Leafs Exhibition game is against... the Habs??
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Peasy
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The NHL put every team against their biggest rival that was available.
No injuries is all I'm asking for. Would be cool if they give Robertson an audition in this game.
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CantLoseWithMatthews
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Montreal is a pretty great warm up honestly. They play pretty similarly to Columbus
I think they actually resemble Columbus quite a bit. Needing a goalie to carry them because they can't score and having to rely on their top defensemen to provide most of their offense.
Guy Boucher
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That’s what the NHL and NHLPA agreed to as a condition of playing. I don’t think the players want to be here any longer then they have to.
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Rude Dog
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they are in camp for weeks. A playoff game after one exhibition game seems crazy.
LeafalCrusader
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That reason is we played them on the 2nd half of back to backs all 3 games this year and we suck hard on the 2nd half of back to backs.
Especially the ones where our backup wasn’t Campbell.
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Well it helps that they never faced Andersen. And it also helps that all their games against us were in the second half of a back-to-back for us.
Hutchinson put up a paltry 0.875 save percentage in his two games against them in October. 10 goals allowed on 80 shots.
Campbell had a very good game against them in February but they scored a late goal to win 2-1.
Habs play nothing like the jackets. Habs are very fast which will force our guys to get up to speed quicker. Habs have the far superior goaltender if Price goes nickels.
The only concern I have is the habs have proven time and time again they have no issue with intentionally hurting our players. Just ask James Reimer and others. I wish the Leafs were a net crashing team but they are not.
That said, this season Montreal played us in 3 of the 4 games were we were on a back to back and injured. I would love nothing more to embarrass them 9-1 or something.
No excuses, the habs are screwed. On paper, Leafs are an easy win and not even close, now they have to prove it on the ice.
The only concern I have is the habs have proven time and time again they have no issue with intentionally hurting our players. Just ask James Reimer and others. I wish the Leafs were a net crashing team but they are not.
That said, this season Montreal played us in 3 of the 4 games were we were on a back to back and injured. I would love nothing more to embarrass them 9-1 or something.
No excuses, the habs are screwed. On paper, Leafs are an easy win and not even close, now they have to prove it on the ice.
When is there ever an easy win in the NHL? To expect it in an exhibition game after 5 months out of action is utterly ridiculous.
Gary Nylund
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The last thing I want is a big physical team for this exhibition. It's a warm up game, nothing more and the most important thing is that nobody gets hurt.
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The only thing that concerns me about our exhibition game being against the Habs is that they were the weakest link going into this thing, the 24th out of 24 teams and who had statistically like a 1% change to actually make the playoffs.
If we lose the exhibition game it may somewhat demoralize the confidence of the squad entering the series with CBJ. If they win well, it was to be expected. Also, coming off summer break Freddie and Marner historically suck to start the season so I hope they don't repeat this trend coming off this extended break.
And to who anyone wondering why only 1 exhibition game before the play-in round, the league and players just wanna get this playoff started and over with. 2-3 exhibition games adds another week to the schedule where they have to be in the "bubble".
If we lose the exhibition game it may somewhat demoralize the confidence of the squad entering the series with CBJ. If they win well, it was to be expected. Also, coming off summer break Freddie and Marner historically suck to start the season so I hope they don't repeat this trend coming off this extended break.
And to who anyone wondering why only 1 exhibition game before the play-in round, the league and players just wanna get this playoff started and over with. 2-3 exhibition games adds another week to the schedule where they have to be in the "bubble".
Gary Nylund
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Non-issue IMO. If they're that weak mentally then we're screwed anyway.
kb
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Agreed. The Leafs won't care one bit about the outcome. They will be working on systems.
7even
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Pretty much. I expect them to, I'd be very surprised if they didn't. You really don't want his first step on NHL ice to be Game 1.
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I'd be surprised if they didn't ice the roster we will see in game 1.
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Well, if we get spanked, and the Jackets beat the Bs, then Columbus might get over-confident going into game 1!
kb
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It will depend on how close some battles are - if Robertson is showing very well in camp, they may want to see him in live game action.
But I agree - they should play the team they are going with. There is only the one tuneup game.
