It's really difficult to watch Gaudreau attempt to play fast-paced hockey (which he is trying to do) on a unit with two linemates who are just so, so slow.
He breaks out with speed... but neither Monahan nor Ritchie can find separation even remotely in time. So he's forced to fend for himself.
I would try Lindholm on that line.
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I want to see Gaudreau-Lindholm-Dube. Gives the team a fast line that should be good at retrieving pucks. And all three guys can easily gain separation on breakouts. No more of Gaudreau trying to do everything all by himself while he waits for his linemates to get up the ice.
I want to see Gaudreau-Lindholm-Dube. Gives the team a fast line that should be good at retrieving pucks. And all three guys can easily gain separation on breakouts. No more of Gaudreau trying to do everything all by himself while he waits for his linemates to get up the ice.
Gaudreau may indeed be waiting for linemates a lot, but I didn’t see it tonight. For some reason Ritchie was doing a lot the attempted zone entries.
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I don't think that's completely accurate, but I'll go back and look at their shifts.
I know that on Wednesday, that line attempted just eight controlled zone entries all game. Three ended with Ritchie turnovers.
They dumped the puck in 15 times and came away with possession twice. So... if Ritchie is supposed to be the one on that line retrieving pucks, he's not doing his job at all.
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I want to see Gaudreau-Lindholm-Dube. Gives the team a fast line that should be good at retrieving pucks. And all three guys can easily gain separation on breakouts. No more of Gaudreau trying to do everything all by himself while he waits for his linemates to get up the ice.
Gaudreau may indeed be waiting for linemates a lot, but I didn’t see it tonight. For some reason Ritchie was doing a lot the attempted zone entries.
No wonder that they struggled...
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I think it was more that the Leafs had last change then trying to get Monahan and Gaudreau Reps out there, even a blind man can see they are our weakest defensive and unfortunately offensive line recently.
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I think it was more that the Leafs had last change then trying to get Monahan and Gaudreau Reps out there, even a blind man can see they are our weakest defensive and unfortunately offensive line recently.
Yeah, but Sutter must know if he gives them a D zone faceoff, Matthews is coming out with last change.
I have a bad feeling Leafs are going to go 0-2 this weekend
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The last time we played a team smashed by the Oilers didnt go too well. Hopefully this one goes differently.
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Former iterations of this group - you'd think they'd come out fired up and ready to go down the stretch - full effort. We end up disappointed
We'll see how this group fares
Sutter Team Identity
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Richie,Bennett and Lucic all in the lineup tonight. Tkachuk on first line. Sutter has some jam on every line tonight. I think they are going to try laying a pounding on us physically. Remains to be seen. I still see needed improvements physically in this roster when you cross check it to the Flames lineup.
If Andersen stinks the place out tonight, Campbell will have the net starting Tomorrow.
I don’t like Andersen starting.
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Those Flames players are in the lineup every night...
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Stop playing dump and chase vs a Sutter coached team please.
Early Icebreaker by Chucky
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I have zero confidence in Andersen.
The bigger problem is the team have even less than that.
And give us back the blue and white jerseys already ffs
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Nothing like getting scored on with the first ####ing shot
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Toskala?
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wow down 1-0 already,
team is imploding
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Signature Freddy start
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Wow that didn’t take long
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Starting Andersen was a great decision. Yup.
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f*** you Andersen you pos
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Off Dermotts glove.
Feels like we've been fighting the bounces for 3 weeks now.
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Andersen is struggling enough without us continuing to score on him ourselves
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Seriously I cannot stand Andersen anymore. Not for one more game, not even for one more shot. GTFO
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Way to change the narrative Freddie.
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Freddie, you should have worn green pads...
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Feels like all these lucky bounces happen for other teams
Brutal bounce off dermott
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#### Tkachuk
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Missed the first few minutes... Goal on first shot eh....
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wth, a goal already?
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Teams legit are firing hail mary’s on net now knowing Fred can’t see anything and hoping for literally any redirection.
He’s toast.
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Can we go a game without putting it in our own net? It's hard enough with Freddy struggling.
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You know it's going to be a long night when you allow a goal off the first shot. Might as well have spotted the Flames a 1-0 lead at opening faceoff. That's either the fourth or fifth goal in the first five minutes that we've given up during this losing skid.
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Andersen is the biggest loser I’ve ever seen in a Leafs uniform. Not surprised in the least he let in the first shot of the game. Absolute trash.
Ryan off a freebie giveaway
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Here we go again. What is happening with this team? Did they break a few mirrors or something.
