Recent content by smuddan2

It depends on Matthews. If he wants to leave they'll have no choice but to start a new rebuild. As long as he stays they'll be in a retooling mode. Either way, my humble opinion is to trade Nylander for defence upgrades. It had been speculated before that Matthews was not keen on playing on...

I remember Sittler's joke about the Boston goalie trying to commit suicide by standing on the train track, but the train just went through his legs. With Bob on the track, the train would fly over his shoulders.

For a change the opposing goalie gave up more soft goals than Bobrovsky did but they still lost. Tavares (-3) has slowed down to the point that he can't be trusted to defend faster skaters even on the wings; and Nylander (-4) is a defensive liability as he always has been. Putting McKenna on...

I get your point. It's possible he doesn't want to make it look like an admission of a bad acquisition by the management team. I also heard the suggestion that because Stolaz is fragile and overplaying him would cause him to go down injured. The thing is, you're supposed to ice the lineup to...

Hiller is gambling away his coaching job if he continues to stick with Bobrovsky as the regular starter inplace of Stolarz out of respect for his pedigree and achievements with the Lightning. Clearly this version of Bob is not good enough to win close games. Other players have to share some...

The case I'd make for Bob starting is he wasn't the only reason they lost. There were many other factors, such as : - too many careless penalties by different players, - why was the Seattle player so wide open on their winning goal ? Roslovic was way out of position and it was his...

It seems every game Bob has started the Leafs would get "out goaltended" and at least one bad goal given up. Stolarz has been great except one bad game. We've been in every game and with better performance from Bob we could have easily got 2-3 points more which would be huge in this tight...

The game was lost in the first period. Both Bob and McCabe were bad. McCabe followed up his best game with his worse. They did push to make it close.

Best game for McCabe going back almost two years. Very structured defensive game and a full team effort. Can't remember the last time we had a more effective 4th line.

Worse than the Boston and Philadelphia trades??? P.S. When Knies makes his return appearence in Toronto I hope he gets a 10 minute standing ovation. A great kid who will be missed. Undoubtedly the Carlo for Minten trade was the worse trade in recent Leafs history. Minten has turned out to be...

Its just so satisfying to see Stecher score that winning goal. He has stepped up big time since Tanev's injury. He has been playing every game like its his last and producing positive results. He's making practically minimum wage and has truly been one of the most valuable players for the Leafs.

As much as I didn't like Tavares as a second line centre, I think the pp last game missed his net front presence. He's still strong enough to win his share of board battles and his shot is still dangerous. His problems have been his slow foot speed and puck handling. A wing position and pp...

On a bigger picture, the pessimistic view of the defence before season start proves realistic. Tanev is fragile, Raddysh is weak defensively, OEL is showing his age, McCabe struggles when not partnered with Tanev and Reilly is the weakest link. Even when Tanev played the long absence showed...

We're here to express our opinions on sports related matters, not throwing person attacks. Calling someone a shitty person is a personal attack without justification. There've been many many hockey players worse than Domi but you singled him out. I just wanted to know what made you hate him so...

Who has said Domi was a " scoring sensation" in junior ? I saw Douglas referenced "scorer" and arn't yoou twisting his words ? Based on the following stats, I don't think he's wrong : 1987–88 Peterborough Petes 60 22 21 43 292 1988–89 Peterborough Petes 43 14 16 30 175 Total OHL Regular...