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Congratulations :) you sure showed Tampa Bay I don't blame you should be excited after that performance. @BT3366
Agreed... Enjoy this time and relish that TB had zero answers for Columbus' attack... I wonder how the TB brass are going to go into the summer-- what the hell happened to their season... and how do they course correct (they're obviously spilling over with talent, but talent only gets you so far in the playoffs... They have to find sandpaper with big hearts.... Easier said than done, and who do you trade away? And does anyone know how the salary cap is straining TB's budget? I have a feeling they're close to the max?)?
I was saying last night there really isn't a "better" way to get your first playoff series win than dominating the best regular season team in ages. Hopefully that success continues for them, will be interesting to see how the (possibly inevitable) CBJ/Washington match-up goes again this time around.
Too right. Someone set up a quick bracket system over on Reddit that about 40,000 people participated in, and after last night, there is ONE bracket that's still in play as being correct...meaning one person actually guessed both Tampa Bay and Pittsburgh would be swept in the first round.
Suddenly the East looks wide open.
It shall be an interesting off season in Leafland. Some big questions for Babcock. Why does Matthews get just 3 minutes more ice time then Patrick Marleau? Why don't you deviate from the plan and show some adjustments to what the Bruins are doing?
I think this team needs some heart or some grit. Every big game this year they laid an egg. Tavares homecoming game to the Island the team doesn't show up. They don't seem to play to the occasion. This team is lacking something. It's up to Dubas to figure out what it is.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Babcock go. How you're in such a situation in a Game 7 and Matthews isn't even hitting 20 minutes played is beyond me.
They're committed to Babcock. Name a better available coach?
Currently, there isn't one, but surely something is to be said of not getting past the first round since, what, 2013 or so?
I dont think Babcock has been out of the first or second round since 2009.
A better coach would be Sheldon Keefe. If I was Dubas, I’d fire Babcock’s two assistants, bring up Keefe to run the special teams, and, if Babcock remains so bloody stubborn and lacking in creativity (line-up shuffling), and not ride the stars in big games, then get rid of him by January, Keefe steps in...
I’m so pissed right now. Pissed with the coaching staff, pissed with the team who stands there like idiots while Chara punches Tavares, knocking him to the ice. I mean seriously, WTF is up with that???
I would love to at least make the playoffs as much as Toronto has in the past 6 years
https://editorinleaf.com/2019/04/22/toronto-maple-leafs-sheldon-keefe-masterpiece/
I hate Boston as well. The Blues, Capitals, and Bruins are my least favorites remaining. I’d most want to see either the Blue Jackets or Sharks pull it off.
Lol!!!
West
Sharks VS Avs
Blues VS Stars
East
Bruins VS Blue Jackets
Islanders VS Hurricanes
Sharks over Avalanche in 6
Blues over Stars in 7
Blue Jackets over Bruins in 7
Islanders over Hurricanes in 6
Who I most want to win? Sharks, Stars, Blue Jackets, and Hurricanes.
Blues in 6
Boston in 5
Islanders in 6.
Who i want is Columbus, Carolina, Dallas and Colorado
Aren’t star players expected to play big time minutes? And Hymann with an Acl damage plays more than Matthews???
Dubas wears some of the roster set up. We had a great AHL goalie as the back up when he has never done back up. Babcock likes to have the back up just play on back to backs. If you know that your coach likes his netminders a certain way...why give him a square peg for the round hole. I would have traded Sparks and kept McLinney. You let the Nylander thing drag on and on. Okay so you were fighting the demand of the player but in the end he ended up getting what everyone thought he'd get...some might say the Leafs caved.
I hope that someone has a heart to heart with Marleau and tells him it's fourth line in Toronto, or a trade to another team. I hope they address the back up goalie situation. I hope Dubas gets Babcock someone that can manage in game better or at least be a voice for those in game personal decsions.
I would like to see the lines look like this:
Tavares Hyman and Marner
Mathews Nylander and Kappen
Kadri Moore and Ennis
Gauthier Brown and Marleau
The last time he got out of the first or second round was in 2009.... ouch... That means the game has changed in a decade and he still coaches the same way...
... and his teams were more or less veteran, or, in the case of the Olympics and Worlds, the BEST...
I don't think Matthews likes sitting 42 minutes in a Game 7 match... and that;s not what he is paid to do.......
Matthews, Marner, Tavares are built for double shifts, line jugglings and 25 mins/EVERY BIG GAME-- ESPECIALLY GAME 7s of the Playoffs...
Babcock stifles this way of thinking.
Or am I wrong?
Sadly, Boston scored clutch goals late in the third and in OT.
Really unhappy NBCSN chose to switch over to St. Louis-Dallas start rather than continue with OT. They said to go to NHL Network to watch it, which didn't help me since that is a subscription network and I don't have it. Whose rule was that? Remember the 1968 Heidi game?