From Leaf boards on last nights game:
Where has the supposed team toughness gone? Wasn't Burke making a big deal about our forwards getting more room and not getting knocked around anymore? Stalberg was leveled, ok it was clean hit but did ANY Leaf do anything about it later on? Nope. Same old crap as last season so far.
The whole team can't pass.
Beauchemin is still not good
Blake has 2 moves: Drive wide behind the net and lose the puck Drive wide and fall down
No truculence.
Ponikarovsky is consistently painful to watch. Such a big man, and plays like he is 5'7" and 150lbs.
What frustrates me is that he has poor hands and no hockey sense. He fumbles the puck all the time and can't pass. Other than that he's great.
That game last night was freaking Pond Hockey on the part of the Leafs.
No offense at all. You would think working 1 night in 3 you would be goosed and ready for action. Not this crew.
How bad is it when Stempniak is the best hitter on our team?
I really, really miss Mats Sundin.
It's pretty sad when all three of the new defensemen have been terrible so far.
I frankly don't know what it's going to take to get this team going, as games like this one demonstrate. A slow, sluggish start coupled with questionable defensive/offensive lapses... certainly they won't win too many games this way!
I can't believe that after waiting 7 years to see a game in person I'm rewarded with the garbage I witnessed tonight.
The whole team seemed generally invisible
Another aspect of the game which I found very telling was the Leafs could not manage ANY sustained offence at all.
I've been a strong supporter of the additions Burke has made, but it's very, very obvious that we're missing players with skill and size.
The biggest problem in my mind right now is how the Leafs got pretty much physically man-handled by the sens. Where the hell is all this truculence, etc...? They bent over for Ottawa tonight
I'd like to know where all this "Teams will be punished" BS went?
Looks to me like they get pushed around just as much as last year.
That was ugly. I didn't think they could look worse than Washington. In some ways, they did.
Beachemin has been a let down for me. At times, I can't possibly imagine what he's thinking and it's been going on since his first game in preseason.
What a pathetic display of hockey that was last night. Can we make a simple pass out there without putting it on the opponents stick or 5 feet in front of the player? Brutal.
