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One or two excuses & probably quite limited! The "ah fuck, here we go again" playoff thread

Preparation and proper game management, two things this team would greatly benefit from - especially in the post season.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
True, Keefe is shit and should have lost his job 5 minutes after losing to the Habs in 2021, but if, at the end of a playoff game, the nicest thing you can say about the play of the league's highest paid player, a player who scored 69 goals this season, is "he was okay" or "he played pretty good" all the coaching in the world won't help. Pretty good ain't good enough at this time of year, especially from that man.

Sooner or later, MLSE will have to accept the objective reality that the core 4 or 5 isn't going to win anything and needs to get busted up. I would start by getting rid of Tavares but he's untradeable. Ergo, I would look to move Marner, who had a grand total of 2 shots on goal last night and doesn't seem interested in doing anything but rationalizing in the post game pressers. Stop saying "we need to do this" or "we need to do that" after every game where you didn't and just fucking do it, already.
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The next step after we get ousted this year is two weeks of everybody wanting this obviously flawed core broken up followed by months of practicing patience and not wanting to “make moves for the sake of making moves” and “not giving up on elite talent”.

This group of players has never worked and they prove it every year with how small they show up in the playoffs. Guys like Matthews, Marner, Tavares, and Nylander shouldn’t be so easily shut down by random 3rd line plugs but here we are again. After a certain amount of time where we have tried to fit a square peg into a circular hole the rubber has to meet the road. Coaching in hockey is mad overrated, the onus is on these top guys to produce outside of chasing personal accolades in the regular season. And yeah, maybe properly invest in a goaltender and d-core that can move the puck and not just a bunch of grenade launching slogs mixed in with Morgan Reilly.
 
Minutes played by PP1 with Jarnkrok subbing in for one of the forwards:

Season: 82gms, 1:56min
Playoffs: 1gms, 2:43min
 
zeke said:
Minutes played by PP1 with Jarnkrok subbing in for one of the forwards:

Season: 82gms, 1:56min
Playoffs: 1gms, 2:43min
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It's called a secret weapon, moron.

If we played him on PP1 all year, it wouldn't be much of a secret come playoff time, would it now.
 
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Had so many choices and literally chose his worst option to slot onto PP1. But he's right handed and swedish, so the obvious Willy replacement, right?

The Robertson disrespect is amazing from this guy. I get if you think he's inexperienced and small for heavy 5v5 minutes in a playoff series at this point in his career. I don't necessarily agree, but I get the thinking. But the kid is really, really good at generating offence. He's the obvious pinch hitter to bring in off the bench if you're missing part of your PP1 unless you're looking for net front presence and then Bertuzzi is the obvious guy.
 
but but but Keefe is Anglo Therrien and power play time is not allocated to those that will best help you win but to those players who have shown you they deserve power play time by playing the “right way” in harder conditions.
 
CH1 said:
but but but Keefe is Anglo Therrien and power play time is not allocated to those that will best help you win but to those players who have shown you they deserve power play time by playing the “right way” in harder conditions.
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This is unfortunately accurate. Ice time isn't based on production, it's based on "trust". Which really means feels. If you can make Keefe feel safe when you're on the ice, you get opportunity. It doesn't matter whether his feels line up with reality or not, just that he feels that way.
 
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