2-0 Toronto. Tucker and Wellwood with the goals, both on the Powerplay.
The Leafs must contiue to take advantage of the Sabres' undisciplined play.
The Leafs must contiue to take advantage of the Sabres' undisciplined play.
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When I saw the conference with Maurice, I thought "poor man, he's finally lost it". Does anyone else think he sounded a bit... 'off key'. :dunno:
Hehe.
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/teams/news_story.asp?ID=185562&hubName=nhl-maple_leafs
Anyway, about the game: it was a tough loss.
In all honesty, I think the Leafs let one get away. McCabe was brutal, absolutely brutal. That empty goal by Briere where he couldn't do zilch was just icing on his cake of mediocre play.
The 1st goal was his penalty, and the 2nd was just vintage McCabe. The "swiss cheese one-knee'er" came into play again, and Novotny was let all alone in the slot. I saw it coming long before it happened. Someone has to tell him that it doesn't work. He's been doing it for years. Where on earth did he develop such habits from?
$$$!
Of course, I can't not blame Raycroft on the game-winner. He actually played a pretty good game. As usual in blowouts like this, he couldn't be blamed for most of the goals.
The 1st and 3rd are more examples. The 1st, not one was down low. A common complaint during Pat Quinn's tenure.
The 3rd was the Leafs playing as if they were down to 3 men rather than 4 on the penalty kill.
The 4th, Stajan should of had Campbell there. Sorry, but that was a terrible goal.
Inconsistency is beginning to creep back into the team's play, and they lost huge ground on Buffalo just from that 1 loss.
I will admit, they start off well, and there were some bright spots like O'Neill and of course Tucker, but on a whole, they just didn't get it together.
The media and like will be saying "Thriller" and all those cliche line to hide the facts and rally Leaf nation, but what happened out there happened out there. It is what it is: Buffalo didn't have to do nearly as much for their goals as Toronto did - no crashing the net and running over Rayzor like Toronto, nothing. Just wait in the slot, and the story hasn't changed from the last few years. It was beginning to this year, but only inconsistently has the team been solid defencively.
In the end it costed them. The only thing the Leafs got was that own-goal from Ryan. No offence, b
Hehe.
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/teams/news_story.asp?ID=185562&hubName=nhl-maple_leafs
Anyway, about the game: it was a tough loss.
In all honesty, I think the Leafs let one get away. McCabe was brutal, absolutely brutal. That empty goal by Briere where he couldn't do zilch was just icing on his cake of mediocre play.
The 1st goal was his penalty, and the 2nd was just vintage McCabe. The "swiss cheese one-knee'er" came into play again, and Novotny was let all alone in the slot. I saw it coming long before it happened. Someone has to tell him that it doesn't work. He's been doing it for years. Where on earth did he develop such habits from?$$$!
Of course, I can't not blame Raycroft on the game-winner. He actually played a pretty good game. As usual in blowouts like this, he couldn't be blamed for most of the goals.
The 1st and 3rd are more examples. The 1st, not one was down low. A common complaint during Pat Quinn's tenure.
The 3rd was the Leafs playing as if they were down to 3 men rather than 4 on the penalty kill.
The 4th, Stajan should of had Campbell there. Sorry, but that was a terrible goal.
Inconsistency is beginning to creep back into the team's play, and they lost huge ground on Buffalo just from that 1 loss.
I will admit, they start off well, and there were some bright spots like O'Neill and of course Tucker, but on a whole, they just didn't get it together.
The media and like will be saying "Thriller" and all those cliche line to hide the facts and rally Leaf nation, but what happened out there happened out there. It is what it is: Buffalo didn't have to do nearly as much for their goals as Toronto did - no crashing the net and running over Rayzor like Toronto, nothing. Just wait in the slot, and the story hasn't changed from the last few years. It was beginning to this year, but only inconsistently has the team been solid defencively.
In the end it costed them. The only thing the Leafs got was that own-goal from Ryan. No offence, b
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