Post-Game Talk: King Auston re-takes his seat on the Throne. Leafs beat Sharks 5-3!

[dubplatepressure]

Who on the marlies would you rather play instead of Brown? Brown hasnt been very good offensively but we all knew he is a 3rd line player...

Easily one of Grundstrom or Moore. Leaning more towards Grunstrom.

 

[crump]

Congratulations PM on being the only player in history to score the GWG against 30 different teams.
https://www.reddit.com/r/leafs/comments/a1djdm/kurz_patrick_marleau_is_now_the_only_player_in/

 

[Clark4Ever]

Leivo is getting better and better it seems and showed some decent speed last night

Agreed. At this point, I'd play him over Brown, but I somehow doubt that will happen.

 

[Clark4Ever]

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KING IN THE NORTH

King Joffrey thinks he belongs at that table as well.

 

[Kurisu]

leafs penalty killing has been pretty bad the last couple of games.

 

[Gabriel426]

Patrick Marleau is now the only player in NHL history to have a game-winning goal against 30 different teams

He better retire before Seattle starts playing to keep this record.

 

[dangomon]

He better retire before Seattle starts playing to keep this record.

He still doesn't have Vegas anyways. 30/31.

 

[56 Years No Cup]

He better retire before Seattle starts playing to keep this record.

Still doesn't have one against Vegas.

 

[7even]

Feels like I have to mention Dermott after every game these days, he's playing some great hockey. That play where his stick broke leading to a partial break against, and he was still able to recover and absolutely man handle the Shark. His raw tools are insane.

 

[Gabriel426]

Still doesn't have one against Vegas.

Didn’t know that

 

[Cleetus]

leafs penalty killing has been pretty bad the last couple of games.

yea it has been horrible, Hainsey failed to get the puck out is becoming a disturbing trend lately, thinking he is running out of gas, lots of miles on poor Hainsey.

 

[great]

leafs penalty killing has been pretty bad the last couple of games.

Yeah they need to get it good again, they're failing to get it out of their zone a lot lately.

 

[Blanche Blanche]

yea it has been horrible, Hainsey failed to get the puck out is becoming a disturbing trend lately, thinking he is running out of gas, lots of miles on poor Hainsey.

A real look at him by playoff time will be needed

 

[willmma]

 

[namttebih]

Leivo is getting better and better it seems and showed some decent speed last night

I was saying the same thing. Popping a couple of goal didn't hurt I guess.

 

[frizzer1]

Don't forget that Leivo basically lost 2 years. He has to be stale and it must affect his puckhandling.
And now he really seems to be improving...he is hard on the puck in the corners..big body, big shot...
Right now he does everything better than brown imo.

 

[frizzer1]

It's hard to understand what is going on with the pk...it has been really off lately..
Is it Hyman and brown?
Is it hainsey?
and why do people keep saying that Hyman and brown are so good on the pk..what are they doing that gives that impression?

 

[Gabriel426]

Feels like I have to mention Dermott after every game these days, he's playing some great hockey. That play where his stick broke leading to a partial break against, and he was still able to recover and absolutely man handle the Shark. His raw tools are insane.

What made that more impressive was the Sharks he manhandled was Evander Kane.

 

[BertCorbeau]

It's hard to understand what is going on with the pk...it has been really off lately..
Is it Hyman and brown?
Is it hainsey?
and why do people keep saying that Hyman and brown are so good on the pk..what are they doing that gives that impression?

Probably just off of some historical data .. The Leafs have an the 10th/11th ranked PK the last two seasons - not amazing or elite, but good and those two play a lot of minutes on it.

It's dropped to 20th recently though after starting the year strong.

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

Probably just off of some historical data .. The Leafs have an the 10th/11th ranked PK the last two seasons - not amazing or elite, but good and those two play a lot of minutes on it.

It's dropped to 20th recently though after starting the year strong.

the PK has been mostly good because of Andersen. Leafs are 4th worst in the league in expected goals against/60 on the PK for the last two years, but they have the 4th best save percentage. this year they're 9th worst in expected goals against, which is a small improvement, but still pretty lousy. they've gotten mediocre goaltending so the PK is starting to look weak, even though it pretty much always has been

 

[BertCorbeau]

the PK has been mostly good because of Andersen. Leafs are 4th worst in the league in expected goals against/60 on the PK for the last two years, but they have the 4th best save percentage. this year they're 9th worst in expected goals against, which is a small improvement, but still pretty lousy. they've gotten mediocre goaltending so the PK is starting to look weak, even though it pretty much always has been

Well there you go

How close are those margins on the expecting goals against/60? I'm curious about the data

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

Well there you go

How close are those margins on the expecting goals against/60? I'm curious about the data

like how much have the Leafs outperformed expectations, or how do they compare to other penalty kills? for the former, Leafs were expected to let in 7.81 goals against per 60 minutes of PK time, but ended up only letting in 6.11. that's about 22 more PP goals they should have allowed over the last 2 years with average goaltending.

for the latter, 8 expected goals against per 60 is the worst over that time frame, and 6.04 is the best. so Leafs are definitely a lot closer to the worst PK team than the best. it's a gap of maybe 10-15 extra goals against per year. Of course, the Leafs hardly ever take penalties so that helps

 

[BertCorbeau]

like how much have the Leafs outperformed expectations, or how do they compare to other penalty kills? for the former, Leafs were expected to let in 7.81 goals against per 60 minutes of PK time, but ended up only letting in 6.11. that's about 22 more PP goals they should have allowed over the last 2 years with average goaltending.

for the latter, 8 expected goals against per 60 is the worst over that time frame, and 6.04 is the best. so Leafs are definitely a lot closer to the worst PK team than the best. it's a gap of maybe 10-15 extra goals against per year. Of course, the Leafs hardly ever take penalties so that helps

Ah I see - I was referring to how they compare to other PK's, like the rankings of expected goals against. I'm just curious to see what the difference are from the top end to the bottom end are and how significant it is.

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

Ah I see - I was referring to how they compare to other PK's, like the rankings of expected goals against. I'm just curious to see what the difference are from the top end to the bottom end are and how significant it is.

well for the Leafs, it's significant when they're on a PK because they're generally pretty bad. However, they're hardly ever killing penalties. If they can stay out of the box in the playoffs and get good goaltending they'll be fine

 

[Polaris1010]

It's dropped to 20th recently though after starting the year strong.

The penalty kill is not as efficient as before because Hainsey is on it.

Hainsey at 37 years old is unable to make many plays anymore.

Remember Hainsey use to play the entire two minutes of the kill?

Do we not see that anymore.

When Hainsey is out there on the PK, it is not 5 against 4, it is 5 against 3½.