Post-Game Talk: Leafs win!

[Mitchy]

I love our 3rd line. Skilled, fast and tenacious. All of Kerfoot, Mikky and Moore looked great.

 

[X66]

wtf is wrong with you people

I didn't want him to lose an eye, no one did, but he didn't and no one is going to feel bad for him because of his slew foot at the end.

 

[sparxx87]

I think it's largely because people love Kadri and think someone smaller with less flash and grit could never replace him. Kerfoot makes the Leafs better and that's all that matters. Kerfoot was 3rd on the Leafs with 78 xgf% and outscored Ottawa 1-0. Pretty great night for a 3rd liner as far as I'm concerned

Correction: Kerfoot + 2 million dollar Tyson Barrie makes the Leafs better.

Kerfoot profiles as a perfect 3C. Great move by Dubas.

This is the kind of system Keefe was using. Babcock listened to him.

Excellent to see that type of growth from the coach. What a guy!

When is he eligible for a contract extension?

 

[bert]

It was a dumb move in a game that was already over and could’ve ended our best player’s season. Forgive us if we aren’t too choked up about a self-inflicted wound:

Clearly you have never played the sport, players continue to compete if Matthews didnt want to risk injury he would have ragged the puck. Are you at the point where you are expecting teams to just let the leafs score? Wishing a facial laciration on someone is sick, especially considering no one else was hurt.

 

[biotk]

wtf is wrong with you people

Leafs fans say Brannstrom was being stupid and irresponsible. Sens fans say Matthews was being stupid and irresponsible.

One hockey player was going for a hat-trick. The other was trying to prevent a goal. Both were doing what they were supposed to be doing.

Neither did anything that would be penalized.

If it was dumb, as many on here suggest, for Brannstrom to try to stop the goal because the game was already over, then it was just as dumb for Matthews to be trying that hard to score in a game that was already over.

 

[ACC1224]

It was a dumb move in a game that was already over and could’ve ended our best player’s season. Forgive us if we aren’t too choked up about a self-inflicted wound:

Correct, the game was over. Matthews should have just let up, IMO.

 

[stickty111]

 

[NightTrain1]

Whats the problem here?

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Clearly you have never played the sport, players continue to compete if Matthews didnt want to risk injury he would have ragged the puck. Are you at the point where you are expecting teams to just let the leafs score? Wishing a facial laciration on someone is sick, especially considering no one else was hurt.

First, I didn’t wish injury on Brannstrom. Second, he could’ve stopped Matthews from scoring any number of ways aside from trying to shove him into the net. Third, yeah maybe Matthews didn’t have to try so hard for that third goal.

If this had been Marincin nearly shoving Chabot into the post when the game was done you’d be just as mad as we were so get off your high horse. I don’t expect teams to let the Leafs score, but I do expect players to be smarter than the reckless play Brannstrom pulled that got himself injured.

 

[IPS]

Clearly you have never played the sport, players continue to compete if Matthews didnt want to risk injury he would have ragged the puck. Are you at the point where you are expecting teams to just let the leafs score? Wishing a facial laciration on someone is sick, especially considering no one else was hurt.

lmao you're preaching to the choir here pal

You think Leafs fans are new to other fans wishing injuries upon our players?

 

[saffronleaf]

As for claims that the PP was great.

The first unit played 55% of the time, the second unit 45% - so not much difference.

The team had an xGF/60 on the PP of 6.46. Over the previous 3 years it was 8.95. They simply were not getting the amount of high quality chances they should be getting - against the worst team in the NHL - at the start of the seasons when PKs are generally bad and disorganized.

The second unit continues to be completely anemic. The first unit has diminishing returns the more stacked it becomes. Too many good players with not enough puck to go around.

