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"Trouba is just playing good, hard hockey"- Absolute (frank)ing morons

The guy is a gutless sack of poop and always has been.
- GreatGigInTheSky

Was that a bruins player he hit?
If so, i didn't see a thing carry on, love trouba.

The fact that you can pull out 2 names means everything,

Of course, if any team has ONE guy that mucks it up the spot light will be on him. Refs can't/won't call a penalty every shift so if you have a hard ass on every F line and one of every D line, THE LEAFS WON'T BE CALLED FOR MORE PENALTIES.

This team has been soft for so long, refs have an easy time calling penalties on them. Their obvious as (frank) and happen once a period.

Other teams get to whack and hack the (frank) outta of their opponent game in and game out, why, because the whole MF team does it. As they should. It's (frank)ing hockey.

Answer this question: when is that last time a ref called 15 penalties against a team and 1 against the other?

Never, they always try to call the game even. (frank) Toronto didn't even get one 5 on 3 most of last season for exactly this reason.

Leafs need more players that play hard, not ONE.

Softest era of Leafs teams over the last 7/8 years. Softest!

Very frustrating.


Edit: this wasn't directed AT you System, just my observation as it applies to your post.
- underhill14

Thank you for explaining this fully to the "Toronto is targeted by the refs/the Toronto market is different because of this, that, and the other" crowd in here.

Excuses.

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Golden Knights are 3-5-1 in their last 9, have been shutout in 2 of their last 3 games. #VegasBorn

Oh
- Santo_44

Oh what?
They recently won a cup....who cares about their past 9 games.

Everything is always okay at home, thanks. Making it an issue with the other person is always your go to, but it doesn't change the issue.

I've had a good six months barely being a part of this tom(frank)ery, you're still here every day knowing everything and talking down to everyone while they all try to tell you no one likes you. Figure it out. 👍
- joel878

Post of the day!

All good. I fully agree this teams too soft and it's going to take more than a player to change things. Like I said I'd love Truba but they call and enforce things different in this market than others I've noticed. It makes me worried they can't play their style or will be missing games due to suspension if they do. It's like they use our market to make examples of things then let things pass in other smaller American markets to not upset their fans or some nonsense. It's something I've noticed, but can't prove, but I know from all I've seen we play by different rules for some reason. Like getting two instigators that one game for standing up for ourselves yet almost every other time it's not called that way when other teams do it.
- systemtool

I agree the games are totally called differently.

It's the soft reputation and the habit of the refs as the watch a soft team in the rare moment they get hard.

The more I think about it, and agree with you, the more I'm starting to hate inconsistency of reffing and now the game.

This whole "Leafs fan" thing is not much fun any more. Not being weird, it really isn't and it's been getting worse the past 3 years.

There was a stint in the 90s that I barely watched. Might be time for a revisit.

Post of the day!
- jribout

Oh what?
They recently won a cup....who cares about their past 9 games.
- Fakepartofme

Yeah elite teams can suck sometimes.

The oh is laughing at the poor souls who act as if losing and playing below what a team is capable of is only a Leafs thing.

I am sure Joel. Sure looks like it.

Attacking and getting mad at me about a Hildeby comment when I wasn't even talking to you. If things were going well for you you wouldn't feel the need to attack me randomly. Ya everything seems to be going dandy for you

Try not commenting on my posts, use your anger outlets on something better. You will be much happier.

Enjoy yourself, I don't need to respond to people like you so have a good day
- Santo_44

You always do. Then say you don't. Then respond again when they respond.

Uh-oh

You got yourself a Joel!


The only way to get rid of it is to bathe in tomato soup with whatever device you’re using to comment on HB.
- Arctic_AARDVARK

But I never start it. Why do people me pick on me and my Mitchy.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1728613905642270854

A two handed tomahawk chop at the guy's head? Seriously, dude. That's literally worse than what McSorley did - the only difference is that he didn't clip his temple. if he played elsewhere that's a suspension. If you had a real head of the DoPS that could literally be over 30 games - there is precedent for it.

There's no bullpoop in the fact that Trouba doesn't just play on the line, he is routinely over it and there are markets where those players are scrutinized far more than others. We are in that market like it or not.

