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What Will Tim L Do?

in thelate 90s and early 2000s they had all sorts of players who played tough, aggressive hockey.

shanahan, chelios, draper, maltby, McCarty, kocur, rouse, holmstrom, lapointe, etc. etc.
 
Yep....media narratives. Learning the media narratives is way easier than actually, you know, learning stuff about hockey and the teams.
 
I think people are using the term 'identity' to mean 'play tougher and more physical'.

and that is true to an extent. They have been pretty soft this year. but that won't fix the core problems with this team. they were a tough and physical team last year but that didn't stop them from wilting at the worst possible moment.
 
Team identity is a buzzword sure, but we know damn well our team had a different "identity," than it has this year.
I just want my team to be hard to play against, there are different ways to achieve that goal.
 
Bleedsblue&white said:
Team identity is a buzzword sure, but we know damn well our team had a different "identity," than it has this year.
I just want my team to be hard to play against, there are different ways to achieve that goal.
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This! I want this Leafs team to be tough to play against in all 3 zones, I don't want to see us getting outshot badly each night and I don't want to use other teams dominate us most games. The talent is there but for some reason it's just not comething together, like mbow said the issues run deep with this team and I hope they get rectified soon, because I'm tired of medocricy.
 
Metalleaf said:
This team's identity has become Jay McClement and 7 D.
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Yep. As much as I love what Mcclement brings to the table, Randy shouldn't be playing him this much, he's best served as a 4th liner who can play on the top PK, he shouldn't be seeing more then 8-10 mins a game.

I don't mind the 7D, it divies up the ice time and allows Phaneuf not to be relied that heavily upon, Randy got it right using the 7D approach, I wish he would smarten up when it comes to Mcselke though.
 
This team's "identity" should be a young fast team that is hard to handle in the O-zone and can handle themselves in the D-zone. But they are just mentally soft.
 
Metalleaf said:
This team's "identity" should be a young fast team that is hard to handle in the O-zone and can handle themselves in the D-zone. But they are just mentally soft.
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Agreed. The problem is that outside of our core players (Kessel, Phaneuf, Rielly, Bernier, Kadri) teams won't give us much value outside of 2nd-5th rounders and mid ranged prospects, honestly that's why I feel a guy like a Gardiner is excellent trade bait without poaching off the core of this team.
 
This team still needs size up the middle. I like bolland. But that injury and the supposed term and money he is asking for makes me think he is gone.

If the staal rumours are true. You give up Kadri et al for Eric. You then move bozak to the second line centre roll and sign Paul Statsny as your third line centre. If bolland is asking north of five, I give around five to stats. Hopefully the fact he's been paid so much before drops his price.


That would be a very damn strong team down the middle.
 
Volcanologist said:
sorry, why is Stastny going to take a 3rd line centre role here?
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Yea I'm not getting it either guy is at worst a 2C, why would he want to come here to play sheltered minutes? The suggestion is almost as outrageous as Bolland demanding an 8 year contract worth north of $5M per year...
 
[video=youtube;Jv-P305iCDs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv-P305iCDs[/video]

TL with strombo talking all things MLSE
 
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