{"id":1329,"date":"2023-03-23T15:20:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T15:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oldprof.nhltradetalk.com\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2023-03-23T15:27:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T15:27:39","slug":"good-bad-ugly-maple-leafs-loss-islanders-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldprof.nhltradetalk.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/23\/good-bad-ugly-maple-leafs-loss-islanders-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good, the Bad, &#038; Ugly In Maple Leafs\u2019 7-2 Loss To Islanders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs suffered their worst loss of the season when they were defeated by the New York Islanders 7-2 on Tuesday night.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the first time the Maple Leafs had given up seven goals in a game this season and the first time they had lost by as many as five goals this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"s2nPlayer k-6M6gkmqZgc-2629272-11057\" data-type=\"float\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?SC=6M6gkmqZgc-2629272-11057&#038;offsetx=0&#038;offsety=0&#038;floatwidth=400&#038;floatposition=bottom-right\" data-type=\"s2nScript\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Good<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Maple Leafs carried the play for most of the first period. According to Naturalstattrick.com, they had seven High Danger Scoring Chances to the Islanders\u2019 two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first really \u201cGood\u201d thing they had in the game was luck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sam Lafferty&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A shot by Timothy Liljegren from the point bounced off of New York defenseman Scott Mayfield, off of Sam Lafferty then up and over Islanders\u2019 goalie Ilya Sorokin\u2019s shoulder into the net.\u00a0There were some similarities between this goal and the first goal the Maple Leafs gave up in the Ottawa game.\u00a0The main difference here was the puck did not bounce as high into the air before entering the net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Meet the new Maple Leafs continues: this time, Sam Lafferty, once a two-sport athlete at Brown University, tries to help my struggling golf swing and find playoff success for the first time.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8fIwzI6DU8\">https:\/\/t.co\/8fIwzI6DU8<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Joshua Kloke (@joshuakloke) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshuakloke\/status\/1635620659991654401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While the goal itself was lucky, it was set up by a nice forecheck behind the Islanders\u2019 net by Lafferty to block an attempted ring around the boards by Mayfield to create a turnover.\u00a0Bobby McMann corralled the loose puck in the corner. He then sent it back to Liljegren at the point setting up the shot that eventually found the net.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mitch Marner<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Mitch Marner scored his seventh goal in his last ten games with a nice one-timer slapshot off of a feed from Auston Matthews early in the third period to draw the Maple Leafs back to within one goal after they went down 3-1 in the game.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal was Marner\u2019s 27th of the season.\u00a0It also gave him 90 points for the third time in his career.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marner becomes only the second Maple Leafs\u2019 player in franchise history to reach the 90-point mark in three separate seasons.\u00a0Darryl Sittler hit or surpassed the 90-point barrier five times in his career.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/nhltradetalk.com\/maple-leafs-caught-between-identities-thinking-ahead\/\">Are the Maple Leafs Caught Between Identities &amp; Thinking Ahead?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">First Half Of The Game<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Regardless of what the stats say, and how the game looked at any time while it was going on, the only thing that will be remembered about it will be the final 7-2 score.\u00a0It will be remembered as a terrible game by the Maple Leafs, period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, until the 13:50 mark of the second period, which is almost 34 minutes into this game, it wasn\u2019t looking like a bad game at all for the Maple Leafs.\u00a0The score was 1-1.\u00a0The shots on net were 15-12 Maple Leafs; and, except for a three-minute span late in the first period where they turned the puck over in their own end several times, the Maple Leafs looked like the better team to that point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Ugly<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Then the wheels fell off and the game got really ugly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Liljegren made a nice defensive play on Zach Parise, pushing Parise off the puck in the Maple Leaf zone. Then Liljegren completely whiffed on an attempted pass out of the zone.\u00a0The puck went right onto Hudson Fasching\u2019s stick.\u00a0Fasching took a couple of steps and fired a shot over Ilya Samsonov\u2019s left shoulder into the top right corner of the net.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That goal opened the floodgates.\u00a0It was New York&#8217;s 13th shot in the game.\u00a0They would follow that goal up with five more goals on their next 12 shots to give them six goals on their next 13 shots.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/thehockeywriters.com\/remembering-maple-leafs-goalie-jonathan-bernier\/\">Remembering Maple Leafs\u2019 Goalie Jonathan Bernier<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Bad<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I could go on and on about the bad things in this game.\u00a0Instead, I\u2019m going to just talk about two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">#1: Getting In The Way<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The New York Islanders are not presently in a playoff position because of their high skill level.\u00a0They are not outscoring teams with their offence. They are 22nd in goals for in the league.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, they are winning games with their solid defensive play. They are eighth in the NHL in goals against.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Islanders create turnovers by pressuring the opposing team all over the ice, causing them to rush their pass attempts and forcing them to make errors with the puck, be it with their passes or their shots.