Leafs can’t close, Matthews and Marner shooting blanks.

[Beerfish]

Leafs are going to win game 7 and then stomp Winnipeg.

 

[Zach716]

Then maybe he should have used different wording?

maybe, either way I don’t think a team with Rielly and Marner as top guys with an aging Tavares is a cup winning formula. They’ll make the playoffs comfortably for years to come but I don’t see them going the distance.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

maybe, either way I don’t think a team with Rielly and Marner as top guys with an aging Tavares is a cup winning formula. They’ll make the playoffs comfortably for years to come but I don’t see them going the distance.

Tavares is like 30. He's not retiring anytime soon. Their core is good. There will always be moves to make but I think Toronto should not blow it up. Their core pieces are amazing. I'm a Habs fan and hope we complete the ultimate humiliation tommorow but Toronto will be good for a long time.

 

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

Then maybe he should have used different wording?

Carolina in '06 is the exception that proves the rule.

 

[Riley 88]

Carolina '06 certainly won without a world-class defenseman. Theh didn't even have a legitimate no.1

They had a way better goalie then the Leafs have now.....And i remember Glen Wesley playing at a very high level......Cam Ward was amazing and a goalie can do that....even with your point....so what one team has won without one. I cant think of any others. Leafs will never win a cup with the way this team is built....

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

No question.....You dont blow it up. You do however make changes. Leafs are simply not built correctly. They have no world class defensemen. No team has ever won a Stanley cup, without having at least one. Marner is a guy i trade as he can fetch a ton of what they need and give them spending money....Guys like Spezza....just need to go away....The team is built very very poorly........Toronto has no chance even if they beat the Habnots.....

It's been done, but it's hard to do. The Pens did it a couple of years ago but they had a generational player leading the way along with Malkin and Kessel. There are other examples as well but I agree with your general point.

 

[Mickey Marner]

Caps and Tampa didn’t blow it up. Sometimes patience is the key even though it’s hard to be that way.

I don’t see Matthews as a problem going forward.

Those two teams did win rounds now and again though. The Leafs might not need to be blown up, but they need a serious culture change, the complacency is palpable.

 

[CaptainUgly]

Leafs are going to win game 7 and then stomp Winnipeg.

Beerfish, whatever you're drinking I want! Its been a while since I've been f***ed up

 

[TheDoldrums]

Matthews and Marner need to put their egos aside for one game and just get the job done. They are going through exactly what Ovy and Backstrom did in WSH for what 7 or 8 years? Before they finally were able to overcome it. But they literally had to hire Trotz first to help do the job. But all those years WSH had trouble closing out series and always choked away leads.

It's not ego. It's nerves, particularly with Marner. He's one of the better stickhandlers in the league and somehow has like 6 puck over glass penalties in his playoff career. And it's not like he's played a lot of games with deep runs.

I think the ego thing with Washington was more about buckling down defensively. Matthews and Marner are playing well defensively, they just seem scared of the moment (again, moreso Marner but Auston a bit as well).

 

[CupsOverCash]

Leafs are going to win game 7 and then stomp Winnipeg.

I do think if they get the monkey off their back I think they should have a pressure off of them to play Winnipeg but Winnipeg is gonna be nice and rested. They're no joke tho.

 

[Michel Beauchamp]

The poll will close at 11:44 PM on May 31st, after the end of the game (unless there's multiple OT periods)?

Nice. That will give me the opportunity to change my vote (if wrong) and throw sand into people eyes re my hockey acumen...

 

[Kimota]

So much pressure to win game 7. Gotta think some jobs will be lost if the Leafs go down again.

It's gonna be the same for both sides. Very important series.

 

[Leafsfan74]

It's not ego. It's nerves, particularly with Marner. He's one of the better stickhandlers in the league and somehow has like 6 puck over glass penalties in his playoff career. And it's not like he's played a lot of games with deep runs.

I think the ego thing with Washington was more about buckling down defensively. Matthews and Marner are playing well defensively, they just seem scared of the moment (again, moreso Marner but Auston a bit as well).

It's fear. That's the problem. Some players fear getting hit and don't have it in them to fight back.

You need Gamers who battle to the end and who turn fear into aggression. Either in the form of checking, driving the net, or putting pucks in the net to cause the opposition fear of their own.

 

[Hierso]

What i don't understand with Marner is what happens to his hockey-iq in the post season? The blueline play has been read to death by now and i feel like the regular season Marner would adapt to it.

 

[GoldenSeal]

I’m beginning to wonder if there really is a curse and if so how the Leafs can undo it… this is insane!

 

[AMDZen]

Leafs are going to win game 7 and then stomp Winnipeg.

He said, right before waking up

Beerfish, whatever you're drinking I want! Its been a while since I've been f***ed up

It's just beer with fish in it. The fish feces are hallucinogenic

 

[c9777666]

They’ve combined for 50+ shots. It’s not like they aren’t trying to score

 

[TheBigThree]

Yeah leafs are winning this and winnipeg is about to be swept

 

[Trojans86]

I dont watch of a lot leafs games but when i do i always feel like marner is doing all of thr work and mathews is just sitting in a high danger spot and finishing. Am i wrong?

 

[Walrus26]

All these high shots on Price are not going to beat him.Screen shots or garbage goals are going to be the difference for Game 7

Just keeping aiming the puck at Petry and it will fly in.

 

[TruePowerSlave]

Are Leafs fans still going to rave that Matthews and Marner are a better duo than MacKinnon and Rantanen

 

[MarkusNaslund19]

No question.....You dont blow it up. You do however make changes. Leafs are simply not built correctly. They have no world class defensemen. No team has ever won a Stanley cup, without having at least one. Marner is a guy i trade as he can fetch a ton of what they need and give them spending money....Guys like Spezza....just need to go away....The team is built very very poorly........Toronto has no chance even if they beat the Habnots.....

06 Hurricanes say hi.

 

[Dhaemon]

Habs fan here...

If we lose, well they went above and beyond my expectations and brought the cocky Leafs to the brink
If we win, well thats great news and I would be very surprised and happy.

However, it all doesn't mean anything with the way Colorado is playing...Leafs, Habs, Jets, whoever, Colorado is the team to beat it seems and they will be very hard for any of the northern teams to accomplish.

 

[flashy]

Leafs are going to win game 7 and then stomp Winnipeg.

Beerfish we gotta stick with our prarier bros, I hated their dumb defensive stuff to but I would rather the peg win. They didnt do anything that came close to the ducks level of bs.

 

[branch]

Wonder what kind of YouTube Star outfit "Papi" will be sporting tonight