Reimer in, Gustavsson Waivering?

Kadri played 18 games, he is not ready
Hanson was a project when he signed here and is just now showing some promise in the AHL, he was also not ready for the NHL
Kessel has been fantastic, if you don’t think so, I would question what team you are watching.
Bozak is again catching his stride after a slow start, he has 47 points in 84 NHL games, that is pretty good, especially for being thrown to the wolves night in and night out against some of the NHL’s best lines and being asked to carry the offensive load
Gunnarsson is rounding out nicely this year, he started poorly but is finding form and confidence again
Development is not a straight, line sprint. It takes time, years and multiple seasons even, the Sedins didnt break out until their early 30.
All the players (except macarthur) who have shown vast improvement under Wilson played significant time under him, not one season, but at least double that.
the only one who has shown to be a possible train wreck of development is Gustavsson, and no coach on the face of the earth bats 1000

I chose that comment specifically because it didnt have anything to do with the above statement and is a blatantly false assumption that many leaf fans have and i am fucking sick of it

When it was his turn to carry the mail he put more great games together and things were looking really good.

Gustavsson played 6 in a row from when Giguere went down to when he came back. He went 2-3-1 with a 0.924 SV%. While good, it’s not exactly the second coming of Jacques Plante.

Then the very first night Giggy is back on the bench, Gus gets pulled after – what? 3 goals? 2? I forget –

2 goals. On 6 shots. Through the first 26 minutes of the game. Against the Edmonton fucking Oilers.

BTW, putting Giggy in that night cold basically led to him reinjuring his groin and missing significant time since then – a very nice 1-2 punch of Wilsonomics

First, how do you put in a backup goalie that’s not cold? Unless you’re changing your goalies on the fly all game, any goalie that comes into a game midway is by definition “cold”.

And are you insinuating that it’s Wilson’s fault Giguere got reinjured? Gustavsson let in 2 GOALS ON 6 SHOTS IN ALMOST HALF A GAME! Brett Lebda in net was probably a better option on this night.

Then when they call up Reimer, they START him for 5 games in a row over Gus simply because they are winning.

Reimer played 6 out of 7 games in that stretch. The one game he didn’t play Gustavsson almost blew a 5-2 lead in the third period. Reimer also put up a 0.931 over that stretch that was significantly deflated by the Phoenix game. I wonder why they kept playing him.

Does anyone really think that Gus would have started 5 games in a row over Giggy no matter how many of them he won? Not a chance.

Because every time gustavsson has had to play that many games in a row, he’s gone into the tank.

So why is it ok to hand that mantle to Reimer?

Statue constructions are a bitch to stop midway. Also, because he’s the only goalie even remotely close to NHL calibre in six years.

it’s not

Because you say so?

But then Wilson seems to have a real problem with anyone who shows passion of any kind and it’s not a new thing with him.

I enjoyed the lengthy discussion of concrete factual evidence you had to support this… oh what’s that? It’s meaningless bs you pulled out of your ass? Carry on.

On a different tack: when Francois Allaire spoke about Gus last year, he said he was ahead of Hiller (whom he also coached) at the same point in their careers and we all know that we got Giggy because Hiller took over that #1 job in Anaheim. I doubt he would say the same thing now and I don’t think the finger can be pointed at Allaire as the problem

Is it at all possible that maybe Allaire was (gasp) wrong in his assessment? Or that Gustavsson hasn’t been able to grow accustomed to the NHL game as well as HIller?

I’m far from Wilson’s biggest defender, but Wilson has a proven track record with young talent that Jared’s outlined already. Goaltending has been a shitshow, but how you can pin Giguere’s papiermache groin and Gustavsson’s issues with confidence on Wilson is incredible. I have just one more question for you:

How does it feel to be so wrong all the time?

Kadri- not a good example. You think Wilson has been handling him incorrectly? I think the only thing he’s done wrong was bringing him up earlier this year, it was too early in the season. But he’s doing fine in the minors at a PPG pace.

Bozak- started off last season with the Marlies, but he was called up and played 37 games with the Leafs, notching 27 points. Slated as the number 1 center to play alongside Kessel, there was a world of opportunity for Bozak to be a 50 point player this year, but he just hasn’t performed well this season.

Kessel- playing with less than adequate talent this and last season, he salvaged 30 goals and 55 points last season, and is at 19 goals and 33 points through 47 games this season.

Can’t say I know much about Hanson, but he’s been spending most of his time in the AHL (deservedly so) and has put up decent numbers.

I don’t see where he’s mishandled these guys.

$1.3-$1.5M I think. Not the worst but his performance has to come up for sure.