Leafs Dead Last on Powerplay Opportunities over last 2 years.
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Give it another half decade.
Bruins never got out of the bottom 5 from 2006- 2017 Finishing last 4 times with their highest being 25th (once). Despite being one of the best teams in the league.
They had a hundred less chances than 29th New Jersey over the decade, 300 or something less than 28th, and a 1000 less than the leading teams.
Probably the biggest statistical anomaly the league has had as it's weird.
I think Carolina and Philadelphia had the most. - however good teams, bad teams, fast teams, slow teams, big teams, small teams, young teams, old teams, black sweaters, light sweaters, trapping teams, possession teams, etc. all moved up and down the scale - except for Boston. Even NJ went way up there one year and lead the league I think.
Bruins never got out of the bottom 5 from 2006- 2017 Finishing last 4 times with their highest being 25th (once). Despite being one of the best teams in the league.
They had a hundred less chances than 29th New Jersey over the decade, 300 or something less than 28th, and a 1000 less than the leading teams.
Probably the biggest statistical anomaly the league has had as it's weird.
I think Carolina and Philadelphia had the most. - however good teams, bad teams, fast teams, slow teams, big teams, small teams, young teams, old teams, black sweaters, light sweaters, trapping teams, possession teams, etc. all moved up and down the scale - except for Boston. Even NJ went way up there one year and lead the league I think.
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15/16. Blues/Sharks at 180 opportunities. Leafs are only 19 away from being middle of the pack. It's not much of a significant difference.
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Actually not surprising to me, Leafs are one of the least penalized teams in the NHL also, one of the top forward groups teams want to avoid taking pens......not surprising they get fewer PP's. Because the Leafs are so "non physical" they don't get many retaliation type of calls. Multi reasons, no single reason but they all add up. Not to mention the difference between last and top 10 isn't that much in actual PP's.
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With the Leafs PP being as good as it is, Dubas should prioritize acquiring an agitator that draws a lot of penalties (and likely takes a lot as well to be fair). While their PK isn't great, their PP is more than enough to compensate.
means nothing lot of pp are only seconds long unless you have the total minutes shorthanded then you cant say one way or the other.
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The fact they're so low in both penalties taken and penalties drawn over the last few years leads me to believe refs are far more hesitant (scared?) to call penalties in general when it's a Leafs game. Make of that what you will
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I have watched almost every game this season and the Babcock era. Babcock plays a complete interference game with lots of moving pics which the refs never call. He ran the same scheme in Detroit. So my theory is they aren’t calling the Leafs on the interference plays and not calling it the other way for the Leafs. You will notice however, the Leafs almost always get the first PP and it’s around the 5 minute mark of the first period.
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Not at all. Love that we outplayed the Leafs.
I expecting to get killed after playing Nashville the night before.
I enjoy good hockey. That was one of the most entertaining games I’ve seen in a long time.
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When you look at a ranked list, and for some reason decide to pick out the 1st, 2nd, 5th, 8th, 10th 12th, and 30th teams... the 30th team is obviously going to stand out.
What is the point of this?
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So what is it on the road? Toronto better be last otherwise there is no conspiracy. What a dumb thread.
Two years before that the Rangers and Blue Jackets were at the bottom. And the two years before that the Bruins and Devils were at the bottom. It's almost like it's completely random and every team goes through times of getting and not getting calls.
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That's certainly a simplistic response.
With a little thought, wouldn't you expect teams the lower possession teams to be the ones not drawing penalties?
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Refs don't tend to call things either way in leafs games. They easily could be drawing more penalties if officials were willing to call them, but they could also be taking more. I don't really have any idea why the refs want to do it, but they do
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Ridiculous that you think the two are mutually exclusive.
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its the price for having the league turn a blind eye to the Babcock "system" of "if you just interfere all the time, they cant call it all"
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I have long feared the day whet they will start working together. You just blew my mind!
