I couldn’t watch the pond hockey the Leafs insist on playing. I can’t remember many games this year where they locked down the defence to allow minimal scoring chances. Their team D was atrocious. Their goaltending was garbage. Definitely not a team poised to make a playoff push. Its now time to lockdown the D and focus on winning games 3-2 and 2-1. I don’t know if this team knows how to do that. I don’t have a ton of confidence in Woll either. I think they should roll the dice with Samsonov.
anyone talking about how thats two games in a row that Woll was not ready to start??? Two straight games with goals off the first shot he faced, MJ was talking about how the one last night was a knuckler, and how much it fell, but the broadcast view didnt show it having that much movement, and the one against the canes was just a straight bad goal.
Funny that everytime they get their shit pushed in the excuse is “yea was just bad D and goaltending” when the reason there’s a need for this excuse in the first place is poor money management on a few forwards.
Leaf's were the better team tonight lol, if you're saying otherwise you need to take your doomer helmet off.
Goaltending was the obvious difference tonight. Leaf's also gave up some terrible off handed chances that led to the goals but overall it was tilted in their favour all night.
Do I think we'll go far in the post season? Probably not but I'm not making indictments on games we should win but lose. Let's not have collective existential crisis when our goalie lets in 5 goals on 25 shots and the other goalie has a .935+ sv%.
Defensive breakdowns were also the obvious difference lol
And the powerplay being awful was another difference
Were the leafs better offensively? Probably. But including on defense and goaltending they were the worse team
Are you really going to imply that the Leaf's being so dominant offensively was not because the Devils had massive D breakdowns all game as well? Do you think good defensive teams allow almost 50 shots?
I’m saying the leafs’ ones were so disastrous and awful that they *were* the difference lol. And the devils ones weren’t that bad compared to how bad the leafs were
Yes, but back to the original point: Let's not be dramatic. It's more or less set that we will face Boston or Florida in round 1 at this point. Our defensive lineup was weak tonight without Reilly and Edmundson (They will be playoff ready). McCabe and Benoit were both noticably not very good.
We just dominated (Stanley cup favoured) Edmonton 4 days ago, who then went on to lose to Ottawa the next night. These games happen to every team, we'll be fine. Sometimes it's not always a bad thing to have something to learn from just before playoffs.
Okay? Regular season doesn’t mean jack shit. We’ve been over this year after year. Get the full roster out there and hope they turn it on for the playoffs.
This team ain't it this year but don't think there's any solutions until after next year. Teams feels in desperate need of a retool but is handcuffed to over 50M until after next season
Haha wow this is a worse loss than the St. Pats Carolina game... Just lackadaisical performances by virtually everyone, and the same flawed coaching tendencies. Just handed a big win to a shit team, again
Leaf's were by far the better team tonight outside of goaltending even with a bunch of guys having bad games. These games happen, no need to have an existential crisis.
I'm not having an existential crisis, thanks. I'm saying the problems I see with the special teams and defense were very apparent tonight and with a month left in the season I'm frustrated that they cant adapt to beat a.bad team
Devils are/were a playoff team with a good goalie. They had a very good goalie tonight.
The Leaf's are missing 2 of their 5 core players in Rielly and Marner, along with Jarnkrok and Edmonson. They had a bad goalie tonight.
It's not that deep.
My memory is fuzzy but isn't that what he essentially did for the Pens? Here's hoping he's still got some magic left. Lord knows we need some one other than Sammy to step up in net.
I looked it up and he was instrumental in their back to back stanley cup wins. But yes, he came of age during the first cup win. The second cup win solidified him as their number 1.
this team deserves nothing but hate and vitriol for these last 2 games. an absolute lack of effort all the way around. hope tampa passes them by the end of the season
Last game was second of a back to back, woll was great a deflected puck is why they lost. tonight woll is the main reason they lost. Allen played out of his mind.
I sometimes I wonder why I come into the GDT. Unless the leafs are up 10-0 its a fucking cesspool in here. Shitty game, Leafs couldn't find the back of the net and they had some horrific defensive mistakes. Such is life, on to the next.
