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Postgame: Screaming Internally, Externally, At Babcock, and At the Buds
Apr 14, 2018, 22:57 EDT
What’s up everyone, I’m the one who got stuck covering this monstrosity of a game, and in case you couldn’t tell, the Buds were All Day except from 8-11pm this Saturday.
So, I’m about to put as much effort into this as the Leafs did.
1st Period
Yeah, you watched that, I watched that, let’s not remind each other of that.
2nd Period
Oh wow, the Leafs actually scored a couple goals.
HYMAN TO MARNER, LET’S GOOOOOOO- oh great, the Bruins scored again.
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!
Keep doing this
Rielly fires a wrister from downtown to Downtown Connor Brown, and he dishes it to Bozak Horseman, and it’s a three goal lead again.
And we’ve all seen three goal leads get blown in Boston.
3rd Period
I can’t wait for Game 3 tbh. Babcock’s gonna scratch Nylander and bring in Martin, Leo might be hurt but we’ll just replace him with Dominic Moore, and then Babcock’s gonna somehow magically bring Matt Hunwick back, scratch Dermott, and play Hunlak for all 60 minutes, because compete and stuff.
Oh hey, van Riemsdyk scored.
JVR! Leafs finally score one on the PP. 6-3.
The Tweets
At least the tweets were good.
Rocking a cool .428 sv%
give polak the assist on this. seriously, just turn the defense into Rielly-Carrick, Dermott-Gardiner. 30 minutes each pairing.
update: it wasn't a good thing.
Encouraging first few shifts for the #Leafs, who look at lot less deer-in-the-headlights than they did at this point in Game 1. That can only be a good thing, one would think.
This is just not true. The Leafs were 20th in shots against per 60 and 21st in scoring chances against 60 while shorthanded. At best, they were average. And worse than that late in year.
Babcock gave the Leafs PK unit a pep talk today: "We've had a real good penalty kill all year. I don't think you want to base your confidence on one game. I talked to the guys, 'You played well all year to know how good you are.' You lose games during the year, you bounce back"
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