Game 81: Bolts at Maple Leafs - Biggest Must Lose Game of the Year!

[Trevor]

I missed it -- did Gardiner set up Connolly?

Yessir, on a 2 on 1.

 

[WhatIfGodWasALeaf]

I missed it -- did Gardiner set up Connolly?

Yessir, on a 2 on 1.

Yup, dispossessed Lecavalier in the Leafs zone and took off, played a one two with Steckel, head on a swivel, dances around one guy towards the left of the net and slides it across the crease for the Connolly tap-in.

 

[lamajama]

I missed it -- did Gardiner set up Connolly?

Yessir, on a 2 on 1.

Yup, dispossessed Lecavalier in the Leafs zone and took off, played a one two with Steckel, head on a swivel, dances around one guy towards the left of the net and slides it across the crease for the Connolly tap-in.

Yeah we need to talk to him...

 

[ZBBM]

I missed it -- did Gardiner set up Connolly?

Yessir, on a 2 on 1.

Yup, dispossessed Lecavalier in the Leafs zone and took off, played a one two with Steckel, head on a swivel, dances around one guy towards the left of the net and slides it across the crease for the Connolly tap-in.

Thanks guys.  I've been critical of his D -- hopefully he'll learn to be an effective positional d-man -- but his skating and puck handling is one of the few bright spots to have emerged this year.  That round-the-world goal the other night was amazing.

 

[ZBBM]

Millen, if what you are trending toward is suggesting Roloson for us next year....

 

[bustaheims]

Millen, if what you are trending toward is suggesting Roloson for us next year....

Only Millen would consider a stretch where a goalie puts up a Sv% of .894 enough to say "he might still have it."

 

[pnjunction]

Millen, if what you are trending toward is suggesting Roloson for us next year....

Only Millen would consider a stretch where a goalie puts up a Sv% of .894 enough to say "he might still have it."

I don't know would it be much different than Giguere?  He only posted .900 while here but seemed to have a calming influence on the younger guys, and now he is putting up .923 in Colorado.  If he is cheap on a 1-year and there are no better options on the vet goalie market, why not?  I think it beats coming into another season with little experience in net again.

 

[ZBBM]

Greg Millen: Chief Apologist for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Maybe Schenn, quality young man that he is, will be somehere else next season?

 

[Bullfrog]

Nice play, but robbed by the post!

 

[pnjunction]

Roloson and the post looking out for our draft pick.  ;D

 

[pnjunction]

Roloson did not look very flexible coming across there though...got luck that the shot was bad.

How the hell is Giguere so much better this year anyways?  I remember his groin movements looking similarly sketchy here last year.

 

[ZBBM]

Stumper!!!

 

[Tigger]

Roloson did not look very flexible coming across there though...got luck that the shot was bad.

How the hell is Giguere so much better this year anyways?  I remember his groin movements looking similarly sketchy here last year.

He had successful surgery, IIRC.

 

[Bullfrog]

... If he is cheap on a 1-year and there are no better options on the vet goalie market, why not?  I think it beats coming into another season with little experience in net again.

Both our main goalies outplayed him this year, statistically-speaking. So how does it help?

 

[Kaberle15]

Imagine we lose tonight and the Habs and Isles win?

Saturdays game would decide 3rd overall!

well, Tampa, and Carolina need to score 1 more (at least), Isles needs to hang for 20 more minutes...

 

[bustaheims]

I don't know would it be much different than Giguere?  He only posted .900 while here but seemed to have a calming influence on the younger guys, and now he is putting up .923 in Colorado.  If he is cheap on a 1-year and there are no better options on the vet goalie market, why not?  I think it beats coming into another season with little experience in net again.

Well, the main difference might be that Giguere is almost a decade younger than Roloson, and that his issues were injury related rather than age related.

 

[pnjunction]

Roloson did not look very flexible coming across there though...got luck that the shot was bad.

How the hell is Giguere so much better this year anyways?  I remember his groin movements looking similarly sketchy here last year.

He had successful surgery, IIRC.

Seems so.  Thanks.

 

[bustaheims]

Imagine we lose tonight and the Habs and Isles win?

Saturdays game would decide 3rd overall!

well, Tampa, and Carolina need to score 1 more (at least), Isles needs to hang for 20 more minutes...

No, no, no, Carolina needs to lose (though, preferably, in OT or a shootout).

 

[WAYNEINIONA]

Only 3 pages on a GDT after 2 periods! We don't need a bandwagon we could use a 12 passenger van.

 

[Fanatic]

I think the Leafs started falling apart when Mats came back to town.