LongtimeLeafsufferer
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Will Gardiner be a Leafs Dman next year? I just wish he was a Dman last night. Good chance he will be Leaf next year, but he won't be resigned for sure. Trouble with Jake he he will play 41 good/very good games and then 41 bad/very bad games/. So a coach who can figure out which games he sits for half the season is a genius.
I've mentioned in previous posts but here it goes again. Leafs leading 4-3. Teams are playing 4 on 4. Babcock had two wingers playing. Marleau, a non centre takes the draws, loses it to Krejeci, and Kruk scores immediately.
For all the line matching the "genius" Babcock does, doesn't he know you need a centre on the ice at all times. The game was lost on that tying goal. It might have been lost anyway, but Babcock and his game management is at time just awful.