Game 18 - Yotes @ Leafs - 11-15 - 7PM SportsNet

[pnjunction]

Who cares Kablammo!!!

 

[Bullfrog]

Philblammo!

 

[bustaheims]

Kessblammo!

 

[LittleHockeyFan]

 

[BlueWhiteBlood]

I don't think there could have been a more likely scorer, and I'll definitely take it!

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

Is this Lombardi's best game as a Leaf? I noticed someone else mention him earlier as well

Hopefully it's a good sign he's getting his conditioning up to par now.

 

[bustaheims]

Who cares Kablammo!!!

Philblammo!

You guys are stepping on my bit, huh?

 

[Tigger]

In this league if you don't win, you're gone.

Don't the Leafs have a winning record right now?

...and it's tied.

 

[ZBBM]

Kessel's playing like a legit Hart candidate so far.

 

[pnjunction]

Haha Burke's stache is awesome

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

I love that guy.

And Burke's stache is awesome.

 

[barney_rebel]

we rule man

 

[BlueWhiteBlood]

Kessel's playing like a legit Hart candidate so far.

And you could have been talking about his back check earlier in the game. Not just that last goal of his.

 

[Bullfrog]

Who cares Kablammo!!!

Philblammo!

You guys are stepping on my bit, huh?

Ka-pow!

?

 

[ZBBM]

Aside from the goal Komisarek's had two excellent shots on net.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

Komisarek's shots on goal for the entire season tonight.

 

[bustaheims]

Smart play by Kulemin on the Kessel goal - a low shot from the wing to generate a rebound. Man, he's just so crappy.

 

[sneakyray]

Who cares Kablammo!!!

Philblammo!

You guys are stepping on my bit, huh?

Ka-pow!

?

BAZINGA!

 

[BlueWhiteBlood]

Smart play by Kulemin on the Kessel goal - a low shot from the wing to generate a rebound. Man, he's just so crappy.

Yeah, a month from now, I predict people will be saying how much they love him and how awesome he is.

 

[Bender]

Let's cut to the chase here.  Argue all you want to about whether this or that piece of crap is Wilson's fault.  The fact is that the team hasn't gotten it done, and he's been here more than 3 years.  At some point you gas the coach.  Burke should have done it last year but he's letting friendship get in the way of a decision that any other franchise would have made long ago.  End of story.

Before or after you give him a decent goaltender? If we had Nicklas Backstrom or Pekka Rinne we wouldn't even be talking about canning Wilson.

Most coaches in the league can craft a defensive scheme that accounts for less-that-elite goaltending.    He hasn't done it.  And, just in case you have forgotten, he never got it done in SJ with far better goaltending than he got here.

In this league if you don't win, you're gone.  It's well past time to try a different coach.

Let me put the onus on you: What's the downside to firing Wilson?

So how many current coaches have won the cup? Off the top of my head: Mike Babcock, Randy Carlyle, Claude Julien, Joel Quenneville. Any more to add out of a 30 team league?

I'm not saying firing Wilson is a horrible idea. I don't really care for him as a coach. My point is that firing Wilson, imo, will not alleviate the Leafs problems. The goaltending issues will still be there until we get a proper No. 1 in place. The systems are irrelevant when your goalies are scored on on non-scoring chances.

Like I said: Quinn had Belfour and Cujo bail the team out. Burns had Potvin. Every good team has a good goaltender, not vice-versa, at least IMO, unless you want to play the trap like Tampa did.

The Leafs will still have just as many problems without Wilson as they did with Wilson, new systems or not. Maybe it'll kick start the PK% but I think better goaltending will take care of that. The PP needs work and I don't have an answer for that, but I don't know if Wilson is even headmanning that.