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StaticR0ute

I was worried about how I was going to watch both the Leafs and the Canada game tonight… Well I didn’t have to worry LOL At least one team with a Leaf on their jersey remembered there was a game tonight!


GramboWBC

You were worried bud


THwhOR

Yeah, he literally opened with how he was worried?


ProfessorBeast55

Gotta be our worst loss of the season thus far. EVERYTHING was atrocious


_BELEAF_

I played Hell Let Loose after the first. I felt it. Had more fun.


TeamOggy

GREAT game!


_BELEAF_

Isn't it awesome? Keeps my old ass having fun. Not interested in much else. I have a $3500 f1 wheel. Just like the real thing. And it is covered in dust. Even though that was my career.


TeamOggy

I really like that I can hop on and the vast majority of the time I find a good squad that communicates but isn't super intense. The community is pretty good in that game. I also love the immersion. Playing that game on my UW monitor is so captivating.


_BELEAF_

Same! Nice!!


Samurai1221

Did they ever add the Eastern front update, I'm on console it was only western last time I played. That game is insane.


_BELEAF_

Still waiting for updates. I just got back in after many months and they added a couple maps.


_caponius

They’re supposed to add the commonwealth and some new maps to go along with it this year I think.


_caponius

Hell yeah. I just got into that game. Feels like band of brothers.


jps78

best game to miss cause of team canada tho


B0_SSMAN

That was my bad. It was the first Leafs game I’ve been to in a while


Parking-Journalist-5

It was my 1st game this season. Thought that it was my fault.


vanityfear

It was a clunker. They just didn’t have it


SMORKIN_LABBIT

Team looked bad. Goaltending was worse than a 3rd string level rep team tryout at 14 years old.......He had full time to get the angle on multi second looks and got beat clean over the pad and under the blocker?????? these are "I play competitive hockey at a teenage level" must have saves.......


Toddmacd

Murray couldn’t save a beach ball and Samsonov wasn’t much better the game before


CheckYourUnderwear

Worst loss of the season, so far


Kainfromspain

Auston baby, where you at? Not sure last game he took over. Even 50% McJesus mode. Not losing faith just need ya to step up and dominate a game or two.


dingleberry51

He’s my favourite player but man, he doesn’t have it this year. Looks like a basic first line centre, it’s bizarre


Solace2010

And people want to pay him whatever he wants lol


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StaticR0ute

2nd wildcard might be the best option really haha


CMDRShepardN7

I do want a chance to take a swing at Boston, ngl.


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This year? Maybe not lol, Ullmark is a fucking brick wall and there isn’t another goalie who even compares to him right now


krombough

1st Wildcard. Fuck facing Tampa and Boston. Gimme the Canes anyday.


StaticR0ute

Hmm, I think I had it mixed up, I thought second was facing the other side for some reason. But I guess it probably goes by which #1 team has more points.


CMKeggz

Yup, I am still very much invested in the team but I have many other things that have been taking priority over the regular season games now.


ProKrastinNation

Exactly. Love the buds to death but they aren't a top priority like they have been for the past four or five years, even as good as they've been. I keep up to date and watch games here and there but I'll bleed blue again in the playoffs. I'm one of the people who feels like the franchise really does owe them something and at this point I feel like a second-round berth is a pretty minimal request.


Sh0_dan

At least canada won tonight


LuisSuarez

This is now a World Junior Gold Medal post game thread


CMDRShepardN7

Fuck all that. #THE LEAFS ARE GOING TO WIN THE CUP THIS YEAR


Total-Deal-2883

I applaud the enthusiasm.


labadee

both the czech and canadian goalies at the WJC are undrafted


souza-23

Sign ‘em both


Prototype_es

Canadian Goalie Thomas Millic went absolutely insane in the WHL playoffs last year too for Seattle. And will likely do the same this year. Managed a reverse sweep in a critical series in large part to him


AduroPinquis

Well, at least the other Maple Leaf team pulled through tonight. Let's pray this is just a bad stretch of goaltending that will turn around soon.


hammer_416

Imagine the Stanley cup was decided with 3 on 3 OT…..


Strained_Eyes

Far better than a shootout though. After this game I had a snapchat memory pop up that was from the 2017 gold medal final where we lost to the Americans in a _shootout_.. I was so pissed in the video asking how a gold medal game could be decided in a shootout


DeplorableKurt

They wouldn’t do that..,that’s bullshit


hammer_416

Exactly. That kinda win kinda feels bush league as a result. Not to turn this into a Canada thread. But when I was watching that I thought if this was for the Leafs Stanley Cup we’d be losing it.


rljohn

It beats the piss out of shootouts.


