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Leafs Notebook: The PK improvement, a special week for William Nylander, and the roster decisions looming with Conor Timmins' return

An exciting week for the Maple Leafs featured two dramatic wins during their stay in Sweden. Only two games in a span of 12 days – albeit with travel to Europe and back – offers an opportunity to not only rest and heal early during the season but also to use the practice time to […]
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" I’ve said this for a few years now, but I believe William Nylander is one of the best forwards in the league at driving the net with the puck on his stick. He is not just fast; he’s really strong on the puck"
 
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Leafs Notebook: The PK improvement, a special week for William Nylander, and the roster decisions looming with Conor Timmins' return

An exciting week for the Maple Leafs featured two dramatic wins during their stay in Sweden. Only two games in a span of 12 days – albeit with travel to Europe and back – offers an opportunity to not only rest and heal early during the season but also to use the practice time to […]
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" I’ve said this for a few years now, but I believe William Nylander is one of the best forwards in the league at driving the net with the puck on his stick. He is not just fast; he’s really strong on the puck"
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When I watched Nylander in the Marlies he was a perimeter player, he was skinny, with shots and passes from the outside, now his game has evolved, he filled out his body with more mass, to power skating and driving the net and a wicked shot. He knows how to strip the puck off players too.
 
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glamphotographer said:
When I watched Nylander in the Marlies he was a perimeter player, he was skinny, with shots and passes from the outside, now his game has evolved, he filled out his body with more mass, to power skating and driving the net and a wicked shot. He knows how to strip the puck off players too.
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His first goal. Look who was on the ice with him. Brooks Laich taking the faceoff. Ben Smith on the other wing. Carrick and Marincin on D. Leafs have come a long way. Now he's playing with Tavares and Bert and haters are waiting for him to end his point streak so they can call him inconsistent and streaky. Matthews 6 goals in first 2 games yet no one calls him streaky. Actually there is one person who wants him traded for a bag of pucks each game he doesn't score.

 
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Leafs 2021 Playoffs vs Montreal
Nylander 5 goals 3 assists 8pts in 7 games
Matthews 1 goal 4 assists for 5 pts in 7 games
Marner 0 goals 4 assists for 4 pts in 7 games
Yet Nylander gets tagged with being the inconsistent one.
He was already doing this in 2021. We're soon into 2024.
He didn't just come out of nowhere.

Nylander 2022 playoffs had 3 goals 4 assists for 7 pts in 7 games.
So it's not even a one off.
 
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superstar_88 said:
His first goal. Look who was on the ice with him. Brooks Laich taking the faceoff. Ben Smith on the other wing. Carrick and Marincin on D. Leafs have come a long way. Now he's playing with Tavares and Bert and haters are waiting for him to end his point streak so they can call him inconsistent and streaky. Matthews 6 goals in first 2 games yet no one calls him streaky. Actually there is one person who wants him traded for a bag of pucks each game he doesn't score.

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Are you trying to compare Nylander's accomplishments to Matthews'?
 
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Are you trying to compare Nylander's accomplishments to Matthews'?
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You missed the point.
Nylander gets tagged with all these mysterious hate.
Trying to figure out why Nylander is tagged with being inconsistent.
Matthews doesn't score every game. Doesn't mean he's inconsistent.
It's not a shot at Matthews. He's playing great but he doesn't score every game.
That's my point.

Wasn't even a shot at Marner either with his zero goals in the playoffs.
Another one is Nylander is only performing because of contract year.
Well check out his playoff performances for at least the last 3 years.

Another is he gets knocked down easily. This was the most ludicrous one.
Or that he doesn't go to the front of the net.
 
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superstar_88 said:
You missed the point.
Nylander gets tagged with all these mysterious hate.
Trying to figure out why Nylander is tagged with being inconsistent.
Matthews doesn't score every game. Doesn't mean he's inconsistent.
It's not a shot at Matthews. He's playing great but he doesn't score every game.
That's my point.
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Nobody gets on Nylander for not scoring every game, I have never heard that.
He gets tagged for playing inconsistently.
It's not just in here, it's out there, broadcasters constantly alluding to it.
How many times has he been benched? Benched!

He gets tagged because he's the most gifted player on the team and this stuff has trailed him his whole career.
Last year was the first year he cracked the point a game barrier.
If your not going to give me physical play, or great hustle on the check, or backchecking, you better put up more offense than that.
If he got knocked for inconsistent production it's only because he wasn't giving much else.
Having said that, he's having an amazing start, he looks like a monster out there.
I hope he keeps it up so I can rekindle my man crush for him.
 
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mellowjello said:
Nobody gets on Nylander for not scoring every game, I have never heard that.
He gets tagged for playing inconsistently.
It's not just in here, it's out there, broadcasters constantly alluding to it.
How many times has he been benched? Benched!

He gets tagged because he's the most gifted player on the team and this stuff has trailed him his whole career.
Last year was the first year he cracked the point a game barrier.
If your not going to give me physical play, or great hustle on the check, or backchecking, you better put up more offense than that.
If he got knocked for inconsistent production it's only because he wasn't giving much else.
Having said that, he's having an amazing start, he looks like a monster out there.
I hope he keeps it up so I can rekindle my man crush for him.
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It's not the goals. My point is one game or a few games is a small sample.
A player can go without a point or a goal for a few games that matter so what.
Ok so from this comment
"I hope he keeps it up so I can rekindle my man crush for him."
you are one of the haters.
For me I like the way he plays. Same way I liked the way Kessel played and they perform when it matters most and when the pressure is on. I'm not talking about the regular season as you know Leafs are considered a huge failure even though their regular season results are excellent. It's about the playoffs and International play.

I remember Matthews his first playoffs vs Washington. He was flying out there. Looked dangerous every shift. That's what Nylander looks like in the playoffs. He was flying out there.
 
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Another is he gets knocked down easily. This was the most ludicrous one.
Or that he doesn't go to the front of the net.
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That wasn't true?
He's gotten better lately, but you can't argue that wasn't the case for the longest time.

You're so sensitive about this guy, let him earn respect with his game, not just his skill set.
If he stays this way, everything will be hunkie dory.
 
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superstar_88 said:
It's not the goals. My point one game or a few games is a small sample. A player can go without a point or a goal for that matter.
Ok so from this comment
"I hope he keeps it up so I can rekindle my man crush for him."
you are one of the haters.
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One of the haters? Sounds cultish.
Is that all you can glean from my comment?
 
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Nylander is in his peak of his career at 27 yo maybe until 29 or 30, after that he will start declining slowly
 
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mellowjello said:
That wasn't true?
He's gotten better lately, but you can't argue that wasn't the case for the longest time.

You're so sensitive about this guy, let him earn respect with his game, not just his skill set.
If he stays this way, everything will be hunkie dory.
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Stays this way?
He's been playing great for a few years already.

Matthews went from 60 goals to 40 goals was that hunkie dory?
Before you go off thinking I"m comparing Matthews and Nylander again my point is haters will find things to hate about Nylander regardless of what he does.
Is not getting a point next game enough to qualify for retracting the hunkie dory status?

... and speaking of your point on the media every media now is raving about Nylander so what gives? The haters are still grasping at air, what was, and what ifs.
 
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