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Leafs @ Devils - Mar. 23rd, 7:00pm - LeafsTV, TSN 1050

So this team has been playing unbelievably bad all year (can barely clear their zone, no basic idea of how to play fundamental hockey, getting outshot 2-1) yet was getting bailed out game in and out by hall of fame goaltending. Didn't we all say that that couldn't possibly last and that that was a very dangerous thing to be relying on for wins?

And Reimer, who is playing the part of a back-up goalie, is suddenly supposed to leap of the bench and become Dominik Hasek? Maybe this team should figure out how to complete a simple defensive zone break-out first before we blame Reimer for missing the playoffs.
 
Rebel_1812 said:
Yeah was Busta a Raycroft apologist too.  Reimer isn't a bad goalie but he isn't playing well right now.  His confidence is shot and the team cannot afford to give him another start.
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I was? That's news to me. I may not have been as hard on him as others, but I was by no means a Raycroft apologist.
 
RedLeaf said:
You are one of the very few that keep letting Reimer off the hook during this losing streak. You've gone down every path of blame expect the obvious one. Even my seven year old can tell you why the Leafs are losing games right now....#stickingwithmystory
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I'm hardly letting him off the hook. I've said a number of times that he hasn't played well recently. I just seriously disagree with the idea that he's the main reason the team has been losing recently. To me, the obvious path of blame is the thing that has been an issue for this team all season finally catching up to them - their poor defensive play and terrible coverage in the defensive end.
 
bustaheims said:
Rebel_1812 said:
Yeah was Busta a Raycroft apologist too.  Reimer isn't a bad goalie but he isn't playing well right now.  His confidence is shot and the team cannot afford to give him another start.
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I was? That's news to me. I may not have been as hard on him as others, but I was by no means a Raycroft apologist.
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Busta, you were the biggest Raycroft apologist if there ever was one!

I remember one time in January 2007 where you posted: "Raycroft played a good game."


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How ironic, that the Leafs believed their 1A, 1B goalie approach would insure them against a prolonged losing streak if one of their goalies went down. We won't have a repeat of Scrivens!

Be HONEST. At the trade deadline, you were A-OK that the Leafs didn't trade Reimer. You all though he was the insurance policy against this result if Bernier got injured. Ha ha ha, we all said to ourselves, smugly.

Right now, we'd do ANYTHING to have had Scrivs the past five games, because we probably would have won two of them. 

Instead, we get a disaster in James Reimer of epic proportions.

That epic which will see our AHL goaltender, who isn't any damned good, start against the St. Louis Blues. In a game TML has to win - and won't.

Leafs Management didn't see it coming; fans didn't see it coming. Leafs players sure as hell didn't. Nobody did. Not THIS bad.

Yet Reimer has laid an egg - and a shovel of dirt over this 2014 Leafs team.

I just wanted the Leafs to make the playoffs and maybe get to Round 2. I just wanted to believe for a week. Just ONE week. Is that asking too much?

Evidently, yes.

Heartbreaking team.
 
April Reimer had a thing or two to say to the twitterati who criticized her husband and then some...

April Reimer  @april_reimer
Don't mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness as weakness

http://sports.nationalpost.com/2014/03/23/toronto-maple-leafs-james-reimer-pulled-against-new-jersey-devils/

 
Pretty sad about those tweets.

Unfortunately, this has become all too common with social media, exposing a dark, angry underbelly of the world. Give everyone a keyboard and the illusion of anonymity and let the venom flow. :(
 
What's funny, is although I've been on the fence about Carlyle the entire season on whether or not he should be fired, I put the Reimer fiasco directly on his shoulders. For the first time I'm completely in the 'Fire Randy' camp.

The comment of "He was ok, just ok" after the Red Wings game was such an idiotic comment to make. Even if he didn't mean it as an insult towards Reimer game he should know full well that the media will take it and spin it that way. He should know full well that the ridiculous Toronto media is going to ask Reimer about it. They want to cause controversy...it sells papers.