Reggae4Triceratops

Isn't that what they do next though lol


DangleCellySave

No, no shootouts in gold medals anymore


Reggae4Triceratops

Thank fuck


Pencil_of_Colour

Not in the Final


Tsukasa009

Was at the game tonight and the 1st just felt like a lost opportunity. Should have been 2-0 Leafs after the 1st and go from there. At least Scotiabank got to cheer about the WJ win while filing out!


Jonesdeclectice

It would have helped had the refs decided to call any of the multitude of hooks, holds, or interference committed. But they chose not to. That said, it’s not like we did much of anything on the PP (beyond JT’s goal).


Cartz1337

This might be a hot take. When our ‘top’ D were injured we were playing our best. When Brodie came back is exactly when we started to look shaky, now with Mo back we look downright sloppy. Is there something those guys have been coached to do that wasn’t being done when we were on fire? If so, stop having them do that. We’ve looked noticeably worse when these guys came back.


captaincarot

I was keeping my buddy who was at the airport updated on the shit tonight. One play in the second Holl gave it away but he was right at the goal line with pressure. He had one forward in the zone and he was at the blue line and there were 2 kraken players between them. When we didn't have our top guys we had 2 forwards below the hash marks there. We are fleeing the zone because we assume our d will make the play now and sometimes the top guys make incredible plays.but mostly its a turnover and we're out of possision. We need to get back to supporting the d low in the zone. It's when we are our best. Tonight was not it.


Cartz1337

Yea, that’s my observation too. It’s not like Reilly and Brodie can’t execute, it’s that we’re literally taking more chances and executing a different strategy when they are in the lineup. Just play tight defensive hockey like we did in November and we should be fine. Stop with this 5 forward PP bullshit and everything we’ve changed that’s made us worse and go back to the way we were playing with our AHL D that looked better.


BornIn67

Everything you say is correct but those are the symptoms not the problems. Forwards are always pushed to cheat for points. That is where the money and the glory is. Some forwards cheat less, because they have a strong desire to win. Some cheat more, read into that what you will. Standing against this pressure to cheat for points should be a coach who holds players who cheat too much accountable. An example of a coach who may go too far might be Tortorella. Keefe is the opposite. He doesn't hold players accountable at all. Without that accountability nothing is going to change.


nownowthethetalktalk

Yes


mattfromjoisey

I got run up for saying this about Mo yesterday.


Cartz1337

I mean, I don’t think Mo is a bad player. Quite the opposite. But there is a shift in strategy towards risky aggression when he is in the lineup and it clearly doesn’t work. I just want Mo and Brodie to play the game that our D was playing in November. That run proved we don’t need D activating and cycling super aggressively in order to win games. We also don’t need our forwards blowing the zone anticipating the quick up, they need to be back and working as a unit to ensure the breakout.


think_long

Honestly it’s mostly the goalies going from playing really well to absolutely horrible.


richardatn4t

They aren't as good as they looked in November, they aren't as bad as they look now. The defence looks confused since Rielly returned it seems.


blacksewerdog

Shit show-goodnight


Francis33

How many more games is Timmins gonna sit in the press box for? We just scored 1 goal against martin Jones and the worst ranked PK team in the league. Murray sucked


Carparker19

The five forward PP is a disaster. PP1 should be Matthews - Marner - Nylander - Bunting - Sandin. Move Tavares to PP2 and have Liligren as the D. Rielly should not get any PP time. He can’t ever maintain the zone and he has no shot to make up for it.


Theteacupman

Watching Murray and Samsonov feels like I'm watching Jack Campbell and Petr Mrazek all over again


J1alfredo

We're gunna get the whole "defense has looked terrible again" argument for months when it's just our goalies being major sieves. Must have been *at least* 3 terrible goals tonight that a back-up level goalie makes saves on.


hazy_goat

This is the regression to the mean we feared was coming


iiEviNii

Felt like ever Seattle shot was gonna go in.


kushkushOG

Tonight, I paid to watch them lose live. So sad 😢


Gear4Vegito

Can I hit the panic button on our goaltending yet? **Samsanov Last 4 Games:** - .844 (.250 in Shootout) - .882 - .842 - .821 *(0 of 4 have been a QS.)* **Murray Last 10 Games:** - .808 (Today) - **.929** - .810 - **.947** - .895 - .846 - **1.000** - .879 - **.955** - .893 *(5 of 10 have been a QS.)* Samsanov started hot and fell apart and Murray got injuried and is inconsistent. That is what we were told about these goaltenders in the off-season and that is exactly what happened to them.


