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DownTown Sports on YouTube, @TSNHockey & @Sportscentre . Above average slo-pitch player. Seneca Journalism Alumni. Sports are for everyone
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If the Leafs beat Tampa, I will shave my head completely bald and donate $150 to Sick Kids. Make me do it, cowards
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Leafs now have
KHL Dman of the year
QMJHL Dman of the year finalist
OHL Dman of the year
WJC best Dman of the tourney
Oh, Muzzin and Rielly too.
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The Maple Leafs set franchise records in points & finished 4th in the NHL with sub .900 goaltending for half the year. The way they’re being talked about today is ridiculous
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I can’t remember the time a goalie for the Toronto Maple Leafs stole a playoff game. It wasn’t pretty but Samsonov was damn good tonight
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If the Leafs beat Tampa, I will shave my head completely bald and donate $150 to Sick Kids. Make me do it, cowards
@MapleLeafs
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Leon Draisaitl had a 10 goal lead on Auston Matthews for the Rocket race entering the month of December.
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Mitch Marner and Auston Matthews are both on pace to crack 100 points this year. The Maple Leafs have never had two players with 100+ points ever.
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In a 10-7 win, Rasmus Sandin and Ilya Lyubushkin played 15:33 of TOI together and were on the ice for 1 GF and 0 GA. God bless them.
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Cole Caufield is the best 40 goal scorer to never even score 30 goals
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Yeah, Kyle Dubas told Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner and John Tavares to score 1 goal in 5 games. Idk how anyone with eyes watched that series and is blaming the GM. Some real mental gymnastics going on. No team wins a series with 1 goal from their 3 highest paid players.
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The Habs losing to the Leafs' prospects and the Marlies while icing their best players is funny
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Mark Giordano has 11 points in 19 games since coming to Toronto. 47 point pace in an 82 game season. All while being a stable presence defensively and helping Liljegren develop. He wanted to be here. Two second round picks plus they got Blackwell!
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Rielly Lyubushkin stats tonight at 5V5
TOI: 14:08
Shots: 7-2
Shot Attempts: 12-6
xGF%: 87.2
Three really solid games for that pairing since Boosh came back.
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Hi friends, I don't usually talk about personal stuff on here, but my Dad is dealing with a very serious infection in the Brain and he's going into surgery in the next 12 hours. Been a rollercoaster few days. Doctors first thought it was Brain Cancer. Just asking for prayers
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Before Nazem Kadri left for Colorado, he handed Justin Holl the keys to the apartment inside McDavid’s head and he’s living rent free
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TOR has drafted six goalies in the Matthews era. Haven’t had a home grown goalie since Reimer and before that, probably Potvin. But Joseph Woll is 9-2-0 with a .924 SV% to start his career. Signed for two more years at 766K. Still early, but maybe one of the darts landed
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Defensemen in the Maple Leafs’ organization
KHL Dmen of the year 2020
OHL Dman of the year 2020
QMJHL Finalist Dman of the year 2020
WJC best Dman 2020
WJC best Dman 2021
Muzzin, Rielly, Brodie as well
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Whenever Ilya Lyubushkin is on the ice for the Maple Leafs at 5V5, their goalies have a SV% of .925. Whatever the hell he is doing out there, it’s working. Here’s every other defender. Not even close.
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Criticize Dubas all you want for the Goaltending and Defence, this is his team. But where was this when Lou was here for 3 years and acquired exactly 0 good Dmen? When he spent two 2nds on 4th line Cs instead of the blue line. Then signed Zaitsev to 7 years and Marleau to 3 at 38
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I know he got hurt... but Rielly-Lyubushkin 69% xGF as a pairing tonight against a Rangers team that has won 11 of their last 12.
Absolutely eat shit Stat nerds
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You know who the Leafs could use? Boosh. Literally one of the lowest event players in the entire NHL on either side of the puck. Bring this track meet to a halt
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Leon Draisaitl (20) had a 10 goal lead on Auston Matthews (10) entering the month of December. Two weeks in and Matthews has narrowed that gap to just three
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All this exhausting contract talk just makes me appreciate Morgan Rielly that much more. Signed for 8 years below market value and with zero back and forth rumours
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Team Save Percentage in all situations since February 1st
TOR (26th) .879
FLA (30th) .873
One of these teams are talking about emptying the cupboards for Claude Giroux and the other is cooked apparently.
