Moderator: Referees
Weren't they second-worst for goals-against?
LOL you mean the "Playoffs" the Leaf have played in the past 2 years and the Canucks have not? I am familiar.ESQ wrote: ↑Sun Sep 16, 2018 7:45 pmWeren't they second-worst for goals-against?
Ohhh I see, you were talking about the regular season.
You see Tuna, there's actually a "Second Season", that comes after game 82. I know you're not very familiar with it , but its called "the playoffs".
And believe it or not, there's actually more rounds after the 1st one! Crazy, right?!
Oh, and by the way, the Leaves were the 2nd-worst defensive team in the playoffs.
We could ... you know ..... find out?
It keeps Leaves talk away from other threads. You really don't want me to lock it....
You probably are right Cornuck
Well out west we have had the benefit of watching Andersen’s up and down play in Anaheim for longer than his tenure with the leaves. He had always been hot and then cold. There’s no middle of the road with this guy, and his cold is usually so bad that it drags his hot numbers crashing to earth so rapidly that people tend to forget how good he can be when he’s on.....it doesn’t help that his cold streaks often last for a month at a time, while his hot streaks can be anywhere from a couple of weeks to a couple of months.BigTuna wrote: ↑Mon Sep 17, 2018 8:35 amLOL you mean the "Playoffs" the Leaf have played in the past 2 years and the Canucks have not? I am familiar.ESQ wrote: ↑Sun Sep 16, 2018 7:45 pmWeren't they second-worst for goals-against?
Ohhh I see, you were talking about the regular season.
You see Tuna, there's actually a "Second Season", that comes after game 82. I know you're not very familiar with it , but its called "the playoffs".
And believe it or not, there's actually more rounds after the 1st one! Crazy, right?!
Oh, and by the way, the Leaves were the 2nd-worst defensive team in the playoffs.
You must be confidant Andersen posts sub .900 every year and Matthews plays that bad.
LOL - thanks - now you made me make this:Lancer wrote: ↑Mon Sep 17, 2018 12:56 pm This era’s Maple leaves = WCE-era Canucks, with a much lesser blueline. Enjoy the regular season entertainment; the blueline and goal-line will only bring you post-season tears - especially when they have to face the likes of Tampa and Boston on the regular. It’s like Lucy with a football and Charlie Brown’s winding up for the kickoff.
What's going to happen when Boston has to match-up with Tavres/Matthews/Kadri every second in a playoff series?Lancer wrote: ↑Mon Sep 17, 2018 12:56 pm This era’s Maple leaves = WCE-era Canucks, with a much lesser blueline. Enjoy the regular season entertainment; the blueline and goal-line will only bring you post-season tears - especially when they have to face the likes of Tampa and Boston on the regular. It’s like Lucy with a football and Charlie Brown’s winding up for the kickoff.
The leaves will get a licken.BigTuna wrote: ↑Mon Sep 17, 2018 1:14 pmWhat's going to happen when Boston has to match-up with Tavres/Matthews/Kadri every second in a playoff series?Lancer wrote: ↑Mon Sep 17, 2018 12:56 pm This era’s Maple leaves = WCE-era Canucks, with a much lesser blueline. Enjoy the regular season entertainment; the blueline and goal-line will only bring you post-season tears - especially when they have to face the likes of Tampa and Boston on the regular. It’s like Lucy with a football and Charlie Brown’s winding up for the kickoff.
We were talking about the Leaves defensive issues, the fact is those 2 were their best PK guys and: Gone.BigTuna wrote: ↑Sun Sep 16, 2018 4:20 pmLOL at trying to say the leaves are going to miss plugs Komorov and Polak.Strangelove wrote: ↑Sun Sep 16, 2018 11:41 am That's because Andersen performs well in the regular season (sucks in the post season).
Holtby is the opposite.
And don't forget their 2 best penalty-killing dmen were Polak and Hainsey.
Polak is gonzo with no replacement, and Hainsey succumbed to old age as the season wore on.
Also gone is their best penalty-killing forward Komarov (played centre on their #1 PK unit).
Meanwhile Tampa should be better defensively with a full year of McDonagh
... and Hedman having come into his own defensively down the stretch.
(most folks also expect young Vasilevskiy to continue improving)
Leaves neglecting the defensive side of the game will continue to be their downfall.
Did they learn nothing the last two playoffs?
Nope, Komarov had a tough year offensively but was his usual stellar self defensively.
Leaves were 11th out of the 16 playoff teams in that category… in the regular season
4th line plug?? Actually Komarov has been playing top-6 minutes for the past few seasons.
So Johnsson with his 9 NHL games at 11:42 is going to magically replace one of the best defensive forwards in the league??
That's not true, Komarov missed 5.5 of the Leaves 7 playoff games with an ankle injury.
Did you really say Kadri? Or was that a typo?BigTuna wrote: ↑Mon Sep 17, 2018 1:14 pmWhat's going to happen when Boston has to match-up with Tavres/Matthews/Kadri every second in a playoff series?Lancer wrote: ↑Mon Sep 17, 2018 12:56 pm This era’s Maple leaves = WCE-era Canucks, with a much lesser blueline. Enjoy the regular season entertainment; the blueline and goal-line will only bring you post-season tears - especially when they have to face the likes of Tampa and Boston on the regular. It’s like Lucy with a football and Charlie Brown’s winding up for the kickoff.
