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TORONTO – Phil Kessel plunged his head in his hands like he had so many times in the past. [url=http://www.cheapfalconsjerseyselite.com/?tag=cheap-mohamed-sanu-sr-jersey]Cheap Mohamed Sanu Sr Jersey[/url] . These astounding runs of futility have become all too familiar in Toronto. The only question left to determine in that regard this season is whether another such stretch of failure costs the Maple Leafs a spot in the playoffs for the ninth time in 10 seasons. Its looking with more and more certainty like that will be indeed the case. Its similar, isnt it, said Kessel, seated in his stall with an air of exasperation. Same stuff keeps happening. I dont know what to make of it anymore. Still astoundingly punch-less offensively (and increasingly losing an edge in goal), the Leafs lost for the 13th time in 16 games (3-13-0) Monday night, clocked by the second-worst team in the Eastern Conference. Toronto has been outscored 59-29 during the month-long unraveling, which started, oddly enough, against these same Hurricanes on Dec. 18. These long losing slides are nothing new. In fact, theyve been happening almost annually. In what became the final days of the Ron Wilson era, the Leafs lost 15 of 17 to tumble out of a playoff spot – Randy Carlyle replacing Wilson along the way as the teams head coach. Last year, it was a 2-12-0 collapse after the Olympic break that did them in. And this year, it may well be a destructive spell in which the club has taken six out of a possible 32 points that ends another postseason bid. The front-man of each and every such unraveling, Kessel couldnt explain why they kept happening. He was as mystified as anyone. I dont know, he said hopelessly after 4-1 loss to Carolina, its been like this for a couple years now, hasnt it? I have no idea. We go through great stretches and then we have these horrendous stretches. Its very frustrating. Truth is, the Leafs are a team that has the power to score at will (at least until recently) but also one that lacks any kind of defensive prowess whatsoever. All of which leads to stunning highs – when the goals come in bunches and the goaltendings great – and dramatically deep lows – when those goals dry up and the goaltending finally crumbles. Momentums a killer, said Nazem Kadri, who became the first Leaf forward to score in more than a week. Once you get on a slide, it seems like other teams are more eager to keep you on that slide. A middle of the road team at full strength, Toronto also hasnt been able to survive injuries to three of its top-nine forwards – Joffrey Lupul, Peter Holland and of late, Leo Komarov all sidelined with injuries – especially when the teams top offensive players and previously potent power play go shockingly cold. Its been an astounding stretch of nothingness in the goal department for a club that all too recently led the entire league in scoring. Their best player and leading scorer, Kessel, hasnt scored in an even-strength situation in more than a month (more on that below). These Leafs nearly became the first team in franchise history to be shut out four times in five games, that place in history avoided when Kadri snapped a personal eight-game slide with a late third period goal. Again getting some great chances, running into some hot goalies, having trouble scoring, he said afterward. With the playoffs looking more like a lost dream again – the Leafs occupy the fourth wild card spot, seven points back of Boston – the focus in Toronto again turns to the roster. With the coach already dismissed, the time will come soon for Brendan Shanahan and the Leafs front office to determine what to do with a flawed roster and when to do it. The trade deadline sits six weeks away on March 2nd. I think weve underperformed, said Dion Phaneuf, noting how familiar the questions and his answers all seemed. But that doesnt change my stance on me believing in our group. We have underperformed. And were at where were at right now and theres no one thats going to get us out of it but us. Five Points 1. No Offence The list of players who have more even-strength goals than Phil Kessel during this 16-game stretch of futility include Roman Polak, Trevor Smith, David Clarkson and Dion Phaneuf. Kessel hasnt scored a goal at even-strength since Dec. 16 when the Leafs scored six to beat the Ducks in the final game of a 10-1-1 run. Offensive Woes Since Dec. 18 Player Even-Strength Goals Nazem Kadri 2 Joffrey Lupul 2 James van Riemsdyk 2 Daniel Winnik 2 Mike Santorelli 2 Roman Polak 2 Seven Other Players 1 Phil Kessel 0 2. Berniers Dip Lost in those offensive woes has been the lingering dip of Jonathan Bernier, who was pulled after the Hurricanes third goal on Monday night. Bernier, who becomes a restricted free agent this summer, is sporting a mediocre .891 save percentage in his last 10 starts. Berniers Woes Month Save Percentage October .917 November .917 December .925 January .877 3. Run-and-Gun? Peter Horachek said he had no intention of letting his team return to the flawed ways of its all too recent past. The days of running and gunning, from his perspective, are over. No, I dont think any of the top teams, any of the good teams in the league play that way, said Horachek, his voice lacking its usual punch. If you want to start something, if you want to get a mindset of playing a certain way, you have to play hard defence and attack the net in the other end. When you play defence, it doesnt mean you dont play offence. Offence is right there. Nothing changes with the offence, its just that youre competing harder in other areas and youre playing a certain way. Horachek felt his team was cheating for offence early against Carolina, leading to some glorious opportunities for the visitors and a pair of goals in a flat first frame. The Leafs have lost six of seven games under his direction, scoring just seven goals total in that span – five coming in the lone win over Columbus. 