Coaches will coach to win regardless. Matthews at 70% is better then almost everyone on the team. His line is still generating a lot of chances and did again tonight. They were the only line to generate any high danger chances minus the 1 the 4th line got. Who knows what's wrong with him. Back, wrist??? Whatever happened at 4 Nations? Hopefully he can pot a few down the stretch and in the playoffs.
They're 11 up on Columbus...not happening.
He didn't look like crap in the 4 Nations. If hurt agree with you let him rest. Not like he's playing lights out. get him ready for the playoffs. People laughed at me here in my hometown when I said it's going to be tight. A little losing streak and we are a wild card team and missing is not entirely out of the question. Didn't watch any of it tonight but hurt or not Matthews and Marner sound like they were in playoff mode. Panthers missing 3 key players you think they would have taken control of the game.
.......... - said everyone in summer of 2021.
And 12 on the habs who are in 9th. I agree, not happening. Falling to a wild card is probably within the realm of possibility, but not likely either. They may lose Saturday but then they will string together a few wins like they usually do and stay top 3. I find it fascinating that all Canadian teams are either in the playoffs or one point out.
Yep and I was probably the biggest advocate of that. Management is hooped as players hold all the cards. Said it a million times NMC are horrible. You wanna get paid top dollars like our greedy core is then no NMC. Marner is getting overly paid again or we lose him for nothing.
Leafs will re-sign Marner for over $13m and "Run It Again" for another 3 seasons with 34 16 88 91. And fans will cheer. Until early May.
I hear ya. Let's hope we are wrong but if this core doesn't get it done in the playoffs this year everyone from management top down to all the players should be on the table or let go.
........ - said everyone in March of 2022.
Shanahan shouldn't even be employed. What does he actually do? Hasn't done squat for this team except coddling the core.
Lazy af
Those two hits gave GayLea a grand total of 12 on the season. It got him out of the top 10 worst in the league in hits/60 to 16th worst (40GP). He remains worst on the team in that stat. So it is notable when he hits someone - good catch.
You know what I see with the extra man and the reason for the above numbers. We don't seem to be tough or hard enough battling or attempting to retrieve pucks. The core and one rap against them is their timid play and I see that being part of the problem when we are trying to tie a game up. Got to be giving it everything and at times I don't see that with the extra attacker. You got to be going in the D zone and giving it their all to win battles and try and regain and keep possession. Times I feel they give up the puck too much or not win it for that reason. then the puck gets dumped out or ends up in their net. Maybe I'm wrong but that's my view.
