Guilt Trip said:
Zee said:
lc9 said:
Zee said:
lc9 said:
freer said:
I don?t care what anyone thinks I can?t wait til Gardiner is gone
Awful
He makes it harder for the leafs to be successful. He has to go.
He's literally the 2nd best option on D and you want to get rid of him. Sure he makes mistakes like every guy out there but he also drives offense like other Leafs D not named Rielly don't.
I simply disagree. I hope they move him or let him walk.
You can disagree all you want the stats don't back you up in any way.
My eyes stat tell me he's horrible defensively. He's a Butter soft D man and that simply isn't good enough come playoff time. It isn't good now. He's consistently bad and not wining puck/position battles.
Lol shadows of Larry Murphy. We always need a whipping boy. Rather than targeting our actual crappy players like Hainsey/Zaitsev and supporting good player with good partners we target the ones who generally push play in our favour, but aren't hard enough and who will make a major gaffe once in a while.
You have to decide what warts you're willing to live with and I really don't want 37yo Hainsey and piss poor Zaitsev or even Ozhiganov vs Gardiner. So if that's the case do we change two D lines entirely? Because that doesn't seem likely.