The Leafs took on the Devils in Toronto tonight, their second meeting of the year. Here’s how it went: 1st period The first part of the period was definitely highlighted by some strong play by Brian Boyle in his return to Toronto as well as a great shift by the Kadri line and some good…
Earlier I was reading Oilersnation. Why you might ask? Well, I like to check in on the Jan Brady teams around Canada from time to time and make sure that they are still spending a good about of their time talking about Toronto and how they wish their team and city was good as the…
Theo joins us this week (for once) to go through some fun Over/Under bets that our listeners helped us come up with. Here’s a list of the topics that we debated: 1:44 – 12.5 Games for Soshnikov. 7:23 – 38.5 Games for Leivo. 12:09 – 73% TOI at 4v5 for Hainsey. 17:12 – 39.5 Goals…
Mitch Marner through 19 games last year: 7-9–16 Mitch Marner through 19 games this year: 2-11–13 But apparently the world is ending. It’s true, a 17-game goal drought is rough. It doesn’t look great, and it probably feels even worse. But 1) it’s finally over(!), and 2) from a pure production standpoint, Marner isn’t really…
Since the Devils and the Leafs last met, both of the teams have seen their record normalize a little bit. Both teams are still sitting at the top of the Eastern Conference, but the Devils have gone 5-3-2 in the last 10, while the Leafs have been 5-5-0. For a while it looked like tonight…
Back in September I wrote about the one area I was concerned about in regards to the Leafs heading into the season: the penalty kill. For those of you who, understandably, refuse to consume two of my posts in one sitting, the Leafs gave up a tonne of shots at 4v5 and the only reason…
