Game 22 - Leafs @ Bolts - Nov 22nd, 2011 - 19:30 EST

[Stebro]

wohoo, just like I predicted!

 

[Fanatic]

From the Leafs facebook page "Leafs Offence Jolts the Bolts"

You just can't make that kind of stuff up.

 

[TML fan]

I missed the game as I was working tonight. Just watched Game in Six. Frattin made some sick plays which was awesome to see. Bozak looked great on the 3 goals he was in on, particularly his 1st goal where he out muscled Thompson. Nice to see Kessel get another point. They didn't show many highlights of Gustavsson save for that 2-on-1 he stopped but his SV% for the game says it all.

Can't complain about the result.

 

[Andy007]

"Tamp-ons Overwhelmed by Three Ugly Periods"

Wow, well done!

I had the 'tamp-on' line for my fake headline but couldn't put it all together. Good job

 

[leafsjunkie]

I hate to say it, but 5-1 lightning. I have no faith in Gus.

How about the rest of the team, any faith there?

The team is decimated with injuries and Gus isn't very good. We've also not had much luck vs the Bolts and they're due for a big win.

I hope the Leafs win and if they do I'll be estatic. I just don't have a good feel for tonight's game.

Just wanted to say I thought Gus played pretty good last night. He didn't have much work in the 2nd and 3rd, but that first 15 minutes he made a couple good saves and kept the game at 1-1. Kudos to him, hopefully he's gaining a little confidence and can play consistantly like that. It would be great for him and the team. I'll be honest, I didn't see a 7-1 win in the cards, they entire team played great especially Bozak and Frattin IMO.

 

[Bender]

Jake Gardiner is leading NHL rookie scoring for dmen with 7 points. He's tied for 11th overall in rookie scoring. He's tied for 54th overall in dmen scoring.

Nugent-Hopkins and Enroth would likely be ahead of him in Calder voting right now but he might be the 3rd-5th best rookie at the 1/4 pole.

I feel like Enroth has been in the league a while now. Kinda cheap how backup goaltenders have the same rule in the sense that a forward who doesn't reach the threshold would likely be sent down, while backups can reap the benefits of working with NHL level coaching for years.

 

[bustaheims]

I feel like Enroth has been in the league a while now. Kinda cheap how backup goaltenders have the same rule in the sense that a forward who doesn't reach the threshold would likely be sent down, while backups can reap the benefits of working with NHL level coaching for years.

Really, this is only Enroth's 2nd season in the league - 3rd if you count the 1 game he played in 09-10 - but, still, I agree with your main point.

 

[cw]

Jake Gardiner is leading NHL rookie scoring for dmen with 7 points. He's tied for 11th overall in rookie scoring. He's tied for 54th overall in dmen scoring.

Nugent-Hopkins and Enroth would likely be ahead of him in Calder voting right now but he might be the 3rd-5th best rookie at the 1/4 pole.

I feel like Enroth has been in the league a while now. Kinda cheap how backup goaltenders have the same rule in the sense that a forward who doesn't reach the threshold would likely be sent down, while backups can reap the benefits of working with NHL level coaching for years.

I agree that 25GP for both skaters and goalies is not a fair yardstick to apply to both positions.

I'm on the fence with Enroth because coming in to this season, he'd only played 15 NHL games though I might be persuaded to lean your way.

 

[groundskeeper willie]

All the talk of potential headlines tonight and nobody comes up with the obvious/great one on TSN: "Thunderstruck"

But they're the Lightning, not the Thunder. And our team is the Leafs. That doesn't even make sense.

Any time you can throw in an AC/DC reference you do it. It doesn't have to make sense, it's AC/DC.

And besides, we've got the biggest balls of them all! 

 

[hockeyfan1]

Quote
"The guys are playing great, scoring a lot  of goals, and workng hard in both ends", said Gustavvson who made 27 saves. 
"So that's good for the team and it feels
good to play when you see them score goals".

Source:  Sportsnet

 

[Zee]

Quote
"The guys are playing great, scoring a lot  of goals, and workng hard in both ends", said Gustavvson who made 27 saves. 
"So that's good for the team and it feels
good to play when you see them score goals".

Source:  Sportsnet

I cross my fingers for 2 more wins and bring a nice 3 game winning streak into the Boston game on Wednesday -- the possible return of Reimer.  How good would that feel?

 

[cw]

oi_not_again Paul Coughlan
Lightning lose 7-1 to Leafs. The #NHL really needs to do something about that stifling 1-3-1 that seems to only mystify the Flyers.



Tampa won 3 of 4 against the Flyers last year in the regular season, losing one game in a shootout.

 

[L K]

oi_not_again Paul Coughlan
Lightning lose 7-1 to Leafs. The #NHL really needs to do something about that stifling 1-3-1 that seems to only mystify the Flyers.



Tampa won 3 of 4 against the Flyers last year in the regular season, losing one game in a shootout.

To be fair, this is what happens when you score early on a team that plays the trap to stay in games.  They have to open up to try and tie the game up and the Lightning have a horrendous defense group and their forwards can't play defense either.  Had Tampa gone up 1-0 or had the Leafs not had those two PP goals at the end of the period, I think the game would have been considerably more boring.

On the flip side, this is one of those sucky weeks where the Leafs don't have Saturday night hockey so that we can watch some Friday and Sunday hockey instead.

 

[cw]

Forgot to mention that some of the calls last night were pretty bad.

