hard to do much else or make an impact when you get 4 minutes a night against the other teams 4th line. Reaves has not be great sure, but he wasn't brought in here to score goals, he was brought in as muscle and intimidation - He is on a 4th line with guys who are also playing absolutely awful, maybe we could stop making it seem like Reaves is the entire problem.
I flew from Edmonton to Toronto Wednesday morning, Wednesday night I went to the bar to watch the Leafs game and could swear that from the terrible defensive plays and horrific goaltending I was actually watching an Oilers game
even the tampa game i dont kno how they came back lmao. They are playing awful. They keep up this 500 trend too much longer and its no playoffs for them and blow it up
With the bad goaltending it was very much like watching Oilers. You should stick around to see what happens with the Canucks. Klingberg is a bit like Nurse: lost in his own end.
@@jbear1364the chiarot-holl pairing, for all the roasting it takes, is quietly one of the better d-pairs in the league by quite a few metrics. crazy how holl can be effective when he’s not being forced to play a role he doesn’t fit
Klingberg was a -3 tonight. Not even his worst, which says a lot for his year. Reaves was a -1 despite playing the least amount of minutes of any Leaf this game. Seems Keefe only plays him early and if the Leafs have no hope of a comeback, the last minutes of the game. Says a lot for his impact. Woll's worst game for sure, yet was still better than Samanov in all but one of his games. Again says a lot. Getting close to start thinking about next year's offseason than this year's postseason.
right now the goalie stats are pretty skewed. sammy has obviously not been playing well, but i don't give a damn who is in net, you can't let your opponent just freely tick-tack-toe the puck around with all the time and space in the world without taking bodies. its basically a PP anytime anyone is in TOs end, its embarrassing and no goalie would stand a chance woll actually saved their bacon probably more times than not
“Thinking of next year’s postseason and not this year’s postseason” is a good one. Wait until Willy gets his ten and then we have Marner coming up. Could we be closing in on 4 players occupying 3/4 of the salary cap? Only consolation might be Tavares’s contract expiring… I typically ignore the Leafs until postseason (assuming they get there) As those are the games that matter.
To be fair, Leafs generated very little offence from the blueline last season. they were near the bottom of the league. Aside from Rielly, they have a bunch of guys on the blueline that don't really do anything particularly well.
Don't forget that Shanahan signed off on all of the Leafs trades , so what you see on the ice is because of him, including all those multi millionaires.
Defense wins championships, look at the 90's/00's Devils and the 2011 Bruins. They didn't have an offense like the Leafs. Hell in 2003 Patrick Elias led the entire Devils TEAM with 57 points and Auston Matthews had 60 goals in 2022. Get yourself a Scott Niedermayer, Zdeno Chara or even a Thomas Chabot. The Leafs haven't had a decent defenseman since Dion Phaneuf
@@scrambie he totally does, it's not like Willie is better at everything. Marner and Reilly also deserve their contract they are top players in the league... Coping
Hands up those of you who are already looking forward to the Sunday edition after Vancouver rolls into town..... If trends continue, it's gonna be epic. PS: Speaking of new players adjusting to new teams, about the only ex-leaf who hasn't blossomed after leaving that central Canadian cesspool known as Toronto is Jack Campbell.
Leafs logic, choke against Ottawa and Calgary, then when fans have given up beat the Canucks to keep them invested so their hearts can be broken again in the future
watch they will blow the flames game 6-0 and turn around and win the nucks game 10-1 only to go to Sweeden to get smoked looking like a jr team playing a nhl team.
Woll has taken losses in 3 of his last 4 games. He had a total of 15 goals scored on him in those 3 losses, with a .835 save percentage! Yep, he's fine, nothing to see there. ROFLMAO!!
ya it isn't exactly just woll. the numbers are skewed. he can't do it all, he needs a team in front of him. no goalie would stand up to how terrible the leafs defensive play is, period
I was thinking that while this was his worst game, other than his last relief appearance he has dropped a bit. Now, some of that save percentage issue is the result of God-awful defending in front of him.
@@stevencooke6451This is directed at Dangle, not you. Woll gets a pass on a poor save percentage because of the D in front of him, but Samsonov gets crapped on because of his....behind the same D? That's some BS.
last year's team lost twice to Arizona who were one of the bottom dwellers of the league. so many people have poor memories. the Leafs play a dozen games this bad every year.