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This will be 60 minutes on NZ trap now. This lineup and coach haven't shown much ability to overcome it. Gonna probably need some greasy goals.
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A whole week to prepare lmaoooooo.
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Game over.
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It’s gonna be one of those games
Cursed!
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Well they’re doing it again. I’ve no one to blame but myself for getting my hopes up.
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wow getting rocked by the flames
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I turned it on after the first goal, so can’t speak to that one, but Freddy probably should’ve been able to save that second one.
It’s a stop a good goalie makes. You can tell Freddy’s confidence is shot. He over committed way to much on that second one.
Not all of his fault, Dermott was doing nothing on that play too.
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What's happening to this team? The 18 wheeler shouldn't happen for a few months
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What happened to our D structure we had to start the year? Fred sucks but that was ugly
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This is Keefe Dubas hockey and what we have to look forward to come playoffs.
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Tavares loses draw in first goal then throws puck into the slot on the second
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A) what the f*** are we doing.
B) why the f*** was Fred overcommiting so hard
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We've given up 1 scoring chance and are down 2-0.
...and lol on comes the Freddy Andersen commercial.
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Anderseive at it again, this guy isn't even good enough to fluke off a clutch save for once
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2 shots... 2 goals... lol
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Stunned, dazed, rekt
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Team has definitely regressed defensively. Coupled with ####ty goaltending and its ugly
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Sloppy in both ends of the ice again
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2-0........ Great team you have built Dubas.
Hopefully Shanny comes down out of his silver tower and lays the law down with Dubas or he should be gone as well.
enough of this nonsense thinking Dubas has any clue what he is doing
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Sure looked like Lucic cross checked Holl causing that goal.
Chucky being Really Annoying
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lol tkachuk dives then spears Holl after and Holl gets the only penalty? No wonder everyone hates the guy.
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At this point, you just have to blame the coach for playing Andersen. We all know he sucks
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Tkachuck with the extra slash to Andersen's glove, no biggie.
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Tkachuk is fishing for a pasting. Give it to him when we get a 3 goal lead
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I’ve never seen so many cross checks to the lower back in the first 5 minutes of a game.
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Tkachuk biggest piece of ####. He wouldn’t drop it with Simmonds or even think about it. He would be crying in the corner.
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Absolutely crushed. Clean hit. Big man versus little man. Let Lucic respond, we have Simmonds.
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Holl gotta fight this entire team of babies over a clean hit?
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Holl looks like he's in deep water tonight
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Tkachuk is such a ####ing ##### lmao
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Looked like Tkachuk grabbed Holl's hair!?
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So the rat draws a call but Lucic's crosscheck is not a penalty.
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Honestly shocked Tkachuk even fought Holl. I'll take that trade.
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####ing hair pull
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What a bitch!
Tanev picks the top corner
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TF, they are better than this. Andersen has lost all his confidence in net. Leafs needs a better goalie. Keefe should pull him
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Blow it up. This team f***ing sucks
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the team looks 2 or 3 more losses away from falling to mtl/van level. Past 6 games have been horrible. If our recent woes go from 5 losses in 6 to 9 in 11 or something like that we are in big trouble
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In the words of Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle: " I expect nothing.... and I'm still let down"
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Looks like they put the break to good use. Not improving their hockey game, obviously, but they must've filled all that time with something.
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Just check the score. Are we getting dicked by Andersen as badly as the box score makes it look?
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People really need to take off their leaf goggles. It's obvious Andy isn't playing good this season, he himself has admit it. Having a sub .900 save percentage should speak for itself.
Seriously stop defending the guy, are all the losses on him? No. Is he a part of the problem? Yes.
At this point Campbell > Andy and it's foolish to argue otherwise
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3 goals on 7, I like freddy but I think it's time to pull
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I bought 3 six pack yesterday and I am aleady down 6
This f***ing team.............
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Lots of people around the world became a drunk during covid time, I'm like please, I'm a Leafs fan for 15 years now.
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As much as I hate to admit it, it's looking more and more like it's going to be yet another wasted season with this team, due to goaltending. Andersen hasn't looked confident at all tonight, and there's little chance of us obtaining a quality starting goalie before or at the deadline.
But with our $40 million forwards, we should be able to overcome/outscore our problems. Yeah, right! smh
The 11 million dollar Whipping Boy
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Tavares has gone f***ing brain dead. Holy ####!
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Holl, Tavares, and Andersen can all gtfo.
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Besides, pretty sure Tavares made that centering pass in the own zone right to the Flames. Idiotic. Not only is his skating slow, his hands and decisionmaking are lagging too.
