Toronto's Goaltending Dilemma (Who starts in the playoffs?)

[Mats13]

Kind of a dick-ish response

Pretty big ego for a guy who can’t stop a beachball

This guy has sucked for so long. His inability to acknowledge it is troubling.

 

[Mats13]

An overly confident goalie, hardly a telling moment or odd. I like swagger, now back it up then. Steal the crease Fred. I don’t care who’s in, just do the job.

Confidence is only good if you can back it up

When you suck on the ice, being this confident just makes you look dumb

 

[Mats13]

If fully healthy, I'd prefer Andersen as the starter.

You’d prefer to get worse goaltending?

 

[leafsfan5]

I don't care if he's confident tbh, just back it up. At the end of the day we will play who's playing the best whether it's Freddy or Jack. And at this point, unless Jack falters and Freddy has some good games to end the season it should be Campbell getting the nod game 1

 

[BoredBrandonPridham]

Lots of people challenging him to back it up, but honestly I think he's proven he'd be a great back up.

 

[DarkKnight]

Confidence is only good if you can back it up

When you suck on the ice, being this confident just makes you look dumb

I literally said “back it up” in my post and you responded with back it up.

 

[Leafsfan74]

I saw that Freddie was at practice today. So, maybe they are setting him up to be the starter again.

The team should not care about friendships or his contract year. He was playing sub-par and unfortunately became injured. This is a team that played it's best hockey in the last four years while in the middle of that streak with Jack in net.

Freddie stole the show some nights in the past but when you're in this to win it, it's a basic case of "what have you done for me lately"? You don't rock the boat and create controversy, you can't have fake bravado or promises and continued playoff failure.

So, I think Keefe is too focused on winning and he isn't going to lie to himself, the fans or the players and he will go with Campbell barring some big shift. This is professional sports, where players are well compensated. Some OVER compensated relative to their playoff success. Freddie will be well compensated again in the future, but, if you disrupt a strong team right now and he loses again in the post-seasons, heads will roll.

If you don't believe my opinion, read comments from hockey fans of other teams in the comments they leave on other sports websites and on this forum. You hear a recurring theme: "now that they have solid goaltending, this Leaf team is dangerous" etc. These aren't emotional homers they are hockey fans and objective observers.

 

[rojac]

Who starts in the playoffs?

Whoever Sheldon Keefe decides to start.

 

[Northernguy10]

I could handle if he'd said "I am a good goalie" because he has been and hopefully will be again down the road. But saying he is a 'great' goalie is a bit much.

 

[napoleon in rags]

Pretty big ego for a guy who can’t stop a beachball

This guy has sucked for so long. His inability to acknowledge it is troubling.

Well he talks the talk. Would be nice if he would walk the walk.

 

[great]

Whoever is healthy and confident, start them. If they f up try the other guy

 

[Menzinger]

Best case scenario for the team is Andersen plays the best hockey of his career and duals Campbell for those starts in the playoffs

Not sure that's going to happen, but would be great for the team

 

[sxvnert]

Pretty big ego for a guy who can’t stop a beachball

This guy has sucked for so long. His inability to acknowledge it is troubling.

and to make matters worse hes blaming some bogus "knee" injury. If any of that were true the leafs would have acknowledged it from day one. The entire cloak and dagger routing by Keefe and Dubas means they're not buying it either.

 

[Dog]

Going with Campbell it's his net until proven otherwise.

 

[Thissiteisgarbage]

Team needs to move on from Andersen - he's fine to play out his days behind Campbell but I don't want him starting or even here for next season.

 

[BlueForever75]

Would love to see Andersen get a conditioning stint with the Marlies for 2-3 games to ensure he has the confidence and is all healed up.

At that point I would make him a part of the active roster with Campbell. And split the starts in playoffs until someone craps the bed.

Thats what I would do. No player should lose his starting job due to injury. The team does play better in front of Andersen, this is proven.

 

[stickty111]

 

[bodechek]

Healthy Andersen.

Sorry, but you live or die with your starter.

I disagree. If the playoffs were to start tomorrow and he has not been in the net prior to, then you don't live or die with Andersen.

 

[Wafflewhipper]

Would love to see Andersen get a conditioning stint with the Marlies for 2-3 games to ensure he has the confidence and is all healed up.

At that point I would make him a part of the active roster with Campbell. And split the starts in playoffs until someone craps the bed.

Thats what I would do. No player should lose his starting job due to injury. The team does play better in front of Andersen, this is proven.

He can’t go until earliest may 1st. Then he can play pretty much as much as they like with all the makeup games. Toronto Marlies – The Official Site of the Toronto Marlies

 

[ShaneFalco]

I won't be happy if it's Freddy
If Jack doesn't do well then you make the change - providing Freddy comes back and looks good in a few games first

 

[Michael HOMERUNing]

Whoever it is, they should be prepared to go long with him. You don't change your goaltender mid series

 

[DarkKnight]

Another good outing for Campbell last night.

 

[seanlinden]

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but in order to go on a conditioning stint, you need to be activated from LTIR.

Right now with Bogosian & Hyman on LTIR, the Leafs do not have enough space to bring Freddy back into the fold.

It's one thing for the Bolts to throw Kucherov in there for game 1 of the playoffs having not played all year. A winger isn't going to lose you the game because he's rusty. A goalie can.

 

[Suntouchable13]

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but in order to go on a conditioning stint, you need to be activated from LTIR.

Right now with Bogosian & Hyman on LTIR, the Leafs do not have enough space to bring Freddy back into the fold.

It's one thing for the Bolts to throw Kucherov in there for game 1 of the playoffs having not played all year. A winger isn't going to lose you the game because he's rusty. A goalie can.

It should be Jack Campbell no doubt. Just look at the Leafs record with him in net. IT’s close to perfect. Coupled with the fact that he has put up some really excellent numbers. You have to go with him.

 

[Subway Schenn]

I could really do without the distraction of a goalie controversy entering the playoffs....