Makes me quite sad, when I remember me watching the Leafs in 2002 and how it would have felt to know no Leaf would score as many goals for 17 f***ing years. 17. Ouch.
League-wide average as of this moment is 2.83 GAA and .909 sv%. He's below average, but not by a lot.
Matty has to figure out a way to perform. He will be second highest paid guy in league and he has to beat Bergeron straight up. And then create against Chara. Good news this year is Bruins will have to chose who to match up Chara against.The thing is that Matthews was also snakebit that serious. He had a ton of scoring chances from the slot, and his line did a good job of tilting the ice in their favor. The puck just didn't go in. Great play gets great results eventually, but in one series the sample size is just too small for that to be the case.
He also had Chara on him for all of that series, and Bergeron for half of it. Bergeron owns everyone, and Chara might still be the best d-man in the league defensively.
League-wide average as of this moment is 2.83 GAA and .909 sv%. He's below average, but not by a lot.
Thanks Nith, take out his January and he's average or above I'm guessing.
If we keep that Johnsson-Matthews-Nylander line together I think that's a really good matchup for the Bergeron line. Matthews and Nylander have combined for 15 points in the last 7 games and they could have had a tonne more.Matty has to figure out a way to perform. He will be second highest paid guy in league and he has to beat Bergeron straight up. And then create against Chara. Good news this year is Bruins will have to chose who to match up Chara against.
Second highest paid player next year.. regardless every one gets paid the same in the playoffs. Normal paychecks stop coming.Matty has to figure out a way to perform. He will be second highest paid guy in league and he has to beat Bergeron straight up. And then create against Chara. Good news this year is Bruins will have to chose who to match up Chara against.
Kap had a really good game, the Kadri line lived in their zone.
Yeah I don't have a lot of hope on that front. I once saw a spread of how top centers do against each other. Most of them canceled each other out. Some of them, like Seguin, got beat bad by other top centers. Bergeron? He owned them all. He was literally just as good against a Crosby or Tavares as he was against anyone else. He's absurd.Matty has to figure out a way to perform. He will be second highest paid guy in league and he has to beat Bergeron straight up. And then create against Chara. Good news this year is Bruins will have to chose who to match up Chara against.
This, it's all about repeating the success.Let's see if we can sustain it.
Yeah I don't have a lot of hope on that front. I once saw a spread of how top centers do against each other. Most of them canceled each other out. Some of them, like Seguin, got beat bad by other top centers. Bergeron? He owned them all. He was literally just as good against a Crosby or Tavares as he was against anyone else. He's absurd.
My biggest hope is that whomever doesn't get Bergeron can beat their matchup handily.
in that case, it might pay off to match Kadri against him. Tavares has done well against top centers and might work in the playoffs, but you never know. It might have to be a case of letting Bergeron do his thing and hope to beat the rest of the teamYeah I don't have a lot of hope on that front. I once saw a spread of how top centers do against each other. Most of them canceled each other out. Some of them, like Seguin, got beat bad by other top centers. Bergeron? He owned them all. He was literally just as good against a Crosby or Tavares as he was against anyone else. He's absurd.
My biggest hope is that whomever doesn't get Bergeron can beat their matchup handily.
The seriously special Matthews needs to come out to play more often. He needs to take over the playground and dominate to the point of being a bully.I'm not a big fan of pitting Leafs players against each other but I've heard lots of stuff lately about how Marner may be better than Matthews and I can understand where it comes from, but when the version of Matthews we've seen the last 2 games shows up, he is honestly a cut above Marner. Extremely few players around the league can match a 100% Matthews, he is seriously special.
Yeah I don't have a lot of hope on that front. I once saw a spread of how top centers do against each other. Most of them canceled each other out. Some of them, like Seguin, got beat bad by other top centers. Bergeron? He owned them all. He was literally just as good against a Crosby or Tavares as he was against anyone else. He's absurd.
My biggest hope is that whomever doesn't get Bergeron can beat their matchup handily.
That's one thing Babcock gets right. Too bad he's a one trick pony.So you're saying if you work hard and do good things, good things will happen? Hmm, that reminds me of someone...
That's one thing Babcock gets right. Too bad he's a one trick pony.
Yeah, they need to show up and beat the... Senators!Lets see this effort against a real NHL team before the warm and fuzzy feelings come back
Hainsey doesn't need no rest. Just a fresh battery!Be nice to rest a Hainsey as well.
1 more goal and Tavares will have the most goals of any Leaf since the start of the dead puck era (1996-97 to present). Since Andreychuk score 53 in 1994.
Matty has to figure out a way to perform. He will be second highest paid guy in league and he has to beat Bergeron straight up. And then create against Chara. Good news this year is Bruins will have to chose who to match up Chara against.
Also ties the record for most goals by a UFA in his first season with new club (I believe).
Time for Hyman to step aside and give Johnny Toronto those freebies so maybe he can hit 50.
Who did he tie?
While i believe Matthews was absolutely dominant last night...people keep repeating this lie. I guess if you tell a lie long enough it becomes the truth for some?I agree.
Nylander was get on the perimeter.
Gaborik had 42 for the Rangers. There may be another.