Der Toronto Maple Leafs Thread

[AustroLeaf]

Toronto Maple Leafs - Boston Bruins 1:5 (0:2,0:2,1:1)

Tor für die Leafs: Tucker (Stajan, Wellwood).

Scheinbar eine der schlechtesten Saisonleistungen. Die boo birds flogen nur so durchs ACC.

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Toronto Maple Leafs - Boston Bruins 1:5 (0:2, 0:2, 1:1)

0:1 (4.) Murray 11 PP (Bergeron, Slegr)

0:2 (9.) Murray 12 PP (Zhamnov, Thornton)

0:3 (25.) Bergeron 6 (Axelsson, Green)

0:4 (27.) McEachern 2 (Fitzgerald, Nickulas)

1:4 (43.) Tucker 8 (Stajan, Wellwood)

1:5 (52.) Samsonov 10 (Boyes, Zhamnov)

SOG: Leafs 21, Bruins 37.

PIM: Leafs 17, Bruins 17.

PP: Leafs 0/6, Bruins 2/6.

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Carolina Hurricanes - Toronto Maple Leafs 4:3 SO (1:1, 2:1, 0:1)

1:0 (5.) Hedican 2 PP (Brind'Amour, Hutchinson)

1:1 (19.) O'Neill 10 PP (Steen, Sundin)

2:1 (24.) Staal 16 SH (unassissted)

2:2 (34.) Allison 4 (Kaberle, McCabe)

3:2 (38.) Ladd 1 PP (Williams, Hutchinson)

3:3 (52.) Kilger 3 (Lindros)

4:3 (SO) Vrbata

SOG: Canes 35, Leafs 38.

PIM: Canes 10, Leafs 18.

PP: Canes 2/9, Leafs 1/5.

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Toronto Maple Leafs - Montreal Canadiens 4:3 OT (2:0, 1:2, 0:1, 1:0)

1:0 (6.) Allison 5 (Antropov, Ponikarovsky)

2:0 (17.) Kilger 4 (O'Neill, Lindros)

2:1 (28.) Ribeiro 7 (Bulis, Dagenais)

2:2 (32.) Perezhogin 5 (Markov, Rivet)

3:2 (37.) O'Neill 8 PP (Sundin, Steen)

3:3 (56.) Plekanec 3 (Ryder)

4:3 (62.) Sundin 4 PP OT (Kaberle, McCabe)

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[AustroLeaf]

Bei der 2-Minuten-Strafe, die dann zum Overtime-PP-Tor von Sundin führte, frag ich mich ehrlich gesagt schon, was es da groß zu meckern gibt. Rivet bringt mit Stock und Körper den puckführenden Antropov zu Boden - Rivet zuckt am Strafbankl, Andrei Markov nach Spielende, Coach Julien auf der Pressekonferenz aus. :hää?deppat?:

Jedenfalls haben die Leafs 10 der letzten 13 Duelle mit dem Erzrivalen für sich entschieden. Mats Sundin hat mit 1 Tor und 1 Assist die 1.100-Punkte-Grenze übersprungen und hält mit 14 Overtime-Toren nun den alleinigen NHL-Rekord.

[Seppo Dramac]

Auf den Fersen hat er allerdings bis auf Steve Thomas, Brett Hull und Theo Fleury lauter noch aktive Spieler, also Mats: einfach weiter so!

14-Mats Sundin

13-Steve Thomas

13-Sergei Fedorov

12-Jaromir Jagr

12-Brett Hull

11-Mario Lemieux

11-Theoren Fleury

11-Pierre Turgeon

Edit: typisch ORF-Sportredaktion - Schlagzeile auf sport.orf.at:

'Toronto besiegt Montreal dank Sundin-Penalty'

In einem englischen Text irgendwo Penalty gelesen und das reicht schon aus für so einen Scheiß.

bearbeitet 27. November 2005 von llcoolw

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Florida Panthers - Toronto Maple Leafs 1:2 (0:0, 1:1, 0:1)

0:1 (32.) Tucker 9 (Lindros, O'Neill)

1:1 (39.) Weiss 7 PP (Krajicek, Nieuwendyk)

1:2 (51.) McCabe 10 PP (Kaberle, Allison)

SOG: Panthers 35, Leafs 26.

PIM: Panthers 12, Leafs 12.

PP: Panthers 1/6, Leafs 1/6.

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[AustroLeaf]

Edit: typisch ORF-Sportredaktion - Schlagzeile auf sport.orf.at:

'Toronto besiegt Montreal dank Sundin-Penalty'

In einem englischen Text irgendwo Penalty gelesen und das reicht schon aus für so einen Scheiß.

