GDT: Leafs @ Panthers

[Suntouchable13]

Florida is 2 for 2 on the PP...Leafs? 0-3, but yes, blame Babcock.

Coaching is supposed to help specialty teams and make adjustments. The PK, for example, maybe Brown and Hyman are not that good at killing penalties? But Babs is blind when it comes to those guys.

 

[Maplebeasts]

This team needs to find a way to actually try. It's shameful how much they coast

 

[Morlu]

I’m sorry but Babcock has overstayed his welcome, we have too much talent to be losing a game like this and if we lose in the first round again it’s just not acceptable.

Is anyone legitimately going to defend Babcock to remain as the coach of this team if we lose in round 1 again?

Serious question.

He 100% should be fired if we lose round 1. That’s my opinion as well.

 

[saffronleaf]

Get Ennis off that ****ing unit and put on Kapanen. What the ****.

this is truly mind boggling. unbelievable that ennis gets priority over kapanen.

 

[FlareKnight]

Thank goodness we got that feel good loss the other night. The lack of points and lack of scoring really trending in the right direction.

This team is embarrassing their mothers.

 

[stakesishigh]

Disappointing effort to say the least.

 

[Mats13]

So what kind of much-needed adjustments can we expect for the 3rd period???

More minutes for Brown and Hyman.

Less minutes for Nylander.

f*** this shit.

 

[TheMadHatTrick]

What exactly does this coach do? There are never any adjustments.

If Babcock puts on some holiday weight I wonder if he'll actually adjust his belt or just tolerate the discomfort like a moron.

 

[Superstar]

But, again, my main concern is specifically that when Matthews decides to show up, he's quite possibly the best player in the league. But when he doesn't show up, he's completely invisible. And there's a recent trend that he won't show up for big games.

So, again, I've watched a lot of the Oilers this year. Even on an "off night", McDavid is far from invisible.

Yep...give Matthews $10.5 million...please, none of that $12 to $13 million crap, please...McDavid literally carries the Oilers on his back every game!

 

[mikeyz]

Is anyone legitimately going to defend Babcock to remain as the coach of this team if we lose in round 1 again

Not me.

 

[Budsfan]

I think they need to make a few trades, team needs a shake up.

 

[6ix]

This looks like a team that’s tuned out their coach. Time to fire crapcock.

 

[JAS 39 Gripen]

Watched the game a bit and just had to come in and ask: why does Babcock set up a PP consisting of all your stars when it dosnt seem to be working? Why not deploy them wise and have 2 good PPs instead? Maybe Dubas "promised" all of em that they were not gonna play on the 2nd ? Honest question, no trolling

 

[Burnie97]

Yes Luongo has been great. ... lol

f*** that

You could put one of those wood cut outs of a goalie in net.... a few pylons by the point ... and the d man would hit the pylon every time.

Forwards can't pick any corners. From what I've seen... not one good shot on Luongo.

 

[as Pure as Evil]

right now this team cant execute pealing a orange let alone making 2 passes or hitting the net with a shot. you can blame the coach all you want but until the players execute something its on them just as much as it is on the coach. we play to fancy. make that extra pass instead of shoot make a extra deke instead of shoot. take another stride instead of pass. this team hasn't executed more then one or 2 things at a time all game long. the power play looks like a one trick pony cause our defense wont shoot the puck. but again that's on the coach cause you know he's got a controller behind the bench that hinders them from reacting by themselves

 

[sxvnert]

With all of this talent we're relying on a f***in stretch & pass dump and chase system. Gross

 

[Superstar]

Yeah don't blame the coach for not making adjustments to what's not working! Not like it's his job or anything!

He moved Tavares and Marner to face a different Florida line, still didn't work...the special teams are the difference tonight...that's not on Babcock.

 

[Cap'n Flavour]

Our power play is absolutely garbage against teams that chase the puck on the PK forcing it to move around. Only reason it looked absolutely unstoppable early was because teams just watched us pass it around

That's not true. Earlier in the season they were shredding aggresive PKs with quick hard accurate passes. Now they're just standing around taking lazy shots into shinpads or trying to pass through a maze of sticks for no good reason.

 

[Mitchy]

I don't understand how they can play so well against the best team in the league and then put this type of performance on.

 

[yubbers]

I miss Leivo

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

as frustrating as Babcock is, it's our special teams coaches who really suck. our special teams are killing us

 

[Blanche Blanche]

I’m sorry but Babcock has overstayed his welcome, we have too much talent to be losing a game like this and if we lose in the first round again it’s just not acceptable.

Is anyone legitimately going to defend Babcock to remain as the coach of this team if we lose in round 1 again?

Serious question.

Hell effing NO.

Its SCF or its really a fail.

1st round means Babcocks has to go.
2nd round. Tight leash.
3rd would be depends on how he went out.

 

[saffronleaf]

Yep...give Matthews $10.5 million...please, none of that $12 to $13 million crap, please...McDavid literally carries the Oilers on his back every game!

I think Matthews gets $7.5 million.

Eichel money, but prorated to take into account that he only plays 50-60 games a season.

 

[Superstar]

Coaching is supposed to help specialty teams and make adjustments. The PK, for example, maybe Brown and Hyman are not that good at killing penalties? But Babs is blind when it comes to those guys.

Florida scores the most PP goals in the league.

 

[KobeBean143]

If Babcock puts on some holiday weight I wonder if he'll actually adjust his belt or just tolerate the discomfort like a moron.

f*** that gave me a good laugh, more than it should have lol