Game 14, Carolina at Toronto 7PM Eastern, on Leafs TV and TSN radio

[proteus2000]

God Scrivens sucks.  Why would you leave the net and fake making a play on the puck to confuse your defense.  The guy has absolutely no common sense in terms of playing the puck outside the crease.  Someone really needs to sit him down and tell him to stay in the crease.

Scrivens needs to improve his decision making when playing the puck no doubt, but losing after 2 is far from his fault...the team can't keep the puck in CAR zone at all and their giveaways have been shocking. If anything Scrivens has made good saves to keep the game somewhat in reach.

This game is a let down in many ways. We can only hope that this is an asterick and not the standard we will see in the future.

 

[Edeagle]

Scrivens is a flopper, that's his style. The goals have not been his fault. Our D have been bad. 

 

[L K]

20:00 Tim Brent: 2 Minutes for Roughing Dion Phaneuf
20:00 DION PHANEUF : ROUGHING  - 2 MIN  (TIM BRENT)

So no chance of a single point tonight for the leafs, eh?

If they can remember how to play hockey in the 3rd, maybe they can salvage something. That, however, looks extremely unlikely.

Yeah forget that.  They arbitrarily only gave a penalty to Phaneuf to give Carolina a 5 on 3.  Screw you refs.

 

[maplesyrup]

* SIGH * Just one of those games.

 

[PrestigeWorldwide]

20:00 Tim Brent: 2 Minutes for Roughing Dion Phaneuf
20:00 DION PHANEUF : ROUGHING  - 2 MIN  (TIM BRENT)

So no chance of a single point tonight for the leafs, eh?

If they can remember how to play hockey in the 3rd, maybe they can salvage something. That, however, looks extremely unlikely.

Yeah forget that.  They arbitrarily only gave a penalty to Phaneuf to give Carolina a 5 on 3.  Screw you refs.

Yeah - WTF?? Randomly we are on a 5 on 3?  Ridiculous.

 

[L K]

And then Grabovski gets hauled down on an offensive rush and doesn't get a call.......

I do think that the quality of the ice is really hurting the Leafs here though.  They can't use their speed because the puck is sticking on the ice so much.  It doesn't absolve them of all of their turnovers and sloppy defensive play but I don't think it has helped.

 

[bustaheims]

Love that NHL calibre officiating. Nowhere close to the reason the Leafs are losing, but, seriously . . .

 

[Derk]

Listened to part of the first period on the radio on the way home. It sounds like it is a good thing I missed the 2nd period. Leafs giveaway machines and are probably going to lose.

And I still hate the Canes this year.

 

[PrestigeWorldwide]

Scrivens makes another poor puck control decision behind the net there.

 

[PrestigeWorldwide]

We are struggling to even clear our zone let alone put together scoring chances.

 

[L K]

Yeah, it really looks like the Leafs just gave up on trying to win this game.  Even though they got stuck with a 5 on 3 penalty kill it looked like they came out with absolutely no energy. 

 

[ZBBM]

OK.  I went out of my way earlier in the thread to givea few words of praise to Phaneuf.  I now withdraw them.

 

[PrestigeWorldwide]

Love Kadri - creative with those moves.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

This doesn't explain the terrible defensive play tonight, but I think the Leafs are going to struggle a lot while both Lupul and Frattin are out. It pretty much depletes any secondary scoring that we have. Grabovski, MacArthur, and Kulemin have obviously had their struggles and don't seem to be producing much of anything right now. Komarov and McClement have been solid this season, but can't really replace what Lupul and Frattin bring to the table. Kadri's been great of course, but he needs somebody to play with.

 

[ZBBM]

This doesn't explain the terrible defensive play tonight, but I think the Leafs are going to struggle a lot while both Lupul and Frattin are out. It pretty much depletes any secondary scoring that we have. Grabovski, MacArthur, and Kulemin have obviously had their struggles and don't seem to be producing much of anything right now. Komarov and McClement have been solid this season, but can't really replace what Lupul and Frattin bring to the table. Kadri's been great of course, but he needs somebody to play with.

Might be time to break up Grabovski and Kulemin.  They are stagnating.

 

[Edeagle]

Seems like every time we get the puck in the Canes zone it turns into an odd man rush or breakaway the other way. It really bothers me that Carlyle plays the 4th line when were down by 2 in the 3rd.. we're burning the clock for them!

 

[Peter D.]

Good back check Phil.

 

[PrestigeWorldwide]

Another horrendous pinch by Phaneuf.  :-[

 

[PG]

They were due to come out flat sometime soon, every team does.....the good teams just don't do it often.

Hopefully they bounce back with a win on Saturday.

 

[PrestigeWorldwide]

Man does Kessel need a real centre.