\u00a0That was on full display in this game.\u00a0They forced the Maple Leafs to turn the puck over 22 times in the game.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Maple Leafs also struggled to get shots on the Islanders\u2019 net.\u00a0Looking at the game report put together by Naturalstattrick.com, out of 61 shot attempts in the game by Toronto, 19 were blocked, and 15 missed the net.\u00a0Only 27 of the 61 shot attempts by the Maple Leafs found the net.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">#2:\u00a0Coach Keefe&#8217;s Decision to Start Samsonov<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The second \u201cBad\u201d in this game almost went into the \u201cUgly\u201d section. Why did Ilya Samsonov travel with the team and start this game?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We all know that Samsonov\u2019s wife is expecting their first child as much has been made of it.\u00a0Anyone that is a parent knows that having a child is a momentous occasion.\u00a0Having your first one is even more so. To call it a \u201cdistraction\u201d is at the very least a massive understatement.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goaltending is a fickle position to play, to say the least.\u00a0You don\u2019t want anything to distract your goalie. That alone should have been enough for Dubas and Keefe to tell Samsonov to stay home and go with either Matt Murray or Joseph Woll in this game.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/oldprof.nhltradetalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Matt-Murray-CC.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oldprof.nhltradetalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Matt-Murray-CC.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/oldprof.nhltradetalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Matt-Murray-CC-300x180.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/oldprof.nhltradetalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Matt-Murray-CC-768x461.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Matt Murray, Maple Leafs goalie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On top of that, Samsonov is also dealing with an injury. He publicly said so himself.\u00a0It is obviously an injury that is not preventing him from playing.\u00a0Those two factors together should have been enough cause for the team to tell Samsonov to stay home, be with his expecting wife and give himself time to heal whatever is ailing him.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am not saying that Keefe is a bad coach or that Dubas is a bad GM but they are not infallible.\u00a0They make mistakes.\u00a0This was one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Maple Leafs might have still lost this game just as badly with anyone in goal.\u00a0It was still not a wise choice for them to have Samsonov in the net in this game.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/thehockeywriters.com\/maple-leafs-news-rumors-marner-samsonov-woll\/\">Maple Leafs News &amp; Rumors: Marner, Samsonov, Woll &amp; Blame<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What\u2019s Next?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Maple Leafs travel on to Florida to take on the Panthers Thursday night in another tough matchup against a team that is fighting for their playoff lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samsonov has been sent home to be with his wife (better late than never).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lines and pairings at practice on Wednesday were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Line Combinations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Jarnkrok-Matthews-Marner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Bunting-Tavares-Nylander<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Kerfoot-Acciari-Lafferty<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Aston-Reese-Kampf-Simmonds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Defensive Pairings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">McCabe-Brodie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Giordano-Holl<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Rielly-Schenn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Gustafsson-Liljegren<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keefe did state after practice that Bobby McMann was injured during the Islanders\u2019 game.\u00a0The extent of the injury was not yet known.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also said that TJ Brodie should return to the lineup in Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lineup Decisions by Coach Keefe<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Keefe was asked if they would be going with an 11\/7 setup again.\u00a0He said that was not decided as of yet.\u00a0I am going to guess by reading his body language when asked the question that they are going to go with 11\/7.\u00a0It makes sense.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"703\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/oldprof.nhltradetalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Wayne-Simmonds2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oldprof.nhltradetalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Wayne-Simmonds2.jpeg 703w, https:\/\/oldprof.nhltradetalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Wayne-Simmonds2-211x300.jpeg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wayne Simmonds, Maple Leafs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>While Simmonds practiced on the 4th line, he has only played in five games in two months and has only played more than seven minutes once in those five games.\u00a0He&#8217;s usually only used in games where the opposition is known to play physically.\u00a0Florida is 24th in hits this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To me, all of that points to the Maple Leafs going with 11\/7 in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing was discussed regarding goaltending.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Goalie Deployment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Maple Leafs do play three games in four days.\u00a0As long as he is healthy, I would expect Murray will start two of the games and Woll will start one.\u00a0I am going to guess that Murray goes against the Panthers and again Saturday against the Carolina Hurricanes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then Woll would play in the second of the back-to-back games when the Maple Leafs visit Nashville and take on the Predators.\u00a0Both the Maple Leafs and the Predators play the night before they meet. 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