Around the League 2019-2024 Edition

[LeafOfFaith]

Columbus pumped 6 past the Dubie Doos.

But it's not all good news.

ZAR with his 4th goal and 7th point of the season. Which means he has three more goals than Domi, Robertson, Holmberg, and Kampf combined.

A warm and fuzzy thought to last everyone through the weekend.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Sandin…3rd goal.

Now 9 points in 16 games and +11.

I know, Cowan, but this fucking kills me.

 

[zeke]

why tho

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Because he’s very good and the Leafs are very stupid, but just got lucky they didn’t blow the pick.

 

[Killer93]

Sandin and Lilly were never going to work here.

 

[leafman101]

Sandin has had a hell of a start. Tied for 5th best dman in EW model and 8th in Doms.

The move was probably to move Rielly and keep him.

Would’ve been nice to give Cowan a shot instead of our handful of horrible forwards.

 

[MyNameIsJonas]

Im not convinced that Sandin isnt too brittle for the NHL level fwiw

Lilly got his chances

 

[zeke]

The caps have had a crazy start to the year but it's unlikely that Strome is a 120pt guy or McMichael is a 60gl guy or Sandin is a.....40pt guy.

We just played the caps and Sandin looked just the same as before.

 

[leafman101]

Sandin had a 68% xg playing on their top pair with Roy against us tho.

 

[trujaysfan]

Sandin had a 68% xg playing on their top pair with Roy against us tho.

Fancy stats only work when proving what we want them to

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Sandin had a 68% xg playing on their top pair with Roy against us tho.

Sorry, Zeke only uses eye test. Doesn’t like math and percentages and such.

 

[JackBurton]

The caps have had a crazy start to the year but it's unlikely that Strome is a 120pt guy or McMichael is a 60gl guy or Sandin is a.....40pt guy.

We just played the caps and Sandin looked just the same as before.

Dubois looks the same as ever

 

[zeke]

Sandin had a 68% xg playing on their top pair with Roy against us tho.

You just broke lof's heart.

 

[MindzEye]

Sandin and Lilly were never going to work here.

Because we have no patience to develop young players.

Not because they couldn't have worked here. But because we're shit.

 

[Killer93]

Because we have no patience to develop young players.

Not because they couldn't have worked here. But because we're shit.

Yep

 

[Habsy]

Seems to be a Canadian thing. Leafs aren't alone in that.

 

[MindzEye]

Send to be a Canadian thing. Leafs aren't alone in that.

There's probably a relationship to the type of media coverage they get yeah. Very angsty and win now type coverage. It shouldn't surprise anyone that our best organizational moves came during a period where we threw up middles fingers to the media and told the fanbase to expect pain. They needed to hold on for 2-3 more years of that approach though and just played kids. No Marleau's, Thornton's, Simmond's, etc. We should have been trading the JVR's, Bozak's, Gardiner's, etc that we weren't intending to keep long term instead of focusing on being a good but not elite team so quickly.

 

[zeke]

you wanted to ditch Woll for Talbot.

 

[MindzEye]

you wanted to ditch Woll for Talbot.

Sure. Because I think Talbot had a good chance of being better/cheaper now and I don't think Woll is a reliable 1A option in the future.

22/23 (a total of 28 games across 2 levels) is doing a lot of heavy lifting in any analysis of him that doesn't come out suggesting he's meh or worse.

We're also at an actual "win now" point in our timeline. Way different than when Auston was 19-20-21.

 

[MindzEye]

Last 2 years:

Woll: 30gp .906 sv%
Talbot: 63gp, .915 sv%

keep laughing bud.