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The Maple Leafs have a problem scoring goals in the playoffs. And because of that, one of the core 4 might get traded this off-season. So naturally, people are suggesting it be Nylander, who leads the team in goals over the last 3 years. Backwards. Completely backwards.
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Oh no, the Leafs are paying Tavares $11m a year and he's only been worth $10.9M and is only just on pace to have a star calibre season. Shit.
John Tavares is an overpaid 2nd line centre who has been declining over the seasons. His defensive play suggests his contributions play a role in the numerous chokes the Leafs have undergone this season. Shouldn’t be long until fans see similarities between him and Dion Phaneuf.
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So I bought Auston Matthews socks and this is how they look when I put them on LMAOOOO
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With Holmberg only 43% on the draw and Kerfoot under 40% as well, the Leafs could use a depth center who wins faceoffs and chips in a bit
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Sens, Sabres and Red Wings fans are really out here getting into heated debates over who’s gonna finish 9th in the Eastern Conference
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Wes McCauley was a Ref in game 7 against Tampa, where Tavares had a goal called off for a similar play. He’s officiating here tonight. No call, goal stands
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KYLE DUBAS WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO TRADE MATT MART- OH
KYLE DUBAS WILL NEVER GET JOHN TAVA- OH
KYLE DUBAS WILL NEVER SIGN NYLAN- OH
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Not marketing the best US born player in the league seems like a mistake for the NHL in New York
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Always lots of talk about the Leafs not being good enough defensively and not having much young up and coming talent.
But no one will mention they also lost their best defenceman to injury and a top prospect to cancer. Obviously bigger things than hockey at play, but still
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Blowing the 5-1 lead sucks, but I don’t sweat that. Back to back playing a fresh Florida team, goalie gets hurt, Campbell comes in cold. Everyone was gassed. That was 7/8 points against BOS, TB, and FLA in the last 10 days.
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Leaf fans are ruthless, but just listen to the crowd and how they’ve received Källgren here. You play well and you’re a hero. It goes both ways
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Won 6 months of Sportsnet+ free with Roll up the rim. People seriously pay for this? Picture quality is awful and it’s frozen twice in 20 minutes. The illegal streams are better than this
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If the Leafs end up with
McCabe - Roy
Rielly - Tanev
As their top 4 next year, that’d be massive. Best top 4 they’ve had in my lifetime. Probably longer. If they did that and found a way to get a good 3C like Ross Colton or Morgan Frost, I’d be all the way back in on this team
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The Maple Leafs are 4th in 5V5 SV% after finishing 27th last season. Matt Murray and Ilya Samsonov! Just like we thought
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Bob McKenzie saying just now that two Canadian teams are interested in Jeff Skinner who could be had on a shorter term deal at a club friendly number.... Oilers and Leafs
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I am tired of the NHL constantly establishing new precedent whenever the Leafs play. Between Tavares’ goal being called back in game 7, Rielly’s goal being waived off in game 5 last year, the goal that was punted in against them last year and now this. All bullshit
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Anyone who thinks this is close is delusional. Sundin clears Marner. They’re not even in the same stratosphere.
Mitch Marner vs Mats Sundin in their first 8 seasons:
Marner Sundin
— 576 GP — 611 GP
— 194 G — 265 G
— 445 A — 367 A
— 639 PTS — 632 PTS
After Marner’s career, who will be the better Leaf?
#LeafsForever
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Apparently Simon Benoit’s nickname is the Milk Man?
Credit: Luke Gazdic’s podcast
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Matthews needs 20 goals in the Maple Leafs’ 27 remaining games to become the first 60 goal scorer since Stamkos in 2011/2012. Would be just the third 60 goal season since 99/00. I say he does it
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Out of 199 players to play at least 250 minutes in the last 3 playoffs, Brad Marchand has drawn the 20th most penalties per 60.
Your “if that’s not Marchand!!” plea here is just ridiculous.
