[Srinivasan] Craig Berube, post-game: We’re scoring enough goals every game, but we’re letting in too many goals. Pretty much the season is, we don’t value the defensive side of the puck enough.
[Srinivasan] Craig Berube, post-game: We’re scoring enough goals every game, but we’re letting in too many goals. Pretty much the season is, we don’t value the defensive side of the puck enough.
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He’s right. What’s he going to do about it?
Gotta sacrifice some goal scoring for defence. Team is caught cheating up ice too much. The forwards are giving the D no one to pass to, they blow the zone SO early. Yes the D suck at moving the puck, but the forwards aren’t helping at all
Holy fuck, they dont spend any fucking time in the O zone. No way this guy thinks this is sustainable. Fuck defense or offense, they cant move the puck in the o zone, neutral zone, or d zone
Is this guy an analyst or a coach?
We’re only even scoring those goals because we have 3 players who are combining for 90% of our entire team’s production, and they have personally scored 50% of our team’s goals. Two of those players are proven elite NHL finishers, the other is Knies. but even then, Nylander is shooting at 32%, JT at 19%. Those aren’t sustainable shooting percentages over a season, even among the elite. Knies’ 15% is possibly sustainable, it’s also what he shot last year.
We’re not going to be scoring enough goals once 2 out of the 3 players responsible for almost all of our production regress to their own averages (Nylander 15%, JT 13%). As a coach, his job is to know that and to know he has to set our players up for more consistent chances for success.
This team plain stinks right now. Nothing I’ve seen this year makes me want to watch them.
We win if we score more goals than we let in?
I wonder if getting rid of the best defensive winger in the league has anything to do with that
Lalonde OUT
Craig … What would you say…. you do here?????
The D and goaltending are putrid. Hildeby not included yet but Stolarz has been so awful. It’s starting to go from Omg what a steal of a contract to ok, I’m glad this is all we gave him. We need Woll back and get the tandem back on the go. He has 12 starts in 15 games. 34 is his career high iirc lmao.
The D. The D. The D. I don’t know what you can do. Lalonde is running the defence and it just looks awful but the players are horrible too. Carlo looks completely inept.
Wow. Sounds like the leafs of every year. The leafs haven’t had a legitimate #1 goalkeeper or defense since the Belfour days. You need to build from the back. You can have amazing offensive but it means shit if they can’t stop a puck.
We cannot break the puck out of our zone. This is the BIGGEST issue.
We’ve got a bunch of veteran D who have YEARS of experience and highly paid forward lines and all they do is just rim the puck and/or throw a risky pass up the middle.
Combine that with the inability to sustain offensive pressure and the D are getting gassed constantly being hemmed in our zone.
Line 1 is actually a big problem here and no one wants to talk about it because they score.
They don’t hate to lose is what it comes down to.
1 1 3. Defensive strategy and make nylander and. Mathew the 3rd man back. No offence until defence is figured the f out.
Wow I’ve been saying this for 10 years now….as a whole the leafs don’t understand defense
Need the D to be able to make a breakout pass.
Team ain’t got no heart.
Sounds like the same problems of the last 10 years or so lol
Fuck, now Matthews will start bailing on the offensive side of the game to backcheck even more. We are watching the evolution of a 100+ point defensively responsible player into a 75+ point defensively responsible player.