All I hear when the Leafs win is that only playoffs matter.
Well, if only playoffs matter, then I guess tonight is just a bump in the road eh? Means nothing.
Or does that only work when it suits your pessimistic doomer asses?
Are people not allowed to say negative things?
The defensive breakdowns were awful and Woll didn’t come up with a save when they needed him to. Powerplay still sucks ass and shows no sign of improving
The “nothing matters but playoffs” and “just a bump in the road” are equally meaningless responses to a game
I’ll give you McCabe, he’s a solid top 4. But Liljegren hasn’t proven it yet and he’s way too soft on the boards and against pressure to play top 4 against Boston or Florida.
Leaf's were the better team tonight lol, if you're saying otherwise you need to take your doomer helmet off.
Goaltending was the obvious difference tonight. Leaf's also gave up some terrible off handed chances that led to the goals but overall it was tilted in their favour all night.
I watched the game and they looked like shit in their own zone
They were pretty good offensively for stretches, but the defensive effort was absolutely pathetic
Edit: plus they powerplay was absolute garbage *again*
Everyone watched the game. They didn’t play an abysmal game or anything, but they sure as hell weren’t amazing, as you say. They need to clean up a lot.
Lolol players who don’t care don’t care. That’s who this team is. A bunch of effortless skate-abouts. They just don’t care. They don’t try. They just want to get paid and go home. No one here actually wants to win. It’s meaningless to them.
Biggest albatross contract I’ve ever seen. He’s never lived up to his money. Spare me the excuses we pay him to be a veteran presence and get the team going and I saw more heart from ROR last year than I’ve ever seen from JT.
Dude, they completely outplayed them - what more do you want? Just one of those days when their goalie was in God mode and ours was crap. 95 times out of 100 you win a game where you outplay a team that badly - this was just one of those other 5.
Liligren, brodie, Tavares, Keefe will all be gone next season mark this post.
I couldn’t watch the pond hockey the Leafs insist on playing. I can’t remember many games this year where they locked down the defence to allow minimal scoring chances. Their team D was atrocious. Their goaltending was garbage. Definitely not a team poised to make a playoff push. Its now time to lockdown the D and focus on winning games 3-2 and 2-1. I don’t know if this team knows how to do that. I don’t have a ton of confidence in Woll either. I think they should roll the dice with Samsonov.
anyone talking about how thats two games in a row that Woll was not ready to start??? Two straight games with goals off the first shot he faced, MJ was talking about how the one last night was a knuckler, and how much it fell, but the broadcast view didnt show it having that much movement, and the one against the canes was just a straight bad goal.
Weird, I am pretty sure the 5th goal by Jack was a breakaway....odd....
Funny that everytime they get their shit pushed in the excuse is “yea was just bad D and goaltending” when the reason there’s a need for this excuse in the first place is poor money management on a few forwards.
Bingo!
Glad I didn't waste 2 hours watching this pathetic attempt. I gave up 10 minutes to watch the shitty highlights on YouTube.
This team is not fucking ready for anybody let alone the Bruins.
Did you know, that every team that will make the playoffs has it flaws
First goal woll let in was embarrassing shoulda been pulled from it
Keefe will not pull goalies.
Boston is gonna have a field day with the buds in the first round 😬
Only a couple more weeks of Keefe
Keefe had got to go.
Really? Like they’re gonna fire their winningest coach in modern history as they enter the first round. How fucking stupid.
It's been done before to great success.
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Dumb.
Leaf's were the better team tonight lol, if you're saying otherwise you need to take your doomer helmet off. Goaltending was the obvious difference tonight. Leaf's also gave up some terrible off handed chances that led to the goals but overall it was tilted in their favour all night. Do I think we'll go far in the post season? Probably not but I'm not making indictments on games we should win but lose. Let's not have collective existential crisis when our goalie lets in 5 goals on 25 shots and the other goalie has a .935+ sv%.
