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Maybe they ought to show him where the back of the net is - only found it twice this season !
What's wrong?? I guess you haven't been watching them very much this season. I'll tell you what's wrong with the Leafs: INJURIES TO KEY PLAYERS.
They were playing great until the injury-bug began to hit them week after week. It started with Dave Bolland going down, then Tyler Bozek, Joffrey Lupul, etc. And when some of those players returned, it wasn't long until the injury-bug hit them again.
The Leafs have run into some bad luck with injuries this season and it's a big reason why they're struggling. However, the defence has been the team's achilles' heel and if something isn't done to improve the defence soon, Tim Leweike will hit the panic button and get some people fired, starting with assistant coach Dave Farrish, who's in charge of defence.
The only bright spot on defence has been the play of Dion Phaneuf, who is having his best season as a Leaf and leads the team in plus/minus even though he always plays against the opposing team's top players.
On a different note, i'd attribute most of the habs' success to the fact they've been able to stay healthy for the most part of the season. Assistant coach J-J Daigneault has also done a magnificient job with the team's defencemen. Not enough credit is given to him for the job he's performed.
Good one!!! :lol: :lol:
On another note, i haven't been able to find Paul Ranger's tour of Toronto yet. Hopefully they showed him a one-way ticket on the GO train to the Ricoh Centre.
Leafs no longer worst team in professional sports!
Remember this headline from last year?
ESPN ranks Maple Leafs the worst team in pro sports
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/espn-r...rst-team-in-pro-sports-1.946851#ixzz2nTVhaqF8
Toronto has moved up to 119 out of 122! Quite the accomplishment!
http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/teamrankings
When you're named the worst team in sports, there's nowhere to go but up. So three spots in the right direction this year is a start for the Maple Leafs, who hadn't ranked below 120 since 2008.
Remember this headline from last year?
ESPN ranks Maple Leafs the worst team in pro sports
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/espn-r...rst-team-in-pro-sports-1.946851#ixzz2nTVhaqF8
Toronto has moved up to 119 out of 122! Quite the accomplishment!
http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/teamrankings
When you're named the worst team in sports, there's nowhere to go but up. So three spots in the right direction this year is a start for the Maple Leafs, who hadn't ranked below 120 since 2008.
This is BS. Every team has injuries, some more than others. So the Leafs have injuries? Their own coach called them "Brain Dead" just a couple of nights ago. Why would he think of saying that when obviously he is well aware of the injuries. Is he the only one with the balls not to make excuses. The fact is that in the last twelve games the Leafs have played the Predators, Capitals, Blue Jackets, Penguins, Sabres, Canadiens, Sharks, Stars, Senators, Bruins, Kings, Blues and haven't managed a win in regulation against any of them, sometimes getting their ass kicked by teams with injuries and teams at the bottom of the standings.
The simple fact is the Leafs consistently FAIL to out play anybody. Part of that reason is instead of manning up to face opponents and keep the puck to actually score they're taking cheap shots and getting suspended. Phaneuf is a perfect case in point. Something is wrong in their heads.
Run and hide behind the injury excuse but the Leafs are playing like crap. 12 Games without a regulation win..."Brain Dead" says Carlyle, coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
:thumb:
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Funny that Phaneuf got 2 games for exactly the same hit Pacioretty made on Boychuck a week earlier. Pacioretty didn't even get a sniff. Even local Mtl sports media personality (and former hab) Enrico Ciccone pointed this out on "Le Match" the other night.
Different set of rules when it comes to the habs.
On a different note, what's wrong with Lucic this year? First he gets beat up by some unknown Washington player in the preseason, and in their last game against the Oilers he gets pummeled by the Oilers tough guy. What gives? Is his career on decline or is it due to personal reasons?
He hasn't been the same player. Maybe the pressure of trying to make Canada's Olympic team?
Different set of rules when it comes to the habs.
On a different note, what's wrong with Lucic this year? First he gets beat up by some unknown Washington player in the preseason, and in their last game against the Oilers he gets pummeled by the Oilers tough guy. What gives? Is his career on decline or is it due to personal reasons?
He hasn't been the same player. Maybe the pressure of trying to make Canada's Olympic team?
