Post-Game Talk: Leafs lose to Rangers 4-1

[glue]

Feels like I’ve been waiting all season for the leafs to consistently ‘put it together’. Now I’m starting to think it ain’t happening. The way the habs and bruins are playing, there is a legit chance Leaf’s end up with a wildcard spot. Even if they don’t, I’m pretty sure we play Boston and we’ll lose yet again. Matthews better figure it out quick, or that 11.6 mil contract is gonna start looking worse then it already does

 

[Thissiteisgarbage]

This team is poorly coached. Head and assistants. Full stop.
Matthews either injured, hates Babcock or has been reading too much of his own press. He clearly isn't trying out there. For the money he is commanding, that's pretty inexcusable.
Wish we could hear the truth.

 

[kb]

We need heart and soul hockey players. Guys that will go in the corners and do all the things that the pretty boy contracts won't do.

This is the best hot take right here.

 

[PromisedLand]

Wouldn't it be nice if we had a backup goalie who could steal a game for us and make 55 saves

That would be a nice "Spark" but..........

 

[mikeyz]

I was going to say How did Sparks do ?
Gulp.

Watch the highlights of the 2nd and 3rd Rangers goals and you will get your answer.

Be warned. Make sure that no objects are near you when you watch it. You might be tempted to throw it through your T.V if there is. LMFAO!!!!

 

[ECanuck]

i'd be curious to see shot location. To me it looked like a ton of low % locations. But the goalie indeed played well

Yeah, if they just took some wristers from the blue line the percentage would increase dramatically!

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Marleau - Matthews - Nylander
Hyman - Tavares - Marner
Johnsson - Kadri - Kapanen

Flip Marleau and AJ. Marleau and Matthews don't work together whatsoever but he has shown chemistry with Naz in the past. Our best LW (AJ) should be higher in the lineup, too.

 

[Loosie]

no, but maybe telling his team the penalty was about to expire woulda beeen nice.

That's about the only complaint I have about him tonight. The only thing I may give him on that one is that the play was starting to come into his end (I think), so he may have been paying more attention to the play then the clock.

 

[Sniper99]

Leafs had so many chances tonight in close and whiffed on all of them.

55 whiffs

 

[Blanche Blanche]

2 things on Matthews. 1. Would he look better if playing beside one of Marner or Nylander - yes. 2. The problem is that if he is being paid like McDavid he shouldn't need a guy like Nylander to generate offence for him. Look how good McDavid has looked playing besides wingers much worse than Kapanen or Marleau

I was going to say this too. He wasn't as bad as people are crying over. He really does have an anchor in Marleau.

After 2 seasons of everyone here crapping on Hyman, it turns out Hyman is actually a huge contributer.
He doesnt have the hands, but he gets you the puck and sets up plays and buys you space.
Marleau is the biggest anchor this season and its not even close, He is this years Komorov and hes glued to our top paid player. LOL

Nylander has officially come back!!

Babcock barely adjusting in the third periods absolutely drive me insane. Just stack the damn lines sometimes.

 

[CarterD]

It's neither. Watch the game.

You kind of lost the point haven't you....

Have a goodnight.

 

[JerseyMike34]

Nylander was the Leafs best player lol

John Tavares.
But ya, he had a good game. Second game in a row for Willie.

 

[ToneDog]

After a 4-1-0 run......

Sure ugly wins. Sloppy play and impotent PP. Play like this in the playoffs and it will be a quick exit.

 

[CarterD]

Tried everything they could in the first, had 22 shots. They got no legs afterwards, most of the shots came from the outside and the goalie saw every single shot.

Typical back to back loss on the road except for the shots total.

How were particular players?

 

[PromisedLand]

Quality over quantity. Great looks in the 1st period, bunch of perimeter crap throw everything at the net after that.

Once again we get boxed out way too easily.

This!

Glad to see someone is watching the game and not some stupid out of context so called "advanced stats" it is freakin' hilarious that they call it "advance" there is NOTHING "advanced" about it LOL

 

[Leaf4Life]

You kind of lost the point haven't you....

Have a goodnight.

It's the truth. Good night

 

[56 Years No Cup]

Very frustrating game. Absolutely should not lose a game where you put up over 50 shots on a back up goalie.

55 shots on goal sounds great but 40 were from sharp angles against the boards, 10 were hack n wacks from 2 feet in front, and five, including Kappy's snipe, were good chances.

But I'm sure the stats nerds will be happy because this game was likely a Corsi dream.

 

[Erdinger]

Those 56 shots were actually 44. You can't count the 12 by Kadri

 

[Sniper99]

Want Carlyle back?

They want Horacek

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

2 things on Matthews. 1. Would he look better if playing beside one of Marner or Nylander - yes. 2. The problem is that if he is being paid like McDavid he shouldn't need a guy like Nylander to generate offence for him. Look how good McDavid has looked playing besides wingers much worse than Kapanen or Marleau

McDavid plays with Draisaitl mostly. there's no point saddling Matthews with subpar wingers who don't work with him just because he should be able to handle it

 

[Guided by Veseys]

This team plays like and is paid like a team that has won the cup the last two seasons and is coasting to the playoffs. I put the blame on this from top down; blaming the low hanging fruit like Sparks or Hainsey is just missing the fundamental flaws.

 

[Kiwi]

Thought we we dominated the game quite honestly
Unfortunately we couldn't turn that dominance into goals

Some horrendous turnovers lead to goals against and the PP being a bit of a hellscape certainly didn't help our quest to win

Sparks was ok, he certainly didn't cost us the game but since he's the new board scapegoat I'm expecting some rediculous takes on why he's the reason we lost

If you get 50 shots and only score one goal you will probably lose, it's as simple as that

 

[Rare Jewel]

Well, Nylander was good.

Best Leaf by a mile tonight.

 

[Loosie]

Sure ugly wins. Sloppy play and impotent PP. Play like this in the playoffs and it will be a quick exit.

You think wins in the playoffs will be beautiful dominant performances? Wins in the playoffs are going to be just as ugly.

 

[CyBorgman]

Matthews kinda plays like a product of mostly non-contact tournament hockey in the USNTDP. Can't imagine him being this soft if he had to play in the OHL as a 15 year old.

Also Babcock defending the failling PP system and saying it will start working soon just because. Sounds about right.