Wild vs. Leafs - Mar. 15th, 7:30pm - SN

[Bender]

How did no one just clock Zuccarello after that? Sit tf down.

 

[herman]

That’s a reasonable trade off (McCabe/ Kaprizov)

 

[Bender]

Lol that was dumb.

 

[herman]

Put Groulx on PP1 you cowards

 

[herman]

Mo saved a goal there

 

[herman]

The ever reliable Simon Benoit botching a won DZ faceoff exit lol

Oh good Wild back in it; tank you

Tarasenko strikes for back to back goals in less than a minute

 

[Bender]

This is more like what I expected. Good job screening Stolie Rielly!

 

[L K]

700 points for Tarasenko

 

[herman]

700 points for Tarasenko

Do you think he hated Berube

 

[herman]

McCabe blocked a shot with his ribs and is off to the dressing room.

The Tank demands MOAR BENOIT

Edit: McCabe is back already

 

[herman]

Dang it, Knies, y

 

[Joe S.]

I mean I get the want for the tank, I'm there as well, but it's nice to see Stolarz not sucking and maybe building up some trade value.

 

[herman]

When Groulx gets the belt tonight (if the Leafs win), it would be really fun to have that photo taken with Lalonde, wearing his nice gray scarf

https://twitter.com/x/status/2033369086525100252

I was thinking of yarn knitwear, not Calle Järnkrok

 

[dappleganger]

This is making the decision call up no one all year all the more indictable on the coach and GM

This front office is not good at pro-scouting.

 

[herman]

This front office is not good at pro-scouting.

I think they're ok at it; but their directives tend to be off-mark (scouts instructed to chase something ultimately ineffective) and then their coaching deployment sewers whatever potential there might be if they do find a gem (Steeves, etc).

Under Dubas, they had significant alignment on the type of player to pursue and got a lot of cheapos that were effective in those attributes (puck skills); however, they basically ignored off-puck abilities like persistent and consistent forechecking, hence the difficulties in the playoffs when too much puckholding, especially by smaller players, is kind of a liability. They chased it with depth D and Fs that didn't really have the right play system to excel (cycle breaking and forechecking can't be a solo-effort).

Under Treliving, most of the supporting depth in the prospect pipeline weren't geared in the direction he and Berube wanted to go, and in this second season together, there's significant misalignment between GM and Coach (and with player leaders -- see how the team has forechecky jump every time Matthews is off). The guys that the GM brought in are generally not being used where they can be effective for the team (Laughton, Cowan, Steeves, trying Marlies in general). Most effective players this year seem to be the ones that are too new to know the coaching (early Stecher, Groulx), or are ambivalent to the coaching (Nylander). Pro-scouting ain't fixing that.

 

[Joe S.]

This front office is not good at pro-scouting.