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Mike Augello
Commissioner
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Buffalo, NY
Joined: 06.25.2006

Dec 6 @ 12:15 PM ET
Mike Augello: Johnsson out minimum three weeks, Leafs call up three; New Leafs Convo
Woderwick
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: David Clarkson's Water Bottle, ON
Joined: 02.12.2013

Dec 6 @ 12:23 PM ET
Bout' time, Iceberg got called up.

But I think I messed up his name a week or so ago...mistakenly calling him Pussnutz Assberg, or something like that.
Tanooki
Location: Professional propagandist, Val D’or
Joined: 06.28.2016

Dec 6 @ 12:23 PM ET
Mac and the USSR.
- Atomic Wedgie

This it

That’s what the Leafs need, another fan favourite line that plays with jam. Kadri had that element, worked well with Leo. Hopefully Aberg brings some physicality, maybe makes an impression and sticks?? Didn’t he have a big playoffs for Nashville a few years ago??
Woderwick
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: David Clarkson's Water Bottle, ON
Joined: 02.12.2013

Dec 6 @ 12:26 PM ET
Therd!!!
CarlitoBrigante
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Toronto, ON
Joined: 01.22.2012

Dec 6 @ 12:27 PM ET
Bout' time, Iceberg got called up.

But I think I messed up his name a week or so ago...mistakenly calling him Pussnutz Assberg, or something like that.

- Woderwick


on the all time list of leafs with weird names....he might be top 10....
RogerRoeper
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Toronto, ON
Joined: 03.27.2007

Dec 6 @ 12:28 PM ET
"Grit" "Jam". Toronto people love those words.
Woderwick
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: David Clarkson's Water Bottle, ON
Joined: 02.12.2013

Dec 6 @ 12:30 PM ET
on the all time list of leafs with weird names....he might be top 10....
- CarlitoBrigante

Name the rest.

Wedgie will want in of this.

Does Jiri Crha make the list?

Syl Apps?
Monkeypunk
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Whenever, wherever, ON
Joined: 06.27.2013

Dec 6 @ 12:32 PM ET
This it

That’s what the Leafs need, another fan favourite line that plays with jam. Kadri had that element, worked well with Leo. Hopefully Aberg brings some physicality, maybe makes an impression and sticks?? Didn’t he have a big playoffs for Nashville a few years ago??

- Tanooki


Hopefully he helps in some way. Honestly, I don't think a call-up from the AHL is the make-or-break for this team.

I think buy-in is the make-or-break. Keefe has had 7 games. Through the first 3 games, cycling with puck possession and a 5 man zone entry, the team played very well and had great results to show. They still haven't done much in the defensive zone - playing a very passive collapse while the other time just cycles the puck around. I think defensively they are supposed to have a middle collapse while two checkers pressure the puck carrier trying to force an error and prevent cross-ice passes. That's going to require better communication and team work than they've demonstrated so far this year.

In the next 4 games since the early successes, the Leafs regressed in the first game against Buffalo at the first sign of opposition. Hutchinson lets in a couple, and the high risk plays start to stop. And they immediately dropped the style, and it's hard to describe what has followed, but I don't think they've successfully gotten back to what they were doing in the first 3 games. In the last few games there are a lot more dump ins on line changes, more shoot ins on zone entries - to an unpressured weak side.

I'll admit I was out this weekend, so I caught snippets of games against Buffalo, but it looked that way in the 2nd & 3rd of game 1, and all of game two that I saw - they weren't trying to apply the same offensive pressure nor retain the puck. Certainly they didn't do it at all against Philly or Colorado.

If the AHL guys are going to help in any way, perhaps it's to better enforce Keefe's system.
Byfuglien Ate Me
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Burger King
Joined: 09.24.2010

Dec 6 @ 12:35 PM ET


I still Believe in Dubas/Matthews/Keefe. Be a Fan.
Santo_44
Toronto Maple Leafs
Joined: 10.20.2014

Dec 6 @ 12:35 PM ET
Hopefully he helps in some way. Honestly, I don't think a call-up from the AHL is the make-or-break for this team.

I think buy-in is the make-or-break. Keefe has had 7 games. Through the first 3 games, cycling with puck possession and a 5 man zone entry, the team played very well and had great results to show. They still haven't done much in the defensive zone - playing a very passive collapse while the other time just cycles the puck around. I think defensively they are supposed to have a middle collapse while two checkers pressure the puck carrier trying to force an error and prevent cross-ice passes. That's going to require better communication and team work than they've demonstrated so far this year.

In the next 4 games since the early successes, the Leafs regressed in the first game against Buffalo at the first sign of opposition. Hutchinson lets in a couple, and the high risk plays start to stop. And they immediately dropped the style, and it's hard to describe what has followed, but I don't think they've successfully gotten back to what they were doing in the first 3 games. In the last few games there are a lot more dump ins on line changes, more shoot ins on zone entries - to an unpressured weak side.

