Game Thread: Carolina @ Toronto Puck Drop 7PM

[Harbingers]

2 minutes ago, Darkseid89 said:

I was about to type this exact thing. I don’t like Martinook on the Aho line. 

For 90% game I’m fine with Martinook on the Aho line. But for these last two shift pop Nino up to the Aho line and give Aho a mini-TT substitute. 

[Harbingers]

I must say Skjei played that insanely perfectly. 
 

Poke check, settle and skate, poke check just enough to give Freddie the angle. That’s unusual for him. 

Edited February 8, 2022 by Harbingers

[Harbingers]

That was goalie interference. He was digging under him. Rod said nope, not worth it in the long run. He’s gonna use it as leverage. 

[Anybodyhome]

Tough loss. I thought Carolina outplayed Toronto and the outcome of the game was ultimately decided by a couple bad calls, one of which gave the Leafs a PP goal.

They got a point and remain on top 4 points behind Florida, 1 point up on with NY and 4 games in hand to both.

Edited February 8, 2022 by Anybodyhome

[Harbingers]

36 minutes ago, Anybodyhome said:

Tough loss. I thought Carolina outplayed Toronto and the outcome of the game was ultimately decided by a couple bad calls, one of which gave the Leafs a PP goal.

They got a point and remain on top 4 points behind Florida, 1 point up on with NY and 4 games in hand to both.

It just sucks we got hemmed into our own end with the far change and couldn’t out past our side of the neutral zone for most of the OT. That’s something we are definitely going to have to practice mitigating. I would have taken the icing there just to reset and give Freddie a chance to glove a puck to get a change on the ice instead of just letting them change every time we kicked it out to the neutral zone. 

Edited February 8, 2022 by Harbingers

[Anybodyhome]

1 hour ago, Harbingers said:

It just sucks we got hemmed into our own end with the far change and couldn’t out past our side of the neutral zone for most of the OT. That’s something we are definitely going to have to practice mitigating. I would have taken the icing there just to reset and give Freddie a chance to glove a puck to get a change on the ice instead of just letting them change every time we kicked it out to the neutral zone. 

I've noticed the same tendency even during regulation. As many road games as these guys played, they still seem to get caught when their bench is on the wrong side of the line.

[Harbingers]

18 minutes ago, Anybodyhome said:

I've noticed the same tendency even during regulation. As many road games as these guys played, they still seem to get caught when their bench is on the wrong side of the line.

I will say there was def goaltender interference though. A leaf pushed our defender directly on top of Freddie who had no chance play the rebound because of it. But I agree with Rod the refs wouldn’t have done poo about it so why even challenge. 

Edited February 8, 2022 by Harbingers

[Anybodyhome]

Maybe they'll take it out on Ottawa tonite. Maybe even give Raanta a shutout?

[Harbingers]

1 minute ago, Anybodyhome said:

Maybe they'll take it out on Ottawa tonite. Maybe even give Raanta a shutout?

I’m hoping. Ottawa has been our Achilles heel this season so hopefully we can actually get a W against them. 

[Harbingers]

1 hour ago, Anybodyhome said:

Maybe they'll take it out on Ottawa tonite. Maybe even give Raanta a shutout?

That actually leads me to another thought though. Raanta should be in net tonight. But who do we put in net against Boston? We have the wild two days later and Florida four days after that. Do we go Raanta > Raanta > Freddie > Freddie? I would have a real hard time putting Raanta in against the wild but I don’t think Raanta has two games in a row yet this season(might be wrong), but if he did it definitely wasn’t against a top 5-10 team.