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Leafs @ Blues - Feb. 19th, 8:00pm - SNO, TSN 1050

Bender said:
Zee said:
Bender said:
TML fan said:
I really hate to jump on the "they don't try" bandwagon, but honestly...they don't try.

Skill will only take you so far. They're finding that out now.
I'm not making excuses here but St. Louis is like 8th layer of hell hot right now.


Anytime you say "but" after "I'm not making excuses", you're making excuses.
I'm sorry how many shutouts have they had in the last three games? Their record is what? They've outscored the opposition by how much?


The previous 10 games mean nothing in relation to this game. Leafs were garbage in the first plain and simple. They have more talent than the Blues up front but weren't showing it.
 
S.L. are a team on a roll, Leafs know they can basically mail it in. Maybe we are lulling them all to sleep. Babs master plan.
 
harps64 said:
Muzzin looked better his first 5 games here when he didn?t know our d system but now that he?s learned it he looks worse. Lol.

He looked better because he wasn't stuck with Zaitsev.

Zaitsev, without exaggeration, makes every player around him worse.
 
Zee said:
Bender said:
Zee said:
Bender said:
TML fan said:
I really hate to jump on the "they don't try" bandwagon, but honestly...they don't try.

Skill will only take you so far. They're finding that out now.
I'm not making excuses here but St. Louis is like 8th layer of hell hot right now.


Anytime you say "but" after "I'm not making excuses", you're making excuses.
I'm sorry how many shutouts have they had in the last three games? Their record is what? They've outscored the opposition by how much?


The previous 10 games mean nothing in relation to this game. Leafs were garbage in the first plain and simple. They have more talent than the Blues up front but weren't showing it.
You could say that about a lot of teams St. Louis has crushed during this streak. I'm just saying I don't think it's wrong acknowledging the Blues have literally been the best team in the league for the last 10 games. TBay, Nashville, Boston, Washington.
 
Also, ever since Babcock "improved" the defensive core by reuniting the team's fifth best defenceman with Rielly and giving the him more ice-time than Muzzin, Rielly's possession-related stats and other advanced metrics have gotten worse across the board.
 
Bender said:
Zee said:
Bender said:
Zee said:
Bender said:
TML fan said:
I really hate to jump on the "they don't try" bandwagon, but honestly...they don't try.

Skill will only take you so far. They're finding that out now.
I'm not making excuses here but St. Louis is like 8th layer of hell hot right now.


Anytime you say "but" after "I'm not making excuses", you're making excuses.
I'm sorry how many shutouts have they had in the last three games? Their record is what? They've outscored the opposition by how much?


The previous 10 games mean nothing in relation to this game. Leafs were garbage in the first plain and simple. They have more talent than the Blues up front but weren't showing it.
You could say that about a lot of teams St. Louis has crushed during this streak. I'm just saying I don't think it's wrong acknowledging the Blues have literally been the best team in the league for the last 10 games. TBay, Nashville, Boston, Washington.


Hey full marks to St Louis for turning it around but 6 of their 10 wins were against bad teams like Anaheim, Colorado, NJs of the world.
 
Is there any doubt that Babcock is the common factor in the awful defensive play?  The d zone strategy is sit back and wait for the other team to shoot.  4 years now. 
 
Just saw Pierre McGuire interviewing Babcock during the game, I'm sure he's thrilled by that
 

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