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Matthews > smelly finns

Matthews will win the calder unlike other busts who didnt (Crosby and McDavid)

Everyone apologize to Roy

And Torts while you're at it

>non leafs fans will never truly appreciate how good mathews is as a playmaker and puckhandler and only judge him by stats

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I hope that idiot i was arguing with the other day just witnessed how Brown is elite and better than hymen

PP incoming

Yes but he has good stats too most points on the team and 10 goals in the last 13

Brown is good, def a middle 6 winger and plays well with Thews

>play nylander and mathews at the same time
>tons of goal scoring chances
>never play willy on his line

why does babs hate willy?

who the fuck argued hyman is better than brown, that sounds like 100% bait

They play together on the PP so there will obviously be more chances.

But I agree Babs isnt a fan of Willy lately but we can only speculate about that.

They werent i had to btfo them multiple times everyone knows that Brown is elite. Not trying to knock Hymen he is good defensively

>hymen has a good offensive chance 3 times a game
>shits the bed everytime

FUCK if Hyman could do anything with the 50 gifts Matthews gives him every game he'd have 15 goals and Matthews would have so many more assists.

>roman polak going to guarantee us another second round pick

3-0, not even done the first. As long as we don't see a 4-1 lead, the Laffs are golden.

is he just going to take 1 year deals with us forever? I mean hes a solider and knows his role but we need to give some ice time to younger guys and see what they can give us.

>mfw Noaln Patrick is a fucking bust and the Avs are going to draft him

I get that Willie needs to be disciplined a bit because of his goal against vs. Anaheim, but why was Marner not disciplined for costing us the last game vs. the Avs when he passed the puck right to Comeau and he scored the empty netter? Why was Hyman not punished for taking that penalty last game leading to the GWG?

We can trade for 2nds for ever

Watching a TSN broadcast is a good reminder that i actually hate sportsnet

Are there any Avs fans in here? This team made the playoffs a couple years ago wtf happened they are playing like shit and its not like they have a really bad roster

avs fans were retarded bandwagoners.

one of them got so buttblasted last year when i said their mgmt was worse in the league

MOVE COLORADO TO SEATTLE

I still don't like Dreger's 1000 yard stare.

I cant prove it but I think hes a serial killer

what do you guys think happens with our 3 best prospects in kapanen, brooks, and bracco? Kapanen i assume will get a chance with the team next year, do brooks and bracco both go to the marlies?

So is that retard who thought we shouldve drafted Hanifin still around

I think there were multiples tards saying that. Everytime they would quote marners height he would get smaller

>brooks

it's kapanen, nielsen, bracco, in that order

kapanen does have a real good chance to make the team, especially if JVR is traded. Bracco will make the Marlies, he won't make the team just to be put on the 4th line with Nylander, Marner, Brown ahead of him at RW. DIfferent story if Nylander can start at C next season but I'm getting the vibe Babs doesnt like him there.

there was this one moron who was relentlessly negative saying mark hunter and the leafs were still a retarded organization, should've drafted hanifin etc. he didn't like nylander either

he completely mixed up nylander and marner's height/weight and didn't realize nylander had been playing center for the marlies

brooks has 53 points in 25 games, regardless of muh overager meme

Probably a cherry baby
>Don Cherry is still but ravaged about Leafs not picking good ontariah boy nik ritchie

yeah, nah, I'll take Nielsen over that guy easily.

He couldn't even make a Marlies team running shit like Froese and Colin Smith in the middle. Not gonna give him the benefit of the doubt.

Any thoughts on guys like Dermott and Korshkov?

>you now remember Iginla is on this terrible avs team
>he will never win a cup
Why.

korshkov was having a real good season comparable to some of the KHL guys who've come over here (panarin, kucherov etc) until he got injured. Dermott looks like the next Matt Finn to me tho tbqh.

Grundstrom is my dark horse

>Matt Finn
Dark times I remember a time when he was our best prospect. Never again

I like Korshkov a lot I really think he's going to pan out big like a lot of those guys coming from the K recently (Panarin/Zaitsev/Radulov). Its a shame you say that about Dermott I really want him to pan out, a bunch of my friends played with him growing up.

My dark horse is Timashov

This thread is comfy af with actual hockey talk. Why cant all threads be like this

not all threads can be leaf threads user

>allowing a fucking leaf team to score on you

wew lads

JAMES

VAN

BULLDYKE

because we are usually down a goal at this point despite putting 40 shots on goal

JVRRRRR

When people are fans of different clubs it always devolves into a shit show. Here its all leafs fans so we can chill and talk leafs which I am really enjoying.

Also

4-0

JVRRRRRRRRR

thats right you build that trade value babby

that's cool man, honestly I hope I'm wrong, I just get that vibe from dermott. I like Timashov too, seems like he's had a bit of difficulty adjusting to the AHL this season but that's to be expected.

I remember that time well, I'm still bitter about it. I really thought this kid was going to be a stud for us. Taught me a good lesson not to get too invested in prospects unless they're top 10 guys.

I watched the memorial cup he played in thinking he was gonna turn out well
I dont wanna trade him anymore :(

Fuck I still havent learned that lesson I'm 100% invested in all our prospects. Very exciting time except for no blue chip defence prospects

My dream would be to finish 20-24 and pull a Winnipeg to win 2nd OA - take that Swede D Liljegren or whatever his name is

he might've been at least an NHLer if his skating wasn't total garbage. It wasn't as noticeable in the OHL but it was in the AHL. He's playing in the ECHL now.

do you want to give a 30 year old JVR a 5 or 6 year deal?

all our best prospects are wingers and JVRs value will never be higher, it sucks but trading him is for the greater good.

