Post-Game Talk: The Rielly Rally Is Real! | Leafs Win 7-3!

[LeafSteel]

You'd be doing God's work giving us someone to blame other than Dubas, Keefe, Tavares and the ghost of Sam Lafferty.

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That's absolutely hilarious. It's a damn shame he is only doing radio. We deserve the best

Quoted for truth.

Bowen and Ralph on a tv broadcast are the dream. Is it really too much to ask for?

 

[Dekes For Days]

No one does it quite like Bowen.

Lmao, was not expecting that when I watched the clip. That was hilarious.

 

[kevsh]

Who would have thought giving the depth more ice time and more important roles could be the answer to the persistent depth problems? Shame it had to take a suspension and two top players get sick simultaneously to essentially force Keefe to give them the opportunity.

I'll give it to him though, moving Johnny T to the the 3rd line was a bold play given Keefe's history of obsessively relying heavily - almost solely - on his stars.

The questions I have are whether he will do the obvious thing and keep Brodie on the left side where he's clearly been much better? Does he keep giving guys like Domi & Bertuzzi 1st power play time? How does Keefe respond the next stinker game - does he do the usual throwing the lines into a blender or does he show some patience? Clearly the team has caught lightning in a bottle here so I just hope they don't - coach and team - fall back into their old ways between now and round one.

 

[Larcos_Unal]

I'll give it to him though, moving Johnny T to the the 3rd line was a bold play given Keefe's history of obsessively relying heavily - almost solely - on his stars.

I'll give him credit for JT's demotion, he's better suited to the 3rd line and he'll get favorable matchups. Tavares really did seal his own fate by not producing at all 5v5, in the end egos shouldn't matter and it should be about what's best for the team.

 

[Suntouchable13]

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Quoted for truth.

Bowen and Ralph on a tv broadcast are the dream. Is it really too much to ask for?

We need to do something to get Bowen on TV again. This is ridiculous

 

[puckie]

I keep wondering when Domi will realize he is a skill player and focus on goals vs. getting into fights. If he brought it consistently and stayed out of the stayed out of the box, a lot of teams would be calling. He has the skills, the brain has to follow.

 

[rumman]

Imagine this team with a real goaltender

Martin Jones with a .885 save percentage, thought every goal was a bad goal. Beat clean on 3 shots.

This is what kills this team in the playoffs when you got to move hell on earth to get a goal and the other team scores on a muffin from the point.

Jones is a 3rd string goalie at this point, but lets not forget that he saved the season when Woll went down and Sammy had his mental breakdown, Leafs might not be in the playoff picture if Jones didn’t step up……..

 

[PromisedLand]

 

[CabanaBoy5]

That 2 on 2 for Matthews goal was textbook, made the D look like fringe players.

And if I’m not mistaken, that was against their two best defencemen Pietrangelo and Theodore. All the talk of Vegas being soft, we made them look that way. Intense pressure in the offensive with players finishing their checks. I think Benoit has had an influence in that area. He’s hitting no matter the score.

Lmaooo love it…”could be a suspension there” …hilarious

 

[LeafSteel]

When you thought you couldn’t love Bowen more!

Shots fired!!!

 

[crump]

Offense aside, I love how physical they were with McCabe, Benoit. Lily was a physical monster last night. Knies McMann and the 4th line imposing their will on Vegas. Nice to see them getting the better end of the hits. Lots of offense came off a physically dominant play on the boards etc.

 

[Zybalto]

Kampf since he returned from injury:

6 games (Leafs go 6-0)
Ozone start%: 28.57%
xGF: 70.87%
GF: 100%

Must have been eating his wheaties when he was off those 3 games.

 

[BertCorbeau]

I'll give him credit for JT's demotion, he's better suited to the 3rd line and he'll get favorable matchups. Tavares really did seal his own fate by not producing at all 5v5, in the end egos shouldn't matter and it should be about what's best for the team.

Also thing is JT isn't getting much less ice time than he's used to as well. Just better matchups.

Actually splitting JT and Nylander really does make it difficult to match up lines for the opposition

 

[thewave]

Possibly the funniest thing he ever said on air.

 

[Clark4Ever]

It's good to see Keefe making sensible lineup decisions.

 

[Blanche Blanche]

F*CKING AWESOME LOL

 

[Blanche Blanche]

That’s the only “swing for the fences” move I want. A trade for Saros or Markstrom.

As much as I agree that Jones isn’t the long term solution in net (and I doubt that’s the plan with Woll likely coming back soon), it’s hard to worry about this particular game when we chased the defending cup winning goalie in about 15 minutes. Playoff goaltending has always been about getting hot at the right time.

Yes to both.

Look at vasi... when he is on... Its a nightmare to score on him.
Any other night he looks human.

I'm still haunted by Carey Price few years ago being a wall in the playoffs. Habs went to the final ffs

 

[LeafalCrusader]

Jones is a 3rd string goalie at this point, but lets not forget that he saved the season when Woll went down and Sammy had his mental breakdown, Leafs might not be in the playoff picture if Jones didn’t step up……..

About all you can ask of the 3rd stringer imo.

 

[ACC1224]

Hopefully the fellas didn't get into too much trouble in Vegas last night and will have some energy left for the Avs tomorrow.

 

[Jojalu]

One thing I forgot to talk about that I thought was impressive...

When Keefe called the timeout last night, he didn't say a word.

He went after them the night before during the timeout and using the silent treatment was a slick move.

They knew they were losing their hold on the game, and that 30 seconds/min to ponder and dig deep was well played

 

[LeafsFan89]

I miss Joe Bowen. Really wish we would get him back to do some games on TV.
Tired of these announcers hating our team.

 

[sxvnert]

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Quoted for truth.

Bowen and Ralph on a tv broadcast are the dream. Is it really too much to ask for?

Only toronto isn't allowed (by their own code) to have homer broadcasts.

 

[myleafs]

Keefe needs to keep Domi with Willy and Bert and leave JT with Bobby and Robbie. We might finally have 4 lines rolling

I have been so much more interested since the line up changes. What was missing was the lack of team and what Im seeing with these new lineups is a team...everyone has looked engaged. Its a beautiful thing. I am curious who came up with the new changes...Keefe? Tre? an assistant?

 

[Superstar]

I bet Parros had thoughts of Colton Orr and picking up the phone to call Rielly at the same time when he heard that...

 

[AngryScotsman]

Love Joe Bowen, legend.