#ForBorje - GDT #1: TOR v TBL 23/4/18 7:30 - HERE. WE. GO.

[Slinger 48]

y'all need to hug it out. everyone is feeling pretty shite today after watching last night's shit show, I imagine.

I had to mute myself midway through the first when my poor dog was getting quite concerned by the things I had to say to the TV...

Our cat hid behind the couch.

 

[zeke]

I mean a real person that we can hire

whoever the best coach in the AHL is.

 

[Wayward DP]

whoever the best coach in the AHL is.

Dallas Eakins redux!

 

[Slinger 48]

I'd like to see Keefe's fat fucking head explode the next time he flies into a rage on the bench.


Well, not really, but you know...........

 

[mbow30]

yup.

shift chart: https://www.nhl.com/stats/shiftcharts?id=2022030121

the 2 2nd lines start the game, and coop does the quick yank and brings out his 1st line for a full shift.

Leafs 2nd line gets their full shift, 1st line comes on most of they way through their 1st line's shift.....and then coop brings out their 4th line and instead of keefe thinking WHOA I HAVE MY FIRST LINE OUT AGAINST THEIR 4TH LINE THAT"S PERFECT he says no, NEED to have my 4th line on and yanks the 1st line in seconds, and they score.

it's pretty hilarious - the whole point about line matching is to get favorable matchups like our 1st line out against their 4th line, and keefe's brain shortcircuited and took away that advantage from himself.

Especially since their fourth line has a combined age of 109, and combined for 15 ES goals this year.

 

[Wayward DP]

Especially since their fourth line has a combined age of 109, and combined for 15 ES goals this year.

yet somehow dominated us in game one...

 

[LeafGm]

Dubas’s decision to sign Simmonds and snub Perry is the gift that keeps on giving.

Perry fucking us over in one way or another has become an annual rite of spring at this point.

 

[Artnes]

Rielly Schenn with the most defensive zone starts last night and some how came out on top of the nerdies as the best pairing

Bizzaro world shit there

Player 1

Player 2

GP

TOI

CF%

FF%

SF%

xGF%

SCF%

HDCF%

HDGF%

Off. Zone Faceoffs

Neu. Zone Faceoffs

Def. Zone Faceoffs

Morgan Rielly

Luke Schenn

1​

10.88333​

75​

75​

75​

90.83​

80​

83.33​

-

2​

6​

6​

 

[CRL]

who would be the right coach for this team?

Galant , but can’t have him

 

[Artnes]

Cooper

 

[Jeremy]

Zeke

 

[MindzEye]

Dubas’s decision to sign Simmonds and snub Perry is the gift that keeps on giving.

Perry fucking us over in one way or another has become an annual rite of spring at this point.

I sympathize with anyone who thought that Corey Perry was washed (and a douche). He was 3 years older than Wayne at the time, was coming off of a pretty ugly looking season where even his reduced, old man production had taken a nose dive (5 goals in 57 games). But when you looked under the hood, 53% xG and 6% shooting that season for Dallas kind of suggested that he wasn't cooked yet.

On the other side, Simmonds was bad for a full 2 years prior to us signing him and had been heavily underwater in xG for 6 full seasons before we signed him.

We were convinced that we needed a tough guy. It's kind of fitting that this decision, based on a terrible assessment of our actual needs, continues to be a ridiculous impediment to success a few years later.

As a pure depth player, Corey Perry has 5 goals over his last 15 playoff games against the Leafs. A 27 goal 49 point pace in like 12-13 minutes a game. John Tavares has a 27G 63PT pace over the 9 of those 15 games he's played in...not to shit on Tavares, just to show the relative impact of Perry in the playoffs against us over the last 3 years.

 

[Habsy]

Cooper

Doesn't speak French

 

[CH1]

Dubas’s decision to sign Simmonds and snub Perry is the gift that keeps on giving.

Perry fucking us over in one way or another has become an annual rite of spring at this point.

Leafs would now be trying to reach their 3rd straight Cup final with Perry in the fold.

 

[CH1]

On the other side, Simmonds was bad for a full 2 years prior to us signing him and had been heavily underwater in xG for 6 full seasons before we signed him.

and their career peaks are very different -- peak Simmonds is a so so version of Perry.

 

[JackBurton]

I do feel, given how late Perry signed in Montreal that he was asking for more initially than he signed for. Simmonds signed almost 3 months before Perry did. Something was up. Dubas spoke to Perry months before he signed with the Habs. Perry was out of options when he signed.

 

[mbow30]

Perry would be shite if he was a leaf. He feasts on the pansy leafs. He can hardly move out there at this point. Aside from the Tavares BS I can’t think of a single play where he bulled a guy over. They just back off from him for whatever reason. It’s so dumb.

 

[Artnes]

Leafs would now be trying to reach their 3rd straight Cup final with Perry in the fold.

Suspended for life in the first series

 

[MindzEye]

Perry would be shite if he was a leaf.

But...crucially...he never would have played against us in the playoffs.

 

[CH1]

Perry would be shite if he was a leaf. He feasts on the pansy leafs. He can hardly move out there at this point. Aside from the Tavares BS I can’t think of a single play where he bulled a guy over. They just back off from him for whatever reason. It’s so dumb.

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