These takes on TSN were interesting…
TSN always has some interesting takes and it seems Toronto Media doesn’t like Samsonov and apparently the Boston Bruins have no centers. Let me know your thoughts in the comment section!
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TSN aka the 'Toronto Sports Network'. Sad.
Yesterday… Toronto sports radio. “Doesn’t matter because Boston is going to get trucked by Florida. Florida is far superior, playing them on one day rest is going to be hard and they’ll get spanked”. Today “well I mean boston was riding high and Florida was sitting waiting so we kind of expected that result” this media in Toronto sucks and it’s no wonder no one wants to play here.
Samsonov was great that last game. There's NO WAY as a goalie you're going to "go out and get the puck" like the twits on TSN were saying. Like you said, a hard fast dump. He moved to where he *could*. That winning goal was close to being saved. If he saved that he'd be the hero, instead he's paying for the poor play of the core four (aside from Nylander, who seems to be the only on of the 4 with heart!)
Trade Matthews. More interested in padding his stats than playing for a team. Trade Tavares too. He's no captain.
The Leaf's looked more like a TEAM in games 5 and 6…. Games 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7 – it appears that the players wait around for Matthews to do something.
You got W's on 2 games that Matthews was not on the ice … Nylander stepped up as a top tier talent and got the job done.
I know this is not going to be a popular opinion – but… trade Matthews to the West and get some solid defense and picks back.
Many, including the guy talking here, are saying that Nylander had a good series. He was OK I guess and he scored 2 goals, one a lucky deflection and the other a wide open net on a nice Matthews feed. Maybe I’m missing something but I didn’t see anything special in his play. And OK, I agree, he only plaed 4 games and probably wasn’t at 100% for them. He did look pretty ‘floaty’ on Pasta’s winner though. I give him 65% overall.
Guess
Could not agree more
Samsonov at best maybe had a split second if he perfectly timed a poke-check
That play can't be blamed on him
#BBLDRIZZY playing in the background🤣🤣🤣
And now we are back to the Muskoka five
I know this is crazy talk, but the 4 players wearing Blue and White uniforms that just watched the puck come off the boards and back in front of the net and showed ZERO urgency in getting to it or covering a Bruins skater! You can't blame the goalie when his own team isn't putting in the work, it's playoff season, hustling to the puck should always be priority #1! A little more crazy talk or maybe a lot crazier talk is that Tyler Bertuzzi has played for both of these teams now, Boston last year at the trade deadline, Toronto this entire season. He seems to be PLAYOFF KRYPTONITE for whatever teams he's on… I like Bertuzzi, I'm A Red Wings fan and have watched him develop. He's a good solid player. Tough kid, plays hard all of the time. Asset to any team. Like I said, crazier talk…lol
BBL drizzy in the background is crazy
The thing that struck me about the Leafs was how terribly inconsistent they were.
Kelly Hrudey and Marty Biron – you know, two former NHL goalies – both disagree with you. Your take is just bad.
This video was just a thinly veiled excuse to replay the Pastrnak goal on a loop for two minutes.
All these analysts on TSN and Sportsnet should just wear Leafs jerseys and giant Leafs foamy fingers. What homers.
The Leafs can get rid of little Mitchie; tell his agent that he is going to sit for the entire season. His skates will not touch the ice once. Make him an 82 game healthy scratch. That will definitely get that NMC eliminated – no agent wants a client going into free agency after an entire year off. And who knows? His replacement might actually make an effort.
A goalie is to stop pucks entering the net , not playing the puck , all the leafs like to watch hockey while the game is in play.
It was a domino of missed assignments.
1. Marner doesn't run a pick (doesn't call out for his dman that only the best bruin is coming in hot)
2. Reilly way too far over to the middle for god knows why. Also clueless to pasta flying.
3. Nylander on the other side chilling, call out what you see man… Your other 2 guys are sleeping or missing it, but from that view should see pasta flying.
4. Samsonov is way to passive. But it's the 4th mistake. You're already fucked by now.
Oh yea. Side note. The powerplay was so bad, if they could only score a couple more there, they would have won the series before this ever happens. .
If I saw Pastrnak curling back towards his zone then passing to a defensemen, and then putting on the jets flying up the wing I would atleast give Pasta a shoulder nudge to take him off his stride at the least, how could you just let the most prolific goal scorer whiz by you(INSERT MITCHELL MARNER) and you not even give him a f%&^&&% nudge or something? From the start of that play, when I saw Pasta make that pass then curling and skating as fast as he can, I would have chased him around the damn rink IN OVERTIME!!!! TO DECIDE A SERIES!!!! and to (INSERT MORGAN REILLY) let Pasta of all players skate right past you to catch a bank pass and skate right in front of your net unmolested and score a doozy of a f$%#$% doozy of a goal….. so to the people that think Im just a keyboard couch player, I did play select hockey until I was 18.
You need to ship 3 guys out: Tav, Mar, Mat or Nyl. Then you can build a roster for the plays offs for the 3 players you sold. This "core" is not going to win you anything. Even if you ship 2 guys out, those 2 that stay have loser energy in them. Build around Nylander. This is the same thing every team falls for. The Eric Lindros deal. They assume they can win a cup around super stars. More, those "super starts" are only on paper, on their paycheck to be exact. None of them are playing like starts, maybe 1 of them at best.
BBL drizzy in the background is foul lol
Ok, goalie perspective here. Once that pass comes off the boards, Sammy knows Pasta is going to get to it first. He has already blown by Marner and the defence are just starting to realize what is going on. That right there means he either has to get to that puck before Pasta or he has to face him on basically a breakaway. It is a split second decision and I know which one I would have made. He had to go for it. At first I thought it might have been too far but on replay, he clearly had the time to reach that puck before the player got to it. By letting him get it and with Pasta cutting directly across the net he was in a bad position. You could see he was concerned with the 5 hole and closed up. Good move but Pasta didn't bite and by closing up the 5 hole he gave up the outside corner.
His best chance was get to the puck first. So not blaming him for the goal, that was a defensive breakdown all the way. But when you are the last man you have to step up and make the right play. Sammy seems to lack the confidence to do that a lot of the time. It's what separates the good ones from the great ones.
Samsonov should have poke checked him! The puck was right there!! It "was" a chance worth taking!!
They need to move 1 of the core 4. Marner is likely it though I know he sill shine eleswhere. He seems to be developing lazy habits in TO. Woll should be given the chance to be that #1. Their biggest need is someone to run the PP. Reillly is not it. That someone is hard to find. I would not blow up the team as many suggest.
100% agree. If Samsonov leaves his net to try and win a puck battle, then people rip him for leaving the net. That goal is more on Marner and the defense than the goalie.
7th game, overtime and you let your your check skate right past you to score…Mitch, Mitch…
The 'Nylander's controller losing connection' comments are pure gold.
Leafs gotta rebuild. Keep who wants to stay with upside and get rid of the weight from top to bottom.
You can see Marner watching the puck and not staying with Pasternak and then just cruises in. That guy shouldn’t even be in the NHL. No effort.
Retain 25% and send Tavares to Chicago; Marner retain 10% and trade to Calgary for Kadri
The Maple Leafs have only one problem and that is that they have highly paid players but no team.
When most of your big paycheck players don't perform during playoffs and you start blaming the goalie you might as well start blaming the referees again.
The guy on the panel is a former NHL player. You are not, so I think it is you who is not too bright.