I really want to know what happened to Kampf. He spent a decade as a premeir defensive, bottom 6C, putting up 15-20pts. Suddenly, he forgot how to play defence?
he's probably trying to hard, and putting too much pressure on himself given how terrible everyone else is playing. fact is, he isn't a defensemen, and he can only aid the defensemen. if there are no defensemen, he can't do it all on his own.
@@weepingdalek2568, Exactly... Also, the NHL owns the video which was used in the videos... so Steve would need to deal with the NHL for permission to use their property for his purposes... Steve doesn't have the money for that, Sportsnet does.
@aralornwolf3140 I didn't even think of that but yeah that too Basically it would be a legal and financial nightmare for Steve to try to continue that even if he wanted to
@@weepingdalek2568, Well... financially. Legally, he can sign all rights over to the NHL... in which case he probably wouldn't make any profit from his videos, lol.
The thing about Dubas is that whenever one of his signings didn't work out, he was pretty good at moving off of them relatively unscathed. Not sure that I have that same trust in Brad
I'm 100% sure that if Dubas stuck around he would've actively tried to move one of the "core 4" and maybe even fired Keefe. He was getting sick of loading up at the deadline for nothing. Instead now we get status quo Brad.
@stevendchu it's pretty clear Shanahan is running the show and wasn't going to let the core 4 be traded. That's why he called them before Brad was hired and ensured they would all stay together. Brad doesn't have full autonomy so all of this falls on the Pres
@@KyleMacSkill what I don't get is why Shanny is so anal about this core 4 thing. He's won 3 cups himself, he should know better than anyone this is NOT how you build a championship team. You need good-great D and goaltending
I stayed up until 3am(Irish time) to finish this game last night... I'll say no more on that 😂Can't watch all the games so I come here and sdpn for hockey news!! Love hearing your debriefs!
Not sure why people are surprised. The rest of the hockey community knew this team was bad. Klingberg was considered the worst d-man the league according to stats last year and leaf nation pumped his tires to be one of the greatest d-men in the league.
Gio hasn't been bad, that's the funny part. When he's a erd pairing guy (as he should be at his age), he looks good enough to still be an NHLer. When he's being iced 20+ minutes, he looks gassed.
@@people3865 of course hes gassed at that time played, his pacemaker can't keep up but seriously, leafs are desperate and gio is decent, so they tend to rely on him too much, rendering him ineffective
@@people3865 Feel bad for Gio. The guy took the league minimum to play for his hometown team but has been stuck with the team punching bag as a partner for 2 seasons straight. First Holl, now Klingberg.
Glad you showed that picture of all five Leafs just standing around watching the Sens skate around and scoring that second goal. I was absolutely flabbergasted. There was a slow mo shot from behind the net and you can clearly see all five Leafs just standing around 20 feet from the net and they are just watching Woll. They just hung him out to dry. Do we need an actual glowing puck so the D can follow the action.
For the seventh consecutive night at Scotiabank Arena, Keefe's Leafs surrendered four or more goals, a defensive low this team had not reached for 47 years!
Steve most likely cannot do that because of legal complications. Those segments were when he was on the major network & the network most likely retains the rights to those types of videos.
I have 2 tickets for the Maple Leafs game in Sweden against Minessota on 19 November. Unfortunately it's not possible for us to go anymore. Please let me know if you're interested.
The forward core at least looks highly functional, but they need to limit Reaves to 5 minutes a night MAXIMUM. Just need a couple defensive upgrades, and to drop one specific Dman. Then the team is pretty solid.
The crazy part is I saw Leafs fans try to dunk on critics of the team after they came back and won against Tampa. Wonder how they're feeling right about now, assuming they're mature enough to admit they were wrong.
It's not just that the defense has been bad, but just how it's happening. Over the last few years our defensive corp has never been that good on paper (we had Justin Holl on our second pair for a good few years; pretty sure most Leafs fans would prefer that to Klingberg) but we nonetheless were a top 10 defensive team twice in recent years, in 2020-21 and last year (heck, we were tied for 5th in GA last year). And it's not like we had Vezina calibre goalies either. Last year, we even had a stretch where we were dealing with several injuries to the backline and still looked way better than we have at any point this season. There, we seemed to have an actual defensive system, we had forwards playing (relatively) responsibly in the defensive end. Now, I have seen so many instances where 3 guys go after 1 behind the net and we have no one covering the high slot. What happened?