4. No Value Added David Clarksons second season as a Leaf has been slightly better than the first, but not by much and not anywhere near enough to justify the enormous contract Toronto handed him in the summer of 2013 – which has five more years left. Clarkson has just one goal now in the past 21 games, one power play point all season, a non-factor most nights in about 14 minutes of ice-time. Horachek said hes had plenty of talks with the 29-year-old and wants him to get back being a driving physical player thats going to get to the front of the net. When he scored his goals in New Jersey, he scored them by being around that net, said Horachek. He needs to start using that and get back to a simplified game, continue to be physical and not get himself off from a different type of player than he is. Clarkson fought for the second time this season against the Hurricanes, battling Brad Malone. He played less than 12 minutes. 5. Lighter Load Late in the 2014 calendar, the Leafs made a subtle adjustment to their defence. They eased the minutes of the struggling Jake Gardiner, bumping him out of their top-four and into lighter duties on a third pairing – either with Korbinian Holzer or Stephane Robidas. The tweak has been fortuitous for the 24-year-old, who holds a strong 54 per cent possession mark since the change was made at the end of December (entering Mondays game). I feel pretty confident, said Gardiner. I think Im making plays and playing pretty solid. My stats arent really showing it, but yeah I feel better. Gardiner owned a 45 per cent possession prior to the switch – Morgan Rielly moved up in the lineup in his place – struggling against the second lines he and Roman Polak were tasked with facing. 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Tejay van Garderen of the United States lost more than 3 1/2 minutes, slipping from fifth to sixth and seeing his podium hopes dealt a serious blow. Rogers took a bow as he crossed the line alone after the 237.5-kilometre (147-mile) leg from Carcassonne to Bagneres-de-Luchon, which featured a tough climb up the mountain pass of Port de Bales. "Every cyclists dream is to win a stage at the Tour de France," said Rogers, who finished nine seconds ahead of Frances Thomas Voeckler -- who had won two previous Tour stages at Bagneres-de-Luchon in 2010 and 2012. "I cant describe the joy I felt in the last 500 metres ... I hope I dont have to wait another 10 years to experience it again." Rogers came close not to riding on this Tour for the Tinkoff-Saxo Bank team. In a ruling announced in April, the International Cycling Union accepted that meat Rogers ate in China last year probably caused his positive doping test at the Japan Cup shortly afterward. Rogers, a crucial teammate of two-time Tour champion Alberto Contador, convinced the UCI that he hadnt intended to cheat, and said the episode was "a very difficult time" for his family. Following the UCI ruling, Rogers said he came back with "a different outlook on life." "It was certainly a lesson in life for me," he added. [url=http://www.cheapfalconsjerseyselite.com/]Cheap Falcons Jerseys Authentic[/url]. "Sometimes you need a lesson in life to see the silver lining in the cloud." Rogers said he might not have had the opportunity to win a stage if Contador -- his team leader, who crashed out in Stage 10 -- were still racing because his job would have been more of a support rider. Now that the Spaniard is out, the team came up with a Plan B: To try for stage wins. "I can be grateful, but Im also very heartbroken that Albertos not here," Rogers said. 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For Tottenham at Sunderland, Paulinho and Moussa Dembele ran the game in the second half, Stoke got back into their match against Chelsea by exposing a double pivot of Ramires and John Obi Mikel, while Liverpool lost momentum in their home match against West Ham once Steven Gerrard departed through injury. This is football in todays era. Central midfield is the most important zone on the field, where turnovers are caused, counter-attacks are started, defensive cover is needed and vision with the ball is demanded. Most teams in the Premier League play in systems that can be labeled 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1, where at least three men centrally are asked to work as a unit, both defensively and in attack. It is the engine that motors the team forward and back. At Manchester United this season this has usually been done by two central midfielders and Wayne Rooney.Rooney has looked very good and if you were to make up a list of Uniteds problems he would certainly be at the bottom labeled as ‘Rooney – only concern is how to play him with van Persie against superior teams. The English striker has proven in recent years (see vs Andrea Pirlo at Euro 2012 for reference) to be a liability when it comes to making up a midfield three in a defensive manner but against the majority of inferior Premier League teams this is not a problem. Last season for example, against the 13 teams who finished between eighth and 20th in the Premier League, Manchester United, playing 4-4-2, won an astonishing 22 of 26 matches, claiming a total of 69 points from a possible 78. However, upon closer inspection there were matches where they looked outrun in midfield and allowed a goal through a defensive lapse, but these were quickly forgotten about because United painted over the cracks by banging in goals at the other end. It happened against Fulham, when Dembele ran the game before getting a move to Spurs (Fulham led 1-0, lost 3-2), it happened against Liverpool and Southampton in second halves at Old