The Talking Point What are the last ditch moves for the Leafs?
The Maple Leafs are officially in desperation mode as they now have to tackle a near-impossible task, facing a 3-0 series deficit against the Panthers. What are the last-ditch moves for the Leafs? TSN Hockey analyst Martin Biron discusses.
Adjustments id make. Hire the Pinkertons to rough up the Panthers players a bit. If Hasbro can hire the Union Busting Murders from the 1850's to harass some Video Game Streamer for releasing their pieces of Cardboard a few weeks early….surely the Leafs can afford to hire them to rough up the Panthers for making a complete embarrassment of them and eternalizing the "We want the Florida chant" as a meme which will live for ever.
Leafs aint winning game 4. The Panthers gonna bury them because the Leafs don't have depth, their defense is porrus, their coaching is suspect, 40M$ of their players seemingly don't give a fuck, and The Cats smell blood.
So ya, Hired Goons….get them to go Tonya Harding on them with lead pipes to all their knees…because I don't think Game 4 is gonna be close.
There are no last ditch moves! What are you talking about?! The panthers have completely exposed the leafs. The panthers are way to Gritty for this soft leafs team. 2-0 panthers. Break out the brooms. Golf leafs golf!!!
The Leafs have moves to be made after the season ends. Hey, I'm a hardcore Leaf fan….normally very resistant to making any broad criticisms of the team. However, I think the current team is fatally flawed, in regard to playoff hockey. What is missing is the passion and physicality necessary for playoff hockey…and it's clearly missing from Marner, Matthews and Nylander…and is not changing anytime soon. The off-season needs to see significant change in what is seen as the core of this team…or we're back to the exact same thing next year.
Disappointed – he really said nothing. Woll obviously needs to start as no one else is healthy enough. And energy from top lines has disappeared in this series and is not coming back. Blow 'er up.
The only juggling left for keefe to do would be to change the name of the team . Heâs completely screwed himself by not playing marner-Matthewâs-nylander together.
Leafs fans might just get ready – to watch another 8 years of these playoff disappointments. Just enjoy regular season wins & accept players like Marner are not NHL playoff star players.
Load the top 2 lines putting O'Riley on the 2nd line but bring in Simmons and start pushing Florida around.We see what happens when Toronto sends out 3 figure skating lines Florida will win . Somehow someone needs to give Marner room by playing tough through the middle.Oriley with Marner and Bunting this will give Marner room.Mathews with Tavares and Nylander.Marner doesn't need great offensive players with him if he has room he will be great and make them great.Oriley and Bunting can score off Marners rebounds by parking near the paint.Put Riley on with Marners line so he has an other offensive player and with Bunting and O'Riley causing havoc Marner and Riley can do their thing .They can't double team all 4 of them.Toronto must play in the middle or they will lose. The third line should be the next biggest players left over and give Florida hell.Their role is to just hit and bother the goalie .
The Leafs have no energy. Winning a round was enough for them. Tiresome hearing their interviews, same old standard PR bullshit. They mentally are done and it shows.
If management wasn't so stubborn they could have started building a playoff team 2 years ago – keep a couple of highly skilled offensive players and supplement them with a couple of physical wingers that aren't afraid to go to the net. They wouldn't have to worry about " last ditch efforts "
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What adjustments would you make to win Game 4 for the Maple Leafs?
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Trade Matthews for a bunch of high quality depth players. No shot this guy resigns after his contract is done.
I would do the opposite of everything in first 3 games. đđŒ
Adjustments id make. Hire the Pinkertons to rough up the Panthers players a bit. If Hasbro can hire the Union Busting Murders from the 1850's to harass some Video Game Streamer for releasing their pieces of Cardboard a few weeks early….surely the Leafs can afford to hire them to rough up the Panthers for making a complete embarrassment of them and eternalizing the "We want the Florida chant" as a meme which will live for ever.
Leafs aint winning game 4. The Panthers gonna bury them because the Leafs don't have depth, their defense is porrus, their coaching is suspect, 40M$ of their players seemingly don't give a fuck, and The Cats smell blood.
So ya, Hired Goons….get them to go Tonya Harding on them with lead pipes to all their knees…because I don't think Game 4 is gonna be close.
They should SERIOUSLY sell MLSE and move to another city. Start brand new with a different name.
There are no last ditch moves! What are you talking about?! The panthers have completely exposed the leafs. The panthers are way to Gritty for this soft leafs team. 2-0 panthers. Break out the brooms. Golf leafs golf!!!
Fire Keefe?
Get rid of the highly paid idiotic players because they can't fool the fans anymore followers anymore.
This is gonna be savage đ
i just have a few players id put in simmons and clifford.
The Leafs have moves to be made after the season ends. Hey, I'm a hardcore Leaf fan….normally very resistant to making any broad criticisms of the team. However, I think the current team is fatally flawed, in regard to playoff hockey. What is missing is the passion and physicality necessary for playoff hockey…and it's clearly missing from Marner, Matthews and Nylander…and is not changing anytime soon. The off-season needs to see significant change in what is seen as the core of this team…or we're back to the exact same thing next year.
In this series Matthew and Marner cant be together.
Maybe to just play to their salary potential would be a great start…đđ€
Leafs just want to lose in game 4 just so they can avoid losing in game 5 in front of their fans!
Turtle, collapse into the fetal position. Accept reality.
Habs will be better than the leafs next year! Crazy!
Throw a greanade in the room.
I think Kadri would look good back here right now. Sure he fucked up but it was through passion and intensity.
Disappointed – he really said nothing. Woll obviously needs to start as no one else is healthy enough. And energy from top lines has disappeared in this series and is not coming back. Blow 'er up.
The Leafs are done. They fluked into the 2nd round and have proved they don't belong there. The 4 Horsemen of the Choke ride once more.
The only juggling left for keefe to do would be to change the name of the team .
Heâs completely screwed himself by not playing marner-Matthewâs-nylander together.
Leafs fans might just get ready – to watch another 8 years of these playoff disappointments. Just enjoy regular season wins & accept players like Marner are not NHL playoff star players.
The last ditch to move is to fire the GM, fire, the coach, trade the core, five, and rebuild. Thatâs the last ditch hope.
Fire the coach.
To clean out their lockers and go golfing
Load the top 2 lines putting O'Riley on the 2nd line but bring in Simmons and start pushing Florida around.We see what happens when Toronto sends out 3 figure skating lines Florida will win . Somehow someone needs to give Marner room by playing tough through the middle.Oriley with Marner and Bunting this will give Marner room.Mathews with Tavares and Nylander.Marner doesn't need great offensive players with him if he has room he will be great and make them great.Oriley and Bunting can score off Marners rebounds by parking near the paint.Put Riley on with Marners line so he has an other offensive player and with Bunting and O'Riley causing havoc Marner and Riley can do their thing .They can't double team all 4 of them.Toronto must play in the middle or they will lose. The third line should be the next biggest players left over and give Florida hell.Their role is to just hit and bother the goalie .
The last ditch move would be to play 2 lines and throw in an extra line when those lines get tired. Load them up.
The Leafs have no energy.
Winning a round was enough for them.
Tiresome hearing their interviews, same old standard PR bullshit. They mentally are done and it shows.
There is nothing to do they are done, dead they partied too hard at round 1 victory its over
If management wasn't so stubborn they could have started building a playoff team 2 years ago – keep a couple of highly skilled offensive players and supplement them with a couple of physical wingers that aren't afraid to go to the net. They wouldn't have to worry about " last ditch efforts "
Why does it suck more to suck in Toronto than other cities?
Forecheck! Pressure! Too easy to play against man.