The non existent (in my opinion) interference call to Connolly is one example. Rosehill's holding of the stick was another that was questionable (I'd need a better replay to be sure). The non-call for knocking Gustavsson down - it was a late hit if not a foul anyway. For a while there, I wondered if the refs were trying to keep the Bolts in the game.

Thankfully, it didn't cost the Leafs a point.

 

[Deebo]

Forgot to mention that some of the calls last night were pretty bad.

The non existent (in my opinion) interference call to Connolly is one example. Rosehill's holding of the stick was another that was questionable (I'd need a better replay to be sure). The non-call for knocking Gustavsson down - it was a late hit if not a foul anyway. For a while there, I wondered if the refs were trying to keep the Bolts in the game.

Thankfully, it didn't cost the Leafs a point.

The Rosehill one was on the rush right after Gustavsson was hit.

 

[crazyperfectdevil]

Forgot to mention that some of the calls last night were pretty bad.

The non existent (in my opinion) interference call to Connolly is one example. Rosehill's holding of the stick was another that was questionable (I'd need a better replay to be sure). The non-call for knocking Gustavsson down - it was a late hit if not a foul anyway. For a while there, I wondered if the refs were trying to keep the Bolts in the game.

Thankfully, it didn't cost the Leafs a point.

everything was wrong with the gus non call ..it was late..it was from behind...it was on the goalie....the leafs would have been called for that for sure

 

[leafsjunkie]

Forgot to mention that some of the calls last night were pretty bad.

The non existent (in my opinion) interference call to Connolly is one example. Rosehill's holding of the stick was another that was questionable (I'd need a better replay to be sure). The non-call for knocking Gustavsson down - it was a late hit if not a foul anyway. For a while there, I wondered if the refs were trying to keep the Bolts in the game.

Thankfully, it didn't cost the Leafs a point.

The officiating is so inconsistant it's almost sickening. I'm just a fan and I get confused as to what is and what isn't a penalty. I can't imagine what the players think actually playing in the games. How did Franson? (I think) get a penalty for interference and the Lightning player called for diving, when Franson didn't even touch him? It should have been just a diving (unsportsman like conduct) penalty. Yeah the Connolly one was awful, Gus gets hit, from behind to boot and knocked down andt the ref mouths words and points, something to the effect that you were out of your crease and fair game? So hitting from behind is still acceptable? I wish we could give penalties to the refs for being morons.

 

[cw]

Forgot to mention that some of the calls last night were pretty bad.

The non existent (in my opinion) interference call to Connolly is one example. Rosehill's holding of the stick was another that was questionable (I'd need a better replay to be sure). The non-call for knocking Gustavsson down - it was a late hit if not a foul anyway. For a while there, I wondered if the refs were trying to keep the Bolts in the game.

Thankfully, it didn't cost the Leafs a point.

The officiating is so inconsistant it's almost sickening. I'm just a fan and I get confused as to what is and what isn't a penalty. I can't imagine what the players think actually playing in the games. How did Franson? (I think) get a penalty for interference and the Lightning player called for diving, when Franson didn't even touch him? It should have been just a diving (unsportsman like conduct) penalty. Yeah the Connolly one was awful, Gus gets hit, from behind to boot and knocked down andt the ref mouths words and points, something to the effect that you were out of your crease and fair game? So hitting from behind is still acceptable? I wish we could give penalties to the refs for being morons.

Yes, I thought the Franson call was bogus as well.

The refs are human. I try to cut them some slack. Often, when they make obvious mistakes, there is some sort of a make up call the other way on a grey situation. Didn't happen last night.

 

[Heroic Shrimp]

Forgot to mention that some of the calls last night were pretty bad.

The non existent (in my opinion) interference call to Connolly is one example. Rosehill's holding of the stick was another that was questionable (I'd need a better replay to be sure). The non-call for knocking Gustavsson down - it was a late hit if not a foul anyway. For a while there, I wondered if the refs were trying to keep the Bolts in the game.

Thankfully, it didn't cost the Leafs a point.

I'm particularly glad Downie played less than 7 minutes.  He really looked like he was going to snap again and take a huge run at somebody.  Anybody know if he played at all after his run-in with Phaneuf?  If not, props to Boucher.

 

[AlmosGirl]

Forgot to mention that some of the calls last night were pretty bad.

The non existent (in my opinion) interference call to Connolly is one example. Rosehill's holding of the stick was another that was questionable (I'd need a better replay to be sure). The non-call for knocking Gustavsson down - it was a late hit if not a foul anyway. For a while there, I wondered if the refs were trying to keep the Bolts in the game.

Thankfully, it didn't cost the Leafs a point.

The officiating is so inconsistant it's almost sickening. I'm just a fan and I get confused as to what is and what isn't a penalty. I can't imagine what the players think actually playing in the games. How did Franson? (I think) get a penalty for interference and the Lightning player called for diving, when Franson didn't even touch him? It should have been just a diving (unsportsman like conduct) penalty. Yeah the Connolly one was awful, Gus gets hit, from behind to boot and knocked down andt the ref mouths words and points, something to the effect that you were out of your crease and fair game? So hitting from behind is still acceptable? I wish we could give penalties to the refs for being morons.

;D That would be awesome.  My daughter's Bantam A game on Sunday had over 40 mins in penalties (both teams) and one game misconduct.  The refs just seemed to not know what to do and were calling everything, including phantom stuff.  It gets crazy after awhile.

Anyhoo, enjoyed the game last night.  Thought everyone played well and gave great support to Gustavson.  Hopefully, they can continue.