Jets @ Leafs - Mar. 11th, 7:00pm - TSN4, Fan 590
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Kin
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Well, as disappointing as the results were last week I don't think the team actually played that poorly in any of the games so it's good to see them get some results.
A couple tweaks here and there, get some guys healthy. I'm as confident as I ever was(which is to say, not very much. I'm still a Leafs fan).
A couple tweaks here and there, get some guys healthy. I'm as confident as I ever was(which is to say, not very much. I'm still a Leafs fan).
Guilt Trip
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He's the only reason the score is close. Leafs have dominated.Zee said:
bustaheims
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Nik said:
Like I said earlier, against average goaltending, they win at least 2 of the 3 losses. Possibly all 3, and we?re celebrating an 8 game win streak. They?re playing about as well as I can remember ever seeing.
Guilt Trip
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They just put up at stat about Hellebuyck. He's allowed 3 or more goals in 9 of his last 10 games.
bustaheims
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Guilt Trip said:
He was unbelievable for these two games and the Leafs still put 7 past him. I think that tells you what you need to know about the team in front of him?s defensive play.
bustaheims
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Zee said:
Maybe, but, even if he?s only average, they?re still better than Ottawa and Vancouver, and are neck-and-neck with Calgary (and probably Montreal, too). Really, they?re probably not far behind Edmonton. After the Leafs, the next 4 teams in the division aren?t separated by that much in terms of overall talent.
Guilt Trip
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I think it's clear the Leafs are the class of the North.bustaheims said:
OldTimeHockey
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BrownRolo said:
People keep having to say "there's nothing Andersen could do there" because people keep blaming Andersen for every single goal that goes in.
I mean, they're probably correct that he is terrible. His save % last night was .889 so that proves he is the anchor on this team.
Wait a minute, Hellebuyck had an .891 sv % last night and by all accounts, he was the first star. Something here doesn't hold up.
bustaheims
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Nik said:
Definitely seems to be a more frequent narrative - partly, I imagine, because there aren't many other facets of the Leafs' game to complain about on a consistent basis. Though, as I point out in the thread from the last game, looking at the numbers, the issue isn't Andersen so much - his 5-on-5 Sv% is strong (not spectacular, but solidly upper-middle of the pack), and he has one of the shortest average goal distances in the league (so, it's not like he's being beaten by a lot of long distance shots). At even strength, he's basically making all the stops he's reasonably expected to make. The issues in on the PK. The entire unit has been bad, and Andersen is not helping with it at all.
Complaining about the goaltending is not always unwarranted, but it's overused to the point of it being a lazy take most of the time it's used.
herman
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No one has clips of it, but shout out to Bogosian for continuing some solid play (2v1 aside) in getting back on puck retrievals, holding it an extra second or two to draw in the forecheck and slipping clean and easy passes to his teammates for exits. It's what Holl and Muzzin do so well (when they're on their game).