HAT GUY: You know what? I’m sad they lost but you gotta take the little victories you know? STEVE: I guess like what, getting at least one point? HAT GUY: No, at least Tyson Barrie wasn’t the one to score it in OT!
STEVE: It was trending that way HAT GUY: it WAS trending that way! Let’s go! – good we all feel – stop! – never gets rusty! – What am I doing? – INNA MY KITCHEN – Producer Drew can you fix all this? – *screaming* – And when it comes to
The Toronto Maple Leafs you can crumple crumple YEET – Saw that going differently – with you wherever you are welcome to LFR Leafs – get a point and that’ll have to be good enough, unfortunately against the Nashville Predators because they lost 3-2 in
Overtime. Screwed that intro up! But I promise the rest of the video will be pretty good and that’s the thing isn’t it? You screw up early, you do well for the rest of it, ah. If that’s not this
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Standards! I can just yell at you! The other thing I wanted to get to and it does pertain to the game and going forward Jake McCabe is out of the lineup it doesn’t look like it’s going to be long term so that’s good but TimothyLiljegren leaves this game early so once
Again the Leafs have to end a game with five defensemen. So with William Lagesson making his Leaf’s debut he’s already up he’s already in the lineup, if Liljegren can’t go and McCabe can’t go who do the Leafs turn to? The good news is they’re done this road trip they’re going to
Go home but which defenseman from the Marlies do they potentially use? I know a lot of people are thinking Simon Benoit but in this edition of Marlie minute with Nick Barden who is a credential reporter who covers the Marlies, he thinks it’s someone else Maxim Lajoie. Take a look. Oh he he
Needs an intro *steve singing* Marlies minute Marlies minute talking about the Marlies! it’s Nick Barton Marlies minute! Marlies minute! NICK BARDEN: One of the reasons why I think Max Lajoie will get the call up over Simon Benoit is the games played factor. Benoit has only played just
A couple games with the Marlies since preseason where he played plenty of games, he’s been up and down between the Leafs and the Marlies since then and Lajoie has played a lot of minutes with the Toronto Marlies’s playing in their top four. He’s also been a big guy on their power play. I
Think one of the reasons that you know you lose a guy like Timothy Liljegren who’s on the second power play unit for the Leafs is you can insert a guy like Max Lajoie. Lajoie has played the top
Power play for the Marlies and he’s looked good in almost every area of the ice. His defensive games looked strong, he’s been really physical. I think Max Lajoie is the perfect player to get the call up but I also wouldn’t be surprised if it’s Benoit. I think those two guys are the
Legitimate ones here but I do think that Lajoie has the edge because of the games played factor and as well he’s looked really good in those games played with the Toronto Marlies this season.
STEVE: Yeah I think a lot of us assumed Simon Benoit would be the guy and he might be the guy, because he’s been up with this team but the dudes played two games. Benoit could be a better option
Than Lajoie but is he a better option than Lajoie right now? That’s what the Leafs need – the best option available it’s probably Max Lajoie. Who randomly had 56 games played with the Senators
Back in the 18-19 season and he’s only played in 14 since! But he’s only 25 he’s on the bigger side of average 191 lb 6 ‘1. He can be in the Leaf’s lineup for their next game but THIS game! You
Can’t win them all and that’s a cliche and no one wants to hear it. Has that ever made anyone feel better? No it hasn’t but the stats and the eye test for this one both linked up. The Leafs
Kicked the Predators up and down the ice all night in their own building; they just couldn’t come up with the W because of Juuse Saros. These are the stats for this Leafs Predators game from Sport
Logic. The Leafs better in expected goals 3.36 to 1.8, the Preds did have more ozone time with the puck. Shots through 35 to 24 for the Leafs. slot shots on net 17 to 12 for the Leafs. High danger
Scoring chances 17 to 11. Scoring chances off the cycle 11 to7. Scoring chances off the rush 12 to 5. Turnover scoring chances 12 to8. Odd man rushes 9 to 5 uh controlled entry success rate 64- 60. Controlled exit 74 to 72. Controlled exit success rate 82 to 80. Puck battle win percentage
77.8 to 22.2! The Leafs kicked the Predators up and down the entire strip! But Juuse Saros is doing what he does nearly every game where the Predators are able to come up with two points and that’s being their best player. The Leafs still managed to solve them twice,
Once on the power play and this was DESPICABLE! Leaf’s bobbling the puck they almost lose it, John Tavares a herculean effort to hold on to the thing. Matthews bobbles it herculean effort to hold on to the thing again! Marner to Matthews to Nylander BLOW! that is a contract year blast
And did I talk about that at the beginning of the Season or what?! Nylander has a one timer now and it is lethal! His sixth of the season already and it’s one nothing Leafs. But within 90 seconds it all falls apart. TJ Brodie goes off for roughing and that’s significant because you’re
Already down a penalty killer in Jake McCabe, he’s not in the lineup and now Brodie’s out as well. And after the game Mark Giordano said this was on him and I’m here to tell you know it wasn’t Mark!