Trafford (games won 2-1) and against Newcastle who led 1-0, 2-1 and 3-2 last season before losing 4-3. On Boxing Day the United system was handing their opponents regular gifts with numerous goal scoring chances but once again, their attacking heavyweights powered their way out of trouble. United would go on to win the game through Javier Hernandez in the 90th minute, who, like on Saturday, partnered van Persie up front for United that day. That however, is where the similarities ended for the pair. Last season the service towards them was remarkably different to the amount of passes they received in Saturdays 1-0 home loss. Sixty-seven passes to 36 is a remarkable difference over 90 minutes: Hernandezs winning goal last December would give his side three more points won from a losing position and in total United would go on to claim 29 points from losing positions last season. On the surface that seems like a remarkably impressive number, it is after all the second highest of all-time in the Premier League behind Newcastles 01-02 season of 34 points, but you must have flaws in your team to be behind many times to get to that number. Uniteds flaws remain this season but because they cannot power themselves out of trouble with goals they have been magnified to the level where action is now required. Two seasons ago United were stunned by a Champions League group stage elimination after Benfica and Basel ran through their midfield and scored eight goals between them in four matches. United were sent into the Europa League and would go on to again be exposed in similar fashion, losing back-to-back home games to technically superior teams, Ajax and Athletic Bilbao. In those matches United looked far too English. A timid, reactionary team lacking true post-to-post midfielders who excel in both the attack and defensive side of the game. It is an accusation that remains even more glaring two years on. The worlds best teams today all have world class deep-lying playmakers who control matches with the combination of brilliant, forward thinking vision and equally outstanding footballing intelligence without the ball. 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Perhaps there was a fear about a qualifying offer leading to arbitration and an award unfavourable to the team, but there’s still an opportunity cost for every decision. In this case, the opportunity cost was acquiring Nate Thompson ($1.6-million annual cap hit) to fill Perreault’s void. Though he comes cheaply, Thompson hasn’t been very productive, and the team had to fork over a fourth and seventh-round draft pick. One can debate the merits of Anaheim’s decision-making process here, but I think what happened after Anaheim is even more fascinating. In typical ‘Day One of Free Agency’ fashion, a bunch of hockey general managers chased precisely the wrong things. Just minutes before Perreault inked a three-year, $9-million contract in Winnipeg, Florida gave fellow centre Dave Bolland (fresh off of a major Achilles injury) $27.5-million over five years. They expectedly cited “character, hard work, and leadership“ as arguments in support. The analytics community countered, calling the contract “insane“. Bolland, of course, has one goal through twenty games, with the second-worst Corsi% (48.4%) of Panthers forwards. There is $18.5MM in committed dollars separating Bolland and Perreault, and just $2.6MM in committed money separating Perreault and Thompson. As a fun little exercise, let’s run through some of our counting and advanced numbers for the three centres, and see which team is getting the best bang for their buck. First, point-scoring over the years at even-strength: It’s funny – points historically drive contract price, which makes Perreault’s $3-million annual deal with Winnipeg a bargain from just our first graph. Anyway, there’s really no comparison between the three from a scoring perspective – Perreault has been far and away the most productive on the offensive end, and it’s not close. How is Mathieu Perreault able to sustain such prolific scoring rates year after year? From an individual standpoint, Perreault drives some of his team’s scoring by constantly shooting from favorable distance. Perreault is sneaky-great at positioning himself into danger areas – Bolland and Thompson, not so much. These hexagonal bin plots for each of the three players illustrate the above, where red indicates a higher (better) frequency of shot generation, and blue indicates a lower (worse) frequency of shot generation: When Dave Bolland and Nate Thompson have been on the ice, their teams experience extremely fewer shots from the danger areas in front of the net. When Mathieu Perreault has been on the ice – well, his teams live in that danger area. This is as compelling a chart as any from an offensive aspect. What if we get into some of our favorite underlying numbers? Which of the three players is the best at controlling play from a territorial aspect? For this, we can look at RelativeCorsi%, which gives us the difference in Corsi% a team possesses with a player on the ice versus off of the ice. Generally, better players post positive RelativeCorsi% year after year, and weaker players post negative RelativeCorsi% in the same fashion. Mathieu Perreault’s teams are consistently better from a possession aspect with him on the ice. The opposite is true for both Dave Bolland and Nate Thompson. Dave Bolland’s only positive season came in an injury-shortened season in Toronto, and based on his surrounding numbers, we should probably be skeptical that the production was meaningful. Nate Thompson has just been a straight negative player. What if we get into pure defensive metrics, like Corsi Against per 60? This should at least show us what players are better at suppressing shot attempts, and at the very