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Just dropped by to say that this series was about as Leafy as it gets. I genuinely didn't think it was possible for them to lose this series but I should have known better. You know things aren't going well when Marner seems to be spending the better part of each game fighting back tears in the...

Tkachuk with the bro-iest tantrum ever. Reminded me of one of my teammates in bantam in the early aughts. Nobody liked that guy.

Just tuning in for the first time this year and I do not understand Thornton playing on the Matthews line. Maybe with 30 seconds left and the goalie empty, but this? Weird.

Freddy is what he is at this point. A below average goalie.

Man I miss those mitts. Now we're left with Kerfoot and about 5 other identical stone-handed small forwards.

Pretty solid debrief - https://mapleleafshotstove.com/2020/08/10/game-5-review-columbus-blue-jackets-3-vs-toronto-maple-leafs-0/ I mostly agree. There also seems to be a lack of maturity in the dressing room. It's easy to overstate things like "veteran presence", and so forth. But when you...

JT was fine tonight but most of the series (and season) looked relatively ordinary, which isn't good enough given how much he's paid and the amount of skill around him. He was never fast but he seemed to lose a step this year and wasn't as strong on the puck as he has been. I'm hoping it's more...

And wow, I figured the layoff was an opportunity for Barrie to reset but he could not have been worse. Thankfully that's it for him.

Tough. Andersen gets outplayed in an elimination game for the fourth playoffs in a row (I guess this doesn't even count as playoffs?), after a pretty rotten year. Marner and Tavares not earning their pay cheques. Keefe with some really, really strange decisions tonight. They never looked in...

Really? He's been leaky. And I'm not just talking about that terrible goal.

Which is how they should have started the game. Instead we have this mish-mash, where the fourth line is getting more ice time than the third, Kapanen has more ice time than Nylander, and all kinds of crazy stuff. I usually like Keefe's bench management but this has been bizarre. Would help if...

What the hell is Keefe doing? We play our best game ofthe season a couple games ago, and his response is to go to a one-good-line model (and then roll all four lines)? What exactly about Kapanen's game this season suggested that he deserves a promotion to the second line in the most important...

That was one of the most butchered calls of an overtime winning goal that I have ever heard. And I lived through a lot of Bob Cole years. Nylander does basically everything better than Marner. It's interesting. Matthews has decided to add a physical element to his game out of nowhere. He is an...

The Leafs had some pretty rough puck luck and the refs went back to ignoring Columbus hooks and holds. Andersen was also a little leaky - Dubois had exactly one place to shoot with his backhand on that last play and Andersen gave him way too much net. Ditto for the other two on one. Overall...

One of the best all-around games they've played in a long time. Huge bummer about Muzzin. I thought he was the Leafs' best d tonight. It's never fun to watch a guy struggling to move and testing his extremities

Great period overall. Marner needs a reduced role on the powerplay until he figures it out. He seems to have lost most of his confidence, or else opposing teams have figured out his limitations and are exploiting them. I think Spezza would be more effective on the left point. I also think...

All of your lists are missing playoff superstar Lonny Bohonos. Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jEjqYpDofc

He tries one lazy toe drag after another in an effort to avoid body contact. Teams have figured it out.

He?s almost playing down to Marner and Tavares?s level tonight. Nylander is playing a different league than these guys.

He?s been their best forward this whole trip.