LuncheonMeat
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bustaheims said:LuncheonMeat said:
Have any players played two preseason games yet? No. So there.;D
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Heroic Shrimp
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LuncheonMeat said:
I'm pretty sure I have Bibeau fever.
GhostofPotvin29
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Heroic Shrimp said:
I see what you did there, I respect it, but I don't like it.
Highlander
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Bibeau comes from the french word for Bib, which is to keep stains off shirts or babys cloths. So no stains, no goals and perfect save percentage forever. How are they going to broadcast two Leaf games at the same time. My split personality is starting to come out.
bustaheims
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Heroic Shrimp said:
That'll distract the heck out of the other team.
Highlander
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looks like the new capitan of the Senators whom don't exist to Gary Bettman.
I didn't watch last night, and he's only played 2 games, but the Kontiola experiment isn't going too well.
GhostofPotvin29
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CarltonTheBear said:
From what I saw, I found he wasn't really great or bad, just kind of there. I imagine how hard it must be for some of these guys having only these games really to either make the team or not. Carlyle wouldn't be the one who scouted him or saw something they liked to bring him over. Nature of the beast though.
L K
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Potvin29 said:
That's kind of my impression of him so far too. He's not a liability on the ice but there really hasn't been anything that has stood out as particularly good or unique about him.
He's not overly big to provide a size advantage. He's not fast to provide a speed advantage. His playmaking skills haven't really materialized to suggest that he's a guy who could slide up/down the lineup in case of injuries. His defensive play has been just ok.
He hasn't really done anything to differentiate himself from David Booth, Mike Santorelli, Carter Ashton, Matt Frattin, Troy Bodie, Peter Holland, Leo Komarov, Daniel Winnik and Trevor Smith (as in the established/projected guys fighting for spots in the bottom 6). There are already too many bodies fighting for those spots and the unfortunate reality is that a guy like Kontiola is probably going to have to do something special to impress Carlyle.
Maybe he's open to a short stint in the AHL to try and get his North America legs under him. It's tough having such a short time to try and establish yourself as a viable option. Right now he wouldn't make my roster and I don't think he would be my first callup either.
**I don't think it is necessary to say it, but this is based entirely on the current performance over essentially a week of training camp. It's not a really fair evaluation timeframe but it is all we have at this point.**
bustaheims
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CarltonTheBear said:
He's admitted he hasn't played well. He's having some trouble keeping up with the pace of the game.
Highlander
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Perhaps it would be better to have Kontiola skate with the wingers that they probably have him slated to play with, perhaps Komorov and Winneck?? Now that the intrasquad games are over they need to cut down and develop some chemistry.
louisstamos
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http://mapleleafs.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=731738
The only surprise there is MacWilliam, who made it all the way to the end of training camp last year, so I'm surprised he's being sent down so early.
The only surprise there is MacWilliam, who made it all the way to the end of training camp last year, so I'm surprised he's being sent down so early.
Tyler Biggs stays up over McKegg and Brown, hah.
Zee said:
If/when they get cut it's not going to be until the final round. There's no way they were getting cut here.
Players left:
edit: The list on the Leafs site doesn't have Orr or Booth, but I'm guessing that's just a mistake. They've left guys off the original list as well at first.
| FORWARDS SPENCER ABBOTT CARTER ASHTON TYLER BIGGS TROY BODIE TYLER BOZAK SAM CARRICK DAVID CLARKSON MATT FRATTIN FREDERIK GAUTHIER PETER HOLLAND NAZEM KADRI PHIL KESSEL LEO KOMAROV PETRI KONTIOLA BRANDON KOZUN JOSH LEIVO JOFFREY LUPUL FRAZER MCLAREN WILLIAM NYLANDER MIKE SANTORELLI TREVOR SMITH JAMES VAN RIEMSDYK DANIEL WINNIK | DEFENCEMEN CODY FRANSON JAKE GARDINER PETTER GRANBERG KORBINIAN HOLZER VIKTOR LOOV KEVIN MARSHALL STUART PERCY DION PHANEUF ROMAN POLAK MORGAN RIELLY STEPHANE ROBIDAS HENRIK TALLINDER | GOALIES JONATHAN BERNIER ANTOINE BIBEAU JAMES REIMER GARRET SPARKS |
edit: The list on the Leafs site doesn't have Orr or Booth, but I'm guessing that's just a mistake. They've left guys off the original list as well at first.
Zee said:
I get what you're saying, but I'd save my outrage for if they survive the final cut, which I'm starting to suspect that Orr might.