I’m confused on the reaves pick up, he was toast as a ranger, hence why they traded him to the wild, why just months later did the leafs think it would be any different with them. His era is long over.
It was the 3 years more than anything.. add on to that a $1.35M when a ton of better players signed for $1M or less. Everybody was making fun of this contract the day we heard about it
It's the same thing with Klingberg. Steve liked his stats from last season, but no. He got RUN OUT of Anaheim. Of ANAHEIM. What is the reasoning there?
Good LFR- glad you pointed out the good stuff. The way the game fell apart was so brutal to watch- you are right on about Klingberg. He was hopeless tonight. What a bust.
Let's not pretend like we didn't know what we were getting in Klingberg the moment we signed him. Good puck mover but amongst the worst in the nhl in his own end. For the money they signed him for if they wanted a puck mover who was irresponsible in there own end but a good puck mover, they should have resigned Erik Gustafsson and brought back Luke Schenn for rhe money we signed Klingberg for lol. Now we have our new scapegoat for the season to blame things on if this season ends up being bad. Basically the new Jake Gardiner, Tyson Barrie and Justin Holl
They traded for him in the Sandin deal. He had a really good showing in Washington and signed for 825 K with the Rangers. That's fine even if Keefe didn't want to play him because of his defensive flaws and saw him as 7th d, however based on how Klingberg plays and how things are unfolding for him now he is slowly turning into Gustafsson and im saying for 3 m less they could have brought back Schenn and kept a player similar like Klingberg in Gustafsson. So stupid it was the worst move of the offseason. Letting Acciari & Schenn go
Is it too early to think the Leafs could miss the playoffs? Looking at the Atlantic, then gandering at Metro.... It might be close this year if Leafs keep being mid.
Best tweet I saw during the entire game was "They're going to Sweden. They should drop Klingberg off at his parents' house."
That's a fucking hilarious tweet about Klingberg
And drop Willie at free agency 😂 classless fans
They are just in pre vacation mode. Like when you're just coasting at work before a trip..... 😂
I love it done with Klingberg worst sign
Awesome tweet, they should leave Klingberg there one way ticket
Here comes the views Steve!
I watch most of them but I guiltily will admit I enjoy the mad Steve more than glad Steve. But both are better than sad Steve.
@kenc8580 Same. I do donate to his Easter Seals team, so I'm not all bad, right?
Right? 😂
Makes more cash from a loss than a win. He's in a can't lose position. Lol😂
😂😂😂😂
I respect that Woll took the accountability for the loss because he had a bad game. But in fairness to him, the defense also let him down.
the whole team didnt show up. no emotion or motivation at all.
Agreed! Saw majority of the 3rd period during lunch break at work. Toronto's D imploded leaving Woll out to dry. Woll will learn from it & get better
What defense?
6:13 looks pretty similar to the game the Leafs ruined his shutout vs the caps
4 goal wasn’t his fault 5 goals his fault
Claude Giroux at 35, about to be 36 is still that fricken dude. Most underappreciated player of the 2010s.
he was considered a superstar for many years he was not underappreciated. someone like pavelski is a much better pick for underrated in the 2010s
He is the man. Met he and Jake Voracek at the airport years ago and I could have bullshitted with those 2 jokers for hours. Great guys.
I wouldn't say that. He was well known
@@xnzedvcthis phenomenon is known as "The Flyer's Effect"
He has a very high hockey IQ and still has his hands.
Shoutout to Tim Stützle for the 4 point night btw
He’s really maturing as a player. He’s not trying to do it all himself. Three assists before that tap-in from Joseph.
Love that Reeves tried to get in the game with 30 seconds left 😂
What a smart acquisition. Don't develop tough guys, just get ones that have been travelling around the league for years and years. Class organization.
Wait in the playoffs when Bennet tries to kill Knies there’s gonna be some payback
hard to do much else or make an impact when you get 4 minutes a night against the other teams 4th line. Reaves has not be great sure, but he wasn't brought in here to score goals, he was brought in as muscle and intimidation - He is on a 4th line with guys who are also playing absolutely awful, maybe we could stop making it seem like Reaves is the entire problem.