I think it is pretty much a guarantee that this team will do worse on the PP this year than they did when they had two evenly split units (2016/17 and 2017/18) - despite having far more offensive talent now than they did then.

would like to see how the pp units do if they split up the pp units in terms of talent.

jt - marner - barrie on one unit (add your choice of mikheyev / aj / kap / muzzin / kerfoot)

matthews - nylander - reilly on one unit (add your choice of mikheyev / aj / kap / muzzin / kerfoot)

 

[Mitchy]

News from Around the AHL/NHL/KHL 2019-20

Apparently, it's ok to call and give a nickname like "dumbass" to other GMs. Yikes.

Best part is that specific poster calling anyone else that. Peak irony.

 

[Magic Man]

Correct, the game was over. Matthews should have just let up, IMO.

I think he has one 4 goal game and is high 20's for 2 goal games. He wanted the hat trick.

 

[saffronleaf]

not a fan of this twitter outrage culture and i doubt hughson is some monstrous misogynist...

but if it gets hughson out of commenting on leafs games, i'll allow it

 

[ULF_55]

Leafs fans say Brannstrom was being stupid and irresponsible. Sens fans say Matthews was being stupid and irresponsible.

One hockey player was going for a hat-trick. The other was trying to prevent a goal. Both were doing what they were supposed to be doing.

Neither did anything that would be penalized.

If it was dumb, as many on here suggest, for Brannstrom to try to stop the goal because the game was already over, then it was just as dumb for Matthews to be trying that hard to score in a game that was already over.

Yeah, I'm not sure why anyone thinks they weren't both party to a meaningless play, other than personal stats at the end of the game.

 

[stickty111]

News from Around the AHL/NHL/KHL 2019-20

Apparently, it's ok to call and give a nickname like "dumbass" to other GMs. Yikes.

Best part is that specific poster calling anyone else that. Peak irony.

TWS needs help in the worst way but we already knew that.

 

[MapleLeafs9]

Whats the problem here?

Kane and Matthews' legal issues aren't "little problems", and he seemed to be implying all their problems will go away if they just score goals and win cups and Conn Smythe's. Not a good look.

 

[IPS]

News from Around the AHL/NHL/KHL 2019-20

Apparently, it's ok to call and give a nickname like "dumbass" to other GMs. Yikes.

Best part is that specific poster calling anyone else that. Peak irony.

lmao wtf their Barzal contract discussion thread has more discussion about the Leafs than Barzal/Isles

I never thought this level of obsession was even possible.

 

[Rude Dog]

Watching the replay, he could have easily looked like Salming this morning. Mathews full skate slices across his face mask. Only the bottom third hit his face. It would have been a mess.

 

[ULF_55]

Whats the problem here?

John 8:7

 

[Guy Boucher]

Lol DJ Smith left the Leafs and took Hainsey and Zaitsev with him.

How satisfying was it to see a different team do the long pass + chip, while the Leafs made actual passes in the neutral zone? Or seeing Zaitsev work really hard but lose a battle in the crease?

 

[Lauro]

Good start. Especially for Mikheyev, Barrie, Moore, Sandin.

But it's time that we play against a real hockey team.

 

[LeafSteel]

So was there not a high stick on Marincin when whats his name scored the second goal for Ottawa?

Was hollering for that penalty call too.

Play should have been whistled dead the next time a Sen touched the puck. Didn’t happen.

 

[AcerComputer]

I love our 3rd line. Skilled, fast and tenacious. All of Kerfoot, Mikky and Moore looked great.

I really like Mikheyev, guy is long, great windspan, closes the gap quickly when chasing the puck. Looks very polished with the puck, his goal was amazing. I'm trying to think of who he reminds me of, I can't quite put my finger on it, either way he was my favorite player to watch last night.

 

[NightTrain1]

Kane and Matthews' legal issues aren't "little problems", and he seemed to be implying all their problems will go away if they just score goals and win cups and Conn Smythe's. Not a good look.

Auston Matthews legal issue is literally a little problem


mis·de·mean·or
/ˌmisdəˈmēnər/
noun

1. a minor wrongdoing.