Huge Win! Sutter having the team ready for good starts is already bearing fruit.
Don’t get the Markstrom critics. The second goal was smelly but Rasmus didn’t help. He then shut the door when leading late including the save of the year. Can’t ask for much more from your starter.
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Don’t get the Markstrom critics. The second goal was smelly but Rasmus didn’t help. He then shut the door when leading late including the save of the year. Can’t ask for much more from your starter.
Markstrom definitely saved our bacon in the 3rd and looked very confident throughout the 2nd half of the game. We're gonna need a lot more of that from him going forward, especially if our top line continues to be invisible.
I think Monahan and Gaudreau need to be split up to try and get them going. I love Sutter, but I'm baffled as to why he stubbornly keeps that line together.
He doesn't want to have to ruin the other lines.
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It's crazy how forgotten Tavares is.
I actually completely forgot he played for the Leafs. I only ever hear about Matthews, Marner, Nylander and sometimes Thornton.
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Can anyone explain why Tkachuk didnt give Nesternov his stick here?
At first Tkachuk looked focused on the play and didn't notice. It then seemed he was going to give it to him at 1:02, but the way he read the play, decided it might be safer hanging on to it for that half a second or so?
Don’t get the Markstrom critics. The second goal was smelly but Rasmus didn’t help.
I thought it was "smelly" until I saw the replay. It's easy to say he still should have had it while watching it in slow-motion but in real-time it's not so easy stopping a deflection.
I thought it was "smelly" until I saw the replay. It's easy to say he still should have had it while watching it in slow-motion but in real-time it's not so easy stopping a deflection.
Tkachuk scored but otherwise that line was also pretty ineffective tonight.
Scoring is all I want them to do.
So really, mission accomplished.
I'll take scoring over zone time with no contribution on the scoresheet.
I know some of you want the style points and advanced stat confirmation just as much as the results, but when Toronto is chasing the whole game, playing protect the lead is a natural side effect of that.
Not every night is going to be a 4-1 rout where we suffocate the opponent in waves until they concede. Particularly not against the top team in the division.
Even if you're a really good team, this is the kind of game you're going to expect to be playing against a team with Toronto's depth that is desperate to get back on track. I don't think it would be a cakewalk for any team.
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That's 4/5 under Sutter. Tense ending. Stopped skating in the 3rd period but Markstrom redeemed himself shutting the door. What is it with this team and the goaltender pulled? Ritchie needs to come off the Gaudreau line as it's not working and he was a black hole tonight.
It is not just the flames who run around in circles when the other team pulls their goalie. These are NHL teams who will get their chances. Scheiffle (I believe) missed a wide open net in the final seconds against the Oilers.
I am in the minority but I honestly don’t think the flames were massively outplayed. They skated, they got some chances, and played their Sutter-style system. Good win in my book.
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Outside of the subtle trolling what I take away is that Darryl is okay with being a team that sometimes bends but doesn't break as long as we're not surrendering grade A chances off the rush and being responsible. Like he says the other team will get its zone time, but long as you don't give up that go-ahead goal (which we never did) and you take advantage of your zone time, that's what matters at the end of the day.
The point isn't to dominate all the time, but to be responsible when the other team is pushing and making good on your chances when you get them.
I think the story would be different from him if we let TO pull ahead at any point in the game.