@@Toews1247what is he gonna try to fight him after the series is lost or is he gonna talk shit 2 days later?
@TheGCDesigns he's not even fighting the players who are hurting your players lol no one's scared of him
I was at this game last night going off about Klingberg being a pylon. I legit had a guy in front of me say, "At least a pylon stands it's ground"
I think the classic Leafs teams who won the Stanley Cups had defensemen that Did Stand Their Ground‼️
I flew from Edmonton to Toronto Wednesday morning, Wednesday night I went to the bar to watch the Leafs game and could swear that from the terrible defensive plays and horrific goaltending I was actually watching an Oilers game
even the tampa game i dont kno how they came back lmao. They are playing awful. They keep up this 500 trend too much longer and its no playoffs for them and blow it up
@@reggiepathak9684 They came back because Tampa isn't that good anymore.
With the bad goaltending it was very much like watching Oilers. You should stick around to see what happens with the Canucks.
Klingberg is a bit like Nurse: lost in his own end.
But Nurse gets more than double 😂
@@reggiepathak9684that would be a great Urinating tree video ngl
I remember when SDPN was saying getting rid of Justin Holl was going to improve the defense. Holl is +6 on the wings.
Those same Wings that, apparently, are supposed to finish 8th in the division.
Holly always had a good plus minus in Toronto. Plus minus can be deceptive
Holl was okay. Just not a top four defenseman. But Klingberg doesn't seem to be a top 16 defenseman.
@@jbear1364the chiarot-holl pairing, for all the roasting it takes, is quietly one of the better d-pairs in the league by quite a few metrics. crazy how holl can be effective when he’s not being forced to play a role he doesn’t fit
You won't talk me into regretting the Holl decision.
It's wild that a month ago I was stressing thinking "could this be our year" and now the stress is "will we make the playoffs".
Giroux gave his buds a pre face off pep talk and they proceeded to bury the leafs
Legitimately, G would be a fantastic coach when he decides to hang up the skates, which does not look to be any time soon. Dude's a fucking stud.
Glad Korpisalo is finding success with Ottawa. Really hope he helps pull that team into the playoffs. He deserves it.
As a Jackets fan .. same
3 wins, 4 losses, 3.38 GAA, .902 save percentage? It's still early but not sure I'd call that finding success. Not all his fault but...oof.
@@KingstonMan the team is 5-6 with terrible defense. Those numbers are fine when you realize the team isn’t good.
@scottstenlund4431 5 goalies had a 920 or above last year. By your outdated logic you think there’s only 5 starters in the nhl lol.
@scottstenlund4431 i never once mentioned the rangers are u mentally ill?
Watching Klingberg on the Ducks last year was hard to watch as a Ducks fan. Amazed that Toronto thought he would be an improvement to their team.
To be fair....he was lol
When woll gave the puck away behind the net. I guarantee he heard steves famous saying in his mind, "if you're a goaltender!!"
6:02 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 THAT HAS TO BE IN NEXT YEAR'S LFR INTRO!!!!
Reeves out there chasing anyone with a minute left is so pathetic.
Wonder why...blame the coach. He should put him on to send a message when Ottawa to the lead. Little to late. FIRE THE COACH!!
But also very on brand for him
I agree...sad eh
Meanwhile Brad Marchand gave him the raspberry and he did nothing about it.
If anyone was wondering, if you donate $19.10 to Steve's campaign and check the box to cover the processing fees, your donation will be $19.67.
i just donated $19.67
Better to not donate at all imo like this guy deserves ANY support for his takes
Crazy that absolutely no one across the league warned the leafs that defence is needed in the NHL
Well, who in the league would really Want to warn them anyway ‼️
Klingberg was a -3 tonight. Not even his worst, which says a lot for his year.
Reaves was a -1 despite playing the least amount of minutes of any Leaf this game. Seems Keefe only plays him early and if the Leafs have no hope of a comeback, the last minutes of the game. Says a lot for his impact.
Woll's worst game for sure, yet was still better than Samanov in all but one of his games. Again says a lot.
Getting close to start thinking about next year's offseason than this year's postseason.