Dude this is a conspiracy at this point. If that’s not Marchand it’s a call 10 out of 10 times
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William Nylander since 19/20 has the 11th most goals in the NHL with 43. He doesn't have 10% the amount of support from fans that Fred does and Fred is getting outperformed by Jonathan Bernier on the Red Wings.
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Morgan Rielly in Game 2 (5V5)
Shot Attempts: 27-16
Shots: 13-7
Scoring Chances: 13-3
High Danger Shot attempts: 7-2
Goals: 2-0
Playoff Mo is back
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The Maple Leafs have allowed the 3rd fewest Scoring Chances against/60 in the NHL since December 1st at 5V5
The Leafs rank 31st in 5-on-5 save percentage since Dec. 1st.
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I like the new St Pats jerseys, but they should have committed to more green. These would have been sick
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Since Mitch Marner got hurt against Boston, Max Domi has 15 points in his last 16 games (2G, 13A)
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Last three seasons at 5V5 when the score is within 1 Matthews is 2nd in goals and 8th in points. Trolls aren’t even trying anymore
Auston Matthews against non-playoff teams when his team is up 2+
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The Ducks are terrible, so it's hard to gauge Lyubushkin's advanced stats... but all of his DEF metrics relative to his teammates have been positive. He's terrible offensively, but situationally, he's still an effective DFD who has been decent at getting pucks out his own zone
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Did Pavel Mintyukov think Bobby McMann was just gonna let him make an outlet pass? Dude decides to make the play, doesn’t protect himself at all and gets hit. Shoulder on shoulder. 2 minutes for boarding would have been harsh. 5 and a game is just ridiculous
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TJ Brodie and Jake McCabe held Kucherov and Point to 0 5V5 goals and less than 50% xGF% in the Tampa series. But because they struggled against Florida, people are suggesting the Leafs buyout Brodie and that their Dcore sucks. Yup, totally. Definitely smart.
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“tHe lEAfS nEEd a dEpTH gOaLie” He’s in the net right now dude. He’s 24, an AHL all-star and has a .917 SV% in six career starts so far. Let him cook
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You don’t think Bob, or Elliotte or Chris Johnston knew about Matthews having COVID? You think Simmons got the inside scoop on those guys? Never. They just let it be because they’re respectable people, nvm journalists
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The Blues, Islanders and Lightning got nothing for these guys. So what’s your point?
Toronto traded both Carter Verhaeghe & Dakota Joshua for (almost) nothing by the way.
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The narrative that Tampa badly out played TOR is lazy. They took advantage of some lopsided matchups for sure. Gio-Holl were outscored 2-6 at 5V5 and out chanced badly. Without either on the ice, TOR outscored Tampa 11-3 and controlled 54.29% of the expected goal share 5V5.
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I along with
@GTAC13JERSEYS
have heard from a few sources that the Leafs will base their RR 2.0 design off these previously worn alternates.
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The Maple Leafs have moved past the TBL in the Atlantic division and into second place with 2 points tonight.
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Mitch Marner's Reverse Retro record tying jersey sold for $77,000 tonight
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When the Leafs made the Mrazek trade and moved back from pick 25 to 38, many laughed when they said they still felt they got the best player available at 38. Understandable, but looks like they may have been right with Fraser Minten. Seems like he’s made the team at 19 years old
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The Leafs lost tonight, but the Rielly-Lyubushkin pairing was at 64% xGF… against another top 5 team in the Bruins.
The stat nerds told us he was the worst Dman in the league. What happened?
I know he got hurt... but Rielly-Lyubushkin 69% xGF as a pairing tonight against a Rangers team that has won 11 of their last 12.
Absolutely eat shit Stat nerds
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Leafs outshooting the Lightning 39-19 and are up 3-1 late in the 3rd. Wonder if this will be regarded as a statement or playoff type game. Or is that only when they lose to good teams?
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The problem with people who use this argument is they act like all he does is score. They always ignore the fact that he’s in the 96th percentile in terms of his defensive play while also only having 4 PIMS.
McDavid, MacKinnon, & Kucherov won’t also be Selke finalists
Not ruling Matthews out for Hart. He undoubtedly makes the ballot (Top 5).
