GDT: HFBoards GDT | 3/6/21 - It's Saturday

[1989]

You can even just feel it pregame in the buildings. It’s just a very intense rivalry when the teams are competitive and they have the genuine hate on the ice that these two teams have right now.

I've literally said this for years and posters here never believe me. If you're a sports fan (of any given team) you want your rivals to be as good as you because otherwise it's not a rivalry, it's just going through the motions and what sports media tells you "it should be because it was this good before."

If Calgary, Vancouver (though they'll break off to Seattle soon enough) and Edmonton can be Division contenders (in regular years) at the same time, that hockey will be beautiful to watch. It's nice that at least the Alberta teams have decent teams right now but neither are contender material yet.

 

[McRpro]

BoA is rarely disappointing. Great game! Still time for the UFC main event.

Oh damn you're right. Firing up the illegal stream.

 

[c9777666]

So what did the Leafs do to Edmonton that the Flames could not?

 

[Brown Cat]

So what did the Leafs do to Edmonton that the Flames could not?

have good team

 

[c9777666]

McDavid: 8 points in his last 2 games against the Flames

He certainly seems to understand what the battle of Alberta means

 

[thaman8765678]

The Oilers are a 2 player team. It's embarrassing they don't have a few deep runs with McDavid with how good he is.

 

[Brown Cat]

The Oilers are a 2 player team. It's embarrassing they don't have a few deep runs with McDavid with how good he is.

cope

 

[McFlyingV]

So what did the Leafs do to Edmonton that the Flames could not?

It was a combination of the Leafs playing a strong 3 defensive games, Edmonton playing like absolute trash, goaltending and bad defensive lapses spotting early leads which played into Toronto's 1-2-2 trap style game plan, and Tippet making no adjustments to their game throughout the series.

 

[c9777666]

It was a combination of the Leafs playing a strong 3 defensive games, Edmonton playing like absolute trash, goaltending and bad defensive lapses spotting early leads which played into Toronto's 1-2-2 trap style game plan, and Tippet making no adjustments to their game throughout the series.

And yet there was Tippett adjusting In the BofA

 

[HanSolo]

Fleury takes the league shutout lead

 

[c9777666]

Fleury takes the league shutout lead

Fleury 4 Vezina?

 

[HanSolo]

Fleury 4 Vezina?

He's making a very good case for it this year.

 

[Jumptheshark]

ugly win or not


oilers will take it

 

[SupremeTeam16]

The Oilers are a 2 player team. It's embarrassing they don't have a few deep runs with McDavid with how good he is.

Better then the zero player team Calgary Flames.

Even with the Oilers looking very meh and McDavid and Draisaitl invisible for most of the game everybody knew exactly how that one was gonna turn out.

It’s never a concern when teams are down against the Flames, they are absolutely elite at finding ways to lose.

 

[snipes]

It was a combination of the Leafs playing a strong 3 defensive games, Edmonton playing like absolute trash, goaltending and bad defensive lapses spotting early leads which played into Toronto's 1-2-2 trap style game plan, and Tippet making no adjustments to their game throughout the series.

Also flubbing our chances we dominated on the analytics and SCF + HDSCF in the first two games.

It’s a variety of factors, the obvious one is the Leafs are the better team. They’re pretty comfortably the best team in the North at the moment.

 

[McFlyingV]

And yet there was Tippett adjusting In the BofA

I was talking more about their game plan not his line changes. Those have been all over the place.

 

[zar]

The Oilers are a 2 player team. It's embarrassing they don't have a few deep runs with McDavid with how good he is.

Everyone knows that the Oilers lack depth... that is not a secret... but if Nurse, Yamamoto and Nuge are not good players then the Flames have a zero player team.

Anyways... thought it was a better game from the Oilers and it was a game that both teams seemed to want. I was worried after the Oilers came out flat again, but Smith held them in and gave the Oilers a chance to win. Their offence came through in the end to get a very important win. If they lost this game, after getting dominated by the Leafs, then it could have been a real mental uphill battle.

@thaman8765678, like I told you in that other thread earlier this week ... we were getting 2 points in this game

 

[c9777666]

McDavid and Draisaitl > Anyone on Calgary

 

[Leaf Fans]

McDavid and Draisaitl > Anyone on Calgary

Well, sure, but that would be true for many teams. McDavid is the best player in the world and Drai is one of them.

 

[Paul4587]

You called it right....

Was hoping for a jinx post and I got what I wanted so pretty happy. I want him to run away with the Ross and Hart.

 

[notDatsyuk]

It was a combination of the Leafs playing a strong 3 defensive games, Edmonton playing like absolute trash, goaltending and bad defensive lapses spotting early leads which played into Toronto's 1-2-2 trap style game plan, and Tippet making no adjustments to their game throughout the series.

That is the first time I have ever heard the Leafs accused of playing a 'trap'.

 

[McFlyingV]

That is the first time I have ever heard the Leafs accused of playing a 'trap'.

Thats not how they usually play, but if you watched how they played in the Edmonton 3 game series it is probably the best way to describe their game plan into Edmonton, especially after their first periods where they got a bit of a cushion. A lot of clogging the neutral zone with a guy shadowing McDavid. They did it very well, but they certainly weren't playing the same style that they did in the first 4 meetings against Edmonton when they split the games. Tippet didn't really have an answer for it which is partly personnel, and partly poor adjustments on his part.

 

[Didalee Hed]

I figured Cassie the Dumb Broad would get me an infraction. Oh shit..........

There is still time to edit this

 

[McRpro]

There is still time to edit this

Mmmmmmm. I prefer not.

 

[Didalee Hed]

Mmmmmmm. I prefer not.

Okie dokie smokie