[The Beaverton] Vous, putains de fans des Leafs, pensez toujours que je suis le pire défenseur que vous ayez jamais vu ?
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malliabu
@Maple Leafs de Toronto
[The Beaverton] Vous, putains de fans des Leafs, pensez toujours que je suis le pire défenseur que vous ayez jamais vu ?
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malliabu
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No 🙁
This franchise is cursed. Does anyone know a good exorcist?
This is definitely written by a leafs fan
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This is not a photo of Aki Berg
Barrie was worse and Lebda was even worse.
Berg was worse
I posted this same comment on the r/hockey post of this article but this is kind of poor timing on The Beaverton’s part since Detroit just finished the week 2-1 and Holl played 20 minutes in the only loss and was a healthy scratch and was benched for all but 10 minutes in the 2 wins.
Edit: holy shit, its a small sample size but Holl is actually getting fucking caved in this season so far and the second his on ice shooting percentage drops to a sustainable level Red Wing fans are going to turn on him hard if all else continues. Over 10 games he’s played in, Detroit has given up 30 more shot attempts with Holl on the ice (43.9 CorsiFor%, his worst in Toronto was 49.85), 5 more high danger chances against (45.1HDCF% his worst in Toronto was 47.17), and this is despite him getting nearly equal offensive and defensive zone starts. Those are 5on5 numbers too, so not skewed by PKing.
Why haven’t the pitchforks come out for him yet? **Because Detroit is shooting 20% with him on the ice.** His highest in Toronto was 10.11%. 1 out of every 5 shots on goal are going in with Holl on the ice at 5on5. Ludicrously lucky and it literally cannot continue.
Lol not many people actually thought he was the worst other than a small % of casual fans.
What people thought was that he played WAY to much and in circumstances he shouldn’t of. Would of been a great third pairing guy who kills penalties. Instead he was forced to be a second pair shutdown specialist who can clear the zone and have offensive upside.
This is the best headline lmao
Can we retire the #3 but instead of hanging it up in the rafters we murder-burn and bury it under the ice
Far from the worst. The problem was Keefes over reliance on him and putting him in the wrong spot to succeed. He’s a very good bottom pair guy and a decent PK guy. Not to mention he’s a good person.
Yes
The Beaverton is undefeated
All Leafs players are just perceived as different degrees of terrible. Nylander’s and Matthews’ terrible starts to their seasons are terrible in different ways than Bertuzzi and Domi’s.
In full agreement with the posts bringing up Brett Lebda here, but I’d also like to shine an honorary light towards Anders Eriksson, who in my recent 2002 rewatch played hockey like he was waking up from a dental surgery.
And I’m really not sure what the problem was here, he was evidently a decent prospect who managed to play a role on the ’98 cup-winning Wings, and recovered enough of a career to kick around Columbus and Calgary for a bit, but in the middle of his career as a Leafs callup, he was down in some kind of deep dark hole that I can’t quite fathom.
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I mean the fact is he’s not a bad player but he was playing awful for the leafs….
If Jeff Finger a joke to you?!?!?
[Justin Holl everybody!](https://youtube.com/shorts/NCIZc-Dl1sw?si=eMnYAbWRWdW0hGNJ)
Nobody cares and everyone predicted klingberg would be worse. I cannot think of anyone who praised that signing. Giant mistake. They need 5 Muzzins.
I raise you, Jake Gardiner
If they didn’t constantly put him over 20 minutes a game I’d never have disliked having him