed mind. I'm disappointed that Babcock isn't even considering a change because it's been brutal. Some would say that they don't have enough time to make a change but I disagree. These are smart athletes who have played hockey their whole lives. It's not rocket science.