tage didn’t stick out, good or bad. Feels like some of you have an axe to grind.
If they have an axe to grind, it's so they can use it on Thompson.
The guy had about four blatant turnovers, including one hitting Matthews on the tape in stride at our blue line, and missed all of his shot attempts, some from places where you simply have to hit the net. I didn't see him make a single play to a teammate when a maple leaf was within a stick's length of him, because he folds instantly the second he loses his space, though that is far from isolated to this game.
He's awful and I cannot fathom why he is still up here. That doesn't mean he'll always be bad, he's still so young. But he's been outclassed at the nuts-and-bolts hockey between the snipe-every-13-games by every single Rochester forward to come up and go back down.
Agreed. though I do think the tripping penalty on him last night was a "meh" call, OTOH, a higher skilled player likely either gets the assumption it was simply inadvertent tangled feet/skates and not called, or has enough skill not to tangle his feet/skates
Can someone ask Phil point-blank why Tage can never be benched for a night if he truly believes in making players earn their spots?
I feel somewhat bad for the kid because he's clearly overwhelmed and should be in the AHL right now, and the idiots in charge apparently think it's a better "development plan" to let him be an absolute trainwreck for 8-10 minutes per night here.
OTOH, the way he plays the game--seemingly always at half-speed, head down, refusing to ever simplify his game or throw a check--and the fact that I've rarely seen him attack anything with the kind of jump that most guys have when they're trying to break into the NHL is pretty annoying.
He has no "jump" to his game. His skating is rather plodding for someone with legs ~10% longer than most of his teammates.
I posted about this (from memory) a few games ago. It's really disconcerting. OTOH, the 05-07 teams, if they gave up a bunch of goals, had the talent and confidence to get them back in bunches. Sabers need more of both.
There's a skeleton of a good team here. It just needs some trimming and different management.
Were you trying to be humerus?
Maybe its just me, but I don't think that Leafs fans on HFboards are much worse than fans of any other team who are passionate about their franchise, just that since there's so many Leafs fans here that there's bound to be a few more bad ones just by numbers alone. Namely a large fanbase will obviously have more bad fans than a smaller fanbase even if the percentages may be the same.
I get the math argument. OTOH, the good Lord didn't see a need to give us more than one ass-hole.
Didn't get to watch the majority of the 2nd/3rd, but I'm gonna post anyways. <snipped a great post re: Housley>
Please, please tell me I'm wrong. This team consistently falls apart for any given period and there is no response, there is no coaching. Babcock looked ready to rip a head off after our first goal. Housley could watch 5 goals go in against us and he'd look like a dude watching a Bob Ross marathon.
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"Moral victories guys" - Kyle Okposo says to the guys in the dressing room.
I'll settle for an immoral bashing of the Leafs, or Flyers, or Bruins, any time they play the Sabres.
