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For Borje - The Toronto Maple Leafs 2023 Stanley Cup Champions Thread

I'd actually feel pretty zen if they were at least playing well. There's no excuse not to be the better team in this series and they just haven't. They were better last year against a worse Tampa team.

Yup.

Whats annoying is that it sure seems like we've intentionally changed tactics and reduced our forechecking....only to change back when trailing late, and of course looking better for doing it.
 
These are the raw stats purely based on actual goals. Won’t some nerd please post his fancy stats? I’d like to know what those say about him under these circumstances.

Those stats there quoted both xgoals and goals.

Just because they write out "expected goals share" don't be deceived that's still just evil nerdie xGF%.
 
more disagreeing with you picking the Leafs every time. they've lost the benefit of that doubt, many times over.
That is fair. Being the worse team in the series works against them as well. They're just playing infuriatingly ugly hockey, I can't stress that enough. And it's fucking intentional.
 
Their speed last year gave them fits, particularly on the forecheck. Their longboy depth didn't score at all outside of a couple of empty net goals but they were not easy to play against... Relentless. They sorta loss that edge this year vs a slower team so maybe they'll be a better matchup vs other teams. Hope they can pull it out.. Just 1 of 2. Shouldn't be so hard..
 
5v5


Rielly 19:38, -8.1dzs%, 55.1xgf% ----- Sergachev 21:17, -9.0dzs%, 37.1xgf%
Schenn 16:22, -2.7dzs%, 63.0xgf% ----- Raddysh 21:38, -6.7dzs%, 35.0xgf%

Brodie 19:33, +3.3dzs%, 57.8xgf% ----- Hedman 19:14, -5.9dzs%, 70.9xgf%
McCabe 19:48, +6.3dzs%, 43.6xgf% ----- Perbix 18:14, -0.9dzs%, 64.6%

Holl 14:53, +7.6dzs%, 33.6xgf% ----- Cole 14:27, +1.0dzs%, 52.2xgf%
Giordano 14:16, +6.4dzs%, 38.5xgf% ----- Bogosian 11:43, -4.0dzs%, 53.1xgf%

The most annoying thing here for me tbh is that obviously as a team TB is getting many, many more offensive zone starts than we are.
 
Those stats there quoted both xgoals and goals.

Just because they write out "expected goals share" don't be deceived that's still just evil nerdie xGF%.
You always post a bunch of junk aside from xgf, but if you’re saying they’re all crap, that’s good enough for me.
 
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