Comments on: A Theory on the Leafs poor play and trade rumors.

By: leafsfan86

leafsfan86 — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:46:03 +0000

i hope not...i would rather it go somewhere like calgary or edmonton (that's not happening)

By: leafsfan86

leafsfan86 — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:46:12 +0000

haha thanks alot....man i know i'm not the only one but I just wanna know why the majority of these fans don't get it. Of course they will keep cheering for their team, as will I, but its just the fact that they don't understand that this franchise doesnt care about the fans all they care about is the moolah. Damn it's really getting to me.

By: JuicemaN

JuicemaN — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:07:39 +0000

LMAO – enjoy the rest of your time cheering for them…it gets no better.

By: leafsfan86

leafsfan86 — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:12:05 +0000

Raptors=WIN

Leafs= Thanks JFJ...***hole

By: turdfergusson

turdfergusson — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:43:14 +0000

Absolutely a non-issue. Fire this guy, fire that guy... Cure the disease don't treat it.

By: senators101

senators101 — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:15:50 +0000

Yup, he'll play well with Wellwood and maybe Blake, just to add a little bit of size and at least he can crash the net.

By: RealisticLeaf

RealisticLeaf — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:51:22 +0000

Ya i knew also that Blake would not play well with Sundin. There is not enough puck for both of em. I think Blake would do better with Welly. I think him and Welly would make teams nuts. Their speed and good puck control will make teams crazy. Welly is a great passer and would make Blake better.

I still think the players are tuning Maurice out. Looks like the players have no interest in his ideas.

By: senators101

senators101 — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:01:06 +0000

I said it when he was signed. Leaf fans thought that this guy was going to get even more than 40 because he'd be playing with Sundin instead of Yashin. I said then that it would be less because of that very same reason. Sundin is not a playmaker, Yashin is.

On to coaching, it's the players fault that they aren't buying into his system. He keeps saying that they gotta make better decisions in the defensive zone...which is their problem. He can tell them what to do, but he can't do it for them. When Woz went half-down the other night to block the 2-on-1, he made a poor decision. I'm sure he was taught when he was 11 years old that the best way to block a 2-on-1 is to focus on blocking the pass. When White tried to keep that puck at centre and it went through him. That's another poor decision. He knows there is nobody covering behind him, so wtf is the point in going all or nothing? I think the short-handed goal was because toronto was trying to bring up the puck in the middle of the ice and fooled around with it. When McAmmond tried to take the puck away, there was very little effort in trying to tie him up. I'm not sure what Maurice or a new coach can do about that.

By: senators101

senators101 — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:50:43 +0000

Sorry Juiceman, I'm going to have to disagree with you on some of this.

First, I AGREE that Sundin is leading this team offensively and heh sort of his carrying this team on his back. However, if the players aren't going to listen to the coach for the 82 games and decide to play only once in a while, Sundin, as captain, should light a fire under his teams asses. Sometimes its gotta come from the senior players - there's nobody better than Sundin, as he is older, experienced, playing well, and captain.

Ottawa struggled coming out of the gate last year. Alfy and the alternate captains held player only meetings. I haven't heard one yet in Toronto. I know its only 16 games in but that's 20% of the season gone. 16 less games to make up points and get their way into playoff contention.

I think Maurice is trying to get this team going. If he didn't teach defense and physical play, he wouldn't be getting so pissed about those aspects of their game come post-game interviews. He said something after the Ottawa game that I liked. He said that these defense errors were not mistakes, but they were bad decisions. Makes sense to me. Mistakes happen once or twice, but after you get burned for them so many times, you'll do it right. These people aren't learning from their mistakes --> bad decisions. He can only tell people what to do, he can't do it for them.

By: RealisticLeaf

RealisticLeaf — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:24:59 +0000

Yeah looks like Blake is certainly unhappy. Which is too bad…maybe he should play a little harder and go to the net like he did last season. He played much harder last season. Too bad.Yeah the Leafs need a major shake up. Both have to go…said last season that JFJ had to go but wanted to see what Maurice can do this year. Now that I see how his coaching is going over….he can go too.