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So Brown got more ice time than Tavares last night. I hope that never happens again. Pursuing line match-ups with this much top-end talent is pretty nuts.

This is eerily similar to last year when they couldn?t stop scoring early on, and then Babcock adjusted things to a more ?defensive? system emphasizing matchups, and there was a power outage. The Leafs should remember they are a fast team and start skating with the puck. They look utterly...

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https://twitter.com/Hockey_Hooligan/status/1049313816750837761 If it wasn?t already obvious, it?s now clear that Babcock is a dinosaur when it comes to defence and the importance of possession/controlled breakouts. Requiring the team to make the ?safe? play by chipping it up the boards and...

They are both atrocious at gap control. Which is sort of the opposite of what you want in the last minute. Luckily Ward has been just as much of a sieve as Sparks.

The fact that Kapanen was on the fourth line to start the season is silly. This is a fast team and should play that way.

Babcock?s patented break out. The goal is to have everyone completely stationary while the first pass is being made.

More Babcock hockey. Chip and chase and hope for the best. Manages to make the Leafs look slow and chaotic against three of the worst teams in the league.

They are both top 15 amongst defencemen in points, which speaks to their ability to move the puck. They are absolutely elite offensively and in transition. But Babcock's system often doesn't use them properly because it requires almost everyone to be standing still rather than moving up ice with...

Why? At some point Nylander will start to face reputational risks (whether or not justified), and leaking this kind of info is a pretty good way to ratchet up the pressure in that respect.

Looks like Babcock went right back to neutralizing his own team's speed with stationary hail mary passes and being mostly allergic to maintaining possession in the neutral zone. It's one game though, so hopefully it was poor execution rather than something systemic.

Why would they believe an independent, venerated Canadian news agency over a foreign terrorist organization? This is a question that actually has to be asked in 2018?

Hard to get into a groove when you're playing every second game with limited minutes. When he was getting consistent playing time he looked significantly better than Polak. Hopefully this signals that the new GM values possession/rushing more than Lou and Babcock seem to.

This looks like a photoshopped picture of my index finger.

At this point, sickbeast is either trolling or is so relentlessly earnest in his sense of indignation that it amounts to trolling. It's the offseason, so I'm not too bothered either way. Regarding the topic at hand, Lou had taught Shanahan and Dubas everything he knows about how not to react...

Their biggest problem wasn't softness, it was their inability to leave their own zone with control of the puck.

Agreed re Komarov. A lot of people underestimate the impact that one relatively terrible player (even a fourth liner) can have on a team, particularly when he plays a central role on special teams. I think a full year of Johnsson plus a revamped breakout system that isn't as reliant on the...

If I was a star being forced to play with two third/fourth liners throughout the playoffs, I wouldn't be all that happy either.

That stuff plays well because a lot Leaf fans don't like him. The fact that he was probably their best defencemen in the second half of the season and in the first 6 games of the playoffs is easily forgotten. The reality is that Andersen was way too leaky at an inopportune time, and our young...

Somebody should tell first overall pick Matthews that it?s game 7.