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Leafs vs Wild

What a turd Holland on that play there. Takes away a solid scoring opportunity by selfishly looking to pot it. Misses and the puck is all the way down the ice to end the game. Bum.

All in all its nice seeing us not get destroyed and losing by 1 goal. Only 19 more games of this? I can take it. Next year? FML if we don't start turning the corner next year/.
 
CTheBigPicture said:
Moving sucks. No internet to catch these games. :/ quick summary of how the kids played?
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Minnesota cycled the shit out of our young guys. They did have some zone time but largely unimpressive and got a bit going near the end. Soshnikov and Hyman stand out more as they hit everything in sight and are willing to engage more(win battles for pucks). Overall not bad as we still only allowed around 20 shots and it's back to back game. Willy and Kappy will get better with more games. They have the tools but as said above by another poster, they're probably putting a bit too much pressure on themselves now. Just need to work hard and play their game, everything else will come.
 
Leafin' said:
All in all its nice seeing us not get destroyed and losing by 1 goal. Only 19 more games of this? I can take it. Next year? FML if we don't start turning the corner next year/.
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Nylander and Marner will both be on the team, those two should give the offence a shot in the arm at least. not having JVR miss half the season will help as well. 80% we won't get Matthews...but I'd post our odds as considerably better than 20% to get Stamkos. If he signs then obviously that's a huge addition and, for the time being, would alleviate not getting Matthews somewhat. Not sure whoever we draft at 2-4 is going to play right away. probably not.

hard to imagine them being even average next year though, so many holes to fill and basically nothing in net. but I don't think we'll be last again, as they've torn down things as much as can reasonably be expected. moves going forward will be to add talent and as I've outlined above, we're certain to add at least two good players to our top 6 next year.
 
I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice, but Marincin is awful. Can't make a pass to save his life.
 
BG said:
I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice, but Marincin is awful. Can't make a pass to save his life.
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He should be waived. He probably will be in the summer. Big body for nothing. Pretty much what we heard from Oilers fans when we got him.
 
BG said:
I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice, but Marincin is awful. Can't make a pass to save his life.
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Marincin has been awful pretty much all year long, to be honest I'm not sure why we pissed away a 4th rounder to get him when he had guys like Loov and Percy who could fill out a spot and do a better job at it.
 
Meh, swing and miss. Shame is all, can't seem to process the game fast enough.
 
I'm fine with the gamble. I'd rather have Percy or someone else up with the NHL squad to see how they do. Marincin has proven to be a bum. He's likely waived in the summer and ends up in europe or working at your local sobeys.
 
PKForce81 said:
Minnesota cycled the shit out of our young guys. They did have some zone time but largely unimpressive and got a bit going near the end. Soshnikov and Hyman stand out more as they hit everything in sight and are willing to engage more(win battles for pucks). Overall not bad as we still only allowed around 20 shots and it's back to back game. Willy and Kappy will get better with more games. They have the tools but as said above by another poster, they're probably putting a bit too much pressure on themselves now. Just need to work hard and play their game, everything else will come.
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Thank you
 
I really like Carrick. He just plays hard and aggressive and makes a lot of good decisions.

Nylander had a team high 5 scoring chances.
 
Leafin' said:
I'm fine with the gamble. I'd rather have Percy or someone else up with the NHL squad to see how they do. Marincin has proven to be a bum. He's likely waived in the summer and ends up in europe or working at your local sobeys.
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They pretty much either have to play Percy next year full time OR trade him, he's eligible for waivers next year and I can't see all 29 teams passing him up. I think Percy has the makings of a decent bottom pairing guy... not fast but not a slow guy either, he keeps his head up and seems to make good decisions with the puck, and also has a good outlet pass which is key to the transitonal game. I wouldn't be opposed to a Loov/Percy pairing next season...
 
leafman101 said:
I really like Carrick. He just plays hard and aggressive and makes a lot of good decisions.
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Yeah, it's both a shame and it isn't that he's not 6'1 210 intead of 5'11 190. If he was 6'1 210, Washington doesn't trade him. He definitely has top 4 skills, skating, mentality, etc.

Nylander had a team high 5 scoring chances.
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He's going to start burying them sooner or later. He wasn't good last night, but still managed to be dangerous.
 
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