Post-Game Talk: Leafs beat a playoff team!

[TMLeafs18]

Freddy was amazing!

Matthews has been ridiculous

Kapanen is literally making his best friend on the team expendable. He has looked awesome on that line.

 

[TMLeafer]

A couple of bad shifts in the 3rd, but overall quite pleased with how the Leafs controlled the game in the final frame.

Especially the bottom 6.

Kapanen with another good game. I thought Dermott-OZ looked great. Hainsey's best game too.

 

[Zybalto]

Great team win tonight.

My favorite moment was after Jake had that first strong shift in the 2nd and really started feeling it through the third, Babs put him on to defend at the end of the game and Gardiner responded well.

Love it. We needs Gards to win.

 

[razkaz]

What a great game.

Andersen saved their butts in the third.

Matthews selfish as always scoring goals. His contract is going to be above max because of the Leafs tax

 

[ToneDog]

Lmao! "Auston, have you ever had a stretch where the puck seems to follow you like this?!?!" "Yah I have"

It was a dumb question in my mind. Marner should have the same answer. Scary thing for the rest of the league is that he has not reached his ceiling yet.

 

[Al14]

Gards and Zats are lost out there.

If they ever find their way, a long shot I know, WATCH OUT.

 

[TheLeastOfTheBunch]

Hopefully a confidence building game for a couple of guys on defense. Leafs played a complete game vs the Caps, drooling over how good they could look with Nylander’s addition

 

[cipher]

I think it is now clear that we took the right player at #1. And he is doing it without Willie.

It was clear on June 24 2016.

 

[ER89]

the wizard of ohz does had a beauty of a game. Matty looks like a man possessed. Once he gets willy there who can actually read plays and keep pace with matty it's going to be even scarier.

 

[Willchel Marlynder]

Anyone who's not on board with trading Nylander for D is out to lunch.

There will be no Stanley Cup in Toronto with the way this blueline is.

Terrific win tonight though. Bend but don't break, right? Toronto weathered a storm and took it to 'em in the third.

The Blueline was actually pretty good tonight. It'll never be a top 5 D group but that's why we have a ridiculous forward group to make up for it. The League has already been put on notice and once Willy returns we'll most likely have three dominate lines that could all be #1 lines on some teams.

I'm still on the keep Willy and make this offense stupid good boat.

 

[93gilmour93]

Hey Washington!!!!

 

[Sittler 27]

One thing this club can still do, is give me heart attacks late in the 3rd

 

[Havoc]

Backstrom and Tavares both being duds tonight helped wash out the JT line taking a night off.

JT and Marner will probably be fired up next game to get back on the score sheet.

 

[SprDaVE]

Brown had his best game of the season. He made a lot of good plays and was key for the game winning goal.

Andersen came up big in the third. We finally got some big saves, but he also got some things to go his way. Oshie missed 3 one timers in close.

 

[8816 others]

HF Salt mine is open for business

 

[ThewThew]

WOOOOOO!!!!
Man one thing i noticed is Matthews is stronger this season. I can see the Malkin comparisons, he’s going to be a beast in his prime !!!

 

[BertCorbeau]

The best part is the Leafs are 5-1-0 and we haven't seen a full 60 minutes of them controlling the game yet. And that we're still looking for them to get better because we know they can be, and they need to be if they're going to be successful.

 

[Boutette]

And the appropriate 80s music:

 

[IPS]

It was clear on June 24 2016.

The Finnish fanboy club, TWS and the rest of the Lea hater gang tried their hardest to muddy those debate waters but it was obvious all along.

Just looks even more obvious now.

 

[Erdinger]

Wow that is one I didn't think we'd win. The schedule needs to lighten up on these guys. No need to compress all these games into such a short period.

 

[Alerion]

Ozhiganov looked pretty good tonight, as did Lindholm. Both are a little better than I expected so far. Leivo is playing extremely well too and really deserves more ice time, although Babcock will never do that.

 

[Glenn Isildur Healy]

Leafs 3 Stars

1) Andersen
2) Rielly
3) Matthews

HM: Lindholm, Brown, Hainsey, Kapanen

 

[ToneDog]

McJesus has company. The deliverer has arrived

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Matthews does it again.

Nice .gif work.

 

[Gary Nylund]

WOOOOOO!!!!
Man one thing i noticed is Matthews is stronger this season. I can see the Malkin comparisons, he’s going to be a beast in his prime !!!

You don't say.