HF Habs: Out of Town Thread: 2024 Playoff Edition

[Rapala]

Thank You Stuart Skinner for sending me to bed.

 

[The Real Timo]

Just rewatched Habs eliminating leafs in 2021... realized the Suzuki and CC haven't had a sniff of playoffs since then. I don't know but if I am Suzuki I demand Hughes does something to make this a playoff team again. By next season. It's fun to beat the leafs.

 

[Twisted Sinister]

Thank You Stuart Skinner for sending me to bed.

Oilers never learn

 

[Team_Spirit]

Ceci hahaha

Dylan Holloway is on hat trick watch

 

[the valiant effort]

I went with the Stars on a combo of their interesting depth and Vegas running out of steam, but Dallas really do just suck

 

[The Real Timo]

Phil got rocked bad.

 

[Team_Spirit]

Phil got rocked bad.

No love lost

 

[The Real Timo]

Kempe is doing SFA. Guess he is only good against Habs.

 

[Team_Spirit]

Dan O'Rourke on the job

 

[Team_Spirit]

Phil got rocked bad.

Going to OT

 

[Stive Morgan]

What a road win for the Kings!

Wonder if the Kings fans are gonna keep talking crap about Kopitar now?

 

[Gustave]

Goaltending… again and again.

 

[The Great Weal]

Byfield is a beast. Imagine him and Slaf on the same line my god.

 

[Heffyhoof]

Pretty amusing to see the Oilers built with an offence than can easily score on defensive teams, only for that to be rendered null by a defense that gets just as easily scored on.

 

[The Real Timo]

Excellent result all around tonight.

 

[The Real Timo]

Byfield is a beast. Imagine him and Slaf on the same line my god.

Well... we can offer Gallagher and Donkey for him. I am sure BErgevin will bite.

I know it's bad karma but I'm gonna go read leafs forum for a bit before going to bed.

 

[Scintillating10]

Must be hard being Leafs fan, 8 straight years going out esrly

 

[dcyhabs]

Matthews was invisible in this game for the most part. He also helped create 2 Bruins goals. He knocked Samsonov's stick out of his hand then lost a board battle to Heinen for Bruins game winning goal.

On the 4th goal, Matthews commits an absolute brutal turnover at offensive blueline.

They couldn't get him away from McAvoy, who shut him down. Tavares - Marner are pretty useless.

They really need Nylander to come back to get some secondary scoring.

The Toronto columnist in the worse and worse Gazette said Matthews should get Selke votes.

A bullshit penalty call. You can't call that in the last minute unless it was going to create a scoring opportunity which it wasn't.

In Bettman’s nhl you call that on the Canadian team and ref more playoff games. I’m being snarky, I didn’t see it.

 

[dcyhabs]

That's what I hate about NHL reffing. They call the marginal cheesy one's and let the more more blatant one's go. No consistency at all.

So much evening up, penalties have to be comparable no matter how much one team takes advantage. Well, unless you complain. Then you get ten consecutive penalties called against your team plus a long term bias.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

You aren't winning as a team when your coach has this loser whinny mindset.

He said the same thing against Tampa. The thing is on the play in question, Bertuzzi didn't need to engage with Marchand at all. He gave Marchand a small crosscheck, the rat gave it back then backed away. Bertuzzi followed him to engage some more and that's when Marchand used the can opener on him.

I thought refs were going to stop play due to both players being idiots, but they didn't. It was play on. I'm fine with that. Marchand is a smaller player. He's going to use his stick to protect himself against Bertuzzi. Byron did the same thing, and got a bit of free reign for it from refs.

Bertuzzi is an idiot for going after Marchand like he is.

Besides, Toronto had 5 PP opportunities and couldn't score on any of them. Plus, their pk sucks.

 

[McGuires Corndog]

The Leafs have a loser complex and will never win anything other than individual trophies.

Suzuki, Caufield and Slaf is a better core than Matthews Marner and Nylander and I’m not afraid to say it.

It’s not all about production.

 

[Rapala]

Pretty amusing to see the Oilers built with an offence than can easily score on defensive teams, only for that to be rendered null by a defense that gets just as easily scored on.

It's their putrid goaltending.
It exhausts me just watching I can imagine what it does to the guys on the bench.
The Oilers like last season can compete with that D but they can't compete with that goaltending.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Marner has to be gone this offseason

 

[Licou]

Going to OT

I absolutely love Danault don't get me wrong, but it must have felt so good for Hyman to lay him flat like that.

Playing against such a quality checker must be absolutely annoying.

 

[sandviper]

Just rewatched Habs eliminating leafs in 2021... realized the Suzuki and CC haven't had a sniff of playoffs since then. I don't know but if I am Suzuki I demand Hughes does something to make this a playoff team again. By next season. It's fun to beat the leafs.

In his exit interviews, Suzuki and others sorta put the message out that they want the playoffs. While I don’t think Hughes and Gorton will pull an Ottawa and make bold moves this summer and deviate from the plan, I also they aren’t going to sit on draft picks and assets that won’t be able to help for another 3-4 years from now.