least, underline potential defensive contributions that may not appear in some of the other graphs. I’ll go one step further, too, and adjust for zone starts, which will avoid penalizing players (like Bolland) who start frequently in the defensive zone. Looking at this, you are left considering two schools of thought. Either Mathieu Perreault is an underrated defensive player off of the puck, or is he an underrated offensive player with the puck – so much so, that by extension, he spends significantly less time in the defensive zone. This is simply a raw comparison of a player’s ability to suppress shots over thousands of minutes without the creep of zone start effect. Even from a defensive aspect, Perreault out-shines both Thompson and Bolland. And, ultimately, what we care about is goals. The reason why so much time is spent talking about the merits of Corsi% is that we know it is predictive of future goal-scoring, be it at the individual or team-level. We know Perreault is a better offensive player. 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Lacking the zip of their pre-Olympic pace – which included wins in 11 of 14 games – the Leafs managed to give away two shorthanded goals in a span of 48 seconds on the same two-minute power play before dropping a pair of third period leads. They lost the undeserved extra point in overtime when James van Riemsdyk could not corral a bouncing puck in the slot, essentially handing it to incoming Islander defender Lubomir Visnovsky, who snuck one through Jonathan Bernier. "I think mentally we looked like we were going to out-skill the hockey club we played against and they had a different attitude. They tried to grind it with us," said Carlyle afterward. "We tried to out-skill a hockey club tonight." Rust was to be expected after the two-plus week Olympic break, but not to the degree that it lingered on this night against a vastly inferior opponent. Two times in the third period did the Leafs vault in front – on goals from Dion Phaneuf and Joffrey Lupul – only to be jilted twice for that lead by Anders Lee, who scored twice in his first NHL game. Lee tapped in his first on a New York power-play, evading Phaneuf and Bernier on the fourth and final game-tying goal late in regulation. "You can expect it for a period," Carlyle said of rust, "but I think when you get down to the third period and youre up in a hockey game youd expect to be able to grind it out, tighten it up and finish the team off. "We were lucky to get a point." Perhaps the effort will offer an early warning to a club itching for a second consecutive spring of playoff hockey. While still comfortable as the first wild card in the East with 71 points that comfort has the potential – however unlikely at this point – to disappear if the Leafs were to catch a fever of bad hockey down the stretch. 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Lacking Defence In winning 11 of those 14 games before the break, the Leafs scored and scored quite a bit – averaging 3.64 goals per game, a number that would easily lead the league if somehow sustained. And yet in that same stretch, Toronto also gave up nearly three goals per game itself and still ranks as one of the NHLs worst defensive clubs (all of this with terrific goaltending from Bernier). Team defence remains a sore spot for the Leafs and a worrying concern ahead of the playoffs when the hockey tends to tighten with goals ever the harder to come by. "Weve talked so much about defence and we havent really applied ourselves as a team in that area," said Carlyle on Thursday morning, "and thats one of the things that weve stated from the beginning of the season that we wanted to be stingier on the defensive side of it." No team allows more shots nightly than do the Leafs and only five teams have yielded more goals, none of them currently in a playoff position. The Islanders managed five on this night, playing without their top centre, Tavares, and their second-best centre, Frans Nielsen. "Weve talked about it so many times about our goaltenders having to be taxed in too many situations," Carlyle said. "Wed like to be able to say that its a new season for us, were starting over. The defensive aspect of it has to be part of it. But it takes goals to score in the league too. We just dont want to give up too many of the quality scoring chances..." 3. Bernier Workload Only one goaltender in the NHL has faced more shots this season than Bernier and thats Mike Smith of the Phoenix Coyotes. Of course, Smith has also started 10 more games than the 25-year-old, who made his 39th start of the season at Nassau Coliseum on Thursday. Bernier faced 35 shots and allowed five goals, ending a run of 12 consecutive starts yielding three or fewer. "I thought my rebound control wasnt great tonight and Ive got to make more saves," he said afterward. 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The Yankees are showing strong interest in re-signing Ichiro Suzuki, according to sources.

"They are all over him," one source says. "That (a deal with Ichiro) will happen."

The return of Ichiro would not preclude the Yankees from re-signing free agent Raul Ibanez, another left-handed hitter who likely would get most of his at-bats as a designated hitter.

Gerrit Cole Records Major League Best 12th Win - RealGM Wiretap

Gerrit Cole overcame a rocky start for his 12th win as the Pirates rallied past the Indians 5-3 Sunday.

Cole (12-3) set down his last 16 batters after the Indians scored twice in the second inning and once in the third to take a 3-0 lead.

Cole threw 106 pitches while allowing three runs and five hits in eight innings. He struck out five and walked one after going winless in his previous two starts while pitching a combined 11 13 innings.

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