Post-Game Talk: Leafs win a barn burner

[Macallan18]

Great game, great result, plan the parade!!!!!

 

[Teeder Keon]

 

[saltming]

That's a lotta goals!!
Too bad I could only watch the replay but great to win

 

[aingefan]

That's a lotta goals!!
Too bad I could only watch the replay but great to win

Ha, me too.
Fun game.
Ottawa’s gonna be a nice team in a few years. Lotsa talent in that pipeline.
Seems to me JT is picking up.
Jack not great but made some key saves at key times. Cool seeing the team rally around him.

 

[Confucius]

11 goal game, just the way the Hockeys Gods tip their hat to the 11 straight wins

 

[saltming]

Ha, me too.
Fun game.
Ottawa’s gonna be a nice team in a few years. Lotsa talent in that pipeline.
Seems to me JT is picking up.
Jack not great but made some key saves at key times. Cool seeing the team rally around him.

Ottawa struggles to keep start because they are frugal, to put it nicely. Also I'm not liking the way they develop players over the years. Let's see how they do with this young group.
Ya the team played hard to get that win for Campbell. Fortunate it was again the Sens and they don't play good defense

 

[FelixPotvin29]

What decline lol. Dude is a fitness freak and his game has never depended on speed. Technical beast.

All he needs to do is take a quick peek before he shoots or passes and he'll be back to normal. He's out of sync. For whatever reason he refuses to look. Shoots and passes with his head down too much this season. That's literally his only flaw this year and he still has time to break this habit he picked up.

can you text him and let him know?

 

[Price is Wright]

Has Chuck played the point for Toronto on the powerplay yet? If not the Leafs should try it.

 

[56 Years No Cup]

It’s post game - and I feel the same. He’s vastly over rated by our fan base, he is not worth his cap hit.

This^.

 

[DarkKnight]

When’s the last time a Leafs team was 1st in the NHL this “late” in a season?

 

[Confucius]

Ottawa struggles to keep start because they are frugal, to put it nicely. Also I'm not liking the way they develop players over the years. Let's see how they do with this young group.
Ya the team played hard to get that win for Campbell. Fortunate it was again the Sens and they don't play good defense

Surprisingly Ottawa has only 4 less wins than Montreal. They are 0 and 9 against the oilers just a goal here or there over an entire season is the real difference. They aren't as bad as some think.

 

[fahad203]

I must Gally has fit in nicely on top line. He didn't get points in Matthews last two goals but man he was instrumental and started both

*** NHL** shows he got assists on Matthews last goal. Which I found it to be odd

 

[saltming]

Surprisingly Ottawa has only 4 less wins than Montreal. They are 0 and 9 against the oilers just a goal here or there over an entire season is the real difference. They aren't as bad as some think.

I firmly believe that's true for the entire league. The difference between first and last is very slim especially with the loser point

 

[aingefan]

Also nice that there’s not much of that pervasive feeling that the Leafs will collapse on tight games.

 

[3blizzard4]

Surprisingly Ottawa has only 4 less wins than Montreal. They are 0 and 9 against the oilers just a goal here or there over an entire season is the real difference. They aren't as bad as some think.

If Ottawa didn't let LOilers use them as a door knob 9 straight times, they would be sitting in that forth spot.

 

[LFCTML]

The Tavares decline is very evident to me. I don't care about personal life, and this and that.
You are seeing the decline first hand game by game IMO

How much are you drinking while watching lol?

 

[egd27]

Also nice that there’s not much of that pervasive feeling that the Leafs will collapse on tight games.

So you weren't just a little worried when the Sens made it 6-5 with 17 seconds left?

 

[aingefan]

So you weren't just a little worried when the Sens made it 6-5 with 17 seconds left?

Maybe that space between a thumb and pointer finger pinched tightly together?
Technically there’s space, but not enough for a puck to fit through (;

Not like a couple years ago, when a goal happens and you say in your head: oh gawd, here we go again.

 

[ULF_55]

When’s the last time a Leafs team was 1st in the NHL this “late” in a season?

1920-21 NHL Standings | Hockey-Reference.com

Playoffs didn't go so well!

They may have been leading in other seasons, just thought that was an interesting look.

 

[Pi]

Matthews now leads the entire league in ES points. We've got the best f***ing player on ES bar none. No one is better than him at scoring on evens.

Imagine if our PP could play better...

 

[Morbo]

Matthews now leads the entire league in ES points. We've got the best f***ing player on ES bar none. No one is better than him at scoring on evens.

Imagine if our PP could play better...

he's 2 back of McDavid. but yeah.

 

[3blizzard4]

Matthews now leads the entire league in ES points. We've got the best f***ing player on ES bar none. No one is better than him at scoring on evens.

Imagine if our PP could play better...

AM34's stats give nothing to the haters to complain about. If he got most of his points on the PP they would jump on that. If he got EN they would jump on that.
But ES?? Dang. Even haters have to submit to this feat! And let's not forget Babcock playing him under 17 minutes for the first three years.

 

[Pi]

he's 2 back of McDavid. but yeah.

When I say ES, I mean 5v5 ES. 4 on 4 is even strength like 3 on 3 is ES. Sure it's even but that's not how 90% of the game is played.

Even if you count those, McDavid leads by 2 but has played 4 more games.

 

[therealkoho]

THE GOOD: Buster to the rescue, #11 with the winner for the historic 11th win Congrats Jackie boy, Matty with the Hatty and Mitch gets the Apples, Gally fit in quite nicely with the big boys, JT's line was flying had another dominant game. Spezza doesn't show up on the score-sheet but puts in a pretty effective game considering his circumstances. It's too bad Connor Brown has two years left on his contract and that's all I'm saying!

THE BAD: Let's face it not all those goals can be pinned on Jack, the D was spotty and that's being kind, first time in awhile that they all kind of turned in if not a poor performance certainly performances below ability, don't make it a habit boys. Barabanov isn't a bad player in fact he looks like a really good AHL player, he just doesn't look like an NHL player as often as he should if he wants an NHL job!

THE UGLY: I really hate to say this, but Jumbo fumbling at least three pucks that went right on his tape doesn't inspire any confidence, c'mon Joe a good team-mate doesn't allow himself to be a liability, have an honest conversation with yourself, nobody wants to push you off the cliff. Tell Sheldon you need a game or two off now and again. Game management at that stage of the game was brain dead, brain friggin dead, wtf is the matter with the NHL.

 

[therealkoho]

What happened in his personal life?

He had an insane first year and then fell off a cliff

he's got two kids in diapers, if you're not a father yet you won't get it, I had two in diapers a year and a half apart I practically went 3 years without sleep