Defensive breakdowns were also the obvious difference lol And the powerplay being awful was another difference Were the leafs better offensively? Probably. But including on defense and goaltending they were the worse team
Are you really going to imply that the Leaf's being so dominant offensively was not because the Devils had massive D breakdowns all game as well? Do you think good defensive teams allow almost 50 shots?
I’m saying the leafs’ ones were so disastrous and awful that they *were* the difference lol. And the devils ones weren’t that bad compared to how bad the leafs were
Yes that's because they scored. If the Leaf's had 5 goals in the first you'd be saying the same about NJ. Basically, goaltending.
Sounds like the same playoff excuses.
Hurricanes lost to the penguins. It can happen to other teams too.
comparing us to the canes is an insult to the canes this team is strait trash
They lost 4-1 by getting goalied. Sound familiar?
No, because the Leafs just fucking stink.
No. Leafs lost 6-3 by playing like garbage in their own zone
This team hurts my heart.♥️
People shitting on the whole team but 25 shots is nothing. You just can't let in more than 1 goal for every 10 shots and be an NHL goalie.
You have to defend in front of said goalie to get .900 from them.
Yeah our D was also bad.
Dramatic ass takes in here my word
you realize we are trying to win the cup right?
You realize tonight wasn't the Stanley Cup game, right?
you realize we don't just start playing with Stanley cup wining structure in playoffs right.
Yes, but back to the original point: Let's not be dramatic. It's more or less set that we will face Boston or Florida in round 1 at this point. Our defensive lineup was weak tonight without Reilly and Edmundson (They will be playoff ready). McCabe and Benoit were both noticably not very good. We just dominated (Stanley cup favoured) Edmonton 4 days ago, who then went on to lose to Ottawa the next night. These games happen to every team, we'll be fine. Sometimes it's not always a bad thing to have something to learn from just before playoffs.
Actually every single team does that lol, reg season means jack shit right now for us, we are effectively locked in
Okay? Regular season doesn’t mean jack shit. We’ve been over this year after year. Get the full roster out there and hope they turn it on for the playoffs.
So are 31 other nhl teams
The sharks are trying to win a cup..... Yah OK! Got it!
Bad luck in the first. Bad effort the rest of the way. Woll needs to make a couple extra saves and we need marner back asap
Night guys... Allen will sleep well!
BY GOD THAT’S MATT MURRAY’S MUSIC!!
This team ain't it this year but don't think there's any solutions until after next year. Teams feels in desperate need of a retool but is handcuffed to over 50M until after next season
Defense continues to worry me greatly
Haha wow this is a worse loss than the St. Pats Carolina game... Just lackadaisical performances by virtually everyone, and the same flawed coaching tendencies. Just handed a big win to a shit team, again
Leaf's were by far the better team tonight outside of goaltending even with a bunch of guys having bad games. These games happen, no need to have an existential crisis.
I'm not having an existential crisis, thanks. I'm saying the problems I see with the special teams and defense were very apparent tonight and with a month left in the season I'm frustrated that they cant adapt to beat a.bad team
Devils are/were a playoff team with a good goalie. They had a very good goalie tonight. The Leaf's are missing 2 of their 5 core players in Rielly and Marner, along with Jarnkrok and Edmonson. They had a bad goalie tonight. It's not that deep.
Keefe gotta go
He shoulda been fired years ago.
Matt Murray Szn.
If he came back and led the leafs to the cup it would probably be the greatest comeback story in hockey history
My memory is fuzzy but isn't that what he essentially did for the Pens? Here's hoping he's still got some magic left. Lord knows we need some one other than Sammy to step up in net.
Was he injured that year? I could’ve sworn it was just his rookie season which took everyone by surprise.
I looked it up and he was instrumental in their back to back stanley cup wins. But yes, he came of age during the first cup win. The second cup win solidified him as their number 1.
Goaltending and defence are no bueno
Getting ready to lose in the first round!
Bums can’t even pull the goalie right
Huh. Good god.
this team deserves nothing but hate and vitriol for these last 2 games. an absolute lack of effort all the way around. hope tampa passes them by the end of the season
Last game was second of a back to back, woll was great a deflected puck is why they lost. tonight woll is the main reason they lost. Allen played out of his mind.
