Sportsnet: Maple Leafs must add proven defenders, move on from all-offence identity

[Dekes For Days]

Cool, more meaningless drivel.

No, that's showing you that Columbus' goaltending continued to be hot well into the Tampa series, despite your claim. It's not like the teams switched and suddenly Korpisalo sucked. The goaltending they got through the same amount of time as our series was essentially identical.

You've created some weird narrative that when the leafs get goods results, it's because they played well. And when the leafs get bad results, it's due to "external" factors.

I consider factors equally for all teams.

 

[Ifittex il Verita]

No, that's showing you that Columbus' goaltending continued to be hot well into the Tampa series, despite your claim. It's not like the teams switched and suddenly Korpisalo sucked. The goaltending they got through the same amount of time as our series was essentially identical.

And that goaltending got completely figured out when Tampa won 3 in a row to close them out. Tampa figured Korpi out, Toronto didn't. The proof is in the pudding.

 

[Gary Nylund]

The Leafs generated offense and prevented offense better than Columbus. The difference in the series was goaltending. Whether you want to say Andersen did well or not, the fact remains that Andersen was the 3rd best goalie in that series, and you can't win with that.

It's funny how everybody keeps talking about how Columbus sucks at offense, so our defense playing well isn't worth anything, yet they point to Andersen's save percentage against the same bad offense as some sort of heroic effort.

An offence that can't score doesn't deserve praise. The difference in this series was that our forwards couldn't score goals. When you miss the net, hit the post, have shots blocked or don't even manage to get shots off as often as we did, hiding behind some stat and claiming we played well is´just pathetic.

Spin it any way you want, Andersen was one of our best players in the series, one of the few who played well enough to win.

 

[Dekes For Days]

And that goaltending got completely figured out when Tampa won 3 in a row to close them out. Tampa figured Korpi out, Toronto didn't.

Tampa didn't change anything. In fact, game 1 was their best game and game 5 was their worst game. A goaltender is not going to sustain 0.950+ goaltending forever, but it maintained through the Toronto series and a lot of the Tampa series.

 

[Dekes For Days]

An offence that can't score doesn't deserve praise.

Nobody here is praising it. You are however praising the 3rd best goaltender in the series. An offense's job is also about opportunity generation, and in that, they did pretty well.

 

[Gary Nylund]

Nobody here is praising it. You are however praising the 3rd best goaltender in the series. An offense's job is also about opportunity generation, and in that, they did pretty well.

Sure sounds like you're praising the offence to me.

Andersen played well, if the rest of our players played as well as he did, we win.

The job of the offence is to score goals, period.

 

[Dekes For Days]

Andersen played well, if the rest of our players played as well as he did, we win.

Andersen was okay. Solid through most, but let in some very weak goals, and was the 3rd best goalie in the series despite going up against a pretty bad offense.

The job of the offence is to score goals, period.

You don't score goals without opportunity generation.

 

[Gary Nylund]

Andersen was okay. Solid through most, but let in some very weak goals, and was the 3rd best goalie in the series despite going up against a pretty bad offense.

You don't score goals without opportunity generation.

A .936 SV% speaks for itself.

3 even strength goals in 5 games is abject failure. When we got shut out, do you think Dubas was thinking good job guys, you got some opportunities?

 

[Dekes For Days]

A .936 SV% speaks for itself.

No, it doesn't.

3 even strength goals in 5 games is abject failure.

Why are you ignoring the majority of their scoring?

 

[BertCorbeau]

This thread has run its course.