uncus
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Absolutely agree,
Nylanders hold out and horrible play for the first 30 games is part of the problem, but he has began to show the promise and talent levels many of you supported.
Some of babcocks actions seem to be grasping at straws, and I wonder if he is beginning to panicked. The cliff comes up fast in this league.
But dubas has to take as much blame for the contractual mess with willie, and choices to keep up sparks (although I understand their decision to keep him). Soneone on the inside should have seen the glaring weaknesses he has.
Also it was dubas who wouldnt get more depth dmen in case of injuries like the leafs have recently endured.
I dont understand why dubas gets a free pass on everything.
Reilly is fantastic, but even he is having problems defensively, looking for outlet passes when all 3 forwards are at the opposition blue line, and the dman has 3 guys on him. This is on babcock and his system. It seems to be broke.
Zaitsev is looking more and more like a number 6 dman and on the pk, he looks slow and lost and cant seem to control the opps on the boards.
Hainsey is getting old, and he cant be sent out to do 1st line duties anymore. I would say I understand the minutes because of injuries, but this has been going on all year.
Send anderson home for a week. Give him time to regroup and rest.
Matthew's is a beast, and yes he has lost some important faceoffs, which directly resulted in goals but that happens.
Willie is getting more dangerous each game, and tavares is doing a good tavares.
Marner and his play have stayed fairly.constant, in the upper end of the league.
The forth line has been maybe the leafs best line of late, good on them.
Kadri has become a shadow of his former self. This isnt a result of the past injury, no, this has been a year long thing.
He has been horrible.
It seems to be the support forwards like brown and hyman and even johnsson who have had bit of a difficult time.
The injuries to the dmen (really has exposed how weak the defence for the leafs really is, and may answer why babcock continues to use the players that he does).
I dont understand why they dont bring up some new blood to try and help kickstart this thing.
The one positive I would have to point out is that if the leafs had to pick a time to have a bit of a skid, this isnt the ideal time
Washington, pittsburgh, chicago have all had these little skids in their Stanley cup years.
Things will sort themselves out once they get dermot and one of the kids up here.
Holl has no business in this league, sorry but he sucks.
Zaitsev sucks and he is killing the pk.
Marincin has played better lately, but still a fringe number 7 in this league.
Oz, this yushkevich clone is simply not Dimitri, some seems wrong with this guy.
Finally, this is a good time to see how the players react and how they deal with the situation.
Teeds, I agree, there does seem to be something wrong when the players cant even put in an effort to start a game.
That aspect isnt on babcock or dubas , it is all on the players.
We will see the coming week if this is just another step to success, or a 18 wheeler going off the cliff.
Roflmao ..... if it becomes an 18 wheeler, watch LA get the number one pick in the draft because the leafs missed the playoffs by 1 points lolololol
Talent doesnt always mesh well with other high end talent. But something does seem to be broken.
Funny how other teams that have an impending large contractual focus on one of their main players can pull a whole team down in the dumps ..... the leafs had/have 3 this season, nylander, Matthew's and marner, this could be part of the problem too ..... jmho
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