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Leafs @ Flames - Dec. 12th, 9:00pm - TSN4, TSN 1050

Bender said:
Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
I do not understand with 1:30 or so a 5/3 why they don't move the damn puck more right from the get-go.
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Why don't they try to get garbage goals? They hardly ever try to take a shot off the pads and grab the rebound.
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Exactly.  Run a set play where someone comes off the perimeter and takes a hard shot from in close.
 
I'd say that 80-90% of 5 on 3 goals I've seen in my life have either been from cross ice passes that get the goalie moving side to side or from guys getting room in the slot.
 
Bender said:
azzurri63 said:
Team will go as far as Freddy takes them plain and simple.
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True of most teams I would say. You're always sunk with trash goaltending.
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Oh for sure but how many teams goaltender is their MVP? I truly think Freddy is ours. Without him we'd be a lottery team and I'm not talking just this year.
 
Well, that was a bummer. Can't help but feel somewhat personally responsible after the whole "They haven't lost in regulation when leading after 2 all year" thing.
 
They probably didn't deserve the score in VAN and this evens it up I guess.  The most disappointing thing is the 5 on 3.
 
L K said:
The team quit at the end.  No effort in this final stretch with the net empty.
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Did they really quit? I don't know if I buy that apart from that the depth scoring wasn't there tonight.
 
Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
They probably didn't deserve the score in VAN and this evens it up I guess.  The most disappointing thing is the 5 on 3.
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I think the three goals against in two and half minutes was worse.
 
Bender said:
L K said:
The team quit at the end.  No effort in this final stretch with the net empty.
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Did they really quit? I don't know if I buy that apart from that the depth scoring wasn't there tonight.
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Mikheyev had that one fantastic shift but he hasn't scored a goal in 6 weeks. 
 
Nik Bethune said:
Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
They probably didn't deserve the score in VAN and this evens it up I guess.  The most disappointing thing is the 5 on 3.
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I think the three goals against in two and half minutes was worse.
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It was.  But it wasn't the most disappointing.
 
Bender said:
L K said:
The team quit at the end.  No effort in this final stretch with the net empty.
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Did they really quit? I don't know if I buy that apart from that the depth scoring wasn't there tonight.
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Quit, really no.  But the energy just wasn?t there for them to make a comeback
 
Guilt Trip said:
Bender said:
L K said:
The team quit at the end.  No effort in this final stretch with the net empty.
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Did they really quit? I don't know if I buy that apart from that the depth scoring wasn't there tonight.
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Agreed. They didn't quit. Bad couple of minutes.
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I wasn?t talking about the loss as a whole.  I think the Leafs outplayed Calgary and were the better team.  It was more the lack fo energy once the goalie was pulled.  They just didn?t have anything left to mount a comeback attempt
 
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