I understand the regulation wins thing but on the flip side you could also say the Leafs have only lost 6 in regulation out of 21 games. I feel like if lack of regulation wins is bad then logically you’d also have to say the lack of regulation losses is good?
JamesCurtis24
The team is finding ways to get points right now, ultimately that’s what you want early in the season. So mission accomplished in that respect.
It’s also absolutely true though that their overall play has been significantly less than inspiring, and they’ve got a long, long way to go.
They’ve got plenty of time to get working on it.
ytrehtthgie
The team not being able to win in regulation is a concern to me though, especially in playoffs when it’s sudden death OT and no shootouts, we need to start winning in regulation especially to other Atlantic teams, we can’t be giving teams breathing down our necks any points
theGurry
This is a valid concern.
a1cd
This whole thing with regulation wins to me is a good example of how the media in Toronto impacts the team. It started with a random tweet a few weeks ago, got circulated around to the point where now they were talking about it on the broadcast and now asking players about it.
You can kind of tell with the reactions to such questions after the game yesterday (McCabe and Keefe) that this stupid stat has wormed its way into the conversation. In any other market a team that is 6-1-1 and just got off the ice of an exciting win would expect some positive interactions with reporters.
The worst thing is, once this specific stat is resolved it will just be something else.
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I understand the regulation wins thing but on the flip side you could also say the Leafs have only lost 6 in regulation out of 21 games. I feel like if lack of regulation wins is bad then logically you’d also have to say the lack of regulation losses is good?
The team is finding ways to get points right now, ultimately that’s what you want early in the season. So mission accomplished in that respect.
It’s also absolutely true though that their overall play has been significantly less than inspiring, and they’ve got a long, long way to go.
They’ve got plenty of time to get working on it.
The team not being able to win in regulation is a concern to me though, especially in playoffs when it’s sudden death OT and no shootouts, we need to start winning in regulation especially to other Atlantic teams, we can’t be giving teams breathing down our necks any points
This is a valid concern.
This whole thing with regulation wins to me is a good example of how the media in Toronto impacts the team. It started with a random tweet a few weeks ago, got circulated around to the point where now they were talking about it on the broadcast and now asking players about it.
You can kind of tell with the reactions to such questions after the game yesterday (McCabe and Keefe) that this stupid stat has wormed its way into the conversation. In any other market a team that is 6-1-1 and just got off the ice of an exciting win would expect some positive interactions with reporters.
The worst thing is, once this specific stat is resolved it will just be something else.