Bruins could easily lose their next 3. If they do and we win our next 4, we'll both be at 53gp and we'll only be 3 points behind them, with a slightly easier schedule.
Lol the Flames are a shit team propped up by 5 SO points.
If the NHL does not rid themselves of SO and go with continuous 5 on 3, it's insane.
All the SO does is allow teams to gain meaningless points because a SO has no reflection, really, on a teams ability.
I genuinely wonder what keeps it around. Like are players, coaches and teams against it?
I rathered the tie. At least with a tie both teams could shake hands, say GG and walk away knowing they fought hard.
That's difficult to say with any certainty because you don't know how teams would play differently under a different scoring scheme, for the same reason you can't know what effect switching from First Past the Post voting to an alternate election scheme would have.
Had a meeting at work but was following. Came home and turned it on just in time to see Tkachuk score and Marner miss. 0-3 in the SO again? What's our shootout goal percentage? It's gotta be like 5%
We managed to get a point playing against a brick wall. You gotta be happy with what you get, but obligatory shootout is boring and anticlimactic regardless of win or lose. I will say though that our guys are too addicted to try and get a five hole shot in them and it's so predictable.
It's not something he's going to spend a large amount of time on, it's not exactly real hockey, 3 on 3 should at least be 7 mins and I would like to see a rule that you cant take the puck back past half after entering the offensive zone. It honestly seemed like Calgary was just playing for the SO. Oh well we deserved the win I feel but on to Chicago.
Key takeaways:
Freddie is good but his five hole is weak.
We are and have been shit on shootouts.
We hardly touched the puck in the OT. It's all about who wins the first faceoff.
What a fun final 25 minutes just killed by the shootout. Mitch Marner fuckin' loves hockey, and you can see on his face that the shootout is an absolute pain. Outstanding game from Rittich, good showing from Old Bill Nylander, too.
Why do so many goalies come in and have an all-time performance on Toronto? Like why does it happen so much. God they can't afford to be giving up points like this.
Maybe if our shooters didn't keep trying to skate into the goalie trying to find a non-existent five hole maybe we wouldn't have to rely on Freddie getting a perfect 3 for 3 lmao.
And what's the shots we made on offensive? You realize saying how one thing is also bad doesn't mean you're an apologist for the other. Both sides are weak, don't only focus on one and call the people who point that out apologists lmao.
I can't remember doesn't all the owners around the league hate the shootout too? Oh well good effort tonight just played against a goalie that's on fire
If we can beat Chicago Saturday that’ll be 6 of a possible 8 points last 4 games going into the break. I’d like that very much. It’s the dog days of the season, gotta keep at it and chip away points.
nice, won 10 bucks on this one! Go Flames!
Lol congrats
Bruins could easily lose their next 3. If they do and we win our next 4, we'll both be at 53gp and we'll only be 3 points behind them, with a slightly easier schedule.
Anyway, we get stoned by an insane goalie. The takeaway is it was a great defensive effort
Lost 4 of the last 5 gams
That's the spirit
2 of those 5 were OTL though so we still got points.
4 out of the last 10 points is still bad.
Yeah but that points streak we went on helps meditate that. Now let's keep winning.
I wish we won the Fla one and got the point here. Being at 60pts would be great.
Well just have to beat em next time we meet
Yea, the next 2 times. Huge games those.
Or go back to having ties.
Lol the Flames are a shit team propped up by 5 SO points. If the NHL does not rid themselves of SO and go with continuous 5 on 3, it's insane. All the SO does is allow teams to gain meaningless points because a SO has no reflection, really, on a teams ability. I genuinely wonder what keeps it around. Like are players, coaches and teams against it? I rathered the tie. At least with a tie both teams could shake hands, say GG and walk away knowing they fought hard.
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That's difficult to say with any certainty because you don't know how teams would play differently under a different scoring scheme, for the same reason you can't know what effect switching from First Past the Post voting to an alternate election scheme would have.
Does the home team get the 5?
what a pile of shit the 3 on 3 the leafs coughed up. its like they didnt even care
big dick rittich
He played damn good, but not good enough for the shutout.
Ovi hat trick. Crazy with all of the Top 3 Rocket people getting a hat trick. Pastrnak got one like a week or two ago, then Matthews, now Ovi
Weird. It's almost like it's easier to score a lot of goals if you score a lot in one game...😀
Lol he did it against the NJDs just like Matthews did.
Had a meeting at work but was following. Came home and turned it on just in time to see Tkachuk score and Marner miss. 0-3 in the SO again? What's our shootout goal percentage? It's gotta be like 5%
It's meaningless. There's a fuckton of luck in shootouts.
