Leafs @ Blackhawks - Jan. 24th, 8:00pm - SNO, Fan 590

[ZBBM]

Have the Leafs ever won in OT on a PS?

That's a real good question. 

 

[Chris]

Babcock must be reading this board. Sitting Martin, bringing up Kapanen, putting Komarov on the 4th line, starting Matthews and Nylander in OT. What's the world coming too? Of course, Polak is still playing but I kind of get that with Rielly and Zaitsev out.

Good game for the Leafs to win. The league really needs to figure out this goalie interference thing, the last 2 games have been ridiculous. And both instances against the Leafs so it really stands out.

 

[herman]

Nylander is elite at PP, PK, and PS.

 

[ZBBM]

Nylander is elite at PP, PK, and PS.

He's never been scored on on the PK as far as I know, and Lord knows he's logged multiple seconds there.  And he's batting 1.000 in OTPS.

 

[BrownRolo]

The only good thing about these horrible calls going against the Leafs is it makes me way more emotionally invested in the game.

Usual game and they lose I'm just like ?Damn? or win "Yeah"

This game when Nylander scored I was dropping Fbombs and screaming.

 

[Bill_Berg]

I don't really care a lot whether the standard for goaltender interference would or wouldn't have allowed either of those goals, but I can't fathom there being a standard where one counts and the other doesn't. More than anything else I'm frustrated by what seems to be arbitrary and unfathomable decisions and I am not the only one...when professional broadcasters (who live, eat and breathe the game on a daily basis) don't have the faintest idea what it is, there's a problem.

The league either needs to abandon this, or they need to find some way to be consistent and fair so everyone has a very clear idea what is and isn't interference and has a reasonable expectation if it being called correctly every single time no matter what rink it is, what teams are playing, or which officials are calling the game.

At some point, they gave some insight into why this is the case. For off-sides, the guys in Toronto make the call, but the refs insisted on keeping goalie interference decisions in their own hands upon video reviews. So unlike on offsides calls, which have the same guys, I assume, making the calls each night, goalie interference calls are made by a different guy each night, whoever is reffing the game.

Completely understandable as to why it's happening, and completely unacceptable with an easy fix. Give the power to the guys in Toronto, not the random on-ice officials.

 

[AvroArrow]

Just caught the highlights... Absolute horse****.  There's no way that second CHI goal should count.  Pathetic.

 

[herman]

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/nylander-saves-maple-leafs-another-failed-coachs-challenge/

Everything about William Nylander?s sophomore season has felt off by a degree or two. Far from awful, somewhere south of great, just ? not quite clicking exactly as he?d hoped.

He even felt off-kilter during seven largely fruitless shifts in the first period of Wednesday?s visit to the United Center.

Then came an important discovery: The Bauer stick he?d been wielding against the Chicago Blackhawks wasn?t actually his own. It belonged instead to teammate Connor Brown, who at one point along the way had come to mimic the pattern Nylander uses ? thus creating the possibility Nos. 28 and 29 might accidentally get crossed up.

Lol, Nylander looked like a hilariously better player after the first.
Maybe Connor Brown should try Willy's for a couple of games.

 

[herman]

https://theathletic.com/221530/2018/01/25/connor-carrick-is-trying-to-earn-a-permanent-place-in-the-maple-leafs-lineup/

Carrick cracked 19 minutes against the Blackhawks, with possession sitting around 44 per cent in the Leafs 3-2 overtime win. He started the evening with Dermott again, but that changed quickly when Chicago steamrolled the Leafs early and Babcock determined that his young defenders were getting overwhelmed. Dermott was moved to Roman Polak's side and Carrick was put with Andreas Borgman.

?Here tonight you had to handle people on the cycle and they're going all over the place and you didn't know where your guy was and it looked like that early for our young guys,? Babcock said, if failing to mention continued struggles for Polak.

busta, what would you rate Jonas' shade throwing skills at?

 

[LuncheonMeat]

Have the Leafs ever won in OT on a PS?

That's a real good question.

The criminal part of this game was that Matthews didn't get an assist on the winning goal. That little pass to spring Nylander at the start of overtime was a thing of beauty, but so simple it might be overlooked.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Have the Leafs ever won in OT on a PS?

That's a real good question. 

https://twitter.com/PR_NHL/status/956519550794784768

 

[bustaheims]

https://theathletic.com/221530/2018/01/25/connor-carrick-is-trying-to-earn-a-permanent-place-in-the-maple-leafs-lineup/

Carrick cracked 19 minutes against the Blackhawks, with possession sitting around 44 per cent in the Leafs 3-2 overtime win. He started the evening with Dermott again, but that changed quickly when Chicago steamrolled the Leafs early and Babcock determined that his young defenders were getting overwhelmed. Dermott was moved to Roman Polak's side and Carrick was put with Andreas Borgman.

?Here tonight you had to handle people on the cycle and they're going all over the place and you didn't know where your guy was and it looked like that early for our young guys,? Babcock said, if failing to mention continued struggles for Polak.

busta, what would you rate Jonas' shade throwing skills at?

13/10. Much shade.