Falling Leafs

[Tigger]

I feel like we are all just waiting for the inevitable shoe to drop. Nonis & Carlyle have proven their lack of quality & their lack of understanding of the teams problems. Honestly guys I wasn't looking forward to free agency because I have no confidence in this regime. These guys have made so many dumb moves I cringe every time I hear the Leafs have done something. Gunnarson for Polak is just another one in a long line up of bad trades this regime has made.

As far as leadership, culture & compete level go. I'm just tired of hearing these lame narratives over & over again by these guys. If leadership is a problem, it's the leadership in management/coaching. The sooner Shanahan realizes that & gets rid of these clowns, the better off the Leafs organization will be.

Hey, cringe at the corporate speak all you like but if Gunnar for Polak gets your shite in a knot, you're really missing the point.

Shanaplanabigbobang ain't the saviour, quite the opposite.

 

[moon111]

The home team advantage usually comes from the extra adrenaline.  The classic road game is to play a quiet game, shut the crowd out, get up by a goal and win.  The Leafs dull, uninspired play takes out their own crowd.  Yet they seem to do better on the road.  They need players that will get the whole team and fans pumped.

 

[Kin]

The Leafs dull, uninspired play takes out their own crowd.  Yet they seem to do better on the road. 

They were 24-16-1 at home last year, 14-20-7 on the road.

 

[Andy007]

0 for 2!

 

[hap_leaf]

The Leafs dull, uninspired play takes out their own crowd.  Yet they seem to do better on the road. 

They were 24-16-1 at home last year, 14-20-7 on the road.

Perhaps more accurate to say they played a simpler brand of hockey on the road.  Usually a team will have some less exciting wins on the road and sometimes more exciting losses at home. 

 

[WhatIfGodWasALeaf]

Reimer, Franson and an asset (pick or prospect)

Anyone think the above package could fetch an interesting return?

Perhaps the Jets consider it for Kane?

 

[KW Sluggo]

If our back-up is expected to start 30 games, even conceivably, something will have gone very, very wrong or else we will be tanking.

Ideally I would want to keep Reimer but he has a career to think about and I don't blame him for wanting a trade.

The Leafs current starting goalie has never started 50 games in a season and is recovering from a groin issue. He's not suddenly going to be a guy who starts 70. 30 may be on the high side of what the backup will play this season, but the Leafs need a guy who can handle that kind of workload. They can't have a guy who only plays once every 2 weeks. It's not a matter of something going wrong. It's just the reality of the current situation. Until Bernier can prove he can stay healthy and start 65 games in a season, the Leafs are going to need a safety net.

If you seriously believe that then we have the back-up goalie, what we need is the starter.

I fail to see how the Leafs situation is any different than Dallas's with Kari Lehtonen.  He only plays 55 to 65 games a year, and he's considered a #1.

Bernier is a better goalie and moreis expected of him in terms of number of starts and quality ones at that. Plus if he starts 65 games that is what I would be looking for anyway, not for the back-up to be starting 30 games as others have suggested.

 

[jdh1]

I didn't know where to place these thoughts about the coaching situation,however the title of this thread is somewhat fitting.
I can't for the life of me figure out why they kept Carlyle and let go of the assistants...again I can't figure this out,even after all the Ballard years I put up with,this is just as silly...Where are the assistants????
The only rationell I see out of all this is they are going to burn this year to get Babcock in the off season...What else could it be?