THE GOOOOOAAAAAT

thats exactly what I want I drafted him in NHL 17 and he was great.
If not him I really want the leafs to get a dman in the first 2 rounds

THE GOAT

>that avs fan after the goal

yup thats gonna be a meme

GOAT

>that guys face
kek

Gauthier scored but the pick for him was still stupid picking a player that projected as a 3rd line centre in the first

I'd love Liljegren, Foote or hell even Hague

also it's fitting considering all this prospect talk that the goat just scored

>Why did I bring my son to see this. Why?

Why is Toronto so DOMINANT?

Anyone catch screenshot?

so is goatier going to stay on the team after bozak and ben smith are healthy?

I'm hoping his play allows Babs to forget about his hardon for Smith

Ya D should be the first priority, then goaltending but that market is so fucked that there is almost no pressure to draft a goalie when so many franchise goalies get traded and the price seems to be a mid to late 1st.
I like him over Smith tbqh

foolish goy dont you understand faceoff wins are THE most important stat in hockey

I'm loving that we basically ended up getting Andersen from the Kessel trade.

can nylander play on kadris wing?

10:1 leafs lose in SO

Please keep scoring, I want this team to be blown out so bad they have to be blown up.

Iginla deserves better than this. How do we save him?

Jeez what a save

Do we have any good names for Andersen

STOP
How did they become so shit

Does that guy who typed poorly and was a huge leafs homer still post here? Seemed like english was his second language

Honestly no playoff teams are going to want him, he was a PP specialist last year (detrimental on 5v5) and this year his shot % is lowest of his career, shots he put in last season he's missing by a mile.

Massive drop offs from Iginla, Barrie, Beauchemin, Soderberg, Mitchell, basically the entire team but those guys in particular have dropped off the planet.

Like they're all buyout tier besides Barrie and his value had to drop significantly so far this year.

On top of that none of the core young players have ever improved or stepped up from their draft years.

I thought barrie was good tho did he just get a good contract and stop giving a shit

Possible, been awful this season. I think he leads the league in shot attempts that get blocked, he's been worse than ever defensively, and to be honest I do wonder if it's a thing with this team that all of our young core members are signed for so long that they just don't give a shit.

holy shit you guys are the new oilers

Avs have been my west team for years pls dont be shit

>its a leafs sit back and give up after taking a huge lead episode
>not passing it to mathews every time to stat pad

REEEEEEE fuck this team

>its a leafs sit back and give up after taking a huge lead episode

every team is like that dude

Yeah except we're drafting a C+ player instead of a generational talent thing.

Don't worry about it, this team and core is done. I'd honestly be surprised if we're able to trade any of them without taking some salary.

I mean Duchene is about to be 26 and have 8 years in the NHL. Team isn't even young anymore.

it's funny because i think you're basically getting another duchene level player. but that's a good thing, you don't make team canada without being good.

Holy fuck the avs are so bad what the fuck are these penalties they are taking

...

imagine hyman had either a shot or good hands

do any of you guys post on mapleleafhotstove?

His hands are stone thats why he can dig pucks out of anywhere

you know, ive spent a lot of time with us being shit in the last decade. Have we ever been actually worse than this?

kek the Avs in studio analyst

>You ever seen a guy cooking a salmon on a grill and he keeps flipping it the salmon and you think "Boy I'd really like to eat that salmon now" and he cooks it for another 15 minutes and then you gotta eat it and it's like rubber. That's the feeling right now, overcooked salmon, rubbery, and you just want to get through the dinner. This is rough folks.

An actual quote

That's perfect.

pretty good

>tfw you sat through every second of the kings 7-0 win

>It's just too easy to play against this team
>They look awful
>When the paper says your embarrassing, then come out and be twice as embarrassing, that says something
>GOAT trackers!

10/10 commentary.

Lmao accurate

This is why i miss tsn over the shit sportsnet coverage

Scott Wheeler @scottcwheeler
36m
When Frederik Gauthier is lighting up your NHL team, it’s not going well for you.

what a shitty take by this asshole

>one goal
>lighting up

Not really - look at the history really over the past over decade.

>2003
>Roy Retires
>Sign Kariya and Selanne (anyone remember this?)
>Look like an all star team
>Nothing goes right
>Injuries, bad coaching
>Blown out in the playoffs by the shorks
>Lockout next season
>Lose the entire season
>Come back with a salary cap
>Avs really tough against it
>Bonuses signed years ago for Blake and Sakic magically count against the cap
>Lose Forsberg, Foote that off season
>Replace them with Tyler Arnason and Breisbois
>Mediocre bubble team for the next 5 years
>Young stars just fizzle away like Svatos
>Draft picks are all busts like Wolski
>Sakic snowblower and retires
>Tank for Duchene
>Make playoffs and think there's light
>Suck more
>Get Landeskog and MacKinnon
>Roy comes back to coach
>Win hardest division
>Meme'd outta playoffs
>Think "Oh great we're gonna be good again"
>Drop worse and worse ever year

>PP

please just pass to mathews, we're shit on the PP anyway