GDT: Game #2: Toronto Maple Leafs @ Detroit Red Wings | Babcock's Return

[WTFMAN99]

Brown was also awesome in the preseason.

He's close.

I really do think that around the trade deadline we could see them come up. If not next year, they may decide to keep our good/younger prospects away from this team entirely.

They may instead opt to fill out the line up with some guys like Carrick, Leivo, Frattin.

 

[SeaOfBlue]

It's possible some are undesirable - We couldn't move Booth last year.

At the very least, we put some meat shields on the team to take some beatings while we got our young guns some time in the AHL to get ready.

To be fair, Booth wasn't good until after the TDL. People may laugh, but he'd be worse than everyone on this team.

 

[KGL]

How's that depth scoring working for us right now?

One game, bud. It's one game. Boyes is still likely to put up 30 points or so, maybe more as he's on the top line.

 

[hockeyes]

-2 for Kadri again.

Congrats for viewing the box score. I didn't know we had bots to randomly post stats and offer no tangible thought.

 

[Jacquestrapless]

So uhhh older posters...is this what the Ballard era was like?

 

[Snow Dog]

One game, bud. It's one game. Boyes is still likely to put up 30 points or so, maybe more as he's on the top line.

We have a top line.

 

[TMLegend]

Congrats for viewing the box score. I didn't know we had bots to randomly post stats and offer no tangible thought.

Thank you. Bozak is even too.

 

[KGL]

We have a top line.

Is that a question orrrr a statement or what?

 

[Liferleafer]

So uhhh older posters...is this what the Ballard era was like?

Not quite....Ballard went out of his way to make sure the team lost....if a player was successful. ..it was a sure thing he was traded (see: Rick Vaive).

That and he was just a pure ******* of a human being.

 

[Suntouchable13]

Thank you. Bozak is even too.

Give him the Selke!

 

[Nevins]

Yeah, our goalies have been real solid. Um. yeah ... solid.

Vs MTL:1e shut on Bernier=goal
Vs Detroit:1e shut on Bernier=goal
Vs Detroit:1e shut on Reimer=goal

Is it an NHL record?

 

[Snow Dog]

Is that a question orrrr a statement or what?

Both

 

[MapleLeaf]

So uhhh older posters...is this what the Ballard era was like?

Very similar however, the Leafs at that time at least had someone who could score 50 goals in a season....Rick Vaive.

 

[Zybalto]

Possession stats are pretty even this game. Forward scoring/goalies have been the difference.

Top ES CF%

1 Komorov 78
2 Arcobello 75
3 Harrington 73
4 Holland 67
5 Gardiner 67

 

[rdogg]

I wasn't planning on it, but we're 2 games into the season and I'm already starting to think Tank.

 

[Snow Dog]

Possession stats are pretty even this game. Forward scoring/goalies have been the difference.

Top ES CF%

1 Komorov 78
2 Arcobello 75
3 Harrington 73
4 Holland 67
5 Gardiner 67

This is one of the reasons I don't have to much faith in using possesion to judge anything.

 

[New Liskeard]

this leafs team is just bad, I'd never thought I'd ever see us ice a team this bad in my life

Clearly you weren't around in the 80's.

 

[Liferleafer]

Very similar however, the Leafs at that time at least had someone who could score 50 goals in a season....Rick Vaive.

Then he traded him. Traded Lanny....traded Sittler....ostracized Keon......fired Roger Neilson....then replaced him with...Roger Neilson wearing a bag over his head.

Ballard will forever be the worst owner ever.

 

[Bobs your uncle]

Remember people talking about playoffs, seems like only last week.

It was.

 

[Daisy Jane]

I think i fell asleep. oops.

 

[deletethis]

Possession stats are pretty even this game. Forward scoring/goalies have been the difference.

Top ES CF%

1 Komorov 78
2 Arcobello 75
3 Harrington 73
4 Holland 67
5 Gardiner 67

Or these numbers are essentially meaningless in this context.

 

[Fogelhund]

Possession stats are pretty even this game. Forward scoring/goalies have been the difference.

Top ES CF%

1 Komorov 78
2 Arcobello 75
3 Harrington 73
4 Holland 67
5 Gardiner 67

Really... because it's seemed like Detroit has dominated possession.

 

[Al14]

So uhhh older posters...is this what the Ballard era was like?

Not for me. During the Ballard years, hope was always just around the corner. With this team, hope seems to be a long ways away.

 

[New Liskeard]

Possession stats are pretty even this game. Forward scoring/goalies have been the difference.

Top ES CF%

1 Komorov 78
2 Arcobello 75
3 Harrington 73
4 Holland 67
5 Gardiner 67

So there is more to the game of hocey than possession stats and stats in general?

 

[tokyoite]

Why is Phaneuf still on the team? Why?

Because nobody wants him.