Game 43: Toronto Maple Leafs @ Buffalo Sabres L3-2

[WhatIfGodWasALeaf]

Try Dion and Cody on the first unit, put any MacArthur type experiments on the second unit with Gunnar.

At least until Liles or Gardiner are playing.

I'd try Connolly on the point and maybe have Kadri out there at centre with the top-unit. Or Steckel. Either way, Connolly had success on the point in Buffalo.

He has had at least a brief look back there already this year, no?

Whatever they do, Mac ain't the answer.

 

[Tigger]

Go to the net in the third boys, haven't seen a lot of that so far.

 

[Chev-boyar-sky]

Try Dion and Cody on the first unit, put any MacArthur type experiments on the second unit with Gunnar.

At least until Liles or Gardiner are playing.

I'd try Connolly on the point and maybe have Kadri out there at centre with the top-unit. Or Steckel. Either way, Connolly had success on the point in Buffalo.

He has had at least a brief look back there already this year, no?

Whatever they do, Mac ain't the answer.

I think Connolly on the back end is a good idea. He's a good playmaker and he seems to lose a lot of the faceoffs when the Leaf's are on the PP.

 

[azzurri63]

I don't like Mac on the point in the PP.  As soon as Franson got on they had chances. They need to respect his good quick shot.
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Really but why does Wilson keep throwing the same 5 guys out there. They haven't done a damn thing the whole game. All they do is pass it around. Phaneuf honestly there are times he should shoot and he keeps dishing it and when there is no one in front he lets it go. Franson usually lets it go sometimes just with a wrist shot but at least it creates something, and why Mac is out there is beyond me.

 

[azzurri63]

Why wasn't that goalie interference? Didn't look like anyone touched the Sabre player and he goes crashing into Gus.

 

[Stronger Than All]

blah

 

[applecheeks]

Try Dion and Cody on the first unit, put any MacArthur type experiments on the second unit with Gunnar.

At least until Liles or Gardiner I'd playing.

When is Connolly going to do something against his old team.  This is the 4th game against the Sabres now and I don't think I have seen him do something of note in any of them.

No kidding, he really is invisible out there. Most guys would make some noise but not our Tim.

 

[pnjunction]

Maybe a good pk will give us some momentum :-

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Boyce definitely got away with one there.

 

[Tigger]

Why wasn't that goalie interference? Didn't look like anyone touched the Sabre player and he goes crashing into Gus.

I caught it out of the corner of my eye, wondered the same thing.

 

[pnjunction]

Um ok that's the kind of call you take quietly

 

[ZBBM]

Boyce definitely got away with one there.

Sounds like our second gift.  Maybe they can convert.

 

[BlueWhiteBlood]

Boyce definitely got away with one there.

He did, I thought he even may have embellished a bit there also. :-X

 

[Tigger]

Boyce definitely got away with one there.

Yeah, should have been both of them.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

I really don't understand why Phaneuf doesn't carry the puck up the ice more often like he just did. He's actually quite good at it.

 

[Deebo]

Why wasn't that goalie interference? Didn't look like anyone touched the Sabre player and he goes crashing into Gus.

I caught it out of the corner of my eye, wondered the same thing.

I rewound that to check, looked like there was contact from the leaf player, but not nearly enough for the Sabre player to go into Gus with that kind of force.

 

[Stronger Than All]

not gonna get a better chance than that.

 

[Zee]

Call me crazy but the last 7 min of the game where you're trailing by a goal, Schenn should never get a shift. He has no offense.

 

[Tigger]

Why wasn't that goalie interference? Didn't look like anyone touched the Sabre player and he goes crashing into Gus.

I caught it out of the corner of my eye, wondered the same thing.

I rewound that to check, looked like there was contact from the leaf player, but not nearly enough for the Sabre player to go into Gus with that kind of force.

Millers turn...

 

[Bender]

Kadri is playing like an idiot out there. He thinks he's in junior again. I've been banging my head on my desk the last few games he's been playing. Ugh.

Anyway, good call. Boyce didn't deserve a penalty. The guy he was tussling with fell like a pansy, he wasn't even tripped.