GDT - Maple Leaves @ Sabres - December 4, 2018 - 7:30 PM (EST)

[bunomatic]

Just got home and was surprised to see a 0-0 score between these two juggernauts.

[Stoner]

6 minutes ago, Samson's Flow said:

I don't know what your burden of proof is, but I believe it enough based on his comments and my game observation this year

It seems like if Eichel had made a major adjustment to his stick and it was affecting his game that much, it would have been in the news by now.

[Samson's Flow]

2 minutes ago, bunomatic said:

Just got home and was surprised to see a 0-0 score between these two juggernauts.

Don't let the score fool you. Plenty of scoring chances by both teams

[darksabre]

I expect this one to blow wide open here in the 2nd 

[dudacek]

2 minutes ago, darksabre said:

I expect this one to blow wide open here in the 2nd 

Same. This game is teetering.

[Hoss]

39 minutes ago, TrueBlueGED said:

Guilty pleasure: I hate Pierre, but I won't lie, I'm going to enjoy hearing him say how great Dahlin is all night. 

I was thinking about this earlier. It will never make me like Pierre but it will be nice to not just listen to him jizzing over other players all night.

[R_Dudley]

That was a great first period. That's the team we saw at the beginning of the streak. Puck possession, shots suppression, more zone time in theirs than ours and finishing checks taking away TO time and Space....

2 more periods please.

[Samson's Flow]

6 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

It seems like if Eichel had made a major adjustment to his stick and it was affecting his game that much, it would have been in the news by now.

Last point on this - I don't think they were major adjustments, maybe half and inch each year. But I think of golf (which I'm more familiar with) where I have lengthened my clubs as a taller guy. I could probably shorten my irons by a half inch or so and not notice, but if I keep doing it eventually those shots that I used to hit pure are now topped and I suddenly look horrible. I don't know where that tipping point is, but I think we're seeing it with Jack now.

Edited December 5, 2018 by Samson's Flow

[bunomatic]

1 minute ago, Hoss said:

I was thinking about this earlier. It will never make me like Pierre but it will be nice to not just listen to him jizzing over other players all night.

Any mention of Pilut by La Pierre ? Is Pilut playing ?

[Randall Flagg]

5 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

The quote was vague. But if his stick has been shorter one season to the next, wouldn't we have seen issues last year and the year before? I'm just not buying it. It sounds like excuse making. If it's that big a problem, I'm guessing he would have changed back by now.

They were literally giving like a gear update weren't they? Why would he talk about that if he wasn't shortening his stick for the upcoming season? It wouldn't make any sense at all given the context of their discussion. "Oh hey I shortened my stick two summers ago" 

And I dunno, but I have about 5 hockey sticks of varying sizes, but within reason for someone my height, and 3 of them are interchangeable and the other two are unusable, and you would never be able to pick which two are unusable for me, it just has to do with what I'm used to, and I play a lot less than Jack. I don't think there's a linear relationship between stick length and ability or inability to do particular things with them. 

Excuse making for what? What is more reasonable? That Jack still hasn't figured out how to pick corners with a new twig, but is still a hockey player pacing for more points than he's ever had and doing really well in tight with it? Or that Jack just plain forgot how to do two weirdly specific skills, stickhandling in open ice and taking one-timers? But is great/fine at everything else? 

[Hoss]

Just now, bunomatic said:

Any mention of Pilut by La Pierre ? Is Pilut playing ?

No mention. Pilut seemed fine in period one.

[Stoner]

Dan missed the first 22 seconds. That's the problem for those on radio only.

[bob_sauve28]

That was offsides 

[darksabre]

Pilut makes good simple plays 

[...]

That was offsides but the Leafs weren't?

[Brawndo]

Tage please do not do that in front of Ullmark 

[Randall Flagg]

Dutifully pointing out another Sobotka clean slot possession that turns into nothing

[Samson's Flow]

Is this how Penguins fans listen to NBC games? This is Crosby level ballwashing for Dahlin

[TrueBlueGED]

Man, if Berglund or Girgensons had an ounce of offensive talent...

[Randall Flagg]

Skinner is mediocre when not scoring butt-tons of goals in tight. 

[Brawndo]

“All set up by Rasmus Dahlin” - Pierre on repeat 

[darksabre]

If nothing is a penalty on Toronto then nothing should be a penalty on us either

[Randall Flagg]

Brilliant play from Pilut. 

[Sabel79]

We’re doing that thing where everything the Laffs do is legal tonight, aren’t we?

[Samson's Flow]

1 minute ago, TrueBlueGED said:

Man, if Berglund or Girgensons had an ounce of offensive talent...

Seriously. That was the least dangerous breakaway ever