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2019-2020 Toronto Maple Leafs General Discussion

CarltonTheBear said:
Bender said:
Is there any ETA on Muzz's return?
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Original ETA was 4 weeks, and tomorrow will be the 2 week mark. He did skate yesterday for the first time but I doubt that changes the original projection much.
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So we'll likely only have him for the final 5 games or so. Blech.
 
Anyone have any preliminary thoughts on who we should draft with our first selection in the draft? I was thinking about Nico Daws. I know goalies are voodoo but man we are so bereft of goaltending talent in the system save for Woll & Scott and both are whatever at this point.
 
Bender said:
Anyone have any preliminary thoughts on who we should draft with our first selection in the draft? I was thinking about Nico Daws. I know goalies are voodoo but man we are so bereft of goaltending talent in the system save for Woll & Scott and both are whatever at this point.
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Trying to project 2nd round targets seems like such an impossible task. Ideally I'd be trying to use that on a player with 1st round skill that dropped for whatever reason, like we were able to do with Robertson last year. We (currently) have 9 picks after that though so I'm down with grabbing a couple goalies with those.

I feel like trying to draft European goalies could be the better bet though. Or NCAA guys. It's just with CHL goalies they generally only have 2 more seasons of junior before they need to start playing professional hockey here and that's a tough thing to do. Especially for goalies who are getting picked in the mid-to-late rounds.
 
Bender said:
Anyone have any preliminary thoughts on who we should draft with our first selection in the draft? I was thinking about Nico Daws. I know goalies are voodoo but man we are so bereft of goaltending talent in the system save for Woll & Scott and both are whatever at this point.
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Daws in the 2nd is bit of a reach. Most projections have him going late in the 3rd or early in the 4th.
 
The Leafs probably have two gimme games left on the schedule with a game against Ottawa and Detroit on the schedule.  Florida might have four of them with games against Buffalo, Ottawa x2 and Detroit.    Florida is catching Dallas in a slump and have games against Boston, St. Louis and Washington (last game of the season and maybe a meaningless game for either team).

This really isn't going to a fun stretch unless the Leafs really pick up their play.
 
L K said:
The Leafs probably have two gimme games left on the schedule with a game against Ottawa and Detroit on the schedule.  Florida might have four of them with games against Buffalo, Ottawa x2 and Detroit.    Florida is catching Dallas in a slump and have games against Boston, St. Louis and Washington (last game of the season and maybe a meaningless game for either team).

This really isn't going to a fun stretch unless the Leafs really pick up their play.
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Leafs also have games against a not very good New Jersey and a struggling, inconsistent Columbus.
 
bustaheims said:
L K said:
The Leafs probably have two gimme games left on the schedule with a game against Ottawa and Detroit on the schedule.  Florida might have four of them with games against Buffalo, Ottawa x2 and Detroit.    Florida is catching Dallas in a slump and have games against Boston, St. Louis and Washington (last game of the season and maybe a meaningless game for either team).

This really isn't going to a fun stretch unless the Leafs really pick up their play.
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Leafs also have games against a not very good New Jersey and a struggling, inconsistent Columbus.
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Although New Jersey is 11-5-5 since the All-star Break.  Not world beating but not entirely push over territory either.
 
L K said:
bustaheims said:
L K said:
The Leafs probably have two gimme games left on the schedule with a game against Ottawa and Detroit on the schedule.  Florida might have four of them with games against Buffalo, Ottawa x2 and Detroit.    Florida is catching Dallas in a slump and have games against Boston, St. Louis and Washington (last game of the season and maybe a meaningless game for either team).

This really isn't going to a fun stretch unless the Leafs really pick up their play.
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Leafs also have games against a not very good New Jersey and a struggling, inconsistent Columbus.
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Although New Jersey is 11-5-5 since the All-star Break.  Not world beating but not entirely push over territory either.
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I'm hoping the Panthers' new goalie craters. He's a career journeyman thus far into his career.
 
L K said:
Although New Jersey is 11-5-5 since the All-star Break.  Not world beating but not entirely push over territory either.
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No, but that record is also somewhat deceiving. 6 of those wins came against LA, Detroit (x2), Anaheim, Ottawa, and San Jose - who just happen to be the bottom 5 teams in the league right now. In that stretch, they're 4-4-2 against teams currently holding a playoff spot. Still not a pushover, but a game the Leafs should win quite easily, if they show up (which they didn't so much out west against 3 of those bottom 5 teams, but, those west coast road trips never seem to bring out the best in the team).
 
Guilt Trip said:
There are no gimme games. This is the NHL, not the beer league. Leafs gotta play hard and Freddie has to be Freddie.
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You got that right.  I would hope that a team that managed to lose to an EBUG understands that now.
 
herman said:
I wonder how the teams that have lost to the team that lost to an EBUG feel.
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They feel 2 levels below an EBUG.  I don't know if that means beer league, or what.
 
https://twitter.com/mapleleafs/status/1240289719654789122

Incredibly harsh but fair

Edit: Twitter is so fast at confirming whose house he?s filming from lol
 
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