Brodie for me has been the worst Dman, regardless of what the stats may be.
@@RedroomStudiosHow can you say that with a straight face lol. Kligberg has been a pylon since game one. He can't even contribute on the PP1
right now the goalie stats are pretty skewed. sammy has obviously not been playing well, but i don't give a damn who is in net, you can't let your opponent just freely tick-tack-toe the puck around with all the time and space in the world without taking bodies. its basically a PP anytime anyone is in TOs end, its embarrassing and no goalie would stand a chance
woll actually saved their bacon probably more times than not
I believe he was -4
“Thinking of next year’s postseason and not this year’s postseason” is a good one. Wait until Willy gets his ten and then we have Marner coming up. Could we be closing in on 4 players occupying 3/4 of the salary cap? Only consolation might be Tavares’s contract expiring… I typically ignore the Leafs until postseason (assuming they get there) As those are the games that matter.
That 4th line is such a punching bag for all of us lol
Klingberg has been bad for a little while now. It was a horrific signing for a team that didn't need to be worse in their own end.
It didn't make sense. No Leafs fan was screaming for a player with decent puck handling but abysmal an declining defensive awareness.
Remember when we shipped Sandin for Gustavsson and did nothing with him 😭
To be fair, Leafs generated very little offence from the blueline last season. they were near the bottom of the league. Aside from Rielly, they have a bunch of guys on the blueline that don't really do anything particularly well.
Don't forget that Shanahan signed off on all of the Leafs trades , so what you see on the ice is because of him, including all those multi millionaires.
🤯so that’s what the President does‼️
Defense wins championships, look at the 90's/00's Devils and the 2011 Bruins. They didn't have an offense like the Leafs. Hell in 2003 Patrick Elias led the entire Devils TEAM with 57 points and Auston Matthews had 60 goals in 2022. Get yourself a Scott Niedermayer, Zdeno Chara or even a Thomas Chabot. The Leafs haven't had a decent defenseman since Dion Phaneuf
I know it's early, but I think Klingberg is letting the Norris Trophy slip away.
Is Jeff Finger still available???🤣
Lol
On a positive aside, Willy Nylander scores at will and rides the TTC
Klingberg is alarming. He had more shots on his own net than the other team’s net last night.
Unlike Bryan McCabe, at least the puck didn't go in his own net
When you signed Klingberg you knew exactly what you were getting...
yup. silent >110 point pace. and we think hes playing bad tbh he looks off but historically starts slow scoring wise
And you know what you signed when you made Matthews the best paid player in the league
@@Cedisdeadhe deserves it
@@scrambie he totally does, it's not like Willie is better at everything. Marner and Reilly also deserve their contract they are top players in the league... Coping
@@Cedisdead marner does not deserve 11 when he has never cracked 100 and had 1 good playoff series.
The Reilly hit on Nylander was nice
Sens fan here 😏 you know why I'm here great game go sens go
Hands up those of you who are already looking forward to the Sunday edition after Vancouver rolls into town..... If trends continue, it's gonna be epic.
PS: Speaking of new players adjusting to new teams, about the only ex-leaf who hasn't blossomed after leaving that central Canadian cesspool known as Toronto is Jack Campbell.
Been saying it since last season ended, they should've kept Schenn
sorely sorely sorely missed
did toronto have the cap though? i remember he got a bag in nashville
Loved him here but too much money and term. Man got paid and good on him.
@@rustyrailroad6254 they gave klingberg 4 instead of 2.75 for schenn.
If the Leafs play like that on Saturday, the Canucks are gonna feast
Leafs logic, choke against Ottawa and Calgary, then when fans have given up beat the Canucks to keep them invested so their hearts can be broken again in the future
Leafs are gonna score 5 goals. 3 by matthews...
And theyre still gonna get doubled up on
Knowing the Leafs, out of the next 4 games, the Canucks game will be their only win 😂
watch they will blow the flames game 6-0 and turn around and win the nucks game 10-1 only to go to Sweeden to get smoked looking like a jr team playing a nhl team.
