shakes wrote:
NWsider4-3-3 wrote:
i don't know...marner involved with the winning goal. had the winning ot goal against sweden. canadian leaf-centric media excited. this will help him. matthews lost the face-off, lost coverage on macdavid's goal. oh yeah, matthews didn't score one goal in this tournie. so...this will hurt matthews and help marner?? to be fair to matthews, he wasn't and hasn't been 100% healthy for awhile.
watched marner as a blackhawk fan and his contract status. 1) i believe the leafs will resign him and let tavares (35 this september) go. 2) i'm iffy on signing him if the leafs let him walk.
yep, Matthews 100% choked this away. It's one thing when he chokes every year for the Leafs, but to do it for USA really sucks.
Like you said, he got manhandled on the losing face off by McDavid to the point where McDavid was able to go forward with the puck and get a shot. That's something that should never happen and really only happens like 1% of the time at most. Then he compounded that by leaving McDavid alone in the low slot to go and chase Marner in the corner who was alreadsy being pursued by a D man. And to top it off Matthews also blew 3 doorstep chances at the start of OT. Not to mention he didn't score the entire tournament.
Who made this loser Captain??
wow..potential guest hockey columnist from the globe and mail.
leaf-world plays spin the bottle for blame. can't score in the playoffs? nylander...marner...matthews. knies is next. matthews is a great media story - from the american sw desert, mom is a mexican from mexico. tread carefully in criticism.
the canadians are very sensitive - they even changed some lyrics in their national anthem recently. an appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping to be eaten last.