Big big LEAFS win 4-3...méconnaissables .....impliqués avec une belle confiance qui les transporte....and WOLL was on the spot.....now GO JETS,
2024-2025 NHL season
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Huge win for the Leafs & the Piano Man was great between the pipes! Nylander was a beast once again & is now tied with McJesus in playoffs scoring! Another big game for veteran & former habs captain Max Pacioretty & all & all a great team effort by the Leafs! As for the Panthers their best player was once again Brad Marchand & Bob Bobrovski was rather ordinary once again. Sam Bennett & Sam Reinhart have been very ordinary so far & if Florida is to advance all of the players i mentioned will have to raise their game a notch! With Woll being extremely solid between the pipes i don’t expect the Leafs to rush Tony Stolarz until he’s 100% healty or it’s desperation hockey.
Turns out you just needed to take a deep breath and relax! BTW I would not say Woll was great. But he was a lot better than Bobrovsky, and that is all that he needs to be! Toronto made the wise decision to "roll with Woll" and let Stolarz recover from his concussion, however long it takes.
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I said “Yikes” from learning that Matt Murray would be the backup. Like Murray the Piano Man has been prone to getting injured & especially at the worse time. Last season he was playing fantastic hockey against the Bruins in their playoffs series (i attended every single game in that series) when suddenly he suddenly declared that he was injured & a no-go just before game 7 & the Leafs had to put the erratic Samsonov between the pipes. Boston won in overtime on a goal by David Pastrnak on a goal where Samsonov misread the play. Woll also pulled the same thing just prior to their opening game vs Montreal this season. We never did find out what his mystery ailment was in both cases. Fortunately for the Leafs he didn’t get injured again this season & actually played more games than Stolarz did. Stolarz has also been injury prone throughout his career & this season was no exception which is why Piano Man played more games than he did. By the way is there a goalie more handsome than Joseph Woll in the NHL? He’s in the same league as hockey great Hank Lundqvist! What two beautiful species!
As for Bob he’s back to being the Bob of the regular season. But i have a feeling that Conn Smyth’s team will be facing a different beast in Sunrise. The likes of Reinhart, Bennett & Tkachuk have been fairly invisible so far in this series & the Brad Marchand line has been carrying the load.
By the way stats indicate that a team losing the first two playoffs games on the road only have a 20.2 % to come back & win a series. Guess what the stats are for a team who loses both opening games at home? 11.3%.
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TABURN...again.....RANTANEN 3 JETS 2.....second consecutive htrick.....don't remember such accomplishment in the playoffs?????....he is hust incredible and on a mission....lolll
The mission is to prove the Avalanche made a mistake by trading him, and he is accomplishing his mission in a big way.
Big Moose is on a mission! I’m starting to think that he could be the top 3 player in the NHL after Mcdavid & Draisaitl.
I was told by an NHL insider yesterday that when he was with the Avs this season & negotiations had begun to extend his contract he really wanted to remain in Denver but wasn’t going to accept a pay cut. His agent told the Avs that $13 million was their number & they weren’t going to budge. The Avs told them that they weren’t going any higher than $11.2 million because they’re comparison was Boston’s David Pastrnak & they weren’t going to pay him more than him. However it’s well known around the league that Pastrnak is underpaid in Boston by accepting to sign at a hometown discount when he re-signed with them two years ago. Big Moose’s agent pointed this out to the Avs & the Avs stuck to their guns. They weren’t going past $11.2 million. Later in the season when he was still with the Avs the contract situation was re-visited & both parties remained firm. The agent said he’d only re-sign for $13 million & not a penny less. So the Avs decided to trade him to Carolina since they weren’t interested in losing him to unrestricted free agency once the season ended. I remember that many league GMs were both surprised & upset at the time about the trade because most of them were unaware that he was even on the trading block & would have liked the opportunity to make them an offer.
Anyways Rantanen wasn’t happy with the trade especially when he ended up traded to Carolina which was not one of his preferred destinations. In his mind there was no way he’d re-sign with Carolina when there were several other destinations out there he’d prefer playing for once he’d become UFA. Among them was Toronto. But his #1 choice would still have been Denver. But unfortunately Denver didn’t think he was worth more than $11.2 million. So when the trade deadline was approaching & they realized there was no chance in hell that he’d re-sign there the Hurricanes decided to trade him now instead of losing him for nothing. On top of that he looked like a lost player with them & wasn’t producing. They had realized that they had made a huge mistake when they traded for him by not checking first if he’d be open to re-sign there. Had they known this in advance they never would have traded for him & they only have themselves to blame for being negligent.
So on deadline trading day they asked him where he’d like to be traded to. He told them he’d ne open to be traded to Toronto. The Hurricanes told him there was no way they’d want to trade him to the Leafs for the simple reason he could come back & haunt them in the playoffs if they ended up facing the Leafs. However they told them they’d check with the Leafs if there was a way they could coax Mitch Marner to waive his no-trade & agreement to a trade to Carolina. So Brad Treeliving checked wi5 Marner out of respect (which was a mistake in my opinion) and Marner said he would finish his contract in Toronto since that was his #1 destination of choice in the present & hopefully in the future. He already has a home near Toronto, his family is in Toronto & his wife was already 7 months pregnant so there’s no way he’d want to leave now. The Leafs instead sent Carolina a counter-offer consisting of first round draft picks & high prospects but Carolina refused stating they wanted a player like Marner who could come into the lineup now & provide equal value to Rantanen. Big Moose ended up being traded to his second choice which was Dallas for a package that many experts said was inferior to what Toronto had offered. But as i mentioned Carolina didn’t want Rantanen to come back & haunt them if they faced the Leafs later in the playoffs. Rantanen signed with Dallas on the day of the trade for $12 million per season for the maximum 8 years. The end result? Rantanen single-handedly eliminated Colorado in game 7 by scoring a hat trick in the third period of that game when they were trailing 2-0. It was one of the greatest accomplishments i’ve ever witnessed in an NHL playoff game!
Ducks Hire Quenneville!
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You knew someone would give him another chance, and it's the Ducks who did. I was hoping the Rangers would do it but they were in love with Sully. We will see what happens!
Sources: Quenneville to lead Ducks in NHL return
The Ducks are hiring Joel Quenneville as their new head coach, sources confirmed to ESPN, marking the former Blackhawks and Panthers coach's return to the NHL.
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