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In the words of Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle: " I expect nothing.... and I'm still let down"
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Someone asked Dubas when it was time to go all in. He said 'the team will tell you'.
What do you think he's hearing right about now?
Young N Fresh Game Winner
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Sick and tired of watching this f***ing garbage named Andersen, get him the f*** off this team please. And how does Lucic not get called for a cross check ? Blatant cross check 5 feet away from the refs, directly results in a goal 2 seconds later. But they call the one on Holl earlier which was 10x softer, absolute insanity. FFS. Beyond frustrating watching this ####.
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This team makes you want to punch a puppy in the face. They are the most frustrating group of dumbasses I swear to God
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Well that was infuriating
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It's quite telling that Markstrom is having an off-game yet Calgary is still winning right now.
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Feeling like a typical Leafs season. Hopeful start then sputtering by the midpoint
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Yup.....seen this movie many times
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Also, not to hate on the Flames forwards (or the Jets, for that matter), but are they so incredible we need to dedicate a line and basically re-jig our whole lineup to stop them? Like, is Gaudreau or Scheifle going head-to-head against Tavares really worth all this effort to avoid?
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I don’t think Holl’s been bad, really, and Tkachuk clearly sold the penalty call on him. I mean, Rielly and Tavares are directly responsible for 2 gift goals and, regardless of what happened before it, the Tavares call was legit. Sure, it’s not all about big mistakes but turnovers that lead to practically unstoppable chances are…not good. And I’ll say that the call on Mikheyev was just as soft as the call on Holl, although optically I can see why the refs blew the whistle.
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Just when Dubas thinks he's solidified the defense, we've sprung a huge leak between the pipes.
Is it too much to ask for consistently good goaltending?
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A great GM recognizes a chink in the armour, before it becomes a gaping hole. Dubas can suggest as much as he wants, that he is after a top seven forward. Man, what is that lol?
But every GM vulture in the league that is out of the playoff race, knows they can steal his first round pick, Nick Robertson, and one of Lilly and Sandin.
Worst bluff ever bro. Anyone who knows hockey, knows that you have wonderful forwards.
But they also know you have a late first rounder and three decent youngsters in the pipeline.
They also know, Toronto, could via circumstances, win the Stanley Cup by coming out of a weak division, and play a beaten up Tampa or Boston, that needed 14 games to get to the Leafs.
I am a little disappointed, in Dubas, for using such a grade one poker trick. I doubt it fooled any decision makers who own goalies.
He probably lost a lot of respect from his fellow GM's. They all know what he needs. Everyone knows.
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After the Edmonton series, the Leafs were 8 pts ahead of second place in the division.
They now sit 7 points ahead of being out of a playoff spot.
Mom’s Spaghetti
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Freddy, his knees weak, reflexes unsteady.... Looking on the ice his position looks shaky, he let in a muffin, but Keefe keeps forgetting ....
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Whistles gone, pucks in already.
Toronto is No Good
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If the Leafs played Calgary in the first round, the Flames would probably sweep them.
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In two weeks the Leafs have gone from the greatest team ever assembled to a team with an outside shot at actually missing the playoffs.
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Mirtle just crying on Twitter. God, I think Dubas has turned the whole fan base into stats nerds. ALL I ever see them spouting off are stats. Goal share, blah blah
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The powerhouse Leafs are 1-6 in their last 7.
Just saw the entire Holl Ratboy fight. Tkachuk is such a f***ing POS how he engages and then how he grabs Holl by the neck of the shoulder pads and skew foots him down to the ice in a “take down”’
( take downs are the dumbest thing ever in a hockey fight btw - you stand in there and go until the linesmen break it up )
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This is going to get Tkachuk in Sutters good books. He loves steer wrestling.
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Leafs 1-6 in their last 7? Thats an odd record for the most dominant team in the North.
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If you want to be a top line, you have to play against top lines. you can’t improve on that without getting thrown in. He’s asking for more from them.
Yeah this is what I think.
We hear it all the time. Sutter is all about giving you a guy you need match up against, and outplay him.
I have no doubt tonight he told Monahan you need to outwork Matthews, and told Gaudreau he needed to outplay Marner.
I kind of like it. These guys need to start being more hungry and be more confident going up against other top guys.
I don’t love pairing them with Ritchie if you’re going to do that to them though. Might want to put Dube or Mangiapane with them if you’re going to do that.
I still think Leivo should probably be with Lindholm and Tkachuk and Dube with Monahan and Gaudreau.
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