North \ Canadian Division - Defense

[HockeyVirus]

It's not even Keefe. Keef doing regular coach things.

Babcock was intentionally sabotaging the team and his GM.

Disagree. It's the difference between coach and GM. Lou and Babs are old school and were on the same page. Babs disagrees with how Dubas see's the game. He is modern. He brought in his coach who is similar to Rod, Bednar, Cooper, etc. New school guys who aren't afraid to use their players in different ways. Who aren't scared of letting their stars be stars instead of stifling them.

 

[MrvJets]

The top goalies of this generation don’t have Stanley Cup rings, so I’d challenge that statement

The hottest goalie in the playoffs is always the the best Defense. Might want to go back and look at St Louis, Washington and Tampa Bay and see which goalies did what.

 

[MrvJets]

No, it's not.

Washington, St Louis and Tampa Bay disagree with you. Now run along.

 

[Chips]

The top goalies of this generation don’t have Stanley Cup rings, so I’d challenge that statement

I think “come playoff time” was the key there.

People like the dramatic, glorified idea that the playoffs being “harder” and a teams mental strength is the single factor in success.

that’s true to an extent, but it’s also a small sample size, 4-7 games.

every team, and especially individual players have ups and downs.

some goalies are super consistent. Some are less so, but definitely great goaltending is almost always a factor to whichever particular teams success any given year, unless the skaters are scoring or defending insanely well

 

[zar]

You heard it here first.... the North is the worst defensively, but the best offensively... it's almost like there is some correlation between the two when it is inter-divisional only play this year. It would have been exactly the same conclusion if it were business as usual - although some would be ignorant to argue otherwise - take a look at the last couple of seasons prior to this one.

 

[The Man with a Plan]

I wish people didn’t do that, it’s so petty. People had a hot take at the beginning of the season, who cares?

Probably has more to do with the fact that so much shit is slung the leafs way here that when a chance to say heres your pie you preordered a lot of folks take that chance to do so.

 

[Mattavarner]

Leafs are overflowing with good Dmen. We were told so in the offseason. We were told they had 5 top 4 Dmen(Holl and Dermott in the 5). Then Sandin who could be one too this year.

I like sarcastic comments like this that end up being proven 100% accurate. The leafs D has been great so far