General Leafs Talk: Post-Olympics Edition

[L K]

Might have something to do with the 4 call up rule.

The 4 call up rule is gone. The rule now is that a team can't have more than 3 players on the roster that they called up after the deadline. They can make unlimited recalls, as long as there aren't more than 3 guys recalled at a time.

I'd assume there are injury exemptions built into that rule?  That is considerably better.  It still forces you to play your NHL roster and not just go full tank with AHL players but frees up the ability to evaluate multiple players depending on merit.

 

[bustaheims]

I'd assume there are injury exemptions built into that rule?  That is considerably better.  It still forces you to play your NHL roster and not just go full tank with AHL players but frees up the ability to evaluate multiple players depending on merit.

I assume so. There was for significant injuries with the 4 recall rule, so, I imagine that's the case with the new rule, as well.

 

[Deebo]

Might have something to do with the 4 call up rule.

The 4 call up rule is gone. The rule now is that a team can't have more than 3 players on the roster that they called up after the deadline. They can make unlimited recalls, as long as there aren't more than 3 guys recalled at a time.

It would still make sense to have them on the roster pre-deadline so they don't count as part of that 3?

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Lance Hornby ‏@sunhornby  11m
Phaneuf had a "maintenance day" according to Carlyle. That was on top of Leafs getting Tuesday off.

If he's hurt, which is sounds like he might be, that would at least partially explain why he's looked so bad since the break.

 

[bustaheims]

LeafsPR: Forward Trevor Smith has been assigned to the Toronto Marlies (AHL). #Leafs #TMLtalk

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

Toronto's top line of Bozak, Phil Kessel and James van Riemsdyk has now combined for 35 goals in the new year or 10 more than the rest of the forwards combined in that span and a staggering 49 per cent of the team's total offence.

http://www.tsn.ca/toronto/blogs/jonas_siegel/?id=445406

 

[CarltonTheBear]

James Mirtle ‏@mirtle  7m
So @jonasTSN1050 asked Carlyle what Leafs can do to better hold late leads. Carlyle: "Pfft. Jason... next question. For crying out loud!"

*applause*

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

James Mirtle ‏@mirtle  7m
So @jonasTSN1050 asked Carlyle what Leafs can do to better hold late leads. Carlyle: "Pfft. Jason... next question. For crying out loud!"

*applause*

Then this:

@mirtle

Why isn't that a fair question? Carlyle acts like it's dumbest thing he's ever heard while reporters giggle in background. Don't get it.

Good job, other reporters.

 

[ZBBM]

James Mirtle ‏@mirtle  7m
So @jonasTSN1050 asked Carlyle what Leafs can do to better hold late leads. Carlyle: "Pfft. Jason... next question. For crying out loud!"

*applause*

Then this:

@mirtle

Why isn't that a fair question? Carlyle acts like it's dumbest thing he's ever heard while reporters giggle in background. Don't get it.

Good job, other reporters.

I'm not sure what you and CTB mean by your comments, but from my POV Carlyle damn well ought to be asked that question, and not just shrug it off.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

I was being sarcastic.

 

[ZBBM]

I was being sarcastic.

I thought so but wasn't sure.

Anyway, I guess RC thinks he's such a veteran coach that he can just blow off impertinent questions, like why his team sucks so much in the 3rd.  I sometimes wish TO had a Larry Brooks (yes, with all his downside) just to push back on the coach.

 

[Kin]

I'm not sure what you and CTB mean by your comments, but from my POV Carlyle damn well ought to be asked that question, and not just shrug it off.

To some extent it's a little bit like the halftime reporter who asks the coach "Hey coach, Lebron James scored 40 points on you in that half, what can you do next half to contain him?". I mean, do you really need the coach to say "If I knew how to contain Lebron James, we'd have done it in the first half"?

I think it's fair to assume that if there were an easy and obvious answer to that question, it would be implemented. Outside of asking about specific things that could be done and hearing his answer as to their relative efficacy vs. what the team did, aren't you just nakedly appealing for a sound bite of "I don't know"?

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

I was being sarcastic.

I thought so but wasn't sure.

Anyway, I guess RC thinks he's such a veteran coach that he can just blow off impertinent questions, like why his team sucks so much in the 3rd.  I sometimes wish TO had a Larry Brooks (yes, with all his downside) just to push back on the coach.

The unfortunate thing is that I've done a bit of reading of Anaheim blogs/forums from around the time he was fired, and a common criticism of Carlyle from that time was a) not adapting his coaching to the team after they lost their HHOF guys and b) the team could not hold a 3rd period lead and would sit back.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

The Leafs are the LeBron James of blowing 3rd period leads.

 

[ZBBM]

I was being sarcastic.

I thought so but wasn't sure.

Anyway, I guess RC thinks he's such a veteran coach that he can just blow off impertinent questions, like why his team sucks so much in the 3rd.  I sometimes wish TO had a Larry Brooks (yes, with all his downside) just to push back on the coach.

The unfortunate thing is that I've done a bit of reading of Anaheim blogs/forums from around the time he was fired, and a common criticism of Carlyle from that time was a) not adapting his coaching to the team after they lost their HHOF guys and b) the team could not hold a 3rd period lead and would sit back.

Sigh.

I would have loved to see how Eakins would do with this team.

 

[Kin]

The Leafs are the LeBron James of blowing 3rd period leads.

Realistically though, if you went into the season sight unseen what team would you assume would give up the most 3rd period leads? It wouldn't be one of the worst teams in the league, they wouldn't have enough 3rd period leads. It would be, I assume, a team that scored a lot of goals but had a bad or at least overly offensive collection of defensemen and not great defensive forwards, right?

 

[freer]

I was being sarcastic.

I thought so but wasn't sure.

Anyway, I guess RC thinks he's such a veteran coach that he can just blow off impertinent questions, like why his team sucks so much in the 3rd.  I sometimes wish TO had a Larry Brooks (yes, with all his downside) just to push back on the coach.

The unfortunate thing is that I've done a bit of reading of Anaheim blogs/forums from around the time he was fired, and a common criticism of Carlyle from that time was a) not adapting his coaching to the team after they lost their HHOF guys and b) the team could not hold a 3rd period lead and would sit back.

Sigh.

I would have loved to see how Eakins would do with this team.

I look at Edmonton, and say no thanks

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

Reports that the cap may be as low as $68 million next season due to the weak Canadian dollar.  Let's hope not...

 

[Andy007]

The Leafs are the LeBron James of blowing 3rd period leads.

Realistically though, if you went into the season sight unseen what team would you assume would give up the most 3rd period leads? It wouldn't be one of the worst teams in the league, they wouldn't have enough 3rd period leads. It would be, I assume, a team that scored a lot of goals but had a bad or at least overly offensive collection of defensemen and not great defensive forwards, right?

Calgary is 2nd worst.

 

[Kin]

Calgary is 2nd worst.

Ok...so the 4th worst team is 2nd worst. What's the full list look like?