No Excuses No Limits! The mother fucking goddamn season thread

[LeafGm]

Seems like every healthy Auston season is followed by one where he’s consistently underwhelming and hampered by a mystery nagging injury.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

maybe LOF is onto something

Remove the maybe and you got it.

 

[leafman101]

View: https://x.com/koshtorontosun/status/1853834508686045642

 

[WellPlayed]

LOF just racking up W's lately.

 

[Preston]

Wonder if it's related to the playoff issue he had after he got sick

 

[MindzEye]

Lower back issue from dragging that cock around.

 

[zeke]

View: https://x.com/lukefoxjukebox/status/1853835760043987444

 

[MindzEye]

See, told you. He's waiting until he gets older to get a reduction so just lives with the pain for now.

 

[CH1]

maybe LOF is onto something

Remove the LOF and you got it

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Remove the LOF and you got it

You got nothing if you do that.

 

[LeafGm]

See, told you. He's waiting until he gets older to get a reduction so just lives with the pain for now.

The Leafs should at least get him a mobility aid to help with the pain for now.

 

[leafman101]

View: https://x.com/mikekellynhl/status/1854184346871349397?s=46

 

[zeke]

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An unusually high xga in odd situations (3v3 3v5 etc) is hurting the overall number but that's probably fluky and otherwise all the xg numbers are looking pretty good.

Offense could be better tho.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Domi, Robertson, McMann need to step up.

 

[zeke]

any update on Matthews?

I actually wouldn't mind if he was out another game or two, just so Berube could see that Marner can make a dominant line by himself, and he could just plop Matthews with McMann and Robby and have a 3rd dominant line.

well, maybe Domi-Marner can't stay legit dominant together, but they might be, and should at least be good even if they can't stay dominant.


Knies-Matthews-Marner 129min, 62.0xgf%
Knies-Domi-Marner 10min, 63.3xgf%

Patches-Tavares-Nylander 52min, 68.0xgf%

McMann-Matthews-Robertson ?

 

[Wayward DP]

I still prefer the three-headed monster approach, for sure...

and splitting M&M

 

[zeke]

McCabe-Tanev continues to be the story on the back end. Still well over 60xgf% (63.3xgf% to be precise) as a pairing in tough matchup shutdown minutes. Also 63.3% in actual goals too. Much better than OEL-McCabe were doing in somewhat tough but not true matchup tough usage.

Rielly-OEL are also doing very well together but not much different than Rielly-Tanev were doing

 

[leafman101]

It’ll be interesting to see what they do when Hakanpaa comes back because I don’t think Timmons-Hak is a pair.

I think the Rielly-OEL pair has been very good though. OEL covers up for a lot of Riellys shortcomings in transition D.

 

[zeke]

OEL is pretty good sure, but I think it makes a world of difference to Mo's game that there's another true top-end shutdown pairing doing the heavy slogging, and he's in a much more comfortable role.

And this isn't even him being "sheltered", just him being used in the kind of role that most guys of his type have always been used in.

And as good as OEL has been, I'm not sure Mo would look much different in this role if Hak was beside him.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

View: https://www.facebook.com/reel/3996723437226369?fs=e&mibextid=0NULKw&fs=e&s=TIeQ9V

Marner beating Hanifin to score a nice goal.