No Excuses No Limits! The mother fucking goddamn season thread

[CH1]

Price will only go higher with Woll. Mentalcase Sammy will wither away

 

[Oldman]

Him?

 

[zeke]

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Ruh oh.

 

[zeke]

thing is it's been a bigger drop from Matthews and Marner than willy has gained (though wily has definitely gained).

Even Strength Paces: 20/21 - 21/22:

Matthews: 49gls/85pts
Marner: 30gls/77pts
Tavares: 18gls/54pts
Nylander: 21gls/50pts

Even Strength Paces 22/23 - 23/24:

Matthew: 31gls/64pts
Nylander: 32gls/62pts
Marner: 17gls/58pts
Tavares: 21gls/46pts

I really want to see Matthews back up at that uber dominant 50gl/PPG pace at evens that he got to before last year's off year. The good news is that he's pretty close to that this year even with his linemates struggling - he's at a 47gl/70pt pace at evens through 7gms, but that's only 1 assist off of ppg.

Mitch tho is only at a 12gl/35pt pace at evens so far.

Willy and JT are both at 47/94 so far.

long story short.....the case for Willy > Mitch is getting pretty strong.

 

[zeke]

 

[zeke]

 

[LeafOfFaith]

What is Sammy even talking about?

The season is 7 games old.

 

[zeke]

 

[zeke]

Here comes the media trying to get Willy the most money. Suddenly Willy isn't fatally flawed must-tradebait anymore.

 

[Feyd]

After the WSH game the Sportscenter drones were having a great time speculating on Willy's next deal.

"9? 9.5? 10, definitely north of 10" all smiles and laughing about it.

 

[zeke]

 

[Slinger 48]

Willie has become my favourite Leaf after several years of not having one.

 

[MindzEye]

The new China Woll

 

[zeke]

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[zeke]

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[MindzEye]

#OilChange

 

[zeke]

PK's become a bit of an issue. Let's see who the biggest culprits are.

League-wide xga/60 4v5 looks like this:

#1 4.16
#5 6.88
#16 7.97
#22 8.17 <--- Leafs
#28 10.08
#32 12.54


PK1

Marner (17:09): 6.26
Kampf (14:34): 7.25
Matthews (14:08): 6.88
Jarnkrok (11:05): 6.01
Gregor (6:47): 10.62
Knies (5:57): 12.91
Nylander (4:53): 17.58
Minten (1:37): 7.04

Brodie (23:38): 8.71
Giordano (21:15): 6.89
Liljegren (14:38): 9.16
McCabe (10:17): 12.49
Rielly (6:53): 2.18

3rd forward unit is the biggest culprit in terms of xga. McCabe too maybe. But the top two forward pairs have been pretty great xga-wise.



in terms of goals against...

league-wide:

#1 0.94
#5 2.47
#16 7.42
#28 10.33 <--- Leafs
#32 10.91



Marner (17:09): 3.04
Kampf (14:34): 15.36
Matthews (14:08): 3.69
Jarnkrok (11:05): 15.54
Gregor (6:47): 7.70
Knies (5:57): 29.45
Nylander (4:53): 0.00
Minten (1:37): 43.70

Brodie (23:38): 9.48
Giordano (21:15): 15.42
Liljegren (14:38): 4.84
McCabe (10:17): 6.89
Rielly (6:53): 15.09


Goals have been coming against that Kampf-Jarnkrok pairing mostly, and Willy hasn't been on for a pk goal against yet despite his poor xga numbers.

So i dunno really - i guess i'm happy that the PK has been pretty good when the top two units are on, and i'd guess the kampf-jarnkrok goals against number will regress down.

 

[Killer93]

That Kampf signing already looking ugly. $3.5 million tied in him and Reaves for next 3 years, yikes

 

[Preston]

Flames sucking asshole might be very good news. Not convinced they're as bad as they look and it's early but if they can be convinced that they have no use for Weagar by the deadline, that would be ideal. Leafs should go balls deep for that player. Just 29 and on a reasonable deal for a top pair d.