Seven Thoughts on the Current Leafs

Haha ya I noticed Beauchemin Giguere made a nice save on Lecavelier near the end there

I honestly think Bowen is sort of pulling a Bob Uecker in Major League. Full bottle of whiskey to drown his sorrows! Probably sick of all of Harry Neale’s text messages about future perennial Vezina trophy champion Tyler Myers.

Dimanno is a million fucking times worse than any journalist ever. It’s hard to even call her a journalist. She is a grade eight girl writing the worst “journalism article assignment,” every day. She piles shitty metaphors on top of a lack of insight into anything hockey-related.

I really agree with your assessment. Saying “Kabby isn’t what he once was” is overreacting. You know, rec’d.

so true…in Burkie we trust though

Except the guy I’m playing in the pool this week has Kiprusoff.

Doubly awesome for me…I’ve got Kiprusoff and my opponent has Alfredsson and Spezza :)

It’s below league average. :(

http://www.nhl.com/ice/playerstats.htm?fetchKey=20102ALLGAGAll&sort=savePercentage&viewName=wlt

The Leafs as a team have posted a collective .888 save % this year. (223Goals Against / 1993 Shots Against)

Interesting. The lower ranked guys seem to be scorers though, (Kessel, Fleishman, Selanne, D.Sedin) so it’s not meant to be an indicator of everything.

I would like to see something like Corsi+giveaway/takeaway+penalties taken/penalties drawn. That would actually be pretty straightforward as a +/- and would really highlight the impact a player has on the game. Does Corsi include PP and PK? I guess it is hard to include it fairly, because if you are on the PK it means you didn’t take a penalty, but then again if you are on the PP you may have drawn one.

I would also like to see PP and PK % as a % of time, so per 2min. That way, if you get scored on twice on a 5min major, that’s the same as getting scored on twice on two minors, not the same as getting scored on twice in one minor…see what I mean?

What do you stats guys think of this? Maybe it already exists?

As we wrote last week: .910 goaltending probably takes this team to the playoffs or close.

http://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/2010/3/4/1356179/the-leafs-team-save-percentage-vs

If Cullen at TSN isn’t going to show his work, there’s little to no meaning in his numbers, especially if he’s giving much weight to notoriously unreliable stats like takeaways/giveaways.

I’m thinking about a certain Muslim Leafs prospect especially. If he could improve physically the way stamkos did in a year, hot damn

There is a distinct sense of distaste by Roberts for the Leafs. Lingering disappointment methinks stemming from the post lockout jump

Everything stinks but at least we all hate the Habs

Gotta love how bad the Bruins’ scoring is that 1 game can increase their overall GF/G by 5%

I was wondering about that too…

It sounded as if he made a comment about sending Kulemin down to the A… maybe it was a reference from something he said earlier in the year? When Kule had a stretch of bad games or something?

If you go to the Maple Leafs’ online video and his presser earlier in the day or maybe after last night’s game Barry Davis asked him a question about whether Kulemin’s demotion to the AHL helped. Wilson said he’d never been sent to the Marlies and Davis kept arguing it.

I checked his transaction history and it looks like he was assigned to the Marlies for one day but I don’t remember why but likely he wasn’t ever actually sent down.

Didn’t Ryan go to Windsor?

Dion needs to get a goal, i think things will start to roll after he gets that monkey off his back

is it too early to complain about lack of production?

Yes. He is getting chances, great shot from the point. It’ll happen soon. Keep the faith.

Dion needs to play better defensively. Yes, I know he as point-getter, but sometimes he handles the puck like it is a grenade.

Dion, keep doing what you are doing in the offensive zone, but you need to tighten your play in your own zone(especially when getting forechecked) and in the neutral zone.

I hope he is coachable for this aspect of his play. He doesn’t need to play like a shutdown guy but a little work on his D would be appreciated.

Shouldn’t you be laid up in bed?

I almost wonder if Kaberle is playing himself into a position where he could be affordable as a 5th D/PP specialist type. BB said his goal is to re-sign him, not that I think BB has any obligation to tell us what he’s REALLY thinking.

I still think we need to trade one of our veteran D, but I totally agree the return for Kabby is diminishing almost daily. Sad, I’ve always loved him.

Thanks for joining. Nice to see Julian staying in character.

It’s Simon Gysbers and the Marlies signed him a couple of days ago.

Heh, I love when people think I write all the headlines, etc.