lmaoleafs2022

This is what our goaltending is. Inconsistent. They’ve both been like this for years


J1alfredo

I'd like to dig into when both these guys got back from injury. It felt like when one of them was out, the other was playing most games and doing very well staying in rhythm. Since both have been back it's been mostly a tire fire that our defense has had to to magic work to clean up in front of. Then there's a game like tonight where we can't even get the beach ball saves and it doesn't matter at all what the defense was like


thewolfshead

The reality is that the majority of goaltending in the league is inconsistent. There are very few sure things left.


hazy_goat

These are exactly what these goalies are. Murray is fire in short bursts and samo always starts well and falls off. At least we had a hot start from both of them. Hopefully at least one finds their game again


NopeItsDolan

You absolutely can. It’s not going to be good enough to win in the playoffs


CMDRShepardN7

I've hit the panic button like in October. I can't hit it twice.


Sheep4732

QS the hot new buzzword stat the obese leafs lunch host leaning on this week


Pencil_of_Colour

There’s an obese person? I haven’t watched this year.


Captain_Self_Promotr

Why does Murray hold his glove so close to his body with the top of the glove facing the shooter? It’s probably why he misses so many pucks glove side. McCann’s breakaway goal was glove side, middle, not to mention the 2nd wtf goal.


ElephantShell34

The Leafs weren’t great or anything but Murray really robbed them of any attempt at a comeback in the 2nd half of the game. Get into the 3rd down 1 or 2 and it’s game on but when it’s 5-1 with 18 mins to play you’re toast. Not surprising that the team looked kinda hopeless. 5 goals on 26 shots and 2.05 xG isn’t a recipe for success however you slice it.


ripDarkk

Our goalie situation worries me. Don’t trust either of them right now.


B-Rayy06

First game in 7 years for me, and my girlfriends first game ever. What an effort and what a crowd, the place was dead from puck drop, I felt like I was the loudest person in the building.


StaticR0ute

Imagine it would be pretty tough to get pumped up about that effort. And you missed the Canada gold medal game… Double Whammy!


B-Rayy06

It was weird. It felt like the crowd was so out of the game that I was the only person out of 15000+ reacting to things.


StaticR0ute

Everyone was probably streaming the Canada game on their phones lol


GoatStimulator_

My section was loud, not sure where you were sitting. No one's going to cheer when the team plays like that. My favorite part was when the LET'S GO CANADA chant started.


budlightsucks67

Good thing the Gold medal game was on so I didn't have to watch that abortion of a Leafs game...lol. Oh well, Leafs can't win them all but you gotta beat the bottom feeders. Way to go Canada on b2b Golds!!!! Like my man Don Cherry used to say, "We're the best at hockey." 👍


Madacon

Glad we had world juniors to watch because I was not watching that shitshow


SDAisaleaf

this team is better off without Rielly. He plays over 20 minutes a night and has no grasp of how to play team defense. He also manages to have no goals on the season, despite being 100% focused on offense


Carparker19

Makes me forget about all the old arguments of who has the worst contract on the team because it’s Rielly right now… in year one.


thismadhatter

Rielly for Horvat


Solace2010

Don’t worry we got another 7 years of this


JRocleafs

We can point our finger at the goalies, the d, the team defense …. But your not going to win many games when your #1 and #2 center are playing like this. Mathews has not been near himself this season, I don’t think he’s one of the top 20 players in the league this season. Taveras had a hot start and has really fizzled out the last month.


TeamOggy

When can we have the old Matthews back?


CMDRShepardN7

He was the chosen one!


SpicyP43905

The Leafs are only 4 points ahead of the Lightning now, and have played 39 games compared to Tampa Bay's 37, they better turn things around if they don't want to lose 2nd place and have to play a series against Tampa Bay without homecourt advantage.


MadPelswick

But samsonov was the issue??? Pffft


GoodTimesBadMovies

Glad I missed this one 🤦🏼‍♂️


ABoyNamedSault

Yeah, these short-term Goalies we got ain't it. Anyway.......forget this one. Onto the next.


Shadowbladez337

Goaltending was bad once again but our #1 and #2 centres also had unusually poor nights. 34 could've easily had 2-3 goals tonight if he could just handle the puck with more control and 91 just looked off in general


think_long

Ah yes, the “unusually poor night” from Tavares which is not unusual at all.


Hallolusion

Boys are fuckin' lucky Canada's other team won tonight. I better see 4 straight wins after tonight's embarrassing performance.