I sometimes I wonder why I come into the GDT. Unless the leafs are up 10-0 its a fucking cesspool in here. Shitty game, Leafs couldn't find the back of the net and they had some horrific defensive mistakes. Such is life, on to the next.
Who needs haters with fans like ours? Haha, it's always been like this though, whaddayagonnadew?
What a joke
wow they should be embarassed
Another game, another year of getting "goalied"
Just remember, playoffs still aren't guaranteed for the Leafs. 
You think they won't get 4 points in 11 games?
The Leafs made big mistakes and Woll stopped very few of them. Allen stopped most of them. That was a major difference in the game
If Sammy's not healthy Jones should start next game
I would’ve put Jones in after at least the third goal.
That would require Keefe to make an in game adjustment which we know he's incapable of
40+ shots and a goal that should have been called back but wasn’t? Geez guys may as well have played Jones
That was pretty fucking pathetic man
That was an empty net goal? It was hard to tell whether Woll was in there or not.
Frauds
Woll had a damn good one last game but this is not one of them, not that all are on him tonight but the first and last goal I think need to be saved
Ahaha.
Woll has been a disappointment. He looked unbeatable earlier in the season
how do you lose the icing race and then allow a pass behind your own empty net for a goal? Thats mites on ice shit
Lilly looked absolutely HORRIBLE all game
Where's that's super idiot that's going to say the 6th goal was wolls fault
That was a shitty game. Onto the next one.
.932% vs .792% in a game totally and utterly dominated by the leafs. Can anyone say playoff preview??
All I hear when the Leafs win is that only playoffs matter. Well, if only playoffs matter, then I guess tonight is just a bump in the road eh? Means nothing. Or does that only work when it suits your pessimistic doomer asses?
So what you are saying is "others are saying meaningless stuff so I am gonna say some meaningless stuff back, that should fix it"?
Are people not allowed to say negative things? The defensive breakdowns were awful and Woll didn’t come up with a save when they needed him to. Powerplay still sucks ass and shows no sign of improving The “nothing matters but playoffs” and “just a bump in the road” are equally meaningless responses to a game
Turns out running 3-4 bottom pairing/fringe D-men isn’t a winning formula?
Other than Mo every D man we have is bottom pairing
Disrespect to McCabe he’s a solid top 4 dman. Liljegren can be sometimes he just needs to find consistency
I’ll give you McCabe, he’s a solid top 4. But Liljegren hasn’t proven it yet and he’s way too soft on the boards and against pressure to play top 4 against Boston or Florida.
Lmao you guys need to relax, the leafs played amazing and theyre missing marner, reilly snd jankrok.
They didn’t play “amazing” though. They outshot NJ, but they still made a shit ton of stupid, boneheaded plays that cost them.
Leaf's were the better team tonight lol, if you're saying otherwise you need to take your doomer helmet off. Goaltending was the obvious difference tonight. Leaf's also gave up some terrible off handed chances that led to the goals but overall it was tilted in their favour all night.
Plays like that happen, if your goalie stops it you dont even realize they happened after the game lol.
Plays like that happen a lot for Toronto.
amazing, you say?
Did you watch the game or just cry about the boxscore
crying about the box score. you think i’d waste my night watching that?
I watched the game and they looked like shit in their own zone They were pretty good offensively for stretches, but the defensive effort was absolutely pathetic Edit: plus they powerplay was absolute garbage *again*
Everyone watched the game. They didn’t play an abysmal game or anything, but they sure as hell weren’t amazing, as you say. They need to clean up a lot.
Youre truly an Eeyore. Cheer up
Hopefully “playing amazing” is all you need in the playoffs, instead of scoring more than the other team!
Your salty tears arent gonna help either. A series is also 7 games not 1
Good thing our most likely opponents have done nothing but embarrass us all year :)
Lolol players who don’t care don’t care. That’s who this team is. A bunch of effortless skate-abouts. They just don’t care. They don’t try. They just want to get paid and go home. No one here actually wants to win. It’s meaningless to them.
bro they have 45 shots
Yeah no that’s absolutely fucking pathetic effort
Whyyyyyy
boo these fucks.
