Post-Game Talk: Leafs Lose 5-2 To The Rags

[Stephen]

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[LastOne2100]

Eh, these kind of games happen, and the team's been good of late, so hard to be too negative.

Just a game of bad bounces and the refs deciding only one team could have power plays tonight.

 

[BrannigansLaw]

That sucked.

Lots of unlucky bounces and of course the refs decide to get involved in the last 10 mins of the game.

 

[BTP]

unluckiest game of the year

 

[Blanka]

Rangers with 3 garbage goals and apparently the cleanest team in the NHL.

 

[Lightsol]

Are you sure it's not "Leafs lose 5-2 to Fate"? Or "Leafs Lose 5-2 to the Gods of Bad Bounces"?

 

[leafsfan5]

Meh, they played well overall

Bad bounces + no powerplays is tough to overcome, especially against a good NYR team

 

[6ix]

What an embarrassment of a game by Tavares in front of his family. Good to see Matthews pick up where he left off.

 

[shaner8989]

Timmins out
Benoit in

Rangers were lucky in this one.

 

[All Mod Cons]

Can we please put Benoit back in until he starts costing us games with egregious errors?

Until that point can we please just have him on the 3rd pair.

 

[authentic]

Oh well Matthews put on a show could’ve had a hat trick again easily

 

[Aashir Mallik]

I don’t think it was that bad. Unfortunate that we didn’t get any pps but you won’t win having one line, more specifically 1 guy scoring

Needed the Tavares line to score. Needed the third line to not suck that bad. 4th line was meh

Jones was good, this was the weirdest game ever, 3 goals were off of our guys.

Timmins was awful. Rielly and Liljegren were good, everyone else was average

Move onto the next one

 

[Once]

Both good teams but one had 3 lucky bounces and the other had no opportunity to flex their strength (PP). What about game management? I think the Rags are a legit top 3 but there’s no way they played a perfectly disciplined game.

Happy to see Matthews rolling.

 

[Stephen]

It was a close game with a lot of bad and unusual bounces, just gotta move on.

Three things I don't like, Blake Wheeler's big dentures smiling after he scores on the Leafs, Mika Zibanejad's brutal hairdo and Nick Robertson pro star standing still dekes.

 

[shaner8989]

Someone please look up the team with the most games played with 0 power plays in it.

Guaranteed we have the most

 

[LivingRentFree]

Yep tough to feel bad about that one. 3 horrible bounces and 0 PPs isn’t going to equate to many wins.

 

[TMLife17]

We looked solid. It's easy to be hard on the boys when they lose, but they didn't lose and look bad tonight. Saw some really good effort out of almost everyone.

Bad luck mostly, just get out there Thursday and get the W.

 

[mikeyz]

Judging by how tonight's game went, maybe I wasn't as crazy as I thought when I said I was hoping Keefe would have kept the Pittsburgh game lines together and have Matthews center that Robertson Jarnkrok line. Because that line got absolutely dummied tonight with Max centering it.

 

[Jojalu]

Matthews 25 in 28.

Year he scored 60 it took him 33 to get to 25.

On pace for 72.

 

[Mr_Fun]

Mostly positive, even from a loss. AM with two and Jones looking good again.

 

[Jacquestrapless]

Third line needs a rework.

I don't envision Robertson or Timmins on this team in the future, tbh.

 

[Ho Lee Mackinaw]

Well, at least Trouba didn't lay anybody out.

 

[BrannigansLaw]

Bruins gifted a PP in the last 5 mins of the game to get them to OT. How come that never happens for us? League just loves giving those guys opportunities.

 

[Lightsol]

That sucked.

Lots of unlucky bounces and of course the refs decide to get involved in the last 10 mins of the game.

Game management never works for the Leafs.

 

[NinjaKick]

thought w played well but frustrating nonetheless... on to the next one