Hard to see that happening with Pettersson as his linemates. A lot of his goals are deflections/net front tap ins which inflate his shooting percentage. It’s not like he is getting super lucky shooting the puck. I think he will slow down to a 15-17% which could still net him 30 a season

How did the Leafs let the Canucks score 2 short handed goals and on the same powerplay? The worst penalty kill in the NHL scoring 2 short handed on you should be enough to fold your franchise

Canooks are mastering the tank w/ 4-1 'tanking' of the Leafs!
Or is that 'spanking', I'm confused LOL...

Jeez

Can’t wait for Demko to carry us to the 15th overall pick

What the fu*k

What happened in the game before that? Because Stillman looked like he's doing his best to pick up an instigator penalty, then got rocked. In a game his team is up 3-1. Why go in that situation? Especially the way he so badly wanted it. Is he an idiot or am I missing badly needed context?

As a member of the "Quinn is Overrated" club, I must say beating Leech is quite impressive.

Pass Montreal and Florida plz

wanted to get the boys going i guess

We're going to have to adapt to being on the PK more with the addition of more physicality in the lineup. Tampa and Boston have consistently been around the top 10 of PIM for years (this season tampa 5 and boston 11, toronto 22nd) cause there's going to be more scrums so more roughing penalties more instigators in response to big hits. No more just ZAR alone in scrums or gio jumping on guys' backs. This team needs to work on their penalty killing and use it as momentum. 1000% tampa and toronto is going to be in a bunch of scrums again but this year I predict a lot more fights breaking out. Gonna be a fun series to watch

are toast!

Remember in playoffs guys like these wont be penalized as playoff games are different where physicality is encouraged

And Leafs have 0 issue PKing lul

Remember game 1 last year 5 min major they killed it and almost score 2 times short handed

The last series had a crazy amount of penalties but maybe that's just a one off cause round 2 the whistles went away. True scrums maybe not but I could see Maroon and Perry chirping with Accari and Schenn, tampa's lowkey dirty so now that we got guys willing to step up will they take that? I think Point fights sometimes, rarely stamkos, but sergachev, maroon, perry, jeannot, colton, paul, hagel, eyissmont vs McCabe, Schenn where i think he fought a lot during tampas run including matt martin, accari, o'reilly?, gio

Mojo goal

In today’s news:
Bruins extend win streak to 10
Sabres remain in the hunt with win over Lightning
Islanders continue to separate themselves from the other wildcards with win over Redwings
Stars tighten hold over central division with dominating performance vs Avs
Race for second wild card spot intensifies more with Panthers win over Pens
Capitals absolutely dominate after being down 2-0 against sharks winning 8-3
Sens remain in race as Columbus continues race for Bedard
Jets snap 5 game losing streak as central continues to be the most chaotic division in hockey
The maple leafs do what they do best and lose to another basement dweller
Preds beat Blackhawks which is a such a big shock I know?

Actual fights in playoffs go down.
A fighting instigator could put your team down for 2-min and even mucker-grinders don't want to sit for 5-min in a best of 7.

For sure scrums & "Why-I-Oughta's" go up to another level ^ ^ ^

Whistles went away game 5 games 1-4 penalties, 5-7 barely anything as thats playoffs

As thats how it works

In games 5 to 7 u need to either flip the puck over the glass, hit someone in the face with a stick, or to many men thats about it

yea that florida tampa series was fun trying to infer this series would be like that



dont forget setting picks haha aw

How does Boston keep winning lol

Last Dance Equation

Basically

Know times coming up before guys retire + Division getting tougher = Need to win now

Or did the formula change

Jeannot laid a dirty hit from behind on one of the Lybushkin in the boards earlier.

They score more goals than the other team.

This is the optimal solution.

The Oilers don't need to find a netminder to wint them games. They have the most offensively-gifted forward core in the league to do that. They need one that won't actively lose them games. Anything with a pulse and a save percentage a hair over .900 would be a massive upgrade.

One of the other blogs I frequent ran some numbers if Edmonton had Talbot - who on all accounts is underperforming in Ottawa - and the difference sees Edmonton with somehing like 88 points. This is an astronomically good team that's being let down by the actual worst regular goaltender in Oilers history.