Sammy in net tonight
Sheldon Keefe says Ilya Samsonov will start against three Red Wings tonight. @BodogCA
— David Alter (@dalter) January 14, 2024
by chiefleaf92
@Toronto Maple Leafs
Sammy in net tonight
Sheldon Keefe says Ilya Samsonov will start against three Red Wings tonight. @BodogCA
— David Alter (@dalter) January 14, 2024
by chiefleaf92
33 Comments
Shutout incoming
Per David Alter “Sheldon Keefe says Ilya Samsonov will start against the Red Wings tonight.”
I pray he has a good night. The man needs it. TAKE MY ENERGY SAMMY!
Good thing thereâs football on tonightÂ
Better be on a short leash
We lost
Also from Alter: âMark Giordano will be scratched tonight and Conor Timmins will come in on defence
Sheldon Keefe says they are waiting on the status of one more injury as well that could yield another change. Said itâs not Matthews.â
https://x.com/dalter/status/1746581684940599347?s=46
Would have preferred Lagesson over Timmins I think, but totally fair to scratch Gio.
Wondering who it is that might be injured tho..
7-6 loss incoming
Hammer the over
If he only starts against three redwings we could be ok.
If he flops again, this entire management team needs to be ripped.
Whatâs the plan if itâs a disaster again? No way 2 weeks away is enough to âfix himâ
God the GDT is gonna be even more of a shitshow.
Our top goalie prospect who’s been lights out in the AHL can’t get into games, but they have no qualms about throwing Samsonov in again even though he’s been awful and stopped them from competing for the division. This organization is so stupid
Oh rest in piece leafs. This one wonât go well
Big 4 point night
Risky
I hope this goes well cause we are a few extra loses away from falling straight out of the playoffs.
We have 50 pts. Behind us TBL (49), NYI (48), NJD (47), DET (47), WSH (46) & PIT (46).
Itâs going to be a grind down the stretch to even get into the playoffs.
shut out or chased in the 1st period, no in between imo
I was at last year’s game where Murray got hurt and played his last game as a Leaf. Going to my first game since tonight. Hope history doesn’t repeat itself.
three Red Wings?? Can someone elaborate? lol
Taking the over and a +1.5 for the wings.
Let’s go! Yes Sammy! Welcome back and kill it!
The boys will hopefully show up and provide him some support.
He’s going to need to stop 45 out of 40 shots tonight.
This is either the start of something great, or his last game as a leaf.
This has to be the play. Heâs been given a reset. Either sink or swim tonight. I hope he swims.
At least Reimer will be at the other end. He definitely gets PTSD every time he plays us.
Pretty sure we chased him last time we played him.
Keefe’s 200 iq mind games yesterday sure had us all uncertain who was starting today. What a chess master our coach is. Couldn’t see through that bs at all.
And the funniest part is after last nights loss we have the perfect scenario to relatively easily justify not starting Sammy today. But there was never any mystery, doubt, or consideration that today’s game vs Detroit is wayyy more important than yesterday’s vs Colorado.
It’s 3-0 Wings and the game doesn’t start for 6 hours.
Tbh I kinda want him to get chased so we can end this experiment. Russian Jack Campbell vibes
I predict we lose by 5 goals
Thank god it’s only three Red Wings.
What has changed from a week ago though when he was put on waivers?
Look guys, if you’re not betting on Detroit tonight then you hate money.
This was the most predictable and easiest back to back 0-2 ever. I have been yelling it from the rooftops to show how predictably dumb Keefe is. The reason the same things happen every year with Keefe’s teams is because of Keefe. He is just as big of a problem as Sammy.
> This weekend we have another example of it coming. We’re facing a great Western team and a division rival we’re competing against to earn a playoff spot. Our coach will start Jones vs Colorado and Samsonov vs Detroit. There’s no strategy involved. It’s tactical checkers. Start the better goalie vs the better team, start the worse goalie against the worst team. It’s short sighted and completely void of any strategy.
> 2 points vs Detroit is more valuable to us than 2 points vs Colarado and Keefe can’t recognize that. He is strategically creating the optimal scenario for us to go 0-2 and end up on the playoff standings bubble within days. And when you play with fire you’re eventually going to get burned.
> All it takes in important short-term scenarios is for the opposing coach to make strategic adjustments Keefe’s tactics can’t account for. Even worse, when he does finally figure it out or happens to stumble upon the fix it’s always 3-5 games too late.
https://old.reddit.com/r/leafs/comments/1954dpi/daily_talk_thread/khls4dy/
> And there is something beautiful about history. It always repeats itself and that’s why the saying exists “those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” And make no mistake we’re going to repeat it.
> Keefe never learns.
> We better fucking win tonight because we’re definitely losing tomorrow.
> And 0-2 while Detroit goes 2-0 is the most Leaf thing possible because Keefe decided to play checkers with goalie starts instead of chess. The Detroit game is actually important to our season and this idiot is starting a broken goalie against a division rival we will be competing to make the playoffs against all season.
Seriously, look at the standings right now. It can become panic time around here real quick over the next 72 hours.
https://old.reddit.com/r/leafs/comments/195sbkn/david_alter_sheldon_keefe_says_martin_jones_will/khoxqmg/
I can’t see into the future guys. I shouldn’t know this is going to happen days in advance. This weekend Keefe is going to pay for a nice Mediterranean vacation.