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2018-19 Toronto Maple Leafs - General Discussion

Last year the Leafs had 9 players score 10 or more goals.  So far this year the have 10 on pace to do it and Nylander could easily hit that number if he gets his game going.
 
Bullfrog said:
Just curious, but what's your thought on going back to using two defensemen on the power play? Dermott-Gardiner could be interesting on the 2nd unit.
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Only if we're already up by 4+ goals in the third, or if there's a faceoff with <20 seconds left on the advantage. As a dedicated course of attack, it'd really depend on the defenseman. Brent Burns or Shea Weber would benefit from a 3F/2D setup because their shots from the circles are legitimate weapons. For our group, I don't see any defenseman with the shooting talent that would make me want to take them over one of our other forwards.

Gardiner-Dermott would be interesting to see 5v5 though.
 
I'm kind of on the fence, but I think Gardiner has the talent to be a weapon on the back end. I see Dermott and Gardiner as being mobile enough to take a forward spot. I wouldn't really advocate for the traditional 2D shot set up though.
 
Bullfrog said:
I'm kind of on the fence, but I think Gardiner has the talent to be a weapon on the back end. I see Dermott and Gardiner as being mobile enough to take a forward spot. I wouldn't really advocate for the traditional 2D shot set up though.
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Do you mean back end weapon as in a scoring threat (direct goals)?
 
No, I think (hope) that time has passed. I think it's well established that your best chance to score is by getting the puck on net, which is something Gardiner is good at.
 
These are certainly by no means perfect stats that tell all of the story, but I was looking at some of our PK numbers and found these interesting:

              TOI/G      GA    GA/60
Zaitsev2:521710.42
Hainsey2:52169.82
Dermott1:3033.87
Rielly1:0911.52

https://twitter.com/dril/status/384408932061417472
 
What you're not seeing there Carlton is that Zaitsev and Hainsey have gained their coach's trust in the tough minutes by paying attention to details.
 
Nik the Trik said:
What you're not seeing there Carlton is that Zaitsev and Hainsey have gained their coach's trust in the tough minutes by paying attention to details.
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https://twitter.com/LeafsPR/status/1075946006938820608

https://twitter.com/kristen_shilton/status/1075948487362207744
 
Moore, Grundstrom, Timashov, Marchment...literally any of those guys would be worthy of some time in the spot.
 
Nik the Trik said:
Moore, Grundstrom, Timashov, Marchment...literally any of those guys would be worthy of some time in the spot.
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Bring each of them up for 2 or 3 games.  See where they're at.  They've got the luxury to experiment.
 
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