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sport.orf.at, Klappe die zweite:

Ed Belfour hat am Montag 34 Schüsse abgewehrt und war damit maßgeblich am 2:1-Sieg seiner Toronto Maple Leaves bei den Florida Panthers in der National Hockey League (NHL) beteiligt.

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AS TUCKER GOES, SO GO THE LEAFS

Up-and-down year for limping winger

TAMPA, Fla.—Darcy Tucker limped out of the Maple Leaf dressing room yesterday, a symbol of how his team's season has evolved. While there is little question Toronto is moving forward as a club, the progress at times has been lurching and painful to watch. Even the improved recent pace has come with a few missteps. Tucker has become the face of the Leafs, largely because of his inconsistency.

"One good game, one so-so game, one good game, one so-so game," Tucker said in evaluating his campaign. "I think I have been a lot like the team. How the team is going is a reflection of how I'm going."

Tucker might not be going at all tonight against the Lightning. He took a shot off the right foot, a blast from Panthers defenceman Jay Bouwmeester, during Monday night's 2-1 win. The 30-year-old finished the game, even scored a goal, but once he took his skate off, the swelling made it a problem getting it back on. Tucker sat out yesterday's practice for the called "precautionary" reasons.

Tucker is not believed to have suffered a fracture, but his status for tonight will be determined by whether he can get his foot in a skate boot. Chad Kilger took his spot on the left side of the line with Eric Lindros and Jeff O'Neill at practice. "He's a tough kid, we all know that. He plays hurt all the time," coach Pat Quinn said of Tucker. "He's one of those guys that aren't going to take a shift off. He's a great competitive kid."

It is that competitiveness that has been Tucker's blessing and his curse. In the past it earned him the nickname "Sideshow Bob" as he often seemed more focused on avenging perceived slights or creating mindless havoc than on the game at hand. But that competitiveness also gave him a fearless determination that allowed him, as a slight 5-foot-10 player, to fight his way to the net for 20-goal seasons three times in the old NHL when a night at the rink often resembled Wrestlemania. This season, he has nine goals already, a pace that could see him net a career-high 32.

The antics are mostly gone — his 23 penalty minutes rank seventh on the team — but instead of revelling in the less-physical game, he said he has struggled with it. Much of the jostling, scrums and extraneous hits that have been removed from the NHL are the very things Tucker used to rely on for inspiration. "I'm a physical guy and there's been an adjustment to the physical aspect of the game," he said. "I'll give a hit or get a hit. I need one to get me in the right frame of mind. Every time I get hit with the puck or get stitches, I score a goal. I don't know why that is."

Tucker said he tried to use the time away from the Leafs over the weekend for the birth of his son to reflect on his place on the team and think of ways he could realize the leadership that's expected of him. "I just have to be more consistent and work as hard as I can," he said. "I've had one of those years that have been a little bit up and down and I've been know for my consistency over my career."

And Toronto needs Tucker at the top of his game because the Leafs' success is linked to his success in more than just a symbolic way. In the nine games in which the winger has scored, the Leafs have won seven times and one of the losses was in a shootout.

When he doesn't score, the Leafs often just limp along.

-> TheStar.com

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PILAR DEAL CLOSE

Tampa -- The Toronto Maple Leafs have until tomorrow to sign restricted free-agent defenceman Karel Pilar, and general manager John Ferguson is confident a deal will be struck.

Pilar and other Group 2 restricted free agents -- those who did not sign their qualifying offers -- must be signed by Dec. 1 under the new National Hockey League collective labour agreement. If signed, Pilar would not play immediately, as he is still recovering from a viral infection in his heart. But he is skating now and has been cleared to practise once he is signed, which will probably be to a one-year deal for about $475,000 (U.S.), just slightly more than the league minimum. Ferguson thinks it will be as long as a month before Pilar will be ready to return for games.

-> g&m.com

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ANGELIC LIGHTNING PROBLEM FOR LEAFS

TAMPA, Fla.—Passive-aggressive is what you might be expected to get when the most angelic team in the NHL meets a club that feasts on infractions. Toronto has the second-hottest power play in the league. Tampa takes the least penalties. This should equal a stalemate, tonight. If push comes to shove ... well, there isn't much pushing or shoving, or hooking or tripping, in the Lightning universe. And that could take a lot of oomph out of the Leafs when they meet the Stanley Cup defending champions.

Or, conversely, Toronto will induce the Bolts to play atypically, as was the case when these teams tangled on Nov.5 at the Air Canada Centre. Toronto eventually won that game 5-3, despite the Lightning scoring a brace in the third period and creeping within a goal. But sequential high-sticks from Darryl Sydor had his team playing short-handed for six of the final 10 minutes and all that momentum evaporated.

