I mean I'm not jumping off buildings or anything. Just saying they need to be way better 5 on 5 than they were last night. Not too concerned.
And the other bit is, the score/venue adjusted xgf% at 5 on 5 after the 1st period when Keefe got his head out of his ass favored the Leafs. It was still pretty even and I'd hope for better but the narrative shifts if you remove that heinous 1st period.
It is just the first game. It is done, regroup and move on.
I wouldn't count a double PP with 37 seconds left and the goalie pulled as having any real impact on the game.
real PPs were 3-1
Opportunisticfrom what I saw, Leafs made too many individual glaring mistakes last night.
it seemed like every Panther goal could have been avoided with average defending
yeah I was disappointed with our top guys last night. particularly Mitch and Willy. they need to outplay the cats top guys and it wasn't really happening yesterdaymy biggest worry is that we let Tkachuk be the best player in this game.
we beat the bruins because our best players were clearly better than theirs.
the best players are the ones that usually decided things in the playoffs. not always, but usually.
his decision making seemed poor.Willy was all over the puck tho. Not sure he was actually bad.
I woke up thinking i'd like to see something like this:
Knies - Matthews - Jarnkrok
Bunting - Tavares - Marner
Acciari - O'Reilly - Nylander