Frank E said:
If you're not giving whoever the back-up is a start during a B2B, then when is he playing? Andersen isn't going to play the next 54 games.
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If you're not giving whoever the back-up is a start during a B2B, then when is he playing? Andersen isn't going to play the next 54 games.
herman
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I like how they did the Buffalo H@H set, given both teams were on the B2B. The only reason it didn't work out in our favour for 4 pts is a messy second period in game 1.
The upcoming set with Philadelphia and Colorado will be against two rested teams and the Leafs are travelling, so I don't expect anything good in that second game either way.
The upcoming set with Philadelphia and Colorado will be against two rested teams and the Leafs are travelling, so I don't expect anything good in that second game either way.
Peter D.
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Nik Bethune said:
One of the main (few) things I questioned about Babcock was his insistence to split the back-to-backs. No matter how the game went the night before, Andersen was going to sit. Easy win the night before and facing a divisional opponent that night -- nope...doesn't matter...Andersen is sitting. Now, I get it, you don't want to run your starter to the ground and want to give him a break. But getting him to start a couple back-to-backs a year isn't going to burn him out, especially if he gets a couple other games off along the way.
Problem is, there is no trust in any backup the team has had since McElhinney, so Andersen skipping out on a Wednesday game against Ottawa to get a five-day break just isn't going to happen. That has to be rectified by the GM, otherwise we're going to see an overworked Andersen again come March/April and playoff time.
https://twitter.com/jtbourne/status/1201538142379134976
Marner can't play until Wednesday at the earliest, but when he does return things are going to look a little different than what we're used to. Hyman not in the top-6, and Rielly potentially not on the top PP unit.
Marner can't play until Wednesday at the earliest, but when he does return things are going to look a little different than what we're used to. Hyman not in the top-6, and Rielly potentially not on the top PP unit.
herman said:
After this upcoming B2B, the Leafs have a pretty favourable schedule for about 2 weeks. Then it's 3 games in 4 nights right before the Christmas break and a B2B immediately after the Christmas break. They don't have a single B2B in January but they do play 8 games in 17 days before their bye week so it's basically a game every other day. Then in February they have 15 games in 29 days.
So yeah Dubas has 2 weeks to fix this problem.
disco
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Now that he's had a fresh team in front of him for a game I can say that Hutch is fine for perimeter low-quality shots, even a lot of them. But any high-quality opportunities he's severely exposed. If the Leafs can limit high-quality chances to an absolute bare minimum during a game, he's got a shot. But doing that for a complete 60 minutes the Leafs have difficulty with, especially against teams that are league average or above.
https://twitter.com/tramyers_nhl/status/1201555305936695300
Shockingly we weren't the first team to have to do this!
Shockingly we weren't the first team to have to do this!
https://twitter.com/markhmasters/status/1201559312314851329
Like playing defence.
Like playing defence.
