GDT: HFBoards GDT | 2/16/20 | some early starts again today

[Kennedys]

Fans, of any team, that watch the type of game we watched in Buffalo, and blame the refs for the loss, look really silly.

Toronto Maple Leafs @ Buffalo Sabres, 2020-02-16

On a positive note happy for the Russian kid who got his first NHL goal.

Wow only 39 shot attempts for the Leafs. This is terrible

 

[The Big Swede13]

Or don't allow 42 scoring chances against in 51 minutes when playing 5vs5.

i was only talking about the lack of pp’s. Not only for this game but the whole season we cant seem to draw penalties

 

[LeafsNation75]

Toronto got power plays in the third, and got a lot of chances but couldn’t beat buffalos backup goalie who did alright tonight for a change.

Toronto's 1 and only power play happened at the 16:42 mark of the 3rd period when the Sabres were leading 5-2. So that's the one fact you didn't bring up or did not want to since it goes against your argument.

 

[Rhaegar Targaryen]

thats not what their record says. They got better with Keefe plus dont have a biggot coaching anymore

Only 7 wins in the last 17 games (4 regulation)

 

[Rhaegar Targaryen]

That’s freaking awesome. Eichel is amazing haha

 

[Le Golie]

Kyle Connor is as fun to watch as anyone. So slick.

 

[sabremike]

i think he was looking for a Sabres fan to celebrate with but couldn't seem to find one

That's funny: I was looking for Captain Underpants and Captain Pajamas tonight but couldn't seem to find either one of them.

 

[RI.B FAN]

Power plays so far for Toronto 0, Buffalo has had 3.

Edmonton today had 3 power plays and scored a power play goal.

Such a crybaby fanbase

 

[Yatzhee]

the city is a dump so that doesn't help

It's getting better. There is a price to be paid when your region is the birthplace of electricity to the masses and your the #1 manufacturing center of the world for 20 years at the on set of the industrial age. You may not like what you see when you come here, but never forget, you haven't anything you have now as far as modern day living without the Buffalo/Niagara Falls region. The harnessing of electricity was born here, at least, to the masses. So instead of saying "hey, Buffalo sucks", why not say "I know you paid the price Buffalo, but thanks for giving us our modern electronic driven lives", you'll recover.

You say Tomato I say Tomato...………….

 

[Dekes For Days]

Buffalo dominated at 5v5, so not really...

A lot easier when the refs kill any tiny bit of momentum for the other side every time.

 

[Kennedys]

A lot easier when the refs kill any tiny bit of momentum for the other side every time.

Do you have any /60 stats to back your momentum claim ?

 

[Yatzhee]

Not a Bills fan, eh?

I was, until 90 to 94. Not that I still don't cheer for them, because I do. Played both hockey and football through my school years. But hockey has always had my heart more so, the French Connection cemented that for me.

 

[Snippit]

A lot easier when the refs kill any tiny bit of momentum for the other side every time.

Pure luck is the only reason the score wasn’t far worse

20 HDCF....

 

[Yatzhee]

This year seems to have been a turning point in the fanbase, at least from how I hear the guys talk at work. Especially with the Sabres starting strong and then returning to their usual ways and looking like another year outside of the playoffs.

The rebuild was supposed to be over already and it looks more like another one is needed since their neither good nor do they have any real top end talent coming through the pipeline that isn't already in the NHL (Eichel and Dhalin)

Yea, it sucks. New owners, pegging Murray as the GM then he went and traded away all those draft picks and prospects for Kane, ROR and so on. It really has been a drag. But, then again, the bankruptcy was horrible back in 2000 and even before then, the mid to late 80's were rough. It is what it is I reckon. But I cut my teeth, literally, on the French Connection, I actually wore Danny Gare's skates when I played for the Wheatfield Blades and the St. Catherine (Ontario) Tigers back when I was a young to mid teen. I just love hockey, and the Sabres are the hand I was dealt by way of my mum's breading habbits lol. As I said, it is what it is.

 

[aufheben]

Jesus, the Leafs imploded there.

 

[aufheben]

Pure luck is the only reason the score wasn’t far worse

20 HDCF....

Yeesh. 10.56 xGF% for Sandin-Barrie. 4.45 xGoals for the Sabres.

 

[Tripod]

A lot easier when the refs kill any tiny bit of momentum for the other side every time.

you had momentum for 5 minutes the entire game.

 

[aufheben]

i was only talking about the lack of pp’s. Not only for this game but the whole season we cant seem to draw penalties

That's because the Leafs don't take penalties either and there is a strong correlation between taking and drawing penalties. It doesn't have anything to do with how good teams are.

 

[sabremike]

They were getting clowned all night by Jimmy Freaking Vesey (one of the most godawful players in the entire league) and their fans are blaming the refs??????????????? Seriously???

 

[Yatzhee]

Jesus, the Leafs imploded there.

Imploded? They never had a fuse lit. They were corralled throughout the affair.

 

[WetcoastOrca]

A lot easier when the refs kill any tiny bit of momentum for the other side every time.

Momentum? That was a spanking.
Andersen kept it close far longer than it should have been.
Lol! Good old Deke.

 

[Kublakhan]

should have been 6-2 stupid officials in Toronto !!

 

[Sens9292]

3 games in 4 nights are usually tough games . Not suprised the Leafs look like ****. Stars did too tonight.

Ottawa was on a back to back and had a busy week. These too many games excuses are getting old

 

[serp]

Ottawa was on a back to back and had a busy week. These too many games excuses are getting old

Stars clearly played like shit for most of the game and looked completely out of gas in OT . I've never seen the team this slow in OT . Sens had legs tonight , Stars didn't and they deserved the win . They skated better today and it led to them winning today. I'm happy with the point Stars got out of this mess of a game.

As for the Leafs game . Well Leafs played a well rested Sabres team on a 3 in 4 . The Sabres should be winning that game.

 

[Kennedys]

Stars clearly played like **** for most of the game and looked completely out of gas in OT . I've never seen the team this slow in OT . Sens had legs tonight , Stars didn't and they deserved the win . They skated better today and it led to them winning today. I'm happy with the point Stars got out of this mess of a game.

As for the Leafs game . Well Leafs played a well rested Sabres team on a 3 in 4 . The Sabres should be winning that game.

Blah blah we're the Leafs and are a good team but unless the condition are perfect we're not gonna win a single game.