I'll admit I was out this weekend, so I caught snippets of games against Buffalo, but it looked that way in the 2nd & 3rd of game 1, and all of game two that I saw - they weren't trying to apply the same offensive pressure nor retain the puck. Certainly they didn't do it at all against Philly or Colorado.

If the AHL guys are going to help in any way, perhaps it's to better enforce Keefe's system.

- Monkeypunk


Get out of here with your realistic views

I want to see more anger and senselessness in your post

This isn't the HB way
Byfuglien Ate Me
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Burger King
Joined: 09.24.2010

Dec 6 @ 12:36 PM ET
Bout' time, Iceberg got called up.

But I think I messed up his name a week or so ago...mistakenly calling him Pussnutz Assberg, or something like that.

- Woderwick



Santo_44
Toronto Maple Leafs
Joined: 10.20.2014

Dec 6 @ 12:37 PM ET
I still Believe in Dubas/Matthews/Keefe. Be a Fan.
- Byfuglien Ate Me

I do.

They have played way behind what they are capable of and 2nd and 3rd is a win away

The hockey gods have been more than generous here
Adam French
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Isn't Cooley 5"11? You know who else is 5"11? Sydney Crosby. - Scabeh
Joined: 04.06.2011

Dec 6 @ 12:38 PM ET
People seem to forget that the entire purpose of MLSE owning the NHL and AHL squad was that both teams would play THE EXACT SAME SYSTEM...so that players moving up and down would not lose any momentum.


Everybody forget that? It was reiterated at the start of the year again. Same system all through the system.
Santo_44
Toronto Maple Leafs
Joined: 10.20.2014

Dec 6 @ 12:39 PM ET
People seem to forget that the entire purpose of MLSE owning the NHL and AHL squad was that both teams would play THE EXACT SAME SYSTEM...so that players moving up and down would not lose any momentum.


Everybody forget that? It was reiterated at the start of the year again. Same system all through the system.

- AdamFrench

Babcock is the boss, member?
Tanooki
Location: Professional propagandist, Val D’or
Joined: 06.28.2016

Dec 6 @ 12:39 PM ET
Hopefully he helps in some way. Honestly, I don't think a call-up from the AHL is the make-or-break for this team.

I think buy-in is the make-or-break. Keefe has had 7 games. Through the first 3 games, cycling with puck possession and a 5 man zone entry, the team played very well and had great results to show. They still haven't done much in the defensive zone - playing a very passive collapse while the other time just cycles the puck around. I think defensively they are supposed to have a middle collapse while two checkers pressure the puck carrier trying to force an error and prevent cross-ice passes. That's going to require better communication and team work than they've demonstrated so far this year.

In the next 4 games since the early successes, the Leafs regressed in the first game against Buffalo at the first sign of opposition. Hutchinson lets in a couple, and the high risk plays start to stop. And they immediately dropped the style, and it's hard to describe what has followed, but I don't think they've successfully gotten back to what they were doing in the first 3 games. In the last few games there are a lot more dump ins on line changes, more shoot ins on zone entries - to an unpressured weak side.

I'll admit I was out this weekend, so I caught snippets of games against Buffalo, but it looked that way in the 2nd & 3rd of game 1, and all of game two that I saw - they weren't trying to apply the same offensive pressure nor retain the puck. Certainly they didn't do it at all against Philly or Colorado.

If the AHL guys are going to help in any way, perhaps it's to better enforce Keefe's system.

- Monkeypunk

You may be on to something with the defensive style of play adjustments.. I think if they knew how to fix it, they would. Having the right players would go a long way toward correcting it.

This team is just fragile. Immature, not experienced, and probably a little entitled. No Leafs will be winning any peer appreciation awards anytime soon. By demanding that money, they’ve put a target on their backs.
CarlitoBrigante
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Toronto, ON
Joined: 01.22.2012

Dec 6 @ 12:40 PM ET
Name the rest.

Wedgie will want in of this.

Does Jiri Crha make the list?

Syl Apps?

- Woderwick


Jiri Tlusty
Byfuglien Ate Me
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Burger King
Joined: 09.24.2010

Dec 6 @ 12:42 PM ET
I do.

They have played way behind what they are capable of and 2nd and 3rd is a win away

The hockey gods have been more than generous here

- Santo_44



Yes, but you don’t turn on the team after a tough stretch.

A sh!tload of other “Leaf Fans” do.
Woderwick
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: David Clarkson's Water Bottle, ON
Joined: 02.12.2013

Dec 6 @ 12:43 PM ET
Jiri Tlusty
- CarlitoBrigante

That's hard to say.
Tumbleweed
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: avid reader of the daily douche news
Joined: 03.14.2014

Dec 6 @ 12:43 PM ET
People seem to forget that the entire purpose of MLSE owning the NHL and AHL squad was that both teams would play THE EXACT SAME SYSTEM...so that players moving up and down would not lose any momentum.


