[Fakepartofme]

The goaltending, the D group, and the bottom six forward group were all largely hot trash during Dubas’ tenure. All of those components are vitally important to winning playoff hockey. He simply was not able to effectively round out his roster. Tree has been able to address these areas.

Keefe is an X’s and O’s coach obsessive with details but whose lack of composure in difficult moments was palpable which bled into the team. Berube’s coaching style is simple and direct and he is clearly had a positive impact on the keeping the team more composed and focused.
Fifty

This.
Also, I like Berube’s patience with the lines and players. Keefe would have been mixing up the lines non stop and I dont think we would have seen patches back in just yet.
Now, dont want to get ahead of ourselves….leafs still have a ways to go to close out the series.
Hope it keeps going. Lets go Leafs!!!

(But the changes are night and day for the most part)

[Fakepartofme]

Good job last night Leafers!

Now the real work begins, you have to close out the series against a top team.

Need a split in Florida…..its a must

[Fakepartofme]

I am obviously a Dubas “fan” because his fingerprints are still on this team. He just fell into the trap of a newer GM/every GM issue which is he fell in love with some of his owns players and he wasn’t willing to make the moves until it was too late. I mean he was the one who drafted Knies and Woll, traded for McCabe, I think he brought in Jarnkork but that could have been Tree. He also vehemently stuck to the core 4, especially Styles. Tree deserves a lot of credit here though too, tanev and Carlo are excellent moves and he as well stuck to the core 4.

I think Berube has done excellent and the issue for both Dubas and Tree were believing in Keefe longer than they should have however Tree likely made the pro GM move of keeping him around as an easy “pass” last year.
Aaron

All over? The D core, starting goalie, attitude and bottom 6 have pretty much all changed. Leafs werent going anywhere with him and his boy Keefe. In fact, I believe Dubas would have most likely traded willy for E Karlsson had he been allowed to stick around (that was the rumour). I liked Dubas, he made some good trades, but this years leafs success has nothing to do with him.
Now the leafs could still choke it away, but they look like a much different team

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[Fakepartofme]

Anyone who doubted Woll can pound sand. What more can the guy do?!?

I am guilty of doubting Patches. I feel shame
He made some big saves but had a couple of weak goals, luckily the leafs were able to score 4.

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[Fakepartofme]

Loving that Domi, Pacioretty, and Rielly were the ones with 2P games tonight. Yes the core guys still got a point or dominated faceoffs but still
Dozzer

Yup, you need depth scoring to win you playoff games…..along with the core peeps

[Fakepartofme]

Great job leafs

No complaints

[Fakepartofme]

Nice job marner

Now shut it down.

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[Fakepartofme]

If the Leafs win the series, then I’m OK with that. If not, strap him to Papi and shoot them into the Sun
Pdo

😆 sounds like a plan

[Fakepartofme]

Like Mike said, if Domi is money in the playoffs, he gets a pass for an underwhelming regular season.

So far in 8 games, domi has made 4 good plays.

[Fakepartofme]

Ok gents, shut these fackers down!!

[Fakepartofme]

Ugh, of course.

[Fakepartofme]

Gotta score on this pp, cause you know the panthers are getting the next 3 pp’s

[Fakepartofme]

LEafs now 0 for 6 on the PP vs. FLA

Can’t win if they don’t get contributions from the man advantage
Augello

Yup, not gonna win many games with that….as we’ve seen the past 8 years

[Fakepartofme]

Go leafs go!!

[Fakepartofme]

Crappy pp.

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