God after seeing Cowan get blown up into our own net, Robertson get boarded, stolarz get ran almost every game this season, I really hope the lads figure it out. Heaviest team in the league needs to start throwing their weight around.
It’s nice seeing a team stand up for their teammates + prospects.
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Sorry, best we can do is twirl our stick.
Throwing their weight around *must* be a personality thing or quirk that’s not present in this locker room.
I mean fuck I remember McCabe laying out guys left right and center
Anyways, if I’m Cowan I’m already not liking this team.
It was nice when we had Corson. Tucker. Domi. Roberts. McCabe. Remember when Tucker went after the whole entire Ottawa bench? We will never have that with this iteration of the leafs. N E V E R.
Legitimately have lost my drive to watch the team this year. Ive seen I would estimate, 95% of their games, regular season and playoffs over the last 5 years. I am already coming up with a number of “how much more” of this I am going to put up with.
I dont always follow Dangle, but after the Stolie comments, his rant about the fans obviously caring more than the players on the team rung extremely true for me.
I’m a huge 34, 88, 91 and 44 fan but it’s just not in their blood and personality to lead a locker room the same way a Tkachuk would. Our leaders aren’t soft they’re just way too gentlemanly and nice. 34 was given the C because he is a good dude with skill. Even if we add a bunch of heavy guys that are willing to fight, if our leaders aren’t yelling in the locker room to not take shit from anyone then those guys aren’t gonna wanna go to war.
We could literally bring in Tom Wilson or whoever and nothing will change because the voice in the room is just not build that way. Versus someone like Tkachuk or Marchand would come into a locker room and call players out on stuff like that and change the whole dynamic of the room.
In order to win you can get away with having 1-2 gentlemen like players but your other skills players need to be gritty scums I.e Marchand, Duncan Keith, Dustin Brown, look at all the past few winners.
Hey! …… Don’t.
– The Toronto Maple Leafs, probably
“Sorry, by getting physical we risk injuring ourselves prior to the big salary cap increases in the years to come.”
– signed by already millionaire hockey players
I’m sure more threads about this are going to solve the problem.
They won’t “figure it out,” unfortunately. This is who they are. They didn’t even do anything against NJ after being called out. Even if they respond tonight, they’ll just revert back to the same ol’ in no time. They just don’t have that in them. Not for an entire season, anyway. Only in spurts. Rare spurts.
When we have currently reminds me of the days when all the players instead of going after whoever did something would look towards the refs and raise their hands
Leafs need a military drill Sargent to drill this kind of mentality into their heads.
I know what you mean about being the league’s heavy team but as that old saying goes, ” it’s not the size of the dog in the fight it’s the size of the fight in the dog”
Couple nights ago someone sneezed in Dobes’ general direction and everyone was on top of it in a moment.
Stoli deserves better.
We need a younger Jumbo Joe back.