For the first time in his career, he was Clutchinson tonight.

(I haven't back-read so I don't know if anyone else has made this awful joke yet or not)

For the first time in his career, he was Clutchinson tonight.

(I haven't back-read so I don't know if anyone else has made this awful joke yet or not)
- GreatGigInTheSky

Babcock..what a bozo.

Meh. Even Babcock wasn't going to out-Detroit Detroit.
- Monkeypunk

Mike Babcock believes in resting his star players in the regular season and again in the playoffs.

- Tumbleweed

wow

For the first time in his career, he was Clutchinson tonight.

(I haven't back-read so I don't know if anyone else has made this awful joke yet or not)
- GreatGigInTheSky

I am 97.6% certain that Wedgie's prediction for the season was that Hutchinson wouldn't be that bad and we would say, "Hutch is Clutch".

- Tumbleweed

Yes, yes. I earned and deserve that gif.

Why isn’t head butting a goal in allowed?
- bryant

Because Wayne Gretzky was head-butting so many goals, they had to outlaw it.

Solid win! I'll take it!

For the first time in his career, he was Clutchinson tonight.

(I haven't back-read so I don't know if anyone else has made this awful joke yet or not)
- GreatGigInTheSky

I was about to....😡

Weird, I was told the Leafs couldn't beat good teams.
- BetterCallSaul

And you'll be told that over and over again when the Leafs lose.

The trolls will be back.

- Tumbleweed

AUTOBOTS, ROLL OUT!

Poile is getting impatient. Ekholm/Ellis to the Leafs S3
- Steven_Seagull

Speaking with “sources”

Forsberg and Watson
for
Nylander and Bracco

Curious...

Say the Bruins are caugt & passed would it be fun to look forward to say the Canes in the 1st round?

Curious...

Say the Bruins are caugt & passed would it be fun to look forward to say the Canes in the 1st round?
- Nighthawk

Yeah, we lit em up for 8 👍

*General manager Kyle Dubas’s handpicked head coach, Sheldon Keefe, will attempt to do something Saturday night that no coach has accomplished in 101 years of Leafs life: win 15 of his first 20 games.

Heck, an overtime or shootout loss will still give Keefe the best 20-game results of any Leafs coach.

Hall of Famer Hap Day set the benchmark for hot starts behind Toronto’s bench in 1940-41, going 14-5-1 when Bing Crosby was killing the pop charts.

Even with a regulation loss — and an end to his club’s nine-game points streak — to Lou Lamoriello’s New York Islanders on Saturday, Keefe (14-4-1) would tie Day’s record.

The numbers are goofy good and probably unsustainable and surely the Jack Adams chatter is premature… and yet, a 20-game sample isn’t nothing.

Since Keefe took the reins from his more decorated predecessor, the Maple Leafs lead the league in wins, points, points percentage, and goal differential (plus-25).

Under Keefe, the Leafs are clipping along at a 123-point pace. Special teams have improved. They start on time. They finish harder. And they’re happier.

Adams Brooks described his boss as “an extremely caring person” after Keefe started the three-game rookie in his hometown of Winnipeg on Thursday.

Little things matter.

Anecdotally, the injury-necessitated call-ups, starting with Pierre Engvall, have thrived.

Important regulars Tyson Barrie and Jason Spezza have found their niche.

Tier 2(?) superstar William Nylander — 11 goals, 21 points — has leapt to a 90-point pace since the coaching change.
“Satisfied is not a good word, and not one that I would spend too much time thinking about it or using,” Keefe says. “I just like to focus on today.”

Dubas was a little surprised to see media types lingering so long. So on his way (we’d later learn) to visit injured Ilya Mikheyev at the hospital, Dubas wondered what we were doing.

Waiting for Nylander.

“Ah… I’ve waited for him before too,” Dubas quipped, not missing a beat.

As the exec exited the rink, he made a point to add, “He’s worth it.”

Hutchinwin was great, leafs outshot by 10 most of the game (not sure what the final was) but hutch finally kept them in.

Great win.
Again

TASTY

Yeah, we lit em up for 8 👍
- mr.sir

Practice season hardly relevant lol

TASTY
- Zezel

Jesus Murphy. I thought for sure that had to be wrong. They're 11-5-6 in the same span!
- Monkeypunk

I normally only listen to Burke to laugh and poke fun at the "advice" he gives, but he was spot on when he talked about Montreal. Treading water and playing .500 plays you out of a playoff spot when Boston, Toronto, and Tampa have done nothing but win in the last 15.

Yeah, me neither. I can concede to that. I hope they keep him up somehow. He's better than Timashov at the very least, even though the waiver exemption will be a factor. I'd still try and move Kappy for some D help. I like Johnsson just a little bit more.
- UsernameUnknown

u misspelled greedy floater willi

Hutchinwin was great, leafs outshot by 10 most of the game (not sure what the final was) but hutch finally kept them in.

Great win.
Again
- Fakepartofme

Leafs were the better team last night. Strong defensively.

AUTOBOTS, ROLL OUT!


- Trans4md Thundrcat

Thank gawd you're here