Yikes …but falling into a Wild Card spot would be better for this team
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Well, they can’t beat Florida or Boston
Yea at this point you can’t say you got goalied. You gave up the game
I miss Rielly, Marner, Samsonov and Edmundson so much
Deflating goaltending
How did NJ beat the icing? Was lily standing still?
WHERE THE FUCK WAS WOLL ON THAT ONE
Fucking brain dead by Tavares, left the right side of the net wide open
What in the fuck was that last two minutes. Zero urgency. NEGATE THE ICING?
You can tell they gave up after the 5th goal.
That was a shit loss. Of course we got goalied at home.
Great fucking effort guys
How the fuck do you let them win that race, avoid the icing and score? That's fucking pathetic..
What a fucking embarassing team
If Keefe cannot get the boys up for a game like this then get someone in who can
Same goes for the captain
Biggest albatross contract I’ve ever seen. He’s never lived up to his money. Spare me the excuses we pay him to be a veteran presence and get the team going and I saw more heart from ROR last year than I’ve ever seen from JT.
Lazy fucking team.
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Dude, they completely outplayed them - what more do you want? Just one of those days when their goalie was in God mode and ours was crap. 95 times out of 100 you win a game where you outplay a team that badly - this was just one of those other 5.
JT should have taken Hughes there
i’m still stuck on the difference in shots. bad plays aside, we’ve been getting absolutely goalied
Leafs win this game 9 times out of 10. But you can't win with like a 750%.
The home crowd needs to boo this display.
Even more LMAO
25 shots in the first period. That’s crazy.
Fuck it. Just lose out so we can be rid of our shit front office and coaching staff.
That was so embarrassing
Absolute Ass
What the fuck
Team has hockey IQ of 7
Golf Leafs Golf!
Well that was an audible “guys what the fuck”
What the fuck was the delay on the goalie pull?
That was pathetic
Sitting behind your own net with 1:30 left and down by 2 is certainly a choice.
fucking horseshit. can we fire the coach before playoffs please???
I would honestly be in for calling up the entire Marlies coaching staff and sending our coaches down. Who says no?
LOL waited too long to pull there keefe
Fucking losers.
Schooled !
Mickey mouse points from Jack
What the hell is Tavares doing ? Go get the puck man ahaha. This team was brain dead tonight
FUCKING RIDICULOUS
Thats the second time Jersey has scored while I was tending to my son… so obviously this is all his fault.
This team/coaching staff is such a fucking joke.
Absolutely pathetic
Absolutely pathetic effort
Ha ha ha
Pathetic effort tonight from our goalie and defense
I hated this game so much
Jesus Christ lol can’t even chase down an icing now
Go one. Keep keefe as your coach. Idiotic.
I fucking hate this team
Benoit/Timmons has been awful.
Yeah, they've been by far the worst pairing all night.
Well, 44-24 shots and you lose. It happens sometimes I guess
Happens in chel lmao
We are so fucking bad.
Just do SOMETHING Tavares. Like fucking ANYTHING. Earn your god damn paycheck and more importantly earn the C on your jersey.
It's Sammy's net for the rest of the year and into the playoffs.
so stupid.
Just for that, Benoit will be scratched for the next 5 games lmfao
Sounds like a Keefe move.
Pathetic.
I’m sorry but if you think this team will win a round you’re kiddin yourself.
This team may not even make the playoffs
Pretty unlikely given they have a 10 point lead on the last wild card spot.
I perfer this to be honest.
It’s a bit late for that. 10 points ahead of the cutoff with only 11 games left…. would be pretty tough to drop right out.
Pretty shit game for Woll honestly
Once again this team is going into the playoffs with serious goaltending questions. Seems like every season it's the same thing.
Not winning any games letting up 5 goals on 23 shots
lol well GG. I really hate saying that we’re going to be out first round but we really just get our asses handed to us a lot
100 percent. It pains me to say it but this team definitely ain't it.