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Leafs @ Coyotes - Nov. 4th, 9:00pm - SNO, TSN 1050

Kessel has 2 points this game. Clearly that means the leafs will win. Unless like... illuminati and lizard people or something.
 
Patrick said:
I wonder if Santorelli has some kind of upper body injury. He is playing with Kadri and Winnik and is the third choice for face offs.

Well, Randy Carlyle is still the coach for the Leafs, so, really, there could be absolutely no reason at all.
 
Phaneuf with an incredibly stupid dump in that Mike Smith easily stops and the puck goes back out of the zone.  Why?  Why you stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid defenseman.
 
freer said:
I will say it.... Gardiner should be benched. IMO he lost the game for the leafs.

::)

They lost this as a team by not showing up for the 1st half of the game. There is no single player responsible for this loss. There rarely is.
 
freer said:
I will say it.... Gardiner should be benched. IMO he lost the game for the leafs.

He had a soft pass in the first but then so did most of the team, that period was brutal all around. He was better as the game wore on, as were the rest of the team.
 
losveratos said:
Kessel has 2 points this game. Clearly that means the leafs will win. Unless like... illuminati and lizard people or something.

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Tigger said:
freer said:
I will say it.... Gardiner should be benched. IMO he lost the game for the leafs.

He had a soft pass in the first

And it looked to me like he fanned on it.  Becomes his fault, but it's not like it's lack of effort on that, fanning on the puck (as anyone who has played even shinny hockey can attest to) happens unexpectedly.  Of course you could argue he could have done many different things there, but I digress.
 
I stick by my blaming on Gardiner. I do not expect a 3.5 - 4 mil defense man to "ever" fan on a pass three feet from the goal "ever". And if he does he should of tackled the guy he gave it too. The man is far to soft to be playing defense. IMO.

On another note, I felt bad for Kadri during the third period, I would of preferred to see him on the at the end of the game.
 
You have very unrealistic expectations of a defenseman then.  It happens, if it could be avoided then the term 'fanning on the puck' wouldn't exist.  You can be the toughest defenseman that ever lived and still fan on the puck, it's got nothing to do with being 'soft'.  He also was one of the few players on the team to consistently gain the Coyotes zone with possession all game.  It sucks that it happened but there were far worse things that happened all game by the team as a whole.
 
freer said:
I stick by my blaming on Gardiner. I do not expect a 3.5 - 4 mil defense man to "ever" fan on a pass three feet from the goal "ever". And if he does he should of tackled the guy he gave it too. The man is far to soft to be playing defense. IMO.

On another note, I felt bad for Kadri during the third period, I would of preferred to see him on the at the end of the game.

I think you have to just let him 'play out' all the mistakes that these young guys are bound to make from time to time. I mean, it takes a while to get good at the NHL level.  There is no need to press the panic button on Gardiner and put him on the trade block, right? That mistake has been made a few times before..
 
Mirtle: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/leafs-beat/mirtle-latest-loss-a-perfect-example-of-what-ails-the-leafs/article21452753/

When we talk about entering the offensive zone, typically there are two basic types of entries: controlled and uncontrolled (or dump-ins). There?s no one way to win a hockey game, but many of the NHL?s best possession teams ? neither of which were involved in this game ? do so by managing the puck well coming out of the D zone and going into the O zone.

Arizona did this on Tuesday. Against Toronto, in the section of the game I examined, the Coyotes made 19 controlled entries at even strength and had 10 dump-ins.

For the Leafs, I counted only six controlled entries and a remarkable 31 dump-ins, the majority of which were either unrecovered, part of a line change or an icing.

Not sure what part of the game Mirtle tracked for this (his twitter account would suggest it was at least the 1st period), but the Leafs had 3x the number of dump-ins Arizona had during that time. That's a lot.
 

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