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No Excuses No Limits! The mother fucking goddamn season thread

yeah okay if the nerdies like Durzi I retract my objection.

still need a Muzz/Brodie replacement but also wouldn't hurt to have another good puck-mover.
 
Preston said:
25 year old top 4 d with some offensive juice at 1.7m for a 2nd rounder sure seems a lot better of a risk to me than Klingberg at 4.1. And tbh Durzi (at least on a relative nerdie basis) showed some improvement last year with LA too. So there was reason to believe there's actual upside there and to believe he can be a more permanent fixture and not a "bandaid" as Pep would put it.
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I’m with Presty. I’ve liked him when we’ve seen him and was bummed because I figured he was probably a prospect who would bust with them, didn’t think he’d turn out to be good.
 
He must be a real asshole or something to be dumped like that just for a 2nd rounder though. 25 year old right hand d with those numbers, at 1.7m? Seemed ridiculous that he'd be traded for a 2nd rounder, where he was selected in the first place. Crazier than the Sandin trade tbh. Maybe he's a cunt.
 
LAs D is also really awesome with Doughty, Anderson, Roy, Gavrikov, Spence and Clarke. He was just kinda the odd man out.

They also had Brock Faber too. And Cernak. If we could develop D half as good as that we'd be set. Anderson, Roy, Faber, Spence, Cernak all 2nd round picks or later since 2015.

Since 2015 Dermott and Durzi are the only NHL D we've drafted outside the 1st round.
 
leafman101 said:
LAs D is also really awesome with Doughty, Anderson, Roy, Gavrikov, Spence and Clarke. He was just kinda the odd man out.

They also had Brock Faber too. And Cernak. If we could develop D half as good as that we'd be set. Anderson, Roy, Faber, Spence, Cernak all 2nd round picks or later since 2015.

Since 2015 Dermott and Durzi are the only NHL D we've drafted outside the 1st round.
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at the C position you have to go back a decade or more to the days of Dakota Joshua and Carter Verhaeghe

this alone has haunted us to the tune of god knows how many assets now looking for outside help down the middle (and not even top 6, for quite some time)
 
2023-24: 23.7%
2022-23: 26.0%
2021-22: 27.3%
2020-21: 20.0%
2019-20: 23.1%
2018-19: 21.8%

They've only really had 2 elite PP seasons. I am pretty certian 2021-22 was the year they started stacking the first unit.

So their PP is elite when they stack the first unit and run it through Marner. Didn't really matter if Matthews or Tavares was getting the most shots. Taking the puck out of the second best playmaker in NHL's hands on the PP is literally the dumbest thing a PP coach has ever done.
 
mbow30 said:
the other thing is they have doubled down on the swing back, which is an all or nothing play, and now the oppo just plays a trap on the pk and stacks the blue line to disrupt the entry.
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yeah this is so frustrating and idiotic. at least have options other than the drop back available for when opposing teams take it away.

pretty fucking easy to game plan against a single entry play...
 
Leafs rank 3rd in xgf/60 on the PP, and were 1st for a while before this recent cold snap.

The biggest problem is definitely that Tavares isn't converting anymore. Since he's getting the bulk of the slot chances his expected shooting percentage is the highest on the top unit, but his actual shooting percentage is the lowest.

Using unblocked shot attempts percentage, not just shooting percentage


Player: Unblovked Shots - Expected % - Actual %

Tavares: 69 - 15.1 - 5.8
Nylander: 70 - 8.9 - 11.8
Matthews: 51 - 12.7 - 24.2
Marner: 23 - 13.0 - 23.8
Rielly: 18 - 8.6 - 9.0

So all of them hitting at significantly better than expected shooting percentage other than Tavares, who is way, way below his expected rates.
 
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