Leafs @ Wild - Dec. 1st, 7:00pm - CBC, TSN 1050

[TML fan]

These are the kinds of games where the Leafs being incredibly soft makes it very difficult to win. I'm not going to get all azzurri about it but waving your stick at the opponent going for cutesy poke checks is not going to get the job done.

I think their problem tonight runs deeper than stick checks vs. bodychecks.

It really doesn't. They're getting dominated by the cycle. The best way to break the cycle is to physically seperate the player from the puck.

 

[barney_rebel]

We rule man

 

[TheMightyOdin]

Wow

 

[TheMightyOdin]

Hold the fort....

 

[TheMightyOdin]

We?ve lost the ability to pass

 

[Zee]

Andersen with the game saver and then Connor Brown comes alive

 

[TML fan]

Oh god get Hainsey off the ice...

 

[barney_rebel]

We rule man!!

 

[Zee]

Without Andersen tonight they lose big.

 

[Guilt Trip]

That was horrible by JT there trying to pass it instead of dumping it out. Lucky.

 

[Heroic Shrimp]

Most wins are fun to watch.  Most, but not all.

 

[lc9]

What a weird game.  Andersen should get some good Christmas presents for that effort. 

 

[TML fan]

Hated the game. Loved the outcome.

 

[Bender]

These are the kinds of games where the Leafs being incredibly soft makes it very difficult to win. I'm not going to get all azzurri about it but waving your stick at the opponent going for cutesy poke checks is not going to get the job done.

I think their problem tonight runs deeper than stick checks vs. bodychecks.

It really doesn't. They're getting dominated by the cycle. The best way to break the cycle is to physically seperate the player from the puck.

Well that's one way to keep a discussion going. I happen to think there's more to it than physical play, but okay.

 

[AtomicMapleLeaf]

Nylander looked like shit.

 

[ZBBM]

Winning games you have no business winning?  Hello Frederik Andersen.

 

[Heroic Shrimp]

Jets-Devils OT is nuts.

 

[Guilt Trip]

Nylander looked like shit.

He needs to pick it up to justify that  contract.

 

[Kin]

Cherry just loves a player of his, that's all. Middleton was real gud. Almost 1000 points. Not sure he's a HHOFamer tho.

Almost 1000 points in the NHL's highest scoring era. His highest finish in goals in a season was 7th and he did that once. He was a top 10 scorer twice. By adjusted stats, he's at about 800 points in just under 1000 games.

I know it's just Cherry being Cherry but it's a pretty weak case all the same.

 

[Joe S.]

Without Andersen tonight they lose big.

Good thing he plays for the leafs then.