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what time is hearing?
2017-18 Toronto Maple Leafs - Playoffs Edition
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herman said:
I haven't seen a replay of that so I can't say if it's suspension-worthy, but Player Safety announced that his hearing was specifically for the "boarding/charging" incident. If they were reviewing both plays they would have announced it.
ZBBM
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Zee said:
For sure. They let the game get away from them at the end of the 2nd. That said, if they get blown out this series, it does beging to sew seeds of doubt whether guys like (say) Marner can be erased in playoff hockey (that sandwich right before Kadri's assbomb being the case in point). And, indeed, whether Matthews and Nylander can step up when it counts.
Zee
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Significantly Insignificant said:
Your post was way more enjoyable to read though. You forgot to mention Dino Ciccarelli in that series in 1993. Potvin snapped in game 2 and starting hitting him in the head with his blocker. Then Burns said the strategy was to leave him alone in front of the net and not get off your game, and it worked. I miss Pat Burns.
Zee said:
I did totally forget about that. That was an enjoyable series. I hope we all find this Boston-Toronto series as enjoyable.
It's funny, also from last nights game, when Gardiner rang one off the post in the first period with that extremely loud "PING", I was thinking "Hmmm, the last time we heard a loud ping in a game 1 involving the Leafs, the reaction was much different".
https://twitter.com/jonassiegel/status/984825959756058625
Deep down, I think we all knew that this was happening.
Anyway, I wouldn't hate the move if Nylander and Hyman swapped spots too and they went Marleau-Nylander-Marner as line 2.
Deep down, I think we all knew that this was happening.
Anyway, I wouldn't hate the move if Nylander and Hyman swapped spots too and they went Marleau-Nylander-Marner as line 2.
Also, I think it's pretty funny that for almost 2 years now we've been asking for Hyman to be taken off the Matthews line (less this year admittedly) and this is what we get when it finally happens.
Strangelove
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Babcock's solution to Matthews' possession woes is to promote one of the worst players in the league (with atrocious possession numbers) to the first line.
Completely indefensible.
Somehow Babcock manages to keep surprising me with his almost surrealist perspective on how the line-up should look.
Completely indefensible.
Somehow Babcock manages to keep surprising me with his almost surrealist perspective on how the line-up should look.
Strangelove said:
We probably don't have any combination of 3 players who could beat the Bergeron match-up. The goal is to get the Matthews line to be able to bend-but-not-break as much as possible while loading up the 3 other lines so we can win those match-ups. It's not exactly a strategy that we should be proud of, but it's probably the only one that'll work.
I'd also like to point out that we wouldn't have this problem if John Tavares was a Leaf.
I know that there's been a lot of grumbling about Plekanec's play, and he's for sure been pretty disappointing as a Leaf, but I think we'd all agree that the best he's looked as a Leaf has been when he's been between Johnsson and Kapanen. Let's hope that continues because we're probably going to need a 4th line that dominates possession and maybe pots in a goal if we want to win the series and last night we got the exact opposite of that.
herman said:
We need Qyburn to whip us up a vial of the Long Farewell.
Zee
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You would think after 40+ years of heartbreak, I'd be more even keeled when it comes to Leafs losses in the playoffs, but no, last night I was in a dark place. Even though I knew it was only game 1, and there could be a long way to go, I lay in bed awake for over an hour still stewing about the game. I need help.
