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Miles_Togo

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Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 31, 2020 at 12:14 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 14, 2020 at 11:07 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 14, 2020 at 11:15 a.m.
Thread: Brian Burke thinks Leafs should trade Nylander for another Defenseman Y or N
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Barilko14</b></div><div>There core is young. They now have a coach that's on the same page as the GM (as far as roster construction and playing style), and the coach isn't starting half way through the season.

They've improved their defence. They added some different elements to their forward group. They have solid depth (in terms of NHL options at every position).

All these ingredients can lead to an improved team. There are obviously no guarantees in sports.

But to write them off because they didn't move a young talented forward in order to upgrade from Justin Holl to _______ doesn't make much sense to me.

I can see several routes to improvement, if you can't then I guess we disagree.</div></div>

They’re a solid team as you described. I’m writing them off as a stanley cup contender, because literally everything the leafs have done on the ice over the last few years has indiciated they are not a contender.
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 7, 2020 at 9:44 a.m.
Thread: My pick for SC champs this year
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Miles_Togo</b></div><div>That was an emotional reaction to an embarrassing loss. It had nothing to do with team strategy which was, until that loss, to bring him in.

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quote:</div>And if you don't think it wasn't great goaltending I'm done. Leafs had a team shooting% of like 2 over the series. That's hilarious.</div>

The Leafs' didn't have a team shooting% of 2% over the series, although no doubt this lie is going to live forever. They had a shooting percentage of 5.3%. Yes, their 5v5 shooting percentage was low (against both goalies), but their shooting percentage outside of 5v5 was high (again against both goalies) - high among all playoff teams, higher than they had during the regular season and that completely destroys the fantasy that the Leafs' went up against great goaltending. They didn't. They went up against average goaltending If you were actually compare the Leafs' 152 5v5 shots against Columbus against the 5v5 shots from a period of regular season it was easy to see that the quality of 5v5 shots by the Leafs in the playoffs were completely dreadful.

In game 5, Auston Matthews attempts a backhand shot clearly aiming for a top corner, but the D gets his stick on Matthews' stick almost completely stopping the shot which then dribbles the 20 or 30 centimeters to the goalies pads at such an anemic pace that the average blind-folded 3-year-old would have stopped with ease - ohhh look at the super amazing goaltending.

Matthews follows that up with a "shot" 1 second later where he pushes his stick with minimal force (again being stopped by the opposing D's stick) against the goalie's pad and touches the puck in the process - ohhhh look at the super amazing goaltending.

Both those are considered high danger CFs by the advanced stats gurus.

Columbus simply destroyed the Leafs at 5v5. This was well known at the time of series to anyone who watched the game, but since advanced stats goofs who don't understand the game have tried to change narrative. It is just one more reason why they should be completely ignored.</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>DJSums17</b></div><div>The young players demanded top dollar (often beyond top dollar) before they had accomplished anything. Dubas took the job. I don't think that their age is any excuse at all.

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quote:</div>Both are learning and I trust Dubas considering he took a team in 2013 that has the most embarrassing loss in franchise history to what the team is now.</div>

I think that you are looking at this with ridiculously rose-coloured and biased glasses. Yes, the loss in 2013 was embarrassing - but was a completely inexperienced team that hadn't made the playoffs in 7 years. This current team is far more embarrassing. Ridiculously highly paid players who don't care. A team that loses to their own zamboni driver. A team which fails to make the playoffs - something that no one would have even thought was possible 2 years before.

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quote:</div>It took a global pandemic to make the Leafs to miss the playoffs. Under normal circumstances no way the Leafs miss. </div>

Again, I think that you are looking at this with ridiculously rose-coloured glasses. This team had stunk all season long. They were tied for 8/9th spot in the conference at the time of the pause (and had they lost that final game - a game they won 2 - 1 scoring in the third period - they would have been tied for 10/11th and Florida would been in the third spot in the division). They had been in a months long battle with Florida to see which team could suck more fall out of the #3 spot in the division (and therefore out of the playoffs). The team was so embarrassing that management had given up on improving the team at the trade deadline. They had just finished a California road trip in which they lost to all three of the worst teams in the western conference (getting out-scored 3 - 8 in the process). The day before the pause there was no confidence coming from almost anyone that this team was going to make the playoffs.

Then of course with some time off the Toronto fanbase goes into a state of delirium again and believes that the Leafs' are going to blow Columbus out of the water - and instead the team sucked again. Sucked badly. It wasn't amazing goaltending they lost to. They got completely outplayed by a team with heart. A team that would give anything to win every battle vs a team that was fine with losing every battle.

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quote:</div>Sure they rushed Sandin but he could handle it there's a difference. Sandin looked young not out of place.</div>

They didn't just rush Sandin - they put him in a position in which he was guaranteed to fail, to lose confidence, and when they had the chance to dramatically improve that situation (signing Bogo) they refused to do so. Unlike last offseason when Sandin was one of the first players training in Toronto long before camp started (as is the case with Robertson this off-season), he has stayed in Sweden. He knows that he and Lilly have been completely buried on the depth chart. It tells me a lot about how badly the Leafs have completely ****ed up his development (something that was easy to see coming, but which rose-coloured glasses fans refused to see) and what he thinks about his chances of making this team and his future with the team (or lack of a future as far as I am concerned).</div></div>

If the team was only thinking about winning now they would've picked up Bogo at the deadline and play Sandin regularly. Yes 2013 was inexperienced yet a team that is like half of the age of the 2013 team. But sure. I thought we'd beat CBJ not crush them. And if you don't think it wasn't great goaltending I'm done. Leafs had a team shooting% of like 2 over the series. That's hilarious.[/quote]

Wow man. I would just probably stop or have stopped a long time ago <a href="/users/DJSums17" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@DJSums17</a>, <a href="/users/Miles_Togo" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@Miles_Togo</a> seems to be winning this argument. He’s been replying to each comment one by one and been picking them apart with examples, stats, proof and logic. You seem to be fighting a losing battle. Jump off the ship!!