But remember, they HAVE a trophy for the league's best foal scorer — the Rocket Richard.
The Hart entails all the elements. Even the less glamorous ones.
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Remember when people were saying Matthews wasn’t capable of making players around him better because he didn’t have many assists this year? Well, Marner gets hurt and Matthews has 8 assists in his last 7 games. Almost as if he just tailors his game to his line mates
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Joe Veleno is a dirty player. Should be 5 and a game. Same guy who stomped on someone with his skate at the world championships last year.
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Sonny Milano wasnt QO’d at 1.8M
Aston-Reese made 1.725M last year
I’d prefer both even at $4M than Kerfoot at 3.5M. Seravalli reported significant interest & Jarnkrok got a 2nd, 3rd, 7th at the TDL. Versatile winger, career high 35 pts. Kerfoot has had more 3 times. Just do it
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Every time the Leafs place someone on LTIR, there’s always hoards of fans of other teams claiming circumvention. Like Murray didn’t have double hip surgery and Klingberg isn’t limping around. Yell at Tampa and Vegas
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The Scoring chances were 7-18 with Matthews on the ice and 4-18 with Marner on the ice at 5V5. They got dominated while being spoon fed offensive zone starts all night. That was one of the most uninspiring hockey games I have ever watched.
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Soft calls on Gio and Boosh. Bad penalties by Simmonds and Kerfoot. What made the Leafs so dominant in game 1 was their skating. Tampa tried to slow that up playing a trap. Leafs were number 1 in dump chances this year. Keep grinding and they’ll be fine.
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The Leafs have thrown 42, 30 & 31 hits their last 3 games played. Quant hockey will only let go back as far as 16/17. But the Leafs have not thrown 30+ hits in 3 straight games in the last six years. The closest stretch was when they had 32, 39 and 29 from NOV 5th-11th of 2016.
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My girlfriend goes to Uottawa, so we don’t see each other often. She said she was sending me something today & I had to be home. So the doorbell rings & I run to it in my PJs thinking it was a delivery guy. It was her. She flew home early. I was stunned, nearly a blubbering mess
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If O’Reilly and Matthews are okay, that’s all that matters. Don’t care about the game
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The Rielly and Greig situation has made it really easy to spot which media members rely on baiting Leafs fans for clicks whenever they can.
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For Leafs fans reflecting on the Zaitsev/Ceci trade: Zaitsev makes 4.5M and is dog shit. What the fuck are they gonna do with Connor Brown and Zaitsev instead of Brodie? Take a shower, read a book, go for a walk, it’s a wash.
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It appears an extension may be done 👀
I feel fortunate to continue this journey as a Maple Leaf in front of the best fans in hockey! I will do everything I can to help get us to the top of the mountain. GLG!
#LeafsForever
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Leafs ranked 2nd in an Atheltic poll among agents for who they’d recommended clients to sign with. Obviously you can joke that it’s because the Leafs like to hand out money, but big part is stuff like this. Business is a business, but it doesn’t have to be cut throat all the time
Ryan Dzingel credited Leafs GM Kyle Dubas for the way his situation was handled. He remained in Arizona after the trade and knew he was going to get waived: "He called me and was honest, and you don't find that a lot in this league."
#SJSharks
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Tavares has played more TOI against Elite players this season than Panarin, Kaprizov, Draisaitl, Scheifele & Pettersson. TOR is out chancing teams 480-381 at 5V5 with him. But tell me again how he's washed. Just because TOR is balancing their lines, doesn't mean he's a 3rd liner
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I've seen "John Tavares is a 3rd liner" tossed around way too much lately. His 1.9 points per 60 at 5V5 this season were in line with Larkin, Barzal, Stamkos, Suzuki, Necas, Boeser, Giroux, etc... NONE of those players are 3rd liners. Tavares is still a good 2nd line player.
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Can’t express how big this W is
TRADE: We’ve acquired forward Ryan Dzingel & defenceman Ilya Lyubushkin from Arizona in exchange for forward Nick Ritchie & choice of our third-round selection in ’23 or second-round selection in ’25.
#LeafsForever
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