Leafs @ Sabres - Nov. 3rd, 7:00pm - SNO, TSN 1050
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bustaheims
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Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
Oh, so all Russian look alike to you, do they? Can't tell them apart? For shame!
GhostofPotvin29
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Nope, these refs suck. Interference on Hyman not called (when a similar one on Carrick was called), stick to Matthews' nether region uncalled.
disco
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RedLeaf said:disco said:
The half dozen posters that were saying bringing him here was a mistake should hang their heads in shame tonight .
Guilty as charged. I thought it might be a possible lemon situation and not much of an upgrade from Reimer. I was wrong. Border-line 'steal' game from the big Dane tonight. Back to .500 babayyyy
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L K
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RedLeaf said:disco said:
The half dozen posters that were saying bringing him here was a mistake should hang their heads in shame tonight .
Hey, I'll take it. But the same argument about the first five games should maybe be held about his next four. My argument against Andersen was never that he isn't an NHL goaltender.
Kin
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Going into tonight some people were pushing the narrative of Andersen being terrible for his first few games but in the last few he was rounding into what the Leafs expected. That's bogus. He wasn't great to start with but he's probably been on average the best Leaf over his last 4 games and is playing at an unsustainably high level.
It's nice to see he's got this high level of play in him but anyone who thinks this is "good" or an expected level of play is nuts. This is the unfair level of play he was being judged against in those first few games and a .950+ save percentage isn't a legitimate expectation.
It's nice to see he's got this high level of play in him but anyone who thinks this is "good" or an expected level of play is nuts. This is the unfair level of play he was being judged against in those first few games and a .950+ save percentage isn't a legitimate expectation.
mr grieves
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Agreed (with Nik). And I worry that Andersen's hot streak is concealing what's not working and justifying some poor line-up decisions. The 4th line's been caved in the last few games (Smith isn't working), the Bozak line's only been good at moments, and Nylander-Matthews are generating but not converting at 5v5.
Kin
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On the positive side of things, last night was the first game that ended in regulation where Rielly was over 24 minutes and the first of any kind since the opener where he was over 25. Again, I thought he was steady in a way he hadn't been so much at the beginning of the year.
I wonder if maybe the World Cup experience wasn't all that great a one for him, if it maybe got him a little used to the idea that everyone on his team would be (at least) as good as he is and so he could take more chances/make higher risk plays and still be covered. Either way, he seems to be rounding into form.
I wonder if maybe the World Cup experience wasn't all that great a one for him, if it maybe got him a little used to the idea that everyone on his team would be (at least) as good as he is and so he could take more chances/make higher risk plays and still be covered. Either way, he seems to be rounding into form.
Just watched the Game in 6. Nice pinch by Gardiner on Marner's 2nd goal to keep the play alive. He also made a similar (but more standard) play on Marner's 1st goal as well.
And while it was obviously a small sample size, every time they showed Andersen he was playing much more inside the blue crease than we saw in the first couple of weeks. I wonder if they just abandoned that whole "play ultra aggressive for the first time in your career" game plan that they had for him.
And while it was obviously a small sample size, every time they showed Andersen he was playing much more inside the blue crease than we saw in the first couple of weeks. I wonder if they just abandoned that whole "play ultra aggressive for the first time in your career" game plan that they had for him.