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The "Mr. T" Man of the Match Thread, 2013?14 edition

Gardiner
HM Lupul

Increasingly, I'm starting to think that Lupul might be the most important player on the team right now. If Kadri will be on the top line then there has to be offense coming from somewhere else and I don't know that Raymond, Clarkson, Kulemin or guys like that can be that source.

 
Nik the Trik said:
Gardiner
HM Lupul

Increasingly, I'm starting to think that Lupul might be the most important player on the team right now. If Kadri will be on the top line then there has to be offense coming from somewhere else and I don't know that Raymond, Clarkson, Kulemin or guys like that can be that source.
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Will stuff like this ever make you regret the Grabbo/Maccarthur stuff?
 
princedpw said:
... Grabbo generates a fair amount of offense.
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Well, MacArthur definitely not as I feel he's been fairly well replaced by Raymond and cheaper too. I suppose I might rather have him than Clarkson right now but, then again, I was never a big fan of the Clarkson signing.

As for Grabo I think it's kind of an unfair point because what's making that secondary scoring so important right now is all of the injuries down the middle the team is facing. I think Grabo is a very good player but I don't think the Soviets built him with a stronger Achilles Tendon.
 
Nik the Trik said:
princedpw said:
... Grabbo generates a fair amount of offense.
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Well, MacArthur definitely not as I feel he's been fairly well replaced by Raymond and cheaper too. I suppose I might rather have him than Clarkson right now but, then again, I was never a big fan of the Clarkson signing.
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Raymond + MacArthur would've been nice to see.


Nik the Trik said:
As for Grabo I think it's kind of an unfair point because what's making that secondary scoring so important right now is all of the injuries down the middle the team is facing. I think Grabo is a very good player but I don't think the Soviets built him with a stronger Achilles Tendon.
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Seems to me secondary scoring's always important to have. And I don't think Bolland, even with a Teflon Tendon, was likely to keep up the scoring pace of the first 15 games. Anyhow, real question is what the Soviets made Grabo's oblique of.


MOtM -- Gardiner
HM -- yeah, Lupul

Play of the game was JvR and Clarkson occupying the same spot in the crease for a Kadri shot.
 
mr grieves said:
Seems to me secondary scoring's always important to have. And I don't think Bolland, even with a Teflon Tendon, was likely to keep up the scoring pace of the first 15 games. Anyhow, real question is what the Soviets made Grabo's oblique of.
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But as you're keen to point out, the Leafs problems aren't coming from their secondary scoring options, it's from their tertiary ones. The top 6 is producing at a rate that's with the best in the league, it's the bottom six that isn't getting it done and, as memory serves, Grabo wasn't scoring much in that role.
 
Nik the Trik said:
mr grieves said:
Seems to me secondary scoring's always important to have. And I don't think Bolland, even with a Teflon Tendon, was likely to keep up the scoring pace of the first 15 games. Anyhow, real question is what the Soviets made Grabo's oblique of.
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But as you're keen to point out, the Leafs problems aren't coming from their secondary scoring options, it's from their tertiary ones. The top 6 is producing at a rate that's with the best in the league, it's the bottom six that isn't getting it done and, as memory serves, Grabo wasn't scoring much in that role.
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I thought 'secondary scoring' referred to that scoring which wasn't from your scoring/ top-2 lines. No, he wasn't. Yet he has the 7th highest TOI/game among Washington's forwards is doing quite well with it, so who knows? Off season?

 
mr grieves said:
I thought 'secondary scoring' referred to that scoring which wasn't from your scoring/ top-2 lines. No, he wasn't. Yet he has the 7th highest TOI/game among Washington's forwards is doing quite well with it, so who knows? Off season?
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He's top 6 if you figure for PK time so I don't see it as being that much of a change.

Anyways, the point still remains, while secondary scoring is always nice to have it becomes harder to find when many of your secondary scorers are injured and the fact that Bolland and Bozak are injured isn't going to impact my feelings about the Grabo decision.
 
Game #31: BOS v TOR: Bruins 5-2.  MotM: Holland 7/0 (unanimous).  HM: McClement 0/4.  Others: D'Amigo 0/1, Liles 0/1, Gardiner 0/1.
Game #32: LAK v TOR: Kings 3-1.  MotM: Gardiner 6/2.  HM: Lupul 2/6.  Others: Franson 1/1.
Game #33: TOR v STL:

 
MotM: the goalposts
HM: whatever Brian Elliott was daydreaming about when he let those goals in

okay, seriously now:

MotM: Kulemin
HM: Smith

Nod to Gunnarson for not looking too stupid in a game where the defense mostly looked too stupid.
 
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