"It'll be interesting," predicted Leafs coach Pat Quinn. "That one game against them, we were pretty equal on penalties. They took quite a few that night."

The Leafs rock on the power play. Five-on-five, not so much. Thirty-seven of Toronto's 88 goals have come with the extra man, or men. Yet even-up, they're only fair to middling, with 44. Detroit, by comparison, has 38 power-play goals and 51 at full complement aside. That lack of equilibrium puts a lot of pressure on the Toronto power play to produce and to compensate.

"As everyone knows — we've been saying it here for a while — we need to get better 5-on-5," Quinn said yesterday, following a playful indulgence in pond hockey (everybody on the ice) at practice. "Our power play has been good and we'll have to continue to take advantage of those situations. But not play for the power play."

It's a little weird and rather worrisome that the same players who can generate plenty of scoring chances on the power play should look so comparatively unpolished and clumsy with the puck when the teams are at even strength.

"We've got two good (power-play) units and would could probably even have three," observed Bryan McCabe, who has quarterbacked the extra-man attack, with eight goals off his booming shot. "Obviously, you've got more space and time out there. We have some pretty skilled players up front and (Tomas Kaberle) is great at skating the puck in, getting in the zone for us."

Yet shooting indecision and one-pass-too-many often replace the assurance Toronto shows when the opposition has a player in the box. "We've got to be better 5-on-5," McCabe continued. "That's the one area where we can improve. And staying out of the penalty box is another area. We're probably the most penalized team in the league."

Grasping what's legal and what's prohibited in the new anti-obstruction NHL has grown stale as a rationalization for misdemeanours. "We know what's legal now," McCabe conceded. "There's no more excuses for that. We just take bad penalties, period." It is, further, perplexing that Toronto's most adept scorers and playmakers have not taken marked advantage over modifications that have opened up skating-room space and discouraged the mauling of puck carriers.

"We should be getting more even-strength goals off the rush because guys can't hook you any more and you've got more room to skate," said Jeff O'Neill, a career sniper who has scored nine of his 11 goals on the power play. "But it doesn't seem like we get that many odd-man rushes. A lot of other teams are always getting 2-on-1s and 3-on-2s, but not us, for whatever reason. We get good cycles in the end zone, but they don't generate shots. You can cycle all you want, but sooner or later, you've got to get the puck to the net." A team-wide shot reluctance might be blamed, but not for O'Neill.

"I love to shoot!"

-> TheStar.com

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Tampa Bay Lightning - Toronto Maple Leafs 2:1 (0:1, 1:0, 1:0)

0:1 (2.) Antropov 5 (Ponikarovsky, Berg)

1:1 (22.) St.Louis 9 (Lecavalier, Ranger)

2:1 (52.) Kubina 1 PP (Boyle, Lecavalier)

SOG: Tampa 24, Leafs 21.

PIM: Tampa 10, Leafs 22.

PP: Tampa 1/6, Leafs 2/5.

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[AustroLeaf]

Atlanta Thrashers - Toronto Maple Leafs 0:4 (0:2,0:0,0:2)

0:1 (6.) Tucker 10 (McCabe, Allison) PP

0:2 (19.) Ponikarovsky (Antropov)

0:3 (56.) Tucker 11 (Allison, Kaberle) PP

0:4 (57.) Steen (Sundin, McCabe) PP

SOG: Atlanta 28, Leafs 28.

PIM: Atlanta 22, Leafs 16.

PP: Atlanta 0/8, Leafs 3/11.

[AustroLeaf]

Geiles Spiel grad im ACC - nach nur 12 Minuten steht es schon 3:1 für die Leafs:

0:1 (5.) Hannan (Marleau, Stevenson)

1:1 (6.) Tucker 12 (Sundin, Steen)

2:1 (10.) Lindros 11 (Steen, Allison) PP

3:1 (11.) Stajan 4 (Colaiacovo, Wellwood)

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San Jose Sharks - Toronto Maple Leafs 5:4 (1:3, 3:0, 1:1)

1:0 (5.) Hannan 2 (Marleau, Stevenson)

1:1 (6.) Tucker 12 (Sundin, Steen)

1:2 (10.) Lindros 11 PP (Steen, Allison)

1:3 (11.) Stajan 4 (Colaiacovo, Wellwood)

2:3 (26.) Marleau 11 PP (Thornton)

3:3 (29.) McCauley 5 (Marleau, Dimitrakos)

4:3 (32.) Smith 3 SH (Dimitrakos)

5:3 (55.) McCauley 6 PP (Preissing, Thornton)

5:4 (58.) Allison 6 (Klee, Ponikarovsky)

SOG: Sharks 27, Leafs 28.

PIM: Sharks 12, Leafs 10.

PP: Sharks 2/5, Leafs 1/6.

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