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Predators @ Leafs - Nov. 18th, 7:30pm - TSN, TSN 1050

Reimer with 12 goals against in 5 periods of work.
His rebounds combined with the Leafs reluctance to make opponents pay for touching the puck is why he sees so many SOGs.

Aside from a handful of players who manage to consistently have miscues, I can see the team having enough talent to at least compete for a tough 1-2 goal loss against the top teams in the league. But for some reason, no one is ready to actually play until we're 4-6 goals down.
 
On the plus side, it's been a while since I came home from a night out and checking the score made me laugh.
 
Jonas Siegel ‏@jonasTSN1050  1m1 minute ago
Asked if Leafs were playing to get their coach fired Cody Franson quickly responds, "F**k no."

Now, I don't want to look like I'm pro-Leafs players after the effort they put in tonight, but it's stupid questions like these that makes players like Kessel hate talking to the media.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Jonas Siegel ‏@jonasTSN1050  1m1 minute ago
Asked if Leafs were playing to get their coach fired Cody Franson quickly responds, "F**k no."

Now, I don't want to look like I'm pro-Leafs players after the effort they put in tonight, but it's stupid questions like these that makes players like Kessel hate talking to the media.

Honestly, do they really expect any answer other than "no?" No player is ever going to admit to trying to get their coach fired. Just a completely asinine question.
 
I know it would never happen but I would love to see these players have to play their next game in their practise jerseys. They don't deserve to wear the uniform
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Leafer1984 ‏@Leafer1984  3m3 minutes ago
Simmons just asked Robidas if he would be surprised if he came tomorrow and saw a new gm or coach.

Where's Burke when you need him?

But, without questions like that, how can the players provide cliched, canned answers?
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Jonas Siegel ‏@jonasTSN1050  1m1 minute ago
Asked if Leafs were playing to get their coach fired Cody Franson quickly responds, "F**k no."

Now, I don't want to look like I'm pro-Leafs players after the effort they put in tonight, but it's stupid questions like these that makes players like Kessel hate talking to the media.

Sure, but nobody likes talking to the media outside of the occasional self-promoter like Roenick or Avery. The media will try to poke the bear in order to get candid responses and while Franson's doesn't provide much in narrative value it is what happened.

Derek Jeter didn't like talking to the media. In fact, it seems like his primary interest post-career is creating a portal so that players never have to talk to the media. He still did it though.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Leafer1984 ‏@Leafer1984  3m3 minutes ago
Simmons just asked Robidas if he would be surprised if he came tomorrow and saw a new gm or coach.

Where's Burke when you need him?

Clearly, Simmons thinks he's edgy and controversial asking such questions, but really, these kinds of questions are just as useless as Paul Hendricks' softballs.  They both set up easy, obvious answers that tell us nothing at all.  Except when Hendricks does it, he's trying to make the Leafs look good, and when Simmons does it, he's just trying to make himself look good.
 

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