What happened there is NOT a part of the game. Believing that is a massive problem.
- Monkeypunk

Just saw this for the first time.. I don't agree with 30 based on the current landscape of suspensions but that should be an easy 5 games closer to 10. Fredrick is lucky he hit the helmet and not the neck.

Uh-oh

You got yourself a Joel!


The only way to get rid of it is to bathe in tomato soup with whatever device you’re using to comment on HB.
- Arctic_AARDVARK

I feel bad for him, he is just angry all the time.

I will go at it back and forth with a few of you dummies who have very opposite views as me.

But to attack me randomly just shows he is in a tough time, not surprised.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1728613905642270854

A two handed tomahawk chop at the guy's head? Seriously, dude. That's literally worse than what McSorley did - the only difference is that he didn't clip his temple. if he played elsewhere that's a suspension. If you had a real head of the DoPS that could literally be over 30 games - there is precedent for it.

There's no bullpoop in the fact that Trouba doesn't just play on the line, he is routinely over it and there are markets where those players are scrutinized far more than others. We are in that market like it or not.

What happened there is NOT a part of the game. Believing that is a massive problem.
- Monkeypunk

Trouba should be suspended for 5 games IMO for intend to injure a player.
a 5K fine is just ludicrous IMO.

Agree that Keefe usually has the blender out ... but dropping Marner to play with Tavares is NOT the right move in my opinion. Not this time. Both Marner & Matthews get tunnel vision playing with each other - happens periodically - but in this case Marner is literally not contributing anything offensively 5v5.

leave Tavares Nylander Bertuzzi to play together.

move Marner down to play with Domi and move Jarnkrok up with Matthews.
- BorjeFan4Ever

The problem is that while the first line is in the poopter.. Line 2 and 3 and playing decently. Domi and Marner are both passers so I am not sure how that will work either. I say let them figure it out

Trouba should be suspended for 5 games IMO for intend to injure a player.
a 5K fine is just ludicrous IMO.
- dmnted

Its insane.

Like imagine if Rielly did that.

Caufield.

Even a Canuck would be suspended for that poop.

I feel bad for him, he is just angry all the time.

I will go at it back and forth with a few of you dummies who have very opposite views as me.

But to attack me randomly just shows he is in a tough time, not surprised.
- Santo_44

So angry.

He’s got things going on in his life that’s got him like that.

Very insecure man.

Stop wondering and thinking you wannabe analyst try hard. Nothing you ever say comes to fruition, ever, and literally no one cares what your arrogant childish self thinks.

Watching you and fifty try to out dumb each other is like watching two hobos fight over a sandwich. 🤮
- joel878

You always do. Then say you don't. Then respond again when they respond.
- jribout

This is the go to after a night of being an attention starved little kid with hot takes in weird lanes trying to get a reaction for entertainment, and no one bites.

Phase two. Nothing to see here. 🙄

I am sure Joel. Sure looks like it.

Attacking and getting mad at me about a Hildeby comment when I wasn't even talking to you. If things were going well for you you wouldn't feel the need to attack me randomly. Ya everything seems to be going dandy for you

Try not commenting on my posts, use your anger outlets on something better. You will be much happier.

Enjoy yourself, I don't need to respond to people like you so have a good day
- Santo_44

Must be challenging getting through life writing off everything you don't like to hear as anger. Waaaah the bad man said words I don't like again, so angry. 😭😭😭

Grow up. Just stop being the daily douche here, endlessly littering this place with your know it all arrogance. You'd be surprised how little you'd have to cry about the bad angry man. 😭

Just saw this for the first time.. I don't agree with 30 based on the current landscape of suspensions but that should be an easy 5 games closer to 10. Fredrick is lucky he hit the helmet and not the neck.
- Azuredoom

The only reason I throw the egregious number 30 out there is that the NHL has theoretically painted itself into a corner. The problem is that they are not only judge, jury and executioner, but also their own press as well. They have said that the result of the action is irrelevant; now we know this to be untrue since McSorley received 23 games + year for his hit to the head of Brashear - which I still objectively think was a completely misfortunate accident (in that he was goading him, but he didn't want the stick to hit him in the head; it glances off the shoulder pad and into the unprotected temple area). Now if that statement, "the result doesn't matter", were actually true, then the precedent for a two-handed swing at another player's head has been set.

