Game 6 - Toronto Maple Leafs @ Boston Bruins L6-2

[GhostofPotvin29]

I thought Gus came out to the top of his crease on the Chara goal.

 

[Kin]

Really? This is what TSN is about? Dave Hodge reading viewer e-mail?

Once they introduced that concept, I really got to see just how bitter a man Dave Hodge is.

I'd be bitter too if that were my job. Well, more so anyway.

 

[dappleganger]

I think McKenzie made a pretty good point re: trying to play Boston tough just now.

Agreed. Bad coaching decision.

Fighting fire with fire?

 

[Strangelove]

Busta, I can't agree that it's a confidence issue in front of him.  It's an effort/execution issue.  Giving up 18 shots in the first period is just a bad effort, has nothing to do with feeling less confident.

Really? You don't see how poor execution could very easily be the result of not having confidence in your goalie and, therefore, being more conscious about not making mistakes, which, as we all know, often leads to making more mitakes? Really?

That's a really irritating way to post.

But to respond to your post directly, that period was hardly a case of "poor execution".  They weren't skating out there, similar to the way they haven't been skating early in many/all of the games this year.

 

[bustaheims]

Although, in hindsight, looking at Boston's last game, and it being back-to-back, this sort of seems inevitable.  Kind of a tough situation for Gustavsson to come into for his first game, although that period was a team-wide problem.

That's fair. I'm not going to come to a final conclusion based solely on this game, but, based on their play in front him last season . . . I know which way I'm leaning.

 

[Guilt Trip]

I thought Gus came out to the top of his crease on the Chara goal.

He didn't and was too far to the post.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

Really? This is what TSN is about? Dave Hodge reading viewer e-mail?

Once they introduced that concept, I really got to see just how bitter a man Dave Hodge is.

I'd be bitter too if that were my job. Well, more so anyway.

I think he's still bitter that CBC would not cut to the Montreal/Philadelphia overtime.  I don't think he ever found out who won.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

I thought Gus came out to the top of his crease on the Chara goal.

He didn't and was too far to the post.

I'll wait until a replay is up online and check it out.

 

[dappleganger]

Sounds like Gus is getting left to twist in the wind.

I don't agree. He needs to make a save and that first one was brutal...That got the Bruins going. Easy catch and he blew it...Second goal, while a laser by Chara, Gus was in the back of his net. Top of the crease, it hits him. 3rd goal while Franson was horrid, Gus took himself out of the play by scrambling around. Yes the Leafs haven't been great and I'm not laying this on Gus but he needs to step up to. He isn't the victim here....he's def had a part in the score.

There isn't a goalie in the league who would have stopped Chara's shot.  Gus was more than solid during the first period onslaught - it should have been much worse.

I was off the post and in, top shelf off a one-timer nicely tee'd up. I don't blame Gus at all for not stopping it. It would have been luck if it hit him.

 

[Kin]

I'm just saying look at the replay. If he was in proper position, top of the crease, it probably hits him.

First of all, the "top" of the crease isn't anywhere near proper position considering the angle Chara was shooting from. Gustavsson was at the edge of his crease.

Either way though that's armchair goaltending that isn't really meaningful. If Gus dives out at Chara then Chara might have slowed down the play instead of hammering it move it across the ice and give someone else a wide-open net. It was a perfect shot that probably was going so fast as to enable time travel. And not terrible Guy Pearce time travel either but charming Michael J. Fox time travel. 

 

[Kin]

I think McKenzie made a pretty good point re: trying to play Boston tough just now.

Agreed. Bad coaching decision.

Fighting fire with fire?

Usually leads to a bigger fire.

 

[LittleHockeyFan]

ohforheavenssakes.....  :

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

Yep, one of those games with the penalties.

Ferraro just called him Pascal Dupuis.

 

[bustaheims]

But to respond to your post directly, that period was hardly a case of "poor execution".  They weren't skating out there, similar to the way they haven't been skating early in many/all of the games this year.

Sure, but I'm not talking about just how they've looked tonight, but, how they've looked in front of Gustavsson since last season. They've consistently looked worse in front of him than they have in front of any of the other goalies that played for the Leafs in that span. That probably isn't a coincidence.

 

[Deebo]

Yep, one of those games with the penalties.

Ferraro just called him Pascal Dupuis.

Say what you want about McGuire, at least he knows whats going on in the game he's watching.

 

[dappleganger]

I think McKenzie made a pretty good point re: trying to play Boston tough just now.

Agreed. Bad coaching decision.

Fighting fire with fire?

Usually leads to a bigger fire.

They play on ice, how bad could it be?

Edit: Oh wait, I'm watching the game. Pretty bad it seems.

 

[Bullfrog]

Can they decline?

 

[BlueWhiteBlood]

Yep, one of those games with the penalties.

Ferraro just called him Pascal Dupuis.

Say what you want about McGuire, at least he knows whats going on the the he's watching.

Yeah, Ferraro was doing stuff like that all night last night.

 

[13th fan]

Bad Chara

 

[azzurri63]

Got away with that Seguin offside it was onside.