11-17-2025, 03:36 PM
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Or you could teach kids a 200 foot game so they don't end up like a lot of one dimensional guys.
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The Leafs are a prime example of not knowing how to play a 200 foot game
https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article...ng-true-again/
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One of the best offences in the league, one of the best offensive lines in the league. They’re a good team, no doubt about it,” Drew Doughty said of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The date was Oct. 23, 2017.
They are giving up over three goals a game, it seems like to me,” Doughty continued that day. “They can improve defensively, but that’s not just on their defence. It’s on their top forwards playing good defence, too. That’s how you create a good defensive team.
“It’s not easy to do. Defence comes down to willing to compete on both ends of the puck and willing to sacrifice your body to block shots and get in lanes and just hating to get scored on. That’s how we developed it — and that’s all it takes, really.
“I would rather not be scored on than go out there and score a goal. That’s just the way I am.”
Flash forward eight years, and the Maple Leafs rank dead-last defensively
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Interesting, then, to contrast Doughty’s well-aged perspective with that of Toronto’s leading scorer, William Nylander, amid the home side’s three-game losing skid.
“You know, defensively we have been struggling, and that is something that can be fixed. You can adjust, make changes, to be better at that. Pay better attention to details,” said Nylander, who has stacked 24 points in just 14 games.
“I would be more worried if we weren’t scoring goals — because that’s harder to do.”
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Poor Willy, he has been in the league for 11 years and still has no idea what it takes to win.
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