Woll has taken losses in 3 of his last 4 games. He had a total of 15 goals scored on him in those 3 losses, with a .835 save percentage! Yep, he's fine, nothing to see there. ROFLMAO!!
ya it isn't exactly just woll. the numbers are skewed. he can't do it all, he needs a team in front of him. no goalie would stand up to how terrible the leafs defensive play is, period
Yet Dangle says this was his only bad game
I was thinking that while this was his worst game, other than his last relief appearance he has dropped a bit. Now, some of that save percentage issue is the result of God-awful defending in front of him.
@@stevencooke6451most of it is the abominable defensive play.
@@stevencooke6451This is directed at Dangle, not you. Woll gets a pass on a poor save percentage because of the D in front of him, but Samsonov gets crapped on because of his....behind the same D? That's some BS.
The leafs hurt me everytime it's hard thank you Steve for being here for me like a true friend
This is the worst version of the leafs since the 2020 roster that lost to Columbus in the bubble…
last year's team lost twice to Arizona who were one of the bottom dwellers of the league. so many people have poor memories. the Leafs play a dozen games this bad every year.
@@RedroomStudiosProblem is, its usually sporadic. This has been a constant stream of garbage.
@@people3865 yeah. last year they did more good then bad honestly. this year... wow. im calling it no playoffs for the leafs this year.
Steve’s impression of an old tree falling over had me on the floor
Thank you! I feel like that moment was not getting enough love in this comment section, had me giggling like mad, had to watch it 3 times lol
The less Canadian teams in the playoffs the happier Gary is.
How am I supposed to go to bed after watching this? Haha
get a lady
HAhaha@@darrenmolleson238
And Keefe keeps playing Klingberg and Reaves at the worst times so all 3 need to go fast !
Sometimes a root canal is more fun than watching The Leafs play
Perhaps we should try freezing before watching. Just be glad Kilingberg isn't your dentist.
I really want to know what happened to Kampf. He spent a decade as a premeir defensive, bottom 6C, putting up 15-20pts. Suddenly, he forgot how to play defence?
he's probably trying to hard, and putting too much pressure on himself given how terrible everyone else is playing. fact is, he isn't a defensemen, and he can only aid the defensemen. if there are no defensemen, he can't do it all on his own.
That one is a bit mysterious. Previously solid defensively and at killing penalties. Then chipped in with the odd goal.
3:58 Never gets old 😂😂
Obvious thumbnail is obvious. And enjoyed.
We came here for it 😆
It's older than fossils. Goalies aren't statues, they're allowed to play the puck if they can
@@spime93
Yet... Woll didn't play the puck.
@@aralornwolf3140 Just making my point, goalies shouldn't be limited to their own net
1:52 - Nylander scored 40 goals and 98 points in the season, good call from back in November.
Ottawa apologizes to maple leafs for kicking their team’s Butt.
Love your videos win or lose love the leafs all my life I don’t know what to do anymore
I am Canucks fan but I love watching you Dangle! Your crazy and so on the edge and I love it! You always make my day!!! Thank you😂😂😂
It's great to see someone so passionate, but willing to call out his team when necessary.
Good times in Van City.
My dad and now play a game where every single goal against the leafs, during the replay we stare at Klingberg and see what he did during the play
Ha! That’s exactly what I do with Chabot.
At this point im just expecting the leafs to lose. If they win it will be a nice little surprise 😂
the one time the leafs actually have some promising goaltending, everything else falls apart.
Been looking forward to this
Comparing Woll's game to Korpisalo's; you can tell Steve is really just hanging on the edge.. Korpis glove says different
He certainly did that to Matthews.
4:02 Glad to see the "If you're a goaltender, TEND THE GOAL" continues on even if the Dang Its don't
Why hasn't he been making Dang Its and Hat Picks videos?!?!
@@purrsnickety8269 He left Sportsnet at the end of last season
I imagine Sportsnet owns the rights to Hat Picks and Dang Its
@@weepingdalek2568,
Exactly... Also, the NHL owns the video which was used in the videos... so Steve would need to deal with the NHL for permission to use their property for his purposes... Steve doesn't have the money for that, Sportsnet does.
@aralornwolf3140 I didn't even think of that but yeah that too
Basically it would be a legal and financial nightmare for Steve to try to continue that even if he wanted to
@@weepingdalek2568,
Well... financially. Legally, he can sign all rights over to the NHL... in which case he probably wouldn't make any profit from his videos, lol.
