Flyers @ Leafs - Mar. 8th, 7:00pm - CBC, SN 590

[Arn]

So the non chippy game is more chippy since the fight.

I'm confused.

 

[Nik]

I mean, even if you are the sort of person who buys into the "momentum" argument for fighting in hockey isn't that a picture perfect example of how the Leafs, or any team with a lead, shouldn't fight?

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

Gardiner should be on the first PP unit.

 

[Strangelove]

So the Leafs are a team that lives and dies on the rush. So on the PP they start dumping the puck in with no support. Makes sense.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

So the Leafs are a team that lives and dies on the rush. So on the PP they start dumping the puck in with no support. Makes sense.

Yeah Rielly did that a couple times without any success.  Carrying it in is definitely a better way to set up.  I'll give him a pass though.  Everyone looked out of sync.

 

[Arn]

So the Leafs are a team that lives and dies on the rush. So on the PP they start dumping the puck in with no support. Makes sense.

Yeah Rielly did that a couple times without any success.  Carrying it in is definitely a better way to set up.  I'll give him a pass though.  Everyone looked out of sync.

At least they didn't concede two goals?

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

Leafs sure haven't had anything going since that fight.  8)

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Ugh

 

[ZBBM]

Well Jim, you got your wish.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Way to go McLaren.

 

[barney_rebel]

We stink dudes...

 

[Strangelove]

What an awful play by Kessel. Gives the puck away and then lets his man go all the way for the goal. He's having a brutal game.

 

[Derk]

And now we are going to have to listen to the smug announcers saying we told you so....

Right into the middle of the net.

Why couldn't Mason keep being a sieve?

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Why couldn't Mason keep being a sieve?

Oh, he's still playing like a sieve, the Leafs aren't beating him is all. Every save it looks like he's just praying the puck hits him.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

What an awful play by Kessel. Gives the puck away and then lets his man go all the way for the goal. He's having a brutal game.

Isn't the trailing player the C's responsibility?  Trying to remember from when I played!

 

[L K]

I mean, even if you are the sort of person who buys into the "momentum" argument for fighting in hockey isn't that a picture perfect example of how the Leafs, or any team with a lead, shouldn't fight?

That's what the Orr/McLaren did all last year.  Their fights were all in tie games or with the Leafs leading.  Other teams don't engage fights when their team is up.

 

[Nik]

This really isn't the part of the season where we want Bad Phil to start rearing his head.

 

[TML fan]

The Leafs just backed up and let them walk in.

 

[Zee]

What an awful play by Kessel. Gives the puck away and then lets his man go all the way for the goal. He's having a brutal game.

Would have helped if Carlyle made a line change on that Flyers icing. Kessel was tired too.

 

[ZBBM]

This game's far from over.  I wonder why these announcers haven't caught on to that yet?  Clueless.