Reimer has been mediocre at best for the past week but coach Carlyle should carry the brunt of the blame for that. Rob a goalie of his confidence and you're in trouble. Rob a goalie you've already designated as your back up and have started sparingly over the last 3 months and he doesn't have a hope in heII.
 
OldTimeHockey said:
What's funny, is although I've been on the fence about Carlyle the entire season on whether or not he should be fired, I put the Reimer fiasco directly on his shoulders. For the first time I'm completely in the 'Fire Randy' camp.

The comment of "He was ok, just ok" after the Red Wings game was such an idiotic comment to make. Even if he didn't mean it as an insult towards Reimer game he should know full well that the media will take it and spin it that way. He should know full well that the ridiculous Toronto media is going to ask Reimer about it. They want to cause controversy...it sells papers.

Reimer has been mediocre at best for the past week but coach Carlyle should carry the brunt of the blame for that. Rob a goalie of his confidence and you're in trouble. Rob a goalie you've already designated as your back up and have started sparingly over the last 3 months and he doesn't have a hope in heII.
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Also, if Bernier was hurting going into the LA game, and he's carried your season thus far - maaaaybe you don't play him.
 
Potvin29 said:
Also, if Bernier was hurting going into the LA game, and he's carried your season thus far - maaaaybe you don't play him.
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Don't worry man, he's just day to day. Certainly not week to week.

edit: But in all seriousness I'm a little surprised more people aren't crucifying Carlyle for this. If Bernier doesn't start that game he gets an extra 3 days rest (maybe even more if Reimer goes against Washington as well) and we're probably not in this mess.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Potvin29 said:
Also, if Bernier was hurting going into the LA game, and he's carried your season thus far - maaaaybe you don't play him.
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Don't worry man, he's just day to day. Certainly not week to week.
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Oh no, I agree with Berger (at least I assume it's present-day Berger, his website appears to be from the dawn of the internet) even if it's over the top:

As I?ve pounded on here repeatedly in the past ten days, the Collapse of 2014 is a one-man act? solely the production of Carlyle for making among the most lamentable decisions in the post-expansion history of the Maple Leafs. Call that an exaggeration if you wish, but remind me of a similar ruling by any coach of a competitive Leafs team since 1967 that has so apparently destroyed an entire season.

If you?ve been hanging around this corner, you know exactly what I?m referring to: Carlyle telling reporters, without apparent shame or remorse, that he allowed Jonathan Bernier ? already suffering from a groin injury ? to choose whether he would play against Los Angeles Kings, at Staples Center, Mar. 13. L.A., of course, is the team that dealt Bernier to the Leafs last summer; he would have been half-dead before refusing the assignment. Still, Carlyle deferred to his No. 1 goalie and the Maple Leafs, as a direct result, have lost five in a row and blown a seven-point playoff cushion in the Eastern Conference ? now clinging to the second Wild Card spot, just one point ahead of Washington.

...here is a paragraph lifted from the Toronto Sun website after practice last Monday: ?(Bernier) had a little bit of a strain [in San Jose] and it did not bother him, he said he felt fine, and then when we got to L.A., he felt it was bothering him to the point that I was going to question him whether he was going to go,? Carlyle said. ?I said, make the decision whether you?re going or not. After the first period, he said he did not feel comfortable, that it was feeling worse.?
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http://www.bergerbytes.ca/leafs-cant-or-wont-bail-out-carlyle/
 
hockeyfan1 said:
April Reimer had a thing or two to say to the twitterati who criticized her husband and then some...

April Reimer  @april_reimer
Don't mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness as weakness

http://sports.nationalpost.com/2014/03/23/toronto-maple-leafs-james-reimer-pulled-against-new-jersey-devils/
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That is the most passive aggressive twitter post I have ever heard.
 
Rebel_1812 said:
hockeyfan1 said:
April Reimer had a thing or two to say to the twitterati who criticized her husband and then some...

April Reimer  @april_reimer
Don't mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness as weakness

http://sports.nationalpost.com/2014/03/23/toronto-maple-leafs-james-reimer-pulled-against-new-jersey-devils/
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That is the most passive aggressive twitter post I have ever heard.
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Maybe go see someone if you're hearing twitter posts.
 
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