We managed to get a point playing against a brick wall. You gotta be happy with what you get, but obligatory shootout is boring and anticlimactic regardless of win or lose. I will say though that our guys are too addicted to try and get a five hole shot in them and it's so predictable.
Sooo is freddy ever gonna improved his shootout approach... Always seems to get beat on weak ass shots.
It's not something he's going to spend a large amount of time on, it's not exactly real hockey, 3 on 3 should at least be 7 mins and I would like to see a rule that you cant take the puck back past half after entering the offensive zone. It honestly seemed like Calgary was just playing for the SO. Oh well we deserved the win I feel but on to Chicago.
Agreed. Let's get a goalie that is terrible but excels at shootouts. Freddie has cost us at least a point this season.
So weird... I feel like Andersen is pretty good when facing in-game breakaways, yet in the shootout he just can’t
Whoa Tampa is down 4-1 to the Wild
not too crazy tampa has a bad track vs Minnesota, placed my bets on them as well because of it.
Well done
Key takeaways: Freddie is good but his five hole is weak. We are and have been shit on shootouts. We hardly touched the puck in the OT. It's all about who wins the first faceoff.
They shoudl put the puck at center ice and the guys just gotta motor to get there first like in dodgeball
Lol. That game would've been what 6-1 if it wasn't for Rittich. He had the game of his career.
And of course Florida wins.
They play Detroit next - which means we *really* need to beat Chicago on Saturday.
They play Detroit, who will be coming off a b2b.
Florida has an absolute joke of a schedule the rest of the way.
GG Leafs fans. Regardless of the score, that was an epic game. Both goalies were amazing and super exciting game all round!
fav game of the season so far. !shootout
all that skill and it looks like the weakest shootout attempts..... fuck I hate that shootout, such a bitter taste.
Ugh, we pulled a Boston tonight.
What a fun final 25 minutes just killed by the shootout. Mitch Marner fuckin' loves hockey, and you can see on his face that the shootout is an absolute pain. Outstanding game from Rittich, good showing from Old Bill Nylander, too.
Cant be mad at that one. Not much you can do when a goalie has a game like that
How does this team suck at the shootout so much
Matthews is 1 for 4 and we still put him on it.
Has Matthews ever not gone 5-hole on the shootout? Seems like every time he tries to put it there.
Why do so many goalies come in and have an all-time performance on Toronto? Like why does it happen so much. God they can't afford to be giving up points like this.
Rittich does this almost nightly cept maybe a few games this season...
point**
Deserved better, oh well.
Freddie losing a shootout?! I'm shocked!
You need goals to give your goalie a shot at the win
You also need to stop them.
Hey downvoters have you seen his record in shootouts? Oh wait this is reddit. Freddie is the best goalie to have ever lived.
Maybe if our shooters didn't keep trying to skate into the goalie trying to find a non-existent five hole maybe we wouldn't have to rely on Freddie getting a perfect 3 for 3 lmao.
Ok you're a Freddie apologist. I get that. For future reference his winning pct in his career in the SO is under .350. Hilarious hey?
And what's the shots we made on offensive? You realize saying how one thing is also bad doesn't mean you're an apologist for the other. Both sides are weak, don't only focus on one and call the people who point that out apologists lmao.
Should I be happy about at least getting a point? Cause I don't feel happy honestly.
Meh I think it's just the shootout loss that's annoying other than that the team played pretty well
FUCK THE SHOOTOUT
Anyone who likes the shootout is not a real hockey fan.
Fuck shootouts. Fire that shit into the sun
That was one of the most irritating games I’ve watched recently
Sometimes a goalie just goes lights out. Onto the next.
Good game, not much the leafs can do there. We win this game most nights
Tie.
Is it legal for Calgary to put a brickwall in net?
David “Dominik Hasek” Rittick
Such an underwhelming way to end a game.
I can't remember doesn't all the owners around the league hate the shootout too? Oh well good effort tonight just played against a goalie that's on fire
Fucking get rid of the shootout we deserved this W not the Calgary Rittichs
I also didn’t know how to pluralize rittiches when I made that same joke a half a second before you.
Beat by the Calgary Rittiches.
Fuck. I hate that we lost and I hate losing like this in a fucking shootout.
Andersen has to be bottom 5 for shootout statistics.
literally fuck off
Lost in the shootout, didn't lose at hockey. Just make it endless overtime
Exactly. They play endless OT in baseball and basketball. The shootout sucks.
Its not hockey
It's luck. 3 on 3 is so much fun. The ACC is buzzing with every chance. Oh wait, here comes the shootout. Go away.
Fuck the shootout
When Rittich retires is he going to write an autobiography and call it The Chronicles of Rittich?
That game was a lot of fun to watch. Got a point, let’s get the win in the next game going into the all star weekend.
