The Toronto Maple Leafs’ struggles deepen with a brutal loss to the New Jersey Devils, but is it time to be deeply concerned with the team? Mike DiStefano and Dave Morassutti break down the Leafs’ disappointing performance, highlighting defensive lapses and offensive inconsistencies. Mike and Dave look at Chris Tanev’s injury and the impact it’ll have if he is out long-term. They look at William Nylander and the second line continuing to bring it offensively and debate potential line changes to spark the team’s offence. They also talk about the Leafs’ concerning start in the competitive Atlantic Division, Auston Matthews’ struggles, and a potential change to the schedule.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Leafs lose to Devils, disappointing effort
5:04 Defensive lapses and turnovers plague Leafs
12:19 Chris Tanev injured, could miss time
15:54 Some positives
19:27 First line struggles continue to be an issue
28:34 Potential schedule change for Saturday’s game
34:28 NHL cancels Olympic send-off event
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19 Comments
-102 poinjts! Pizza Boy did nothing to replace them. Do not assume they will make the playoffs!
Nylander has only played 4 good periods? FRO
Thurd #turd
This team is slow, can't defend and has no identity. Other then that, we're OK.
How many years has this team needed a bounce back game and they give you the opposite. Clasic Leafs!
That's typical of Mathews. He says we got to be better then he sucks in the game. Piss poor leadership on his part.
When these players talk, I don't take them seriously anymore
It seems those fiery words from Anthony Stolarz did not motivate anywhere close to enough of his teammates to respond via a three-goal loss to the Devils after a much narrow one to the Kraken over the weekend. By contrast I am excited about the Raptors’ Wednesday EDT regular-season opener and find the Raptors a much more exciting team to watch than the Leafs. Sure the Raptors have their issues, among them a lack of players with an ability to provide adequate floor spacing, but they didn’t hold onto very many members of the core that had propelled them to a 2019 NBA championship. A non-so-good December 2 seasons ago prompted the front office to trade OG Anunoby and Pascal Siakam as part of a rebuild.
Are the leafs headed towards a rebuild? It’s too early to say although it’s pretty clear the approach the coaching staff needs to use need to be more in line with that used by the RCMP to train its recruits because little else seems to have worked. If Berube, I would’ve been on those players as early as last season, using my inner military drill sergeant if necessary, including taking away ice time from a star or any other player for poor performance.
– Only a brain-dead coach would put their 14th ranked scorer on Line 1..
,,and their 5th best scorer on Line 4…
,,, and the media also pushed this Domi nonsense.
– Only a brain-dead coach wants to play North-South hockey..
Really?
Wouldn't North-East-West-North hockey be miles better ?
Why would you ever want to be south at all ? His whole ideology is by-design a loser ideology.
Pay attention to the idiocracies people !
Wonder why they cannot enter the zone cleanly or the dump&chase is immediately going the other way?
That is exactly what North-South hockey IS !
Never wait for your battalion support and come in organized,, heck no,,, Just rush a single soldier into the warzone and wonder why their battalion defeat that single soldier immediately…
What could be more BRAIN-DEAD , than these 2 points aboove !
Stolarz is getting the Sheldon Keefe treatment when he criticized the team
Yikes
Leafs are playing north-south hockey with east-west players. Makes no sense.
In a statement game, they looked awful. SMH
Find me in every comment section calling for a rebuild. Hate the core don't believe in this group. Why waste anymore years this team is never going to win anything.
I can't wait till the opposing fans start chanting "marner, marner, marner ". Every time mathews is on the ice. At some point this has to happen to open up the eyes of the brass marner whether you like it or not was the most integral part of the team not mathews. Mathews shouldn't need the best in the league in order for him to score a frigging goal. ( not counting 2 empty nets a 2 tap ins)
David is looking kind of lugubrous today.
C game – are you kidding – and it was F for 34
"We're the Devilllz, the Devilllz !" 👹
David Puddy
xo
If the Leafs lose 1 or 2 to Barfaloe, then what ?
This team should be called the Toronto Marshmallows.
Soft.
Well, at least Toronto has the Jays and the Raptors.
The perpetual futility of the Leafs is a real head scratcher.
Maybe there is something to this Ballard curse ? 🤔