Like that’s a veteran that’s a leader and that and that’s good for him that’s a good teammate, but no. I’m sorry I hate to pick on the guy – Sammy! Sammy! Like this little Gap in the
Five hole right there this might not seem like a big gap to you, that’s not something that a starting goaltender in the National Hockey League does! It’s just not! Especially with the way he started the season prior to this game. If this is a one off, if this is like Connor Hellebuyck and
You’re like “oh that’s weird that he did that” you can be pretty confident that for the rest of the season he’s not going to do that. But like the details are just not there for Sammy. This
Might have been his best game of the season too! And of course, OF COURSE, it’s Ryan O’Reilly with his illegal stick he’s not in the Leafs anymore so it’s illegal again but it’s one one because they didn’t catch. It’s amazing how they always go like 60 Minutes Plus without catching it!
Legal when he was with the Leafs though he was a different stick. He did. That’s not true. I saw it, a friend of mine showed me a real Ryan O’Reilly stick. It is a goofy piece of work! Sometimes he like scores and wins Conn Smythes with it. It’s weird. Second period about halfway
Through the Leafs doing what you got to do to score on a goaltender who’s as hot as Juuse Saros is in this game, you got to bang and crash! And you also got to go to your big guns so who do
They send to the front of the net you guessed it – David Kampf who I’m pretty sure thinks he’ll be arrested if he shoots the puck gives it to Mark Giordano the oldest active skater in the National High was actually a pretty nice play. BIG CELLY from the 40-Year-Old happy belated there Mark
And the Leafs regain the lead up 2 to 1. But once again barely over 2 minutes later the Leafs are on the PK again. This one is Calle Jarnkrok taking a trip on Colton Sissons. I was a little salty about
This one because it was a trip, it was a trip, but I thought a trip was missed seconds before this but spilt milk. A lot of people are going to blame Sammy for this loss and like I think we can
Criticise Sammy’s performance a little bit without losing sight of how the rest of the team took too many calls, man. The – multiple bench miners in a single game? What are we doing? We can’t do that! Anyway that’s not what happened here, what happened here was actually just a just a goal! An
Amazing goal! Filip Forsberg essentially scores a goal and Ryan O’Reilly assists it by putting his stick down. I know that’s not how they count it, it’s O’Reilly’s goal but damn. That is just perfectly threatening the needle from Forsberg to O’Reilly and just like that – tough to crack
Saros, you finally do, you get the lead hooray and it’s gone like a fart in the wind! No goals in the third period which is, it’s a shame that the Leafs didn’t come up with the two points here cuz Sammy
Actually made some pretty big saves here. And you talk about two teams just trying to give each other the win! Barrie went off for tripping Matthews, that was the only legitimate infraction. Other than that Carrier had a delay of game penalty for throwing the puck over the glass
And the Leafs took TWO too many men calls in less than eight minutes! Sheldon get a hold of the bench bud! Neither team scores on either pair of power play attempts that they get, they don’t try particularly hard especially the Leafs to come up with the win in the final couple minutes “hey
I don’t play in your conference you don’t play in my conference let’s get a point” they both get a point we go to overtime and. Hm. I don’t want to sound salty. I’m going to sound salty.
