Price robbed Mitch in that first game and then Marner started tossing the puck into the stands for some inexplicable reason. It seemed to get into his head and his confidence was shot after that.
That goes along the lines of missing Tavares. Not much mention of him by anyone. The team is built on 4 forwards. Meaning 2 scoring lines of significance. Without Tavares Montreal only had to focus on 1. Tavares would have been a better option than Thornton as well on the PP. Tavares was also missed for facefoffs. Matthews lost a lot of faceoffs and their line was chasing to get the puck back most shifts because of that. Foligno out means 2 of your top 6 is not available. That is signifcant considering Thornton, Simmonds, Micky, Engvall, Nash are useless as scoring threats. Kerfoot and Gally are not true top 6 players.
But how are they going to address that ”lack of depth“ with so much cap locked up on the big 4 ? Then they have to find more room to keep Hyman ? Without touching the big 4 contracts Hyman will be gone and do you really think minor tinkering can turn this team into a real contender ?
If that's the case it would be a point of concern that he would be that mentally fragile and easily demoralized.
If I give 3 or 4 reasons why they lost and none had to do with luck, and then later on as an afterthought I mention not getting some bounces and all you get out of all the reasons I gave was " So what you're really saying is that MTL beating the Leafs in a seven game series was really nothing more than luck?" is funny.
Like I said, you're trying too hard to take me down a peg and you need to pick your spots better. You're making yourself look foolish. The fact that you doubled down on your inaccurate interpretation made it even worse. Those two posts of yours reminded me of a movie. The two posts were Dumb and Dumber.
It’s easy to forget that he and Matthews are still very young and had a ton of pressure on them especially after Tavares went down. While others contributed offensively as the series progressed, it was these two who were expected to carry the load. I think they gripped their sticks too tight (as the saying goes) and in Marner’s case, the bad break of Price’s great save and his stupid delay of game penalty messed him up for the rest of the series.
Pretty sure that Tavares' absence was noted as critical waaaay back in post #1834.
Take you down a peg? LOL! The only person who cares that much about you, shack, is you. I simply pointed out your ridiculous post as being ridiculous. Don't lose your mind over it.
I see it like this...
I just proved that whatever you were trying to point out was ridiculous. And the only reason you even tried is that, for some reason, I must be in your head. Too bad for you that you failed miserably. You claimed that I was saying the only reason the Leafs lost was because of luck. I showed my posts on the Leafs' loss had nothing to do with luck. Coaching, goaltending, poor decision making was what I said.
‘Our ideas may be different in some details but I think we’re on the same page, that either Marner or Nylander should be traded to add more talent on defence and depth. I still think Marner is the better “team player” than Nylander, he plays better defence, one of the best set up men, and kills penalty. I suppose it’ll largely depend on what return we can get for either and that is something we fans don’t have access to. Nylander to me is a one trick pony but he does that trick (finishing) better than Marner.
Please give us their names and numbers so that we can verify this claim. No need for last names. First is fine.
You know in the past 50+ years the Leafs have only made it to 3rd round 4 times
The question is not if they can play. The question is does the management of the team over that 50+ years really care about winning. The fans suffered through Ballard, the teachers, and now various corporate entities who primarily care about money and not winning. With excuse after excuse.