Typical loser Leaf fan excuse
NHL TEAM MAN GAMES LOST and TMITT METRICS DECEMBER 12, 2013
Rank
Team
Team Reported MGL
TMITT (BETA)
TMITTm (BETA)
TMITTgoals (BETA)
TMITTassists (BETA)
TMITTshots (BETA)
1 Anaheim 175 1650.107353 9.701379694 4299.80049 7499.409314 49835.51814
2 Edmonton 162 1216.903125 8.39670097 4740.948438 8384.523958 50060.66667
3 Carolina 158 1205.939583 6.39884714 3100.555208 4161.735938 35214.10938
4 Pittsburgh 146 1144.460938 5.064986628 3629.261458 5793.206771 40319.79844
5 Columbus 119 1297.20793 10.2425333 3114.845161 6232.37043 34352.69892
6 Montreal 117 1085.978125 5.588698216 3219.19375 2810.333333 32512.52083
7 New Jersey 115 1291.291667 6.886086597 1875.119792 3975.079688 27540.90104
8 Tampa Bay 107 1056.302778 22.41084363 2726.748889 4255.817222 25189.22167
9 Winnipeg 103 1211.522396 6.554647025 1841.532292 3779.520313 37563.2151
10 Detroit 100 1332.540625 4.619352431 6086.058333 9903.54375 54906.42135
11 Florida 97 934.9177083 6.056773906 1906.490104 2822.788021 27299.17708
12 Toronto 91 1315.078646 5.580610684 4287.016146 7268.553125 41969.77292
13 Calgary 91 1247.295 4.766985489 5158.078333 7875.790556 48975.69833
14 Buffalo 84 1021.829032 5.815935349 1002.65914 2215.87957 19798.56344
15 Philadelphia 82 987.2288978 10.93466017 2103.532258 2768.591398 23135.68172
16 Minnesota 81 817.7252525 4.003504646 1539.343434 3715.483838 20456.96768
17 San Jose 77 1048.780376 5.651291317 2424.07957 4084.743011 34535.49462
18 Vancouver 76 738.5914141 5.537450576 1505.093434 2327.683838 25761.68889
19 NY Islanders 75 867.4473958 5.519931464 1971.686979 3135.761979 29293.99792
20 Nashville 71 1045.963441 2.43436344 2861.383871 4893.123656 40205.06667
21 Washington 70 756.2709677 9.567745105 2081.393011 3342.366667 24954.47849
22 Chicago 70 700.1602941 6.786552992 2731.596569 3299.232353 22916.2152
23 Los Angeles 63 934.9953125 2.444330045 2317.521354 3143.026042 32493.39271
24 NY Rangers 60 901.7651042 2.571929273 2705.029688 3122.264063 33619.42969
25 Phoenix 50 975.3888889 3.621033347 3182.28 4788.249444 32530.50222
26 Colorado 48 757.9551724 9.805842001 2108.997701 3826.952874 19842.64253
27 St. Louis 42 545.937931 5.653942614 800.9425287 1546.701149 10452.73563
28 Boston 37 877.566129 4.173960701 1336.912903 3742.55914 23492.49462
29 Dallas 27 618.195977 6.752661407 1473.608046 2294.22069 19530.59598
30 Ottawa 15 585.5822917 2.10846264 1326.216146 3286.621354 19387.81667
http://www.mangameslost.com/nhl-man-games-lost-december-12-2013/
Another suspension
Well, they don't need to show him where the press box is ...
LEAFS F CLARKSON SUSPENDED TWO GAMES FOR HIT ON SOBOTKA
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=438979
Well, they don't need to show him where the press box is ...
LEAFS F CLARKSON SUSPENDED TWO GAMES FOR HIT ON SOBOTKA
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=438979
I'd say there's a lot more to it than injuries.
Every team has injuries at some point, especially with all the illegal stuff going on (as indicated by suspensions - for illegal, dangerous actions! - to players such as Thornton, Kessel, Phaneuf, Clarkson, Kadri, Ashton, Neal...).
Tampa Bay, which you have called a weak team, is doing better than the Leafs, despite missing the great Steven Stamkos, who is all by himself a far bigger loss than all the injured Leafs put together.
Detroit, which you have repeatedly called "lowly", is doing better than the Leafs, despite missing at various points this season: Datsyuk, Zetterberg, Helm, Franzen, Howard, De Keyser, Bertuzzi, Weiss, Alfredsson!!!!!!
Tampa Bay and Detroit are NOT using injuries as an excuse! Neither are any other teams in the NHL (e.g.: Quick in LA).
Yet you cite injuries as the reason for Leaf failure? Come on Doc.
Great article on Joffrey Lupul, but the real question is, "did Joffrey Tap, Tappen" (i say he did!) :lol:
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=695619&navid=nhl:topheads
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=695619&navid=nhl:topheads
Did i not just say this earlier? I think I did!
As said on HNIC 2nite, "The Leafs Played The Champs Tonight And Made Em Look Like Chumps" .....:thumb:
GLG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As said on HNIC 2nite, "The Leafs Played The Champs Tonight And Made Em Look Like Chumps" .....:thumb:
GLG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey guys I did not see the game but from what I can see in the boxscore, Chicago played a backup goalie who was shelled, pulled and then a 3rd string goalie who also got lit up, all because Crawford is out with a lower body injury. Last year the Black Hawks had 2 good goalies in Crawford and Emery, and then they let Emery go and he is now with Philly I think. But now it looks like the Hawks might be weak at that backup goalie position. When you have 2 goalies playing and neither one is saving more than 80% of the shots attempted against him, it's not a good thing. It is like a baseball pitcher with an ERA over 6.
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It was actually their third stringer (Raanta) that started (their backup, Khabibulin is also injured), got pulled and their 4th stringer (probably just out of junior) came in and gave up a couple of goals. Of course, for Leaf fans, this victory must seem like winning the Cup!
It seems as if some members have forgotten what this thread is for and what the Free For All thread is for. If you are not a Leafs fan, keep your ass out of this thread. You have both the official NHL thread to post in as well as the Free For All. This thread is for Leafs fans ONLY.
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