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L K said:Morals of this game.
- Every forward not on the Matthews line + Kadri needs to be bolted to the defensive zone.
- Polak, Bozakisare bad
- Andersen needs to learn how to not take 20 games to get his game going
- Babcock's irrational dislike of Leivo is perplexing
bustaheims said:WhatIfGodWasALeaf said:Look at that, Leafs have possession, make a clean line change and Zaitsev is forced to fire it half the sheet of ice to come close to making a pass.
Turnover.
Pathetic.
It's crazy how often the defence need to pass the puck through the entire defensive end in order to reach a forward. Just nuts.
bustaheims said:Borgman needs to play with a guy more reliable than Polak.
AvroArrow said:Honestly, I think Borgman needs to go down to the A for more seasoning. He's got potential, but he's still a little raw.
Although the defence stinks, Freddie is not square and a guy who is 6'4" shouldn't be on his knees for ever shot. Most of the goals that have been scored in the last two games have been snipes over his shoulders. My point is if he had been standing up, these shots would have hit him in his chest and shoulder areas, thus no goals.bustaheims said:AvroArrow said:Folks, it's bad defense AND bad goaltending. BOTH. And when you have both, you get scored on a lot, which is exactly what we've seen.
Edit: Frank beat me to it.
The thing is, Andersen has a bit of a history of struggling at the beginning of the season. I'm confident he'll get his game together. The team's defence? That I'm not so sure about, as it has a lot more moving parts and needs a greater number of players to get on board.
Highlander said:Although the defence stinks, Freddie is not square and a guy who is 6'4" shouldn't be on his knees for ever shot. Most of the goals that have been scored in the last two games have been snipes over his shoulders. My point is if he had been standing up, these shots would have hit him in his chest and shoulder areas, thus no goals.bustaheims said:AvroArrow said:Folks, it's bad defense AND bad goaltending. BOTH. And when you have both, you get scored on a lot, which is exactly what we've seen.
Edit: Frank beat me to it.
The thing is, Andersen has a bit of a history of struggling at the beginning of the season. I'm confident he'll get his game together. The team's defence? That I'm not so sure about, as it has a lot more moving parts and needs a greater number of players to get on board.
Andy said:Highlander said:Although the defence stinks, Freddie is not square and a guy who is 6'4" shouldn't be on his knees for ever shot. Most of the goals that have been scored in the last two games have been snipes over his shoulders. My point is if he had been standing up, these shots would have hit him in his chest and shoulder areas, thus no goals.bustaheims said:AvroArrow said:Folks, it's bad defense AND bad goaltending. BOTH. And when you have both, you get scored on a lot, which is exactly what we've seen.
Edit: Frank beat me to it.
The thing is, Andersen has a bit of a history of struggling at the beginning of the season. I'm confident he'll get his game together. The team's defence? That I'm not so sure about, as it has a lot more moving parts and needs a greater number of players to get on board.
Yea he definitely seems to be lacking confidence or something; he was flopping around and looking confused all game and was on his knees before all three of those wrist shots were taken. I wouldn't mind seeing Pickard getting some work and sharing the load for a bit.
bustaheims said:Yeah, maybe. Playing with Polak certainly isn't helping his development.
herman said:https://twitter.com/dalter/status/924459604024659970
CarltonTheBear said:The team is 1-2 with Polak in the line-up. Pretty damning evidence against him.
bustaheims said:CarltonTheBear said:The team is 1-2 with Polak in the line-up. Pretty aevidence against him.
Also, regardless of all the talk that Babs wanted him back to help out the PK, he's played a whopping 1:02 total PK in those games - all of it last night.
Bullfrog said:Reimer has a .912 save percentage.
bustaheims said:Bullfrog said:Reimer has a .912 save percentage.
Also, the team didn't "get rid" of Reimer for any reason other than they felt they needed a fresh start in net and San Jose was willing to give the Leafs something for him.
Some people love to put the blame almost exclusively on the goaltender. The truth is, even with the best goalie in the world in net, if the Leafs keep making awful decisions in the defensive zone and continue to allow high danger chances at the rate they currently are, it won't matter. In order to have real success, the team needs to be able to win without having to rely on their goaltending to cover up their mistakes on anywhere near this frequent a basis. Andersen gave up a bad goal last night, sure, but, if Polak had read the play better, that shot doesn't happen. That's where the focus needs to be - preventing chances/not creating chances for the other team. Until the team starts doing that, focusing on the goaltending will just leave the team stuck being not good enough. Address the defensive issues, then worry about the goaltending. Not the other way around.