I have Woll on my fantasy. -7.8 is brutal.
Me to 😢
Bertuzzi...
P.S. on a salary cap fantasy team. I had to plan my expenses and wasted my 5th round pick because i thought that it was a steal. 😅
Got Talbot Ranked 22nd in fantasy 😂
7:15 You can hear the shells going off and the strafing bullets...
The thing about Dubas is that whenever one of his signings didn't work out, he was pretty good at moving off of them relatively unscathed. Not sure that I have that same trust in Brad
I'm 100% sure that if Dubas stuck around he would've actively tried to move one of the "core 4" and maybe even fired Keefe. He was getting sick of loading up at the deadline for nothing.
Instead now we get status quo Brad.
@stevendchu it's pretty clear Shanahan is running the show and wasn't going to let the core 4 be traded. That's why he called them before Brad was hired and ensured they would all stay together. Brad doesn't have full autonomy so all of this falls on the Pres
@@KyleMacSkill what I don't get is why Shanny is so anal about this core 4 thing. He's won 3 cups himself, he should know better than anyone this is NOT how you build a championship team. You need good-great D and goaltending
Klingberg out there skating like steve dangle. Just tripping over the blue line for no reason 😂😂
Dangle, the master of Draffles
I keep repeating this 1 statement "the Vancouver Canucks are the best NHL team in Canada" period. Crazy but TRUE statement.
I love when Steve gets like this.
3:58 Ahh yeah, there it is. Nice for it NOT to be about Markstrom for a change!
I was there. It was awesome! Go Sens Go!
I'm here for every video, but i'm definitely here for the space jam references!
Go, Leaves, go! To the trade mart. From Hockey town with love and condolences.
I stayed up until 3am(Irish time) to finish this game last night... I'll say no more on that 😂Can't watch all the games so I come here and sdpn for hockey news!! Love hearing your debriefs!
Imagine taking the Mathews scores three goals a game gameplan into the playoffs.
It was windy in Toronto today...ahhhhh.... That has to make the LFR18 intro reel.
Not sure why people are surprised. The rest of the hockey community knew this team was bad. Klingberg was considered the worst d-man the league according to stats last year and leaf nation pumped his tires to be one of the greatest d-men in the league.
I wish you were a bruins fan because none of our sports media personalities are nearly as fun as you. Keep up the great work 💪
You the best my guy
The "snot" players leafs got in the off season are playing like snot.
So treliving got that correct... from a certain point of view.
That third “really 😳” gave him 2013 Boston flashbacks
I remember like five years back Klingberg was leading scorer on NHL in the beginning of the season.
What was hilarious is that a Sabres chat tonight was about just how bad Klingberg and Giordano are since they became Leafs...
To be fair, Klingberg has been bad for a while now and Giordano is like 140 years old. Leafs asking both to do way more than they're capable of.
Gio hasn't been bad, that's the funny part. When he's a erd pairing guy (as he should be at his age), he looks good enough to still be an NHLer. When he's being iced 20+ minutes, he looks gassed.
Klinberg has been bad for 3 years now
@@people3865 of course hes gassed at that time played, his pacemaker can't keep up
but seriously, leafs are desperate and gio is decent, so they tend to rely on him too much, rendering him ineffective
@@people3865 Feel bad for Gio. The guy took the league minimum to play for his hometown team but has been stuck with the team punching bag as a partner for 2 seasons straight. First Holl, now Klingberg.
Glad you showed that picture of all five Leafs just standing around watching the Sens skate around and scoring that second goal. I was absolutely flabbergasted. There was a slow mo shot from behind the net and you can clearly see all five Leafs just standing around 20 feet from the net and they are just watching Woll. They just hung him out to dry. Do we need an actual glowing puck so the D can follow the action.
Can Ziggy play defenceman? Asking for a friend
For the seventh consecutive night at Scotiabank Arena, Keefe's Leafs surrendered four or more goals, a defensive low this team had not reached for 47 years!
WHY IS BEING A FAN OF THIS TEAM SO SADDDENINGGG
Hi steve! Are there dang its this season? Some real good ones so far. Is it on a diff channel that im not subscribed to this year? Id love to watch!
