Leafs @ Oilers - Feb. 11th, 9:00pm - TSN4, Fan 590

[CarltonTheBear]

Polak eats minutes. 24 minutes in a 5-2 game and only -1? Sounds like a prototypical crease clearer to me.

Alright, I'm with you. To do my part I'll go delete all gifs in existence of Eberle's 2nd goal.

 

[disco]

Colombus loses and it's official. ABANDON HOPE ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE...

 

[lamajama]

Colombus loses and it's official. ABANDON HOPE ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE...

Au contraire. It's START hoping...

 

[Captain Canuck]

Well deserved post-game gloat by Jeff O'Neill who called a 5 point game for McDavid and nailed it.
How about the winning lottery numbers ODog?

 

[herman]

For a team of 3 3rd lines and 1 AHL 3rd line, up against McDavid, I thought we acquitted ourselves quite well, over the course of the game.

 

[cabber24]

The caliber of that game was horrendous. EDM is terrible, the Leafs are supposed to be but EDM... they are 6 d-man, 2 vets, and 2 goalies away from being competitive.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

That game pretty much went as you'd expect.  Edmonton looked bad overall, McDavid looked amazing and torched an awful Leafs roster.

 

[Zee]

For a team of 3 3rd lines and 1 AHL 3rd line, up against McDavid, I thought we acquitted ourselves quite well, over the course of the game.

Babcock teams generally give a good effort, imagine if this were the Horachek version from last year?  McDavid would have broken Sittler's record.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

That game pretty much went as you'd expect.  Edmonton looked bad overall, McDavid looked amazing and torched an awful Leafs roster.

I think basically everybody predicted that McDavid would score at least 4 points against that sad-sack of a line-up, so for him to only get 5 isn't really that impressive.

*he said rocking back and forth in the fetal position*

 

[Heroic Shrimp]

Did anybody notice this McDavid kid is pretty good?  I've never heard of him before, it's like he came out of nowhere.

 

[herman]

Babcock teams generally give a good effort, imagine if this were the Horachek version from last year?  McDavid would have broken Sittler's record.

I still feel bad for Horachek. He tried to do a lot of what Babcock has done, but he was working with an utterly defeated group. No amount of cajoling or coaching was going to help the whole team out of that funk. Like a good soldier, Horachek (and Spott) jumped on that grenade and paid for the disaster Nonis/Carlyle wrought.

 

[crazyperfectdevil]

That game pretty much went as you'd expect.  Edmonton looked bad overall, McDavid looked amazing and torched an awful Leafs roster.

i wonder if this has edmonton thinking they're going on a run for the playoffs again

 

[herman]

And in case you missed it:
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;D

Cap hit doesn't directly reflect talent (see Clarkson, David), but hahahahahahahaha.

 

[Highlander]

Remeber when they trade Bernier and Polak then we are down to around 21-22?

 

[herman]

Remeber when they trade Bernier and Polak then we are down to around 21-22?

So long as Lou keeps Tonya Harding on the payroll, yeah, that seems to be the trend.

Last night, Taylor Hall reminded me of another, more subtle, tanking technique: a "bad batch" of sticks.

 

[ZBBM]

Babcock teams generally give a good effort, imagine if this were the Horachek version from last year?  McDavid would have broken Sittler's record.

I still feel bad for Horachek. He tried to do a lot of what Babcock has done, but he was working with an utterly defeated group. No amount of cajoling or coaching was going to help the whole team out of that funk. Like a good soldier, Horachek (and Spott) jumped on that grenade and paid for the disaster Nonis/Carlyle wrought.

Agreed.  Probably ends his chances of head coaching in the league again.

 

[herman]

Babcock teams generally give a good effort, imagine if this were the Horachek version from last year?  McDavid would have broken Sittler's record.

I still feel bad for Horachek. He tried to do a lot of what Babcock has done, but he was working with an utterly defeated group. No amount of cajoling or coaching was going to help the whole team out of that funk. Like a good soldier, Horachek (and Spott) jumped on that grenade and paid for the disaster Nonis/Carlyle wrought.

Agreed.  Probably ends his chances of head coaching in the league again.

Two jobs in a row of being handed the steering wheel of train wrecks in situ. I'd like to see him ride shotgun with Babcock once one of our current assistants are inevitably hired away, to rehab his rep. By all accounts, he was a welcome voice in the locker room and on the bench.

 

[Highlander]

Don't bring him back to the scene of the crime, that is for sure