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2019-2020 Toronto Maple Leafs General Discussion

Bullfrog said:
herman said:
You like mixing goal stats with shootout goals?
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You just shattered my ignorant bliss.

I hope you feel bad.
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The last time I felt bad was from eating some bad white tuna at an AYCE. That was 4 days of bad.

This, this is the joy of shining light into the darkness.
 
To judge by the lack of discussion around here compared to previous seasons, I'm sensing a shortfall of enthusiasm for this team.  Maybe it's just me though.

It's funny, you wait for years for the club to be good, to have some real skill, and now they do.  Yet I just don't feel a strong connection to the Big 4.  Maybe it's because outside of Tavares it appears they are content to coast too often.

Marner especially has gone from enthusiastic energizer to just another overpaid athlete.

I really enjoyed the first season of Matthews/Nylander/Marner together.  Since then ... it's been meh more than wow.

 
i find myself rooting for guys like Moore and Mikheyev much more than the millionaires... Of course I root for the club to win every night but I guess I am a fool and expected some to live up to the money they are being paid. It is early yet I guess so no time to panic yet. I keep telling myself that.
 
Perhaps it's the expectations. Despite having absolutely horrendous, lazy, underperforming seasons, Matthews is 3rd in the league in goals (Pastrnak and Neal ahead of him, with 5 and 6 power-play goals respectively) and Marner is tied for 12th in points.
 
Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
To judge by the lack of discussion around here compared to previous seasons, I'm sensing a shortfall of enthusiasm for this team.
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Just to satisfy my own curiosity, I wanted to see if there was any way to double-check this.

Last year the first 11 GDTs had a total of 1468 replies, which equals an average of 133 per game. The busiest thread had 219 replies and the slowest one had just 83.

This year the first 11 GDTS had a total of 2224 replies, which equals an average of 202 per game. The busiest thread had 332 replies and the slowest had 132.

Last years "General Discussion" thread had 83 posts from Oct 1st to Oct. 23rd. This years "General Discussion" thread had 141.
 
https://twitter.com/kristen_shilton/status/1187386761267335168

I'm sure he's fine (*he said with very little confidence*).
 
Last year, the theme coming out of the off-season was that the Leafs had just signed one of the biggest UFA deals of all time. This year, the Leafs didn't do that and had an off-season dominated by supposed Leafs fans running down and taking whatever opportunity they could to call the team's talented young players selfish, overpaid and overrated.

So, yeah, there may be less enthusiasm for the team.
 
herman said:
Get out of here with your spreadsheets and advanced stats.
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Yeah really shove off matey.  :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P

All I know is that yesterday there was essentially no activity on the main board all day.  (Some in the GDT.)  So HA.
 
Nik Bethune said:
Last year, the theme coming out of the off-season was that the Leafs had just signed one of the biggest UFA deals of all time. This year, the Leafs didn't do that and had an off-season dominated by supposed Leafs fans running down and taking whatever opportunity they could to call the team's talented young players selfish, overpaid and overrated.

So, yeah, there may be less enthusiasm for the team.
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Well, for me none of that is it.  I just don't cotton up to the superstars I guess.  I respect Tavares, but he's kind of hard to get, you know, excited abot -- er, I mean, "about."
 
Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
Well, for me none of that is it.  I just don't cotton up to the superstars I guess.  I respect Tavares, but he's kind of hard to get, you know, excited abot -- er, I mean, "about."
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You may have missed my ironing, Malvolio.
 
Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
herman said:
Get out of here with your spreadsheets and advanced stats.
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Yeah really shove off matey.  :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P

All I know is that yesterday there was essentially no activity on the main board all day.  (Some in the GDT.)  So HA.
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Just admit that you were wrong! Don't make me look to see how many instances of "essentially" no activity we had here last October!
 
To be fair, I was sick earlier this week and I haven?t been able to watch games in their entirety due to driving.
 
Nik Bethune said:
Last year, the theme coming out of the off-season was that the Leafs had just signed one of the biggest UFA deals of all time. This year, the Leafs didn't do that and had an off-season dominated by supposed Leafs fans running down and taking whatever opportunity they could to call the team's talented young players selfish, overpaid and overrated.

So, yeah, there may be less enthusiasm for the team.
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A side yet related thought. The Leafs have lost to Boston two years in a row in the first round. Both those years saw the final games of the regular season be mostly unimportant.  I don't really care what happens in the regular season this year, other than making the playoffs. I've watched way less this season than I normally do because of that.
 
Bill_Berg said:
Nik Bethune said:
Last year, the theme coming out of the off-season was that the Leafs had just signed one of the biggest UFA deals of all time. This year, the Leafs didn't do that and had an off-season dominated by supposed Leafs fans running down and taking whatever opportunity they could to call the team's talented young players selfish, overpaid and overrated.

So, yeah, there may be less enthusiasm for the team.
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A side yet related thought. The Leafs have lost to Boston two years in a row in the first round. Both those years saw the final games of the regular season be mostly unimportant.  I don't really care what happens in the regular season this year, other than making the playoffs. I've watched way less this season than I normally do because of that.
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So it's the destination and not the journey?  ;)
 
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