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AvroArrow said:How the **** was Buffalo goal #5 a "good goal"?
lc9 said:Kadri, Marleau, Marner, Hainsey and Reilly a combinded -14 tonight.
bustaheims said:Honestly, I thought, for the most part, the Leafs were the better team last night. They had a rough start, and stopped playing for a few shifts after they tied it, and, with Buffalo getting all the bounces going their way . . . the score did not reflect the play on the ice, as far as I'm concerned.
CarltonTheBear said:AvroArrow said:How the **** was Buffalo goal #5 a "good goal"?
Andersen was the one who initiated contact outside of the crease.
bustaheims said:Honestly, I thought, for the most part, the Leafs were the better team last night. They had a rough start, and stopped playing for a few shifts after they tied it, and, with Buffalo getting all the bounces going their way . . . the score did not reflect the play on the ice, as far as I'm concerned.
herman said:All in all, I agreed we played the better game, but we still had too many little mistakes that snowballed ? some bad turnovers that didn?t lead to direct goals but led to extended time in our end, resulting in bad line changes that eventually ended up in our net. We attacked largely from the net front corners, rather than trying harder to get it to or across the middle. Ryan O?Rielly played really well too.
bustaheims said:Agreed. And, I think the issues were compounded due to the fact that the mistakes seemed to come in concentrated bursts, rather than being spread over the course of the game as they usually would be. On a more typical night, the amount of mistakes the Leafs' made don't come back to haunt them to the extent they did last night.
herman said:CarltonTheBear said:AvroArrow said:How the **** was Buffalo goal #5 a "good goal"?
Andersen was the one who initiated contact outside of the crease.
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Is Connor Brown redundant on this team when you have a player like Hyman essentially doing the same thing. I would rather have a guy like Johnsson come up (although he is probably on the wrong wing)Strangelove said:CarltonTheBear said:Strangelove said:Babcock reverting back to midseason form.
He actually seems to think that getting older and slower is the way to win in this league.
In his defence, Martin might be a better skater than Leivo. The top-9 is about as good as it can be right now so that's a positive.
He may be a better skater but I don't for a second think he's more useful than Leivo or Moore in the offensive or defensive end.
Regarding the top 9, I don't think it makes much sense to have Brown and Hymen on the same line. Babcock tried that earlier in the season with Matthews at center and the line got destroyed by the other team, since the opposing side could basically ignore Hymen and Brown and focus on Matthews. To me, putting Kapenen with Nylander makes a lot more sense. Kapenen's speed is wasted with Bozak and JVR.
herman said:I saw the significant contact being the skate to pad right at the border of the blue. I see the most confounding issue for the refs being Andersen clearly moving his upper body to box out Larsson, which is more obvious from net front views.
In any case, the refs have moved towards rulings on these where coin toss decisions will break in favour of the on-ice call. It has to be astoundingly obvious to overrule the ref's call. We had one go against the Leafs (cue Matthews eye roll gif) before they had their big pow wow, and one go for the Leafs after that, and now this one goes against. It evens out at the end of the season. Good teams don't stake their wins and losses on refs' decisions but on things that they can control themselves.