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I am so sick of our team being so nice. Like Bieksa said earlier, teams enjoy playing us. no push back. no major hits. No offence. Blah

I’ve thrown up in my mouth twice already.

At this point, I'm okay with the Canucks not making it to the post-season, but I'd love to see the Leafs get taken out early. And to help with this dream, I'd enjoy seeing Boeser on a 5-min major PP, taking slap shots at as many Leaf ankles as he can, Edler-style. Is that poor sportsmanship on my part? Perhaps...

Blah, just caught up on PVR. I hate everything right now. Sutter’s late goal just shows how easy it is to beat their netminder, yet we couldn’t generate squat against them. I guess the post season hunt is officially over. Biggest regret this season was watching Toffoli sign with Habs. If we had kept him, chances are we would have won quite a few more games (including key games against Habs) and we might be in fourth spot right now.

Schmidt has been a mixed bag to me. His mistakes almost always end up in the back of our net. Of those three, he’s the one I’d prefer to be removed from an important game, but looking long term, Edler won’t be with us forever.

Luongo did the Canucks no favour by retiring rather than going on legitimate LTIR. Canucks did Luongo a favour by trading him to the one team he wanted to go (back) to. Luongo was a serviceable Canuck but Captain Kirk wore #1 the best in my book.

Doesn’t the tracker show it’s 33%? never mind, you mean probably both doses. I’m surprised, Canada is picking up steam and looking pretty respectable with it now.

I'm super frustrated tonight, but yeah, Jake has been terrible. He had that one amazing game this season, and then everything else was blah.

Yeah, it seems to hurt extra hard seeing Toffoli score the winner for the Habs. He seems so much more three dimensional than Boeser these days. If we don't get a power play, Boeser is pretty much invisible the entire game. He's been a one-trick pony for too many games, and without Petey setting him up, he looks pretty lost at times.

I was not prepared for such a frustrating loss. Terrible situation. We need more offensive weapons.

My money is on #18

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Jake Virtanen is so frustrating. Yes, he was awful last night taking those careless penalties that could have cost us the game. He offered nothing in terms of offense. Yet, he also did throw some hard hits last night, and he drew a penalty and had Ottawa's #1 goalie strain his groin trying to trip Virtanen. So he did influence the game in a good way too. He's just so inconsistent. On a positive note, I was thinking of our position and how we're trying to catch up to the Habs. It seems entirely possible, at least in my head. Even if we just win 3 of the 5 games that we have in hand on them, then we just have to earn one more victory than they do in our same amount of other games to be played. Given the downward trend that they've been on - it doesn't seem out of reach to me.

Fail.. ack

Insurance would be nice. Let’s get another!

That’ll be a double minor.. but ref missed some infractions the other way moments ago

PK here we go again. Boeser sure seems to have no jump yet. I hope he finds his legs soon.

I think if they sign him before the expansion draft for next year, he’s not eligible to be picked by Seattle... I could be wrong on that. Anyway, I think the reason to get it done now is so he doesn’t get anxious waiting around and decide to sign with KHL one more year , as it starts before NHL, and then he’d be a free agent the following year. It feels like now or never.

I’m thinking $2.5M x 2. Get ‘er done Benning!

We need more offensive weapons.

We have nobody who threatens to score short handed. Sad

Agreed with those missing Petey. Our offensive weapons seem few and far between with Boeser stone cold right now.

Looks like Boeser is with Horvat in hopes of getting Boeser going. He looked pretty flat the last two games. It’s like he’s been rocked by Covid or something.

A bunch of guys? Who would they be?

Frederick Anderson has been injured with a lower body injury for a long time now. So long, in fact, that he's taken to rollerblading with his buddies while he waits around. What's the hold-up of inserting him back into the roster? Cap issues, of course. Justine Bourne from Sportsnet even writes today "It also seems quite likely that they’ve asked him to “rest” as long as conceivably possible (right until playoffs?) for salary cap purposes, and that him agreeing to do so likely came with some sort of guarantee of not losing the net." https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/analyzing-torontos-turbulent-goaltending-means-playoffs/ Meanwhile, four days ago, Sportsnet writes about how the NHL will closely monitor teams taking advantage of LTIR cap advantages, with Sportsnet's Chris Johnston saying "I think what the league is saying is 'we're going to watch you closely. We can request medical records if we think there's any funny business, cap circumvention, that kind of thing going on here. .. I think especially any players activated just for Game 1 of the playoffs, there will be Spockian eyebrow raised from the league and that's something they intend to enforce quite forcefully." https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/nhl-closely-monitor-teams-taking-advantage-ltir-cap-advantages/ So why isn't this a bigger deal for the Leafs? It's so obvious, their own media fan-club is writing about how they're taking advantage, and not one media person is calling them out on it. Meanwhile, Anderson keeps on rollerblading on.... What do you think about it?