Everybody forget that? It was reiterated at the start of the year again. Same system all through the system.

- AdamFrench


seems to be forgotten.

keefe players a different and better system has a lot better spin to it. the owners of the leafs have told us so through the media they own, so it must be true.

but proof is in the pudding. the team has gone from a top possession team under babcock to below average under keefe.
LeafGuy89
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: ON
Joined: 05.13.2017

Dec 6 @ 12:44 PM ET
Name the rest.

Wedgie will want in of this.

Does Jiri Crha make the list?

Syl Apps?

- Woderwick


Eureka!?

Hell of a name.
Santo_44
Toronto Maple Leafs
Joined: 10.20.2014

Dec 6 @ 12:48 PM ET
Yes, but you don’t turn on the team after a tough stretch.

A sh!tload of other “Leaf Fans” do.

- Byfuglien Ate Me


Even if this team goes STL Blues and wins the cup, they will go on another bad slump like this.

STL will go on one within the next few years.

Things get magnified in Toronto. The sky is falling.
Monkeypunk
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Whenever, wherever, ON
Joined: 06.27.2013

Dec 6 @ 12:50 PM ET
Name the rest.

Wedgie will want in of this.

Does Jiri Crha make the list?

Syl Apps?

- Woderwick


First of all Syl Apps is a very serious venereal disease and is no laughing matter.

Off hand, there's Frank Bialowas. I'm not sure how that's pronounced, but if it's pronounced like I think it's pronounced, this guy can't get a job for HR violations whenever he gives his name.

Sprague Cleghorn because I'm pretty sure he's a skating chicken who's always being pursued by a chickenhawk.

We had a guy named Bronco Horvath. If that's his real name, that's great.

Rolly Huard. All the best names are from the 30's. When you could name your kid Flash unironically.

I'm just sort of scanning through, but I remember Ralph Intranuovo. Another great one from the 30's: Bingo Kampman. He was a dog. Oh!

They had a guy, Butch Keeling, who was probably a Little Rascal. With a name like Butch, he only had 81PIM in 73 games. I'm more than a little disappointed.

There was Joe Klukay in the late 40s who probably would have loved last year's outdoor uniform, but would have preferred a different head covering.

If you were an alien trying to pretend like you weren't, Orland Kurtenbach, seems like a bad choice of names.

Harry Mummery, Goldie Prodgers, Beattie Ramsay . . . Carl Voss sounds like a Bond villain.

We also had a monopoly on crappy guys named Yaremchuk.
Monkeypunk
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Whenever, wherever, ON
Joined: 06.27.2013

Dec 6 @ 12:52 PM ET
People seem to forget that the entire purpose of MLSE owning the NHL and AHL squad was that both teams would play THE EXACT SAME SYSTEM...so that players moving up and down would not lose any momentum.


Everybody forget that? It was reiterated at the start of the year again. Same system all through the system.

- AdamFrench


I remember them saying that. I also remember them saying after Babcock was fired that the NHL team wasn't employing the system that they wanted. Having not watched many AHL games, I was a little relieved, because it seemed pretty dumb to bring up a guy who was going to do the exact same thing.
Monkeypunk
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Whenever, wherever, ON
Joined: 06.27.2013

Dec 6 @ 12:57 PM ET
seems to be forgotten.

keefe players a different and better system has a lot better spin to it. the owners of the leafs have told us so through the media they own, so it must be true.

but proof is in the pudding. the team has gone from a top possession team under babcock to below average under keefe.

- Tumbleweed


I get you're down and frustrated. We all are. It's been 7 games. Most of what I see in the last 4 games is the Leafs' players not doing what they were doing in the first 3 games. It's more effort. It's more work and attention to detail. It requires more covering for each other and more accountability. They all need to buy-in to it, because with that sort of system, a weak link who won't do their part is going to expose the team.

At this point, we'll have to see. So far this year, regardless of who is coaching, the team doesn't look like a team that's willing to pay the price and put in honest work. But when they do they can dominate.
Symba007
Montreal Canadiens
Location: You are all perennial cynical sissies , ON
Joined: 02.26.2007

Dec 6 @ 1:00 PM ET
I get you're down and frustrated. We all are. It's been 7 games. Most of what I see in the last 4 games is the Leafs' players not doing what they were doing in the first 3 games. It's more effort. It's more work and attention to detail. It requires more covering for each other and more accountability. They all need to buy-in to it, because with that sort of system, a weak link who won't do their part is going to expose the team.

At this point, we'll have to see. So far this year, regardless of who is coaching, the team doesn't look like a team that's willing to pay the price and put in honest work. But when they do they can dominate.

- Monkeypunk

it is too early to turn it on....they will run out of gas in March. They will wait until mid-late January and go all out....basically the St-Louis model.
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