That’s okay, like a hot chicken sandwich – um that was a line change contest. It re-! OOF. And like I don’t want to get too worked up about the Leafs at three on three because, are you really worried
About that? Is that your number one priority? No, your number one priority is you want this team to win in the playoffs! you want them to have a team that can do ANYTHING IN THE PLAYOFFS right? Not
Three on three whatever whatever! But also they’re pretty bad at three on three. They were great in their first three on three games this season but there were some really worrying performances in the pre-season and dating back to last year – a lot of them involving the top guys. Matthews,
Who was out for this one ugh! Marner, ugh! Guys you wouldn’t expect and so that is why starting David Kampf makes sense. Like that really didn’t help, did it? Like he was on to win the faceoff,
He didn’t win the faceoff I mean the best face off guys in the league still lose a ton of their faceoffs but what did David Kampf do out there that Matthews couldn’t? I guess other than uh
He didn’t get scored on that was good. I don’t know man like you trust Matthews out there on the penalty kill now just use Auston. Just start with Auston. Man I’m not actually sure the Leafs ever had possession of the thing after that like the Predators just kept suckering the Leafs in
Anytime anyone tried to go for a line change oh here they go! And Samy made some big stops. But the Preds patient, methodical. It’s a fresh John Klingberg out there he had to get on for an exhausted Morgan Rielly but he’s out there with a dog tired Matthews and Nylander,
And this screenshot just it’s it’s a calamity! Like look at this – Roman Josi could have scored this goal if he was out there by himself. His teammates are basically decoys that the Leafs are ignoring? Willy, Willy? What are you doing? What are you doing? I guess he’s there for the rebound,
He’s not helping pretty much anyone! And I do gotta say Sammy. I wouldn’t point this out if Sheldon Keefe hadn’t already pointed it out this season. There was a game already this season I can’t remember which one, Sammy did pretty well. I think he only allowed two goals but they were
Two goals from distance in the first period. It was the Florida game. Two goals from distance in the first period, and even though they could have been defended better they’re still from distance. Listen it’s a great rip from Roman Josi it really is, but like look where it’s from! Ah!
We can’t get a save there man?! It’s just tough out there right now like I’m trying to be gentle about it and I’m like ‘you know what you can’t save them all’! And then I watched Joseph Woll
Play and I’m like actually maybe you can. I don’t expect Joseph Woll to say like a 970 something forever I don’t expect Sammy to be like an 830,40 something forever. The long and short of it is at
Least one of the goals in this game. The first O’Reilly one should have been stopped. You could argue that this one should have been stopped too and regardless of what you think about either goal – the Leafs had the second best goalie in this game. I know it’s Juuse Saros. I know that’s
A tall task, it’s just the truth. Questions? This isn’t a question it’s just a good point from Nick Alberga he said “dog poop OT for the Leafs it happens. 3-1-1 in one road trip they’ll take it.”
Yeah like that’s just a really good perspective uh the Leafs weren’t that great at home to start the season, they go out on the road, road trip doesn’t start great but they finish it getting uh what is
That seven points out of 10? That’s pretty good! “From Colton, what do you think of Matthews in OT? To me it seemed like he was a bit slow on his feet coasting and shadowing as opposed to really
Trying to make life difficult or take it away from Nashville skaters.” He does just kind of coast and like put his arms out and nothing happens, and the I think the reason he does that is teams will
Try to extend his shifts at every turn because they’re afraid to turn it over against him. But he’s relaxing because he knows they’re just trying to get him to be tired and skate around and get
Him to make a mistake. The mistake I thought they made at some point when Rielly was exhausted out there like 2 minutes into his uh shift, have him be the high guy. And the reason you have him be
The high guy, I know the high guy has to do a lot of skating but like you got to get him off the ice! At at some point he’s just gonna stop being able to move! You had to get him off the
Ice sooner than that and I know there was a bit of a flub there where Matthews actually made an incredible move and then I think it hit Rielly on his way off, ah you had to get him off sooner
Than that. I was less concerned with Matthews and more concerned with that particular plan “favorite Halloween candies go!” Okay you put me on the spot um uh I do like a Coffee Crisp I don’t know
If that’s one of my favourites, I just know that I’ve always loved it and I know a lot of people don’t like it. Mars bar is Elite and crunchy crunchy – yes I know a lot of people don’t like
It but how long do you eat your little chocolate for 15 seconds 30 maybe? I eat crunchy bars for half an hour! They get stuck in your teeth yeah that’s the best part! All right? You’re looking at it from a normal person’s perspective – look look at me I’m eating good!
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