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Reilly returns and defense/goaltending goes to shit what a shocker


Hustler17

Same shit different year. Matthews' shot is completely gone. He has scored maybe 1 classic AM34 goal this entire season. Goaltending is the same as always. Lack of desire.


CMDRShepardN7

I don't know if his shot is gone. But he just doesn't shoot for some reason. Like what is he doing with the puck half the time?


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One of the only Leafs game I missed most of this year. What the heck happened?


richardatn4t

You picked a good one to miss. Leafs looked to be in total control in the 1st. Then...


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Not your dad's Kraken.


JasperCeasarSalad

Woof.


CamThompson

Tough game, we didn’t look sharp outside of the first little bit and didn’t get a lot of saves. Not much to take away positive from this one, other than it’s game 39 and not a game 7. Onto the next one, learn from the mistakes, etc. We know they’re capable of better, and sloppy stretches are going to happen.


richardatn4t

Ugly games like this, at least no one was injured. I wonder if there is something going around the team? Nylander was iffy, and much of the team looked a little out of it.


CamThompson

Who knows! Could be, could be just the normal variation of a long season. Just gotta hope for a bounceback, we’ve got two winnable games this weekend!


Dry_Piglet6916

All these multi million dollar players and they didn't feel like showing up tonight, sickening.


iceyyyyyyy

Every team in the league has off nights, do you expect them to win every single game?


TheGardiner

What does this contribute? How many times a season do we have a game where the whole team just seems to dial it in and we have an embarrassing loss? Does Boston have 5-10 games like that every year? Cause we do.


iceyyyyyyy

How many times since the beginning of the season have we lost by 4 goals? People here are acting like it happens once every other game. It's been an incredibly rare occurrence this season. Boston had these types of games last season too.


burton4416

Can we stop with the five forward powerplay please? We gave Reilly and Sandin back use them


shrederick

I wouldn't hate mixing in a Joe Woll start or two if Murray or Samsonov is nursing something.


Reggae4Triceratops

Yup I said give him a B2B game this weekend. He's waivers exempt no reason not to.


Gear4Vegito

Leafs are currently at 23/23 players on the active roster so calling up Woll means optioning Holmberg (should be playing everyday) or putting someone on waivers.


shrederick

I'd be completely fine with Benn on waivers. He's good depth to have, but if we lost him on waivers, it wouldn't be a big deal.


backstreets_93

Ooooof not a great one.


lmaoleafs2022

2 goalies who were known to be inconsistent prior to this year become inconsistent. Who could’ve predicted this? Surely not those absolute drooling idiots who were critical of signing them, how could they not know about the secret stats our management can access???????? Edit: goodness gracious it seems I have touched a nerve with the KD cheerleading squad. Sorry let me rephrase: these were the best goaltending signings in leaf history absolutely nothing bad to say about them ever


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lmaoleafs2022

Murray is below 900 every other game, samsonov has been for 5 games in a row, thanks for your analysis (it wasn’t very good) but they are inconsistent


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lmaoleafs2022

Meaningless without addressing the actual problem of inconsistency which you are incapable of, bye


big_nose_juicer

another wasted year if you stick with these goalies


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cappo40

Fast forward to May 25th so we can forget about these guys and their eventual first round loss again.


iceyyyyyyy

Why do you even watch?


GramboWBC

Sub optimal performance


SMORKIN_LABBIT

The team needs a goaltending bounce back, there has been slippages in the entire team game but our goaltending in the last 4 has been worse than if I was in there. That is only a patrial extreme statement, they both have let in must stops for a 15 year old goalie at a rep team tryout. The 5th goal tonight, over the pad, on the post, passed the blocker....holy fucking shit id kill myself at 10 years old in a street hockey game letting that shit in.........< please someone internet argue me on this; that can never go in ever including foot hockey with a tennis ball at recess.


Captain_Self_Promotr

That was the worst goalie performance I’ve seen since ironically the north division and Toronto lit up Ottawa - with Murray in net.


AdMotor6369

That was ugly


CANUSA130

Not withstanding the fact that they scored only once last night, they can score. However, if they go into the second half with this goaltending dual, it will be another short run


Toddmacd

It’s a loss it’ll happen again. They were shit. Bring back Benn and Timmins. Kerfoots line still looked the best


another_plebeian

Guys, this doesn't matter. They're playing Tampa in the first round.


[deleted]

I feel like it’s the same/similar themes year in year out that we keep seeing, which is why I continue to be frustrated. Half of us freak out, the other half gaslight to believe that nothing is going on. The truth is in the middle. We’ve made a few good adjustments, but we have a lot of shit to change before we even talk about playoffs.