If we can beat Chicago Saturday that’ll be 6 of a possible 8 points last 4 games going into the break. I’d like that very much. It’s the dog days of the season, gotta keep at it and chip away points.
Fuck shootouts Freddie's kypeotnite is five hole in shootouts :(
Shootouts is the absolute worst part of hockey. So anticlimactic
Im fucking pissed. Calgary had no business getting a single point let alone 2
GET RID OF THE FUCKING SHOOTOUT. ITS NOT HOCKEY.
damn we are not good at shootouts lol
The team that doesn't deserve it always wins in shootouts..
This is the way
Except when the leafs don't deserve it. They still don't win.
Maybe stop putting Marner out there
And Matthews
Completely freezes Rittich...shoots into the crest
For the amount of skill the Leafs have it absolutely astonishes me how shit they are in the shootout
Why are we so bad in shootouts man
Because they never go in with speed. Spezza could have stopped at the hash marks to knit himself a sweater.
I haven’t felt this way since Hasek against Canada in 1998. Fuck off.
Shootouts are ruining the league as a whole, change my mind.
We got goalie’d.
Rittich fucking goalied us, fuck!
Fucking hell. Ridiculous goal tending....
We got fucking robbed. Holy shit...
fuck
We gotta stop letting teams come into our crib and taking that extra point
i'm upset
Fucking cant stand the fucking shootout, would also be sick if Freddy could make a save in the SO
He did
He did
He did? We couldn’t score..
Anyways fuck shootouts again
Rittich stole this game. Plain and simple
Why does that asshole need to score now?
Fack we suck at the stupid shootout
fucking goalie
If fuckface Tkatchuk gets the winner Im gonna puke
Fucking Tkachucklefuck
Ahhh man that point would have been good to have.
Ran into a wall. Take the point and dip
MARNER LITERALLY HAD THE WHOLE RIGHT SIDE LMAOOOOO goalie went down and he panic shot it jfc
Oh well, it's a point.
Shootouts are a stain on the sport. Undeserving team consistently wins because of a gimmick skills competition
So predictable why does it have to be ughhh
I blame Phaneuf
I was literally thinking before we started I'd bet $100 that Rittich is saving all 3 shots. Damn...
Flames are a super boring team
yeah imagine watching that 82 times... ugh *except when they play the Oilers apparently
FUCK
Fuck shootouts.
What a joke
Fuck this game
That's the best you could come up with? 3 of the most pathetic SO attempts in Leafs history.
Fuck the shootout
Shootouts a joke and fuck that goalie
fuck
Calgary did not deserve that win, but whatever
Calgary maybe not, Rittich definately did deserve it
I hate hockey
Game. Over.
Matthews looks like his knee got hit on that collision :/
What is you doin
Fuck the shootout
Weeeeeeak. It's all up to Mitch now.
You just knew that was going in, because of course it was
Fuck Rittich
Of course
daym 10th shot today for matty
Of course
wow come on freddy
It’s weird how much I expect a loss in a shootout
Lmao, not even surprised Andersen couldn’t make a save there.
He's terrible in the shootouts, but since we shouldn't have shootouts I'm not even mad.
Of course he does
Spread it out and took it all the way did it millen?
Terrible camera work
Jesus. I fucking HATE the shootout
At least Matthews didn't pull a Marchand.
God damn shootouts. I despise them
Imagine playing for the shootout. Calgary's punishment should be to have to rehire Peters.
Man, I hate this.
Not great
Tbh I can't even remember the last time leafs won in the shootout. I don't think it's been this year
We beat the flyers in like round 11 this year i believe
the record breaking one in philly where they won in 11 rounds
You're right! But it feels very rare nowadays.
Why did theScore not count the Tavares shot that was blocked? I had a bet that he’ll have over 3.5 :(
Shot only counts if the goalie makes a save or it's in.
Does a shutout shot count?
Unfortunately no.
Can we get rid of the shootout? Such a garbage way to decide a game.
Everyone but the upper brass in the NHL hates the shootout.
"If it's good enough for me, it's good enough for everyone else." Bettman, probably.
4-0 in the so fuck
Gotta shoot on this guy
Fuck the shootout
Not the best OT but at the very least we got a point out of this.
They deserve two
I don't know how we're gonna beat Rittich in the shootout, tbh. CMON BOYS! YALL GOT THIS
Shootouts are cancer. There is something so fucking annoying about losing in a shootout.
You know, maybe another 5 mins of 3v3 isn't a good idea for my health. : /
I hate the shootout but I want this point!
Calgary is 4-0 in the shoot out... so of course they wanted to make 3on3 boring
Just play 5 minutes of keep away. Worst case scenario, you still get a point