Can someone educate me on why there’s no Steve’s dang it’s, I miss it
Steve most likely cannot do that because of legal complications. Those segments were when he was on the major network & the network most likely retains the rights to those types of videos.
Fun fact: buying out Reaves is actually more expensive than sending him to the Marlies. Buyout is 4x400k, waivers is 3x200k.
What happened to the steve's dangits and hat picks?
The big bad Ottawa Senators’ Timmy Stütz with 4 points. (He took less)
I have 2 tickets for the Maple Leafs game in Sweden against Minessota on 19 November. Unfortunately it's not possible for us to go anymore. Please let me know if you're interested.
Thanks Steve!😊
The forward core at least looks highly functional, but they need to limit Reaves to 5 minutes a night MAXIMUM.
Just need a couple defensive upgrades, and to drop one specific Dman. Then the team is pretty solid.
How many minutes did Ryan Reaves play?
The crazy part is I saw Leafs fans try to dunk on critics of the team after they came back and won against Tampa. Wonder how they're feeling right about now, assuming they're mature enough to admit they were wrong.
It's not just that the defense has been bad, but just how it's happening. Over the last few years our defensive corp has never been that good on paper (we had Justin Holl on our second pair for a good few years; pretty sure most Leafs fans would prefer that to Klingberg) but we nonetheless were a top 10 defensive team twice in recent years, in 2020-21 and last year (heck, we were tied for 5th in GA last year). And it's not like we had Vezina calibre goalies either. Last year, we even had a stretch where we were dealing with several injuries to the backline and still looked way better than we have at any point this season. There, we seemed to have an actual defensive system, we had forwards playing (relatively) responsibly in the defensive end. Now, I have seen so many instances where 3 guys go after 1 behind the net and we have no one covering the high slot. What happened?
Why is Woll stats drastically different between playing at home and away?
So glad my Rangers signed Gustavson he is giving us crazy value at 850,000
I’m confused on the reaves pick up, he was toast as a ranger, hence why they traded him to the wild, why just months later did the leafs think it would be any different with them. His era is long over.
It was the 3 years more than anything.. add on to that a $1.35M when a ton of better players signed for $1M or less. Everybody was making fun of this contract the day we heard about it
It's the same thing with Klingberg. Steve liked his stats from last season, but no. He got RUN OUT of Anaheim. Of ANAHEIM. What is the reasoning there?
Donations are in. Glad to support a good cause. Fingers crossed 🤞
Good LFR- glad you pointed out the good stuff.
The way the game fell apart was so brutal to watch- you are right on about Klingberg. He was hopeless tonight.
What a bust.
As a non-Leaf fan on the outside looking in, how and why does Keefe still have a job? Please explain.
I liked Klingberg when he was on the Stars, but as a Stars fan boy am I glad he's the Maple Leafs' problem now.
With how well Suter is playing this year, Nill looks like a prophetic genius letting Klinger walk.
Let's not pretend like we didn't know what we were getting in Klingberg the moment we signed him. Good puck mover but amongst the worst in the nhl in his own end. For the money they signed him for if they wanted a puck mover who was irresponsible in there own end but a good puck mover, they should have resigned Erik Gustafsson and brought back Luke Schenn for rhe money we signed Klingberg for lol. Now we have our new scapegoat for the season to blame things on if this season ends up being bad. Basically the new Jake Gardiner, Tyson Barrie and Justin Holl
But Keefe wouldn't play Gustafsson last year. He had to go elsewhere to actually play.
They traded for him in the Sandin deal. He had a really good showing in Washington and signed for 825 K with the Rangers. That's fine even if Keefe didn't want to play him because of his defensive flaws and saw him as 7th d, however based on how Klingberg plays and how things are unfolding for him now he is slowly turning into Gustafsson and im saying for 3 m less they could have brought back Schenn and kept a player similar like Klingberg in Gustafsson. So stupid it was the worst move of the offseason. Letting Acciari & Schenn go
Just saying! ITS THE COACH!!
Las two seasons John Klingberg was -28 soooo yeah not sure what you were expecting here
Don’t the leaves always get shut down by Korpisalo?
Is it too early to think the Leafs could miss the playoffs? Looking at the Atlantic, then gandering at Metro.... It might be close this year if Leafs keep being mid.
before the goalie there is usually a defense