Frankly I have no problem with that type of punishment being enforced. It's a sickening play with potentially lethal consequences and has no part in any sport.

But since the NHL can say one thing, do another, and judge from another set of rules altogether, while lying about precedent - and since fanbases love to hate each other - this isn't going to change under Bettman / Campbell.

The only reason I throw the egregious number 30 out there is that the NHL has theoretically painted itself into a corner. The problem is that they are not only judge, jury and executioner, but also their own press as well. They have said that the result of the action is irrelevant; now we know this to be untrue since McSorley received 23 games + year for his hit to the head of Brashear - which I still objectively think was a completely misfortunate accident (in that he was goading him, but he didn't want the stick to hit him in the head; it glances off the shoulder pad and into the unprotected temple area). Now if that statement, "the result doesn't matter", were actually true, then the precedent for a two-handed swing at another player's head has been set.

Frankly I have no problem with that type of punishment being enforced. It's a sickening play with potentially lethal consequences and has no part in any sport.
- Monkeypunk

With where we are with concussion research, the NHL should know better.

Frederic could start getting concussion symptoms in a few days...and Trouba only loses some pocket change for it.

The only reason I throw the egregious number 30 out there is that the NHL has theoretically painted itself into a corner. The problem is that they are not only judge, jury and executioner, but also their own press as well. They have said that the result of the action is irrelevant; now we know this to be untrue since McSorley received 23 games + year for his hit to the head of Brashear - which I still objectively think was a completely misfortunate accident (in that he was goading him, but he didn't want the stick to hit him in the head; it glances off the shoulder pad and into the unprotected temple area). Now if that statement, "the result doesn't matter", were actually true, then the precedent for a two-handed swing at another player's head has been set.

Frankly I have no problem with that type of punishment being enforced. It's a sickening play with potentially lethal consequences and has no part in any sport.

But since the NHL can say one thing, do another, and judge from another set of rules altogether, while lying about precedent - and since fanbases love to hate each other - this isn't going to change under Bettman / Campbell.
- Monkeypunk

And Brashear was wearing a Jofa salad bowl on his head, and too loosely at that.

The only reason I throw the egregious number 30 out there is that the NHL has theoretically painted itself into a corner. The problem is that they are not only judge, jury and executioner, but also their own press as well. They have said that the result of the action is irrelevant; now we know this to be untrue since McSorley received 23 games + year for his hit to the head of Brashear - which I still objectively think was a completely misfortunate accident (in that he was goading him, but he didn't want the stick to hit him in the head; it glances off the shoulder pad and into the unprotected temple area). Now if that statement, "the result doesn't matter", were actually true, then the precedent for a two-handed swing at another player's head has been set.

Frankly I have no problem with that type of punishment being enforced. It's a sickening play with potentially lethal consequences and has no part in any sport.

But since the NHL can say one thing, do another, and judge from another set of rules altogether, while lying about precedent - and since fanbases love to hate each other - this isn't going to change under Bettman / Campbell.
- Monkeypunk

The same guys calling for murder charges for a skate to the neck are making excuses for a stick to the neck.

(not at anyone in particular, just a general observation reading reactions to this around the blogo-sphere)

Marner + Samsonov + 1st 2024 for Josi (2mil retained) + Saros

new blog everyone

He's a player literally *every* team in the league would die to have in their squad.

That you have the opposite opinion does not surprise me one bit. The guy you idolize, Timothy Liljgren is a fine player, but he gets smoked more than salmon and is about as mean as a golden retriever.

A guy that wants to hurt people every single shift? Yeah, sign me up. I want him on my team. It's a tough sport, a man's game, and intimidation has always been an effective tactic.

If that makes you too queasy maybe stick to immersing yourself in video games, gigse, with all of the *simulated* carnage and violence you could ever ask for. (Which in and of itself is a very strange place to choose to immerse your brain on a constant basis, but that's a whole other conversation)
- fifty__missions

Besides the fact that you're an incredible (frank)ing idiot, you also managed to entirely miss the point of what I said.

Impressive.