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1st Rnd '25 Playoffs: The Battle of Ontario V - More of the Same - LFG!

I mean Green is handling the media well, as is Tkachuk - and they've got 2 games at home to try and even the series.

But if you want to expose your players to a real playoff experience, they need to understand the unreasonable expectations of fans and media every second of every day IMO.
I loathe the sens. Bunch of whiners and divers and cheap shot artists.
 
Forwards 5v5


DZS%-OZS%

1. Greig +17.3
2. Marner +11.2
3. Matthews +10.9

xGF% REL

1. Holmberg +10.0
2. Stutzle +8.9
3. Giroux +8.1
4. Matthews +6.1

P1/60

1. Gaudette 4.08
2. Robertson 3.16
3. Laughton 2.46
4. Cozens 2.30
5. Domi 2.30
6. Nylander 2.03
7. Matthews 1.97

ixG/60

1. Tkachuk 1.55
2. Holmberg 1.32
3. Matthews 1.10

iBLK/60

1. Robertson 12.63
2. Gaudette 12.24
3. Matthews 9.83

iTK/60

1. Matthews 5.90
2. Knies 3.63
3. Perron 2.67

FO+/-/60

1. Matthews 11.80
2. Domi 6.90
3. Cozens 6.89



5v4

P/60

1. Marner 29.36
2. Matthews 19.67
3. Tavares 19.51

iXG/60

1. Matthews 9.83
2. Knies 7.41
3. Cozens 7.25
So Auston and Mitch are getting insane d usage against a very good top line, and have positive xgf and 7 points points in 2 games.

F u Shelly queef.
 
I loathe the sens. Bunch of whiners and divers and cheap shot artists.
This iteration of the Sens is particularly annoying. Not worth the energy getting actually mad at them, but annoying? 🙄Need their noses properly bloodied so they'll legitimately have something to mewl about.
 
So Auston and Mitch are getting insane d usage against a very good top line, and have positive xgf and 7 points points in 2 games.

F u Shelly queef.

But...imagine how well we would be doing if Kampf was getting that usage instead
 
I hope they somehow have been injected with a strong dose of killer instinct 'cause that's what needs to be applied now.
 
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With the blowout gm1 it's hard to tell exactly how he's going to use them in competitive games.

well, not THAT hard tbh.... we could just look at last night only:

Matthews 31.0toi%, +11.5dzs%
Tavares 28.7toi%, -9.1dzs%
Domi 23.1toi%, -22.2dzs%
Laughton 19.8toi%, +5.3dzs%

of course doing that against the Sens doesn't mean he'd do that against the Panthers.

But obviously we've never seen Matthews used like this as the actual matchup defensive C, even though he's obviously a defensive monster.

The Kampf usage in 2022 was insane obviously, but almost as weird was last year choosing to use Tavares in defensive usage instead of Matthews. Though i guess maybe Matthews' mystery injury played into that.
 
This Series 5v5, from Natural Stattrick:

TOR up 2+: 52:46, TOR 16.4xgf% - OTT 83.6xgf%
TOR up 1: 34:14, TOR 67.4xgf% - OTT 32.6xgf%
Tie Game: 19:14, TOR 69.2xgf% - OTT 30.8xgf%
OTT up 1: 0:00
OTT up 2+: 0:00
 
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