Post-Game Talk: Leafs lose 4-3 in Washington

[MapleLeafs9]

No Matthews on at the end

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[Tall Morty]

At least Leipsic didn’t get a point I guess?

 

[Rogue Leader]

BABCOCK PLEASE...

 

[Gallagbi]

Seemed like a typical Leafs game against a good team. Play good enough to be close, not hard enough to win.

Need to break that habit, and a perfect opportunity on Saturday

 

[X66]

Where were Matthews and Marner in the last minute of the game?

Best players on the bench, great job.

 

[Once]

Pass pass pass. Too easy to defend there at the end.

 

[Nithoniniel]

Pretty rough game. My biggest takeaway is that when you see two goals go in quickly, you see that they are surging, you see that we're starting to show weariness and momentum turning against us... how do you not call a timeout?

 

[LastOne2100]

Honestly I am ok with losing as many games as it takes to see Babcock fired.

 

[Leaf4Life]

Babcock putting Kerfoot on after pulling goalie. Enough said.

Get him out of here.

 

[stickty111]

 

[SnizzMitch]

Matthews, Marner and Nylander, 29.5 millions for sweetf***all once again!

can’t wait to get absolutely destroyed by Boston on Saturday night!!

 

[Suntouchable13]

Matthews looked like **** tonight. Coasted half the game.

Sure, but a player like him can look like crap and still get a big goal when it matters. He has to be out there.

 

[HolyCrap]

No Matthews on at the end

He got a few seconds at the very end though. Thanks Babs. Lol

 

[TMLeafer]

Still can't beat a team that's half decent.

 

[Lynk]

I place this loss, as well as many upcoming losses this year largely on the coaching staff.

As we (and the entire league) know, backup goaltending is suspect on this team. So when that is the case you need to give your backup situations where they can succeed. Babcock is not doing that at all as seen by starting him against the Caps and not the Wild.

And thus, he gets no opportunity to develop any confidence whatsoever.

 

[ShaneFalco]

Pretty rough game. My biggest takeaway is that when you see two goals go in quickly, you see that they are surging, you see that we're starting to show weariness and momentum turning against us... how do you not call a timeout?

That same question could be asked of last year's playoffs among other times

 

[wingman75]

how do you not call a timeout?

That would require in-game management from the coach

 

[Legendary]

This team is a disaster waiting to happen but no one can see it yet except for a select few here. It will collapse soon enough and the charade will be over.

 

[Nithoniniel]

Second takeaway from the game. Work ethic was an issue, resilience when things go against us was another. But we just killed so many opportunities with sloppy, sloppy passing.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Babcock doing Babcock things

 

[CelticDruid]

Souperman deserves more soup.

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Thankfully I didn't watch.

 

[MoreMogilny]

When you keep your best offensive players on the bench at the end of the game, you deserve to lose.

Great job Babs. Whatever point you were trying to make, I’m sure it was more important than 1 or 2 points.

 

[mikeyz]

Can someone please explain why the f*** Kerfoot was on for the majority of the final 2 minutes over Matthews?

Ohhhh wait. Babcock is the coach.

Carry on.

 

[Alerion]

Pretty rough game. My biggest takeaway is that when you see two goals go in quickly, you see that they are surging, you see that we're starting to show weariness and momentum turning against us... how do you not call a timeout?

We already saw this play out in the Montreal and St Louis games, it's not something